Books Published in December 1972

New Books List: 33 titles

  • The Clown

    Heinrich Boll

    Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life -- the loss of his sister during the war, the d...

  • Darkover Landfall

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Here is the tale of the arrival of humans on the mysterious, uncharted world of Darkover, the story of what happened when a Terran colony ship crashlanded on Darkover, and colonists and crew were divided between those who sought to repair the starshi...

  • Snow-Blind

    Katherine Newlin Burt
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  • The Tall Ladder

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  • The House of Scissors

    Isobel Chace

    Why couldn't he see she wasn't a child? Arabella was annoyed that the autocratic Lucien Manners saw fit to compare her with his eleven-year-old niece. It was true that at their first encounter she'd been dressed like the "street...

  • The Sword of the Spirits

    John Christopher

    The fate of Luke -- and the civilized world -- is at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.Following the death of his brother, Luke has now ascended...

  • Promise Is a Promise

    Molly Cone

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  • Emergency Nurse

    Jane Converse

    “YOU DON’T BELONG IN A HOSPITAL! IF YOU WERE HONEST YOU’D OPERATE A BEAUTY PARLOR.” Nurse Diane Waycott flung these bitter words at plastic surgeon Dr. Ken Michelson the night her mother died. Maddened with grief, she believed that her fia...

  • Butterfly Montane

    Dorothy Cork

    "It's not you in particular I dislike, Miss Drew. It's your kind in general. Young, sexually attractive, citified girls who come to the Territory without bothering to find what it's all about." Parma had come to New Guinea -- s...

  • Mandolins of Montori

    Iris Danbury

    Suddenly the chance had come to Grentha to work at Montori for a few months helping to sort and collate the vast accumulation of letters, essays and papers of a world-famous American art collector and historian. And it was here that she met Mervyn --...

  • The Phantom and the Scorpia Menace

    Lee Falk

    Diana Palmer, the Phantom's famed and beautiful sweetheart innocently falls into the web of Scorpia--a mysterious, hidden, world-wide crime ring that began as a pirate band 400 years ago. Through the centuries, Scorpio has fought an eternal nemesi...

  • Means to An End

    Lucy Gillen

    Alison and Danny couldn't get married unless they had some of Alison's money -- but it was all in the hands of her trustee, Stefano Illari, who wouldn't part with it. Alison knew she would somehow have to get on the right side of Stefano, but she ...

  • Killer's Breed

    George G. Gilman

    It wasn't the way he was born or brought up. Something happened. Something that turned him, mind and soul, into a case-hardened man. His was a life shaped by death. He was a man alone, living by his own personal code, and committed to violence as a m...

  • Garden of the Sun

    Janice Gray

    "Peru's a fascinating country, but it hasn't yet acquired the reputation of being a playground for popsies," Ross Henderson told Joby Lester sarcastically. Of course, he had mistaken her for her rich butterfly cousin Jose -- anothe...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

    Harry Harrison

    Dive into a World of Galactic ShenanigansEmbark on this exceptional space opera that nests within the realm of science fiction and fantasy, but refuses to play by the usual rules.The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World takes us to the distant corrido...

  • The Water-Method Man

    John Irving

    His wife wants out. His mistress wants a baby. The underground filmmaker he works for wants to make a movie of his life: a documentary of failure. Bogus Trumper is a wayward knight- errant in the battle of the sexes, with only his weapon to blame. Hi...

  • The Warriors

    Joaquim Jaquiera

  • The Benevolent Bean

    Margaret Keys

  • The Boyhood of Grace Jones

    Jane Langton

  • Two Plays Fool Peo

    Patricia Martin

  • A Day No Pigs Would Die

    Robert Newton Peck

    Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story ofa Vermont boyhood that is part fi...

  • Feed the Animals

    H.A. Rey

  • New Dimensions II

    Joanna Russ

  • The Age of Reason

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- ev...

  • The Reprieve

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton....

  • Nobel Lecture

    Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

  • The Guilty Ones

    Daniel Telfer

  • The Glass Room

    Mary Towne

  • The Wandering Variables

    Louis Trimble

    Dr. Tandy Venner is an irreplaceable asset to the Charter Worlds Union. Much too valuable to go off on an unexpected vacation by herself. So Jano Kegan, an operative of Charter Worlds, went along on a Euphor Tek team.But he and Dr. Venner got more th...

  • Noonfire

    Margaret Way

    Rory's mother had brought her up to believe that all men were ruthless, selfish and dangerous. Now Rory was alone, and the first man to come into her life -- the dynamic Rian McCallum -- seemed every bit as dangerous and dominating as her moth...

  • Bio Of A Leaf Gb

    Davis Burke

  • Fifty Great America Short Stories

    Milton Crane

  • Adam's Wife // Adam's Daughter

    Jean S. MacLeod

    After Adam Denharn died, his daughter Susan knew that for the sake of his young widow, her beloved stepmother Evelyn, she would have to accept the take-over of the family business. But how could she ever accept the man who was taking it over -- t...