Books Published in December 1975

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1975

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New Books List: 71 titles

  • The Three-Cornered Hat and Other Stories

    Karen Beaumont Alarcon

  • Love Life

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    Helen's life was a tapestry of love, from the first fierce fulfillment of sexual desire, to the ultimate generosity of true friendship, to the joy of the child she had never hoped to have. And always, throughout the rich years of resounding happin...

  • One Fat Englishman

    Kingsley Amis

    The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in...

  • The Anti-death League

    Kingsley Amis

  • Debt of Honour

    Margaret Baumann

    Sheila Martyn's tour of Greece was intended as a cure for a romance that had gone sadly wrong. There were to be no more complications in her life for quite some time, she decided. Until she met the attractive Rustan and fell head over heels in love...

  • Arousers

    Merle Browne

    An intriguing tale of our hypersexual times They were rich, beautiful, famous -- and bored with standard erotic maneuvers. WHERE, they decided, might be more important than with whom. So they challenged one another to sexual encounters in the most o...

  • Women and Fiction: Short Stories by and about Women

    Susan Cahill

  • Odds on Miss Seeton

    Heron Carvic

    Playing for Keeps Miss Seeton in diamonds and furs at the roulette table? Scotland Yard has disguised the genteel spinster as a high roller to get a police sketch of a mysterious crime boss. But she's soon playing a very dangerous game of big money ...

  • When the Rattlesnake Sounds

    Alice Childress

  • The Other Woman

    Colette

    This volume brings together for the first time in English a collection including a series of stories and a novella, formed of a group of linked autobiographical pieces first published posthumously in France as Mon Amie Valentine....

  • Land of Enchantment // Santa In a Stetson

    Janet Dailey

    "Why don't you just admit you're homesick for the excitement of city life and stop trying to kid both of us?" Lije snapped. "I told you even before the subject of marriage was brought up how much this ranch meant to me. I love you...

  • Audrey Rose

    Frank De Felitta

    When Elliot Hoover loses his wife and daughter, Audrey Rose, in a fiery car crash, his world explodes. To heal his mental anguish and claim some peace, he visits a psychic who reveals to him that his daughter has been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton,...

  • Dark Citadel

    Caroline Farr

    Mystery Heir. Who would reap the wealth when Dawson Grainger died? Who would inherit his millions, his priceless antiquities, his palatial citadel on Grand Croix Island? None of his nieces and nephews he demanded stay with him on the island knew -- ...

  • Dear Villain

    Jacqueline Gilbert

    Liz was looking forward to her new job at the Queensbridge Civic Theatre until she learned that the director was to be Adam Carlyon. He was a man she had no wish to meet again. During their brief acquaintance, Adam had made it quite plain she had ...

  • When the Waker Sleeps

    Ron Goulart

  • Lullaby of Leaves

    Janice Gray

    Fran had been assured that it would be all right for her and the group of children in her care to stay at Brocade, a lovely old mansion in the heart of the Cotswolds. They would only be there for a few weeks until they had found new quarters. But ...

  • Nebula Award Stories 10

    James Gunn

  • The Tower in the Forest

    Ethel Hamill

    Pretty young Dulcy Jordan was returning to the place she loved best--the beautiful San Benito National Forest Reserve in California. Her brother Mark was about to achieve his ambition of becoming superintendent of the Reserve, and Dulcy wanted to be ...

  • South of Capricorn

    Anne Hampson

    But every situation has parts unknown... "I don't see why that cad should get away with it" Her cousin, Sandra, was dead now, but Gail Stafford insisted that Kane Farrell be made to accept responsibility for his daughter, be she legiti...

  • Black Sunday

    Thomas Harris

    THE SUPER BOWL--WHERE THOUSANDS HAVE GATHERED FOR AN ALL-AMERICAN TRADITION. SUDDENLY, IT'S THE SCARIEST PLACE ON EARTH! Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend....

  • The Gorlin Clinic

    Barbara Harrison

  • Fog

    James Herbert

    A chilling story of madness and murder, The Fog is a classic horror novel from James Herbert, author of The Rats.Life in tranquil Wiltshire is shattered by an earth-splitting disaster. Yet the true danger is just beginning.A malevolent fog that ascen...

  • Satans Daughter

    Wray hunt

  • The Golden Falcon

    Betty Hale Hyatt

    The journey from glittering Regency London to a desolate castle in Spain was a fearful one for young English heiress Antonia Martin. True, this was her honeymoon, and at her side was her darkly handsome, aristocratic husband--but soon it became clear...

  • The Captain's Wife

    Storm Jameson

    She was Mrs. Sylvia Russell now, years into a loveless marriage to a sea captain far beneath her station. Perhaps she had only herself to blame. Self-willed from girlhood, she had rebelled against the wishes of her mother Mary Hervey, head of one o...

  • The Nature of Greek Myths

    G.S. Kirk

  • Capone

    John Kobler

    John Kobler has uncovered never-before-published facts and photographs to write this matchless biography - the book that shatters the stereotype of Scarface Al and for the first time reveals the real Capone: vain, violent, as complex and endlessly fa...

  • The Big Payoff

    Janice Law

    Set at the time of the North Sea oil boom, The Big Payoff marks the debut of Anna Peters, the witty, cynical character Booklist called "among the most complex, fully drawn female leads in crime fiction" and whom the New York Times lauded for her "swe...

  • Miriam at 34

    Alan Lechuk

  • Man in a Million

    Roberta Leigh

    "I am more your type than you think," Joel Blake had said. "We're the same sort of people, Harriet. We both cherish dreams and we both hide it." But there was no way Harriet was going to admit that. After all, there was noth...

  • The Brackenroyd Inheritance

    Erica Lindley

    A legacy of peril...a dazzling young beauty...a fire storm of passion and possession She no longer knew who she was. Was she still Fern Saxby, the young Victorian governess who had suddenly found herself heiress to Brackenroyd Hall--on the con...

  • By Command of the Viceroy // Ogilvie's Royal Command

    Duncan MacNeil

  • A Stranger Is My Love

    Margaret Malcolm

    A girl who had worked so hard all her life that she was ignorant of the ways of the world, and a man whose money gave him the freedom to indulge every whim -- what could two such people have in common? Yet, when Christopher was so badly injured in...

  • Minding the Store

    Stanley Marcus

    "'There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it's a good buy for the customer.' That was one of the first declarations of business philosophy I heard my father, Herbert Marcus, make soon after I came to work at Neiman Marcus in 1926." Thus b...

  • Proud New Flags

    Francis Van Wyck Mason

  • Blackberry Winter

    Margaret Mead

    During her exceptional life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace, and archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon for our century, she came to symbolize a new ki...

  • To Begin With Love

    Kristin Michaels

    A hopeless love? Lovely, independent Samantha Lawless had come to the starkly beautiful desert town seeking freedom and adventure. But why did her very first adventure have to be a run-in with the handsomest man she'd ever met? And why did the same a...

  • 1 Just Man

    James Mills

  • Miami

    Arthur Moore

  • The Windows of Forever

    John Morressy

  • Roses for Christmas

    Betty Neels

    QUITE BY CHANCE... Eleanor remembered the forceful Dutchman Fulk van Hensum from her childhood, and how she had disliked him. Now Eleanor was grown-up and a qualified nurse, and suddenly Fulk, an eminent consultant, was back in her life. He clear...

  • The Country Girls

    Edna O'Brien

    The story of Cait and Baba and their escape from countryside and convent to the alluring "crowds and lights and noise" of Dublin. The author also wrote "Johnny I Hardly Knew You", "The Love Object and Other Stories" and "A Scandalous Woman and Other ...

  • Girl with Green Eyes

    Edna O'Brien

    The comic sequel to "The Country Girls", in which Caithleen Brady finds romance in Dublin - classy romance with the second Mr Gentleman. The story of Caithleen and Baba continues in "Girls in Their Married Bliss"....

  • Girls in Their Married Bliss

    Edna O'Brien

    Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion. Kate, feeling trapped in her grey stone house with her increasingly cold husband, tearfully looks for her dreams of romanc...

  • The Love Object: Selected Stories

    Edna O'Brien

    Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their...

  • The Kilted Stranger

    Margaret Pargeter

    Obeying her mother's last request, Sue planned to go to Scotland and deliver a letter to a man she had never heard of. She felt she must go. But more than one surprise awaited her at the end of the journey: the father she had believed dead -- ...

  • Heart in the Sunlight

    Lilian Peake

    When Noelle went to work in Norway, she discovered it was a land of sunlight, glorious scenery, and charming people--with the exception, unfortunately, of her boss, the infuriating Per Arneson! Hero: Per Arneson Heroine: Noelle Roberts...

  • Chloris and the Freaks

    Kin Platt

  • Don Juan McQueen

    Eugenia Price

    Love, faith, determination and the undaunted spirit of early America.... Don Juan McQueen battled for independence in the colonies, only to relinquish it and start a new life in Spanish Florida. He changed his name and religion - even risked his ...

  • Queen's Full

    Ellery Queen

    The Death of Don Juan The amateur theater company of Wrightsville is dying a slow and painful death. Every production is worse than the last, and the backers are about to pull the plug when the director reaches for his ace in the hole: the always-...

  • The Hill of the Dead

    Andrew Quiller

    Rome A.D. 81. The screams of his admirers echo across the crowded Colosseum as the gladiator Vulpus brings another opponent to the point of death. Wounds gape, blood seeps into the burning sand and the mob howls for the kill. Vulpus raises his sword....

  • Avenger of Antares

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • Blott on the Landscape

    Tom Sharpe

    When philandering Sir Giles Lynchwood decides it''s time to wriggle free of his monumentally unattractive wife, Lady Maud, he knows divorce is out of the question. He can''t leave her and keep her cash; a reversionary clause on her ancestral home, Ha...

  • The Girl With Spunk

    Judith St. George

  • Strathmore

    Jessica Stirling

    In Victorian Scotland, poor single girls were not supposed to fall in love with rich married men......

  • Isle of the Golden Drum

    Rebecca Stratton

    Carys wasn't looking forward at all to being stranded on a Pacific island for the next two months with her tycoon boss and his son Michael, whom she had just refused to marry. But the two of them together were less of a problem than the island...

  • Hello, I'm Karen

    Margaret Sutherland

  • Tegs 1994

    Robert Theobald; Jim Scott

  • High Wide Ransom

    Don tracy

  • Searching for Caleb

    Anne Tyler

    The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author brings us a novel that is â€œfunny and lyric and true" (The New Yorker). Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks...

  • A Lesson in Loving

    Margaret Way

    Rosslyn Marshall was spending her summer vacation in Northern Australia, looking after a rather difficult small child. Her biggest problem turned out to be the child's uncle, the attractive but antagonizing cattle baron, Boyd Ballinger, who a...

  • Ross of Silver Ridge

    Gwen Westwood

    Ross Trent wanted a nice, competent middle-aged woman to take charge of the three young children in his care. Instead, he got Taryn Bartlett who was twenty but looked five years younger. Ross was not pleased; his glamorous girlfriend Coral was eve...

  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

    Kate Wilhelm

    Before becoming one of today’s most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was celebrated as a writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novel retu...

  • Down Home

    Robert Bone

  • Will's Quill

    Don Freeman

  • No Ponies for Miss Pobjoy

    Ursula Moray Williams