Books Published in February 1970

New Books List: 31 titles

  • The Ways of Love

    Catherine Airlie

    The story of three people, a passionate girl, a beautiful, talented woman and a silent, steadfast man, all linked and dominated by a half-understood tragedy; set in the remote beauty of a lonely Highland glen....

  • The Pied Tulip

    Elizabeth Ashton

    When Amanda overheard Louis Meyering describe her as a 'crow', she was stung into doing something about her appearance -- with spectacular results. Now all seemed set fair for Amanda -- until the redoubtable Hermien arrived upon the scene....

  • Mr. Sammler's Planet

    Saul Bellow

    Who is Mr. Sammler? A Jewish intellectual educated in Western philosophy, a one-eyed Holocaust survivor, the future author of the greatest biography ever written of H.G. Wells ... or merely the trusted confidant of countless eccentric New Yorkers, a ...

  • The Distant Trap

    Gloria Bevan

    Lynn loved Keith Donnelly. She heartily disliked Bret Paterson. Unfortunately, she found herself trapped in the position of having to work for Bret. And Bret was the person responsible for everything that had gone wrong in Keith's life. It was ...

  • Love Made the Choice

    Mary Burchell

    To Antonia, drama was something that happened to other people -- until the day when the pleasant prosperity she had always known was abruptly swept away, and she had to face the appalling fact that her own father was a criminal. She felt that the ...

  • Living Dying

    C Corman

  • The Family Face

    Bethea Creese

    Della and Adele, though only distantly related, were so alike that they might have been taken for sisters. But they were utterly unalike in character -- as the man who was bound to marry Adele realized too late....

  • September Street

    Joyce Dingwell

    The impressive Portuguese Senor Enrico Montales had engaged Clair as nanny to his two young nieces - which would had been all very well, thought Clair, if he had made it rather clearer which of the three of them he regarded as a child!...

  • Nurse Rona Came to Rothmere

    Louise Ellis

    David Martin was engaged to Elizabeth Chayle, so that ruled him out as far as Heather was concerned. that new student nurse, Rona Rigby, didn't seem to come into the situation at all, or did she? Hero: Dr./Doctor David Martin Heroine: Nurse ...

  • Enchantress from the Stars

    Sylvia Engdahl

    Elana, a member of an interstellar civilization on a mission to a medieval planet, becomes the key to a dangerous plan to turn back an invasion. How can she help the Andrecians, who still believe in magic and superstition, without revealing her own a...

  • The Girl at Smuggler's Rest

    Lucy Gillen

    "Don't get too involved with Jamie," John Miller warned Katie, "I wouldn't like either of you getting into anything you'd be sorry for." The "iceberg" of a John seemed to regard himself as his brother's keeper, Katie considered -- and she wondered...

  • My Beautiful Heathen

    Lucy Gillen

    Shara Grey was going to live with her sort-of-cousin Patrick Owen, who would act as her guardian until she came of age. It was a situation that was bound to give rise to misunderstandings -- and Shara was not the only one to get entirely the wrong...

  • The Silver Fishes

    Lucy Gillen

    Richard Maxwell was a very attractive, very experienced ladies' man, and Loen was determined not to go the way of all the other girls in his life. But could she manage to be strong-minded? ...

  • The Autocrat of Melhurst

    Anne Hampson

    Claire had promised Simon Condliffe that she would stay on in her job as nanny to his small niece as long as he needed her -- but she hadn't bargained on falling in love with him, and then having to watch him with his close friend--or was she his...

  • Beyond the Sweet Waters

    Anne Hampson

    She had vowed never to marry... It was three years since the death of Jeanette's fiance. But Jeanette couldn't get over losing him, and resolved that she would never love again. Then she went to exotic Istanbul and met archaeologist Craig ...

  • Howard Street

    Nathan C. Heard

  • New Poems

    A.D. Hope

  • Doctor of the Keys

    Adelaide Humphries

    It seemed the happiest day of Julie Matthews' life when young Dr. Eric Blaine returned to set up practice in the Florida Keys. Julie had grown up adoring Eric, and now at last he would be able to see her -- not as a coltish tomboy, but as a woman...

  • Some Came Running

    James Jones

    James Jones's saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie Jones After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity , James J...

  • Surgeon from Holland // Blow Hot, Blow Cold // Visiting Consultant

    Betty Neels

    Sophy's relationship with the attractive Dutch surgeon Maximillan Oosterwelde was of the blow-hot-blow-cold variety-but one thing was certain: in her heart, Sophy did not want any "blow cold" at all! Hero: Dr./Doctor Maximillan Oosterw...

  • The Last Hurrah

    Edwin O'Connor

    A corrupt mayor runs his final campaign in this “remarkably intelligent, informed, well-conceived, and highly readable” classic novel (Chicago Tribune).“We’re living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I’m not altogether sure you’re fully attun...

  • Marius the Epicurean

    Walter Pater

    In the exquisite prose style that was profound and perceptive, Pater has united philosophy, truth and moral values. He draws the portrait of a young man whose quest for truth takes him from Stoicism to Cyrenaicism to Epicurianism and finally to Chris...

  • Fortune's Lead

    Barbara Perkins

    A gypsy had told Charlotte a number of curious things concerning her future -- and certainly they all seemed to fit the situation in which she found herself at Thurlanger House....

  • Flowering Judas and Other Stories

    Katherine Anne Porter

    The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New Yor...

  • Bird of Paradis

    Margaret Rome

    In a fit of bravado, Lynette rashly and untruthfully declared that she believed in trial marriages -- and only realized how foolish she had been when Luis Estevez, Marques de Paradis, took her at her word. Hero: Luis Estevez, Marques de Paradis H...

  • Girl of the Limberlost

    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Elnora is desperate! It is the turn of the century -- a time when young women seldom act without the approval of their families. Yet that is exactly what Elnora has to do. And so she enters school against the wishes of her widowed mother, who for rea...

  • Summer in December // Long White Cloud

    Essie Summers

    It was a series of mishaps that had brought Joanna to Heronscrag, Matthew Greenwood's New Zealand sheep station, in the depths of winter, and she soon knew that she would give anything to be there in summer as well. But chance would be a fine thi...

  • Tomi Ungerer's Compromises

    Tomi Ungerer

  • Sullivan's Reef

    Anne Weale

    For years no one had dared to set foot on Sullivan's Reef, the beautiful Caribbean island with the sinister reputation -- no one, that is, except Charlotte Martin, who was fascinated by it. Then, in her search for the truth about Sullivan's R...

  • The Unwilling Bride

    Violet Winspear

    Ravena Brenin dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up -- and she loved his son Rhodri Brenin even more. But she was marrying a virtual stranger, the forbidding Sardinian Mark di Curzio, a man for whom she felt nothing but apprehens...

  • Hunter's Moon

    Henrietta Reid

    When Steve Charlton brought Gilly into Hunter's Moon he wondered cynically what kind of effect she would have on the menage there. But he had not considered the effect it would have on Gilly herself. Mills & Boon When Steve Charlton literal...