Books Published in February 1976

New Books List: 63 titles

  • Cottage on Catherina Cay

    Jacquelyn Aeby

    Attractive Amanda Whitby was thrilled about being asked to paint a portrait of young Edwin Bayne. Talented as she was, she felt lucky in getting the commission, lucky in being able to spend a week on a remote off-shore island in the Gulf of Mexico. A...

  • My Lady Disdain

    Elizabeth Ashton

    Jacqueline had always loved Gino, and when he asked her to marry him she gladly accepted. But she knew he wasn't marrying her for love, only because he wanted a competent helpmate. Then her glamorous sister came along and announced that she an...

  • The Hare's Race

    Hans Baumann

  • Millennium

    Ben Bova

    1999 COUNTDOWN TO MILLENNIUM ...to all-out nuclear war...to total human annihilation...to the end of the world! In a thriving colony far beneath the ancient crater-marked crust of the Moon, the Russians and the Americans join together to launch t...

  • The Girl in the Blue Dress

    Mary Burchell

    Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original model for the picture, it seemed to be too late. Not only was she in ...

  • Blanche Fury

    Margaret Campbell

    THE DEBT OF EVIL was long overdue. When Adam Fury denied his only natural son long years ago, he called down upon his heirs a curse of vengeance. Beautiful Blanche Fury knew the old legend, and it seemed to her that she could feel its poisonous mali...

  • Singing in the Wilderness

    Isobel Chace

    Stephanie had thoroughly enjoyed working for her father in Persia, until he was ordered home under strange circumstances. Surprisingly she was instructed to stay and continue working for the new man who was arriving to take over. Things became ra...

  • The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion

    Pierre Corneille

    This volume compiles three of Corneille's most lauded plays: The Cid, Corneille's masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641, is a tense political drama; and The T...

  • Scent of the Maquis

    Barbara Cust

    Marisa dreaded leaving Corsica to plan a new life for herself in London. As a matter of fact, the thought of doing anything at all held little appeal for her. It was all over now, the most memorable summer of her life. Would it have been better if...

  • Something Extra

    Janet Dailey

    Jolie Antoinette Smith found more than she was looking for in Louisiana. Not only did she locate the home of her ancestral namesake, she found someone to love. But what use to fall in love with a man like Steve Cameron? "It's always been m...

  • The Beaumont Tradition

    Dorothy Daniels

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS I HEARD SOMEONE CALLING MY NAME. I couldn't answer. I couldn't form any words; my hands seemed to hang limply at my sides. How had I gotten here in this vast, black limbo? Why wasn't I in bed? The voice came again. "Joyce! ...

  • Shining Wanderer

    Rose Elver

    Trying to recover from an unhappy love affair, Jassy Lanyard was only too delighted to learn that she had inherited shared in a faraway estate. Perhaps out on the exotic Suran Islands in the Indian Ocean, she could make a new and happier life for her...

  • Assault in Norway

    Thomas Gallagher

    “An exciting and dramatic episode.” -- Library Journal“Cliff-hanging suspense.” -- Christian Science MonitorAssault in Norway is the classic account of a legendary raid on the Nazi war program. By 1942 Germany had a seemingly insurmountable l...

  • The King's Indian

    John Gardner

    An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain world

    In this exceptional book, author John ...

  • Song of the Waves

    Anne Hampson

    To her fellow passengers on the luxury cruise, Wendy Brown appeared to have everything going for her. She was young, beautiful, wealthy and fun-loving. They'd have been shocked if they'd known Wendy's secret. But she had vowed to tell ...

  • Thomas Merton, Monk: A Monastic Tribute

    Patrick Hart

  • Woman Called Moses

    Marcy Heidish

  • You Like My Mother

    Naomi Hintze

    She is twenty-one. Her husband has been killed in Vietnam, and her baby is due in three weeks. Alienated from her family, without money, all she has are the reassuring words of her dead husband: “You'll like my mother.” And so Francesca Ki...

  • Turtle Diary

    Russell Hoban

    Two lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo in this touching novel from a cult-favorite author who has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. A wise and touching classic that “crackles with witty d...

  • The Cubano Caper

    Stuart Jason

  • Mustang Country

    Hettie Jones

  • The Dance of Courtship

    Flora Kidd

    All Cherry Hilton had to do was to fly out to Bolivia with a baby and deliver him to his relatives there. But one relative, the black sheep of the family, Ric Somervell, brought many complications into the situation -- and into Cherry's life! ...

  • Joanne, the Unpredictable

    Katheryn Kimbrough

    Joanne was the most stunningly beautiful and dangerously wilful of all the Phenwick women. Even before she reached the age of twenty, she knew how to be all things to all men in order to turn them into puppets of her desire. And from the moment she a...

  • Coming to Life

    Norma Klein

  • Night Chills

    Dean Koontz

    When Paul Annendale arrived in Black River, he expected to enjoy a quiet six weeks of vacation camping in the mountains with his children. Instead he found a nightmare: the town ravaged by a mysterious epidemic of night chills and fever that ordinary...

  • The Boys from Brazil

    Ira Levin

    The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project -- the creation of the Fourth...

  • The Edge

    John Vliet Lindsay

  • The Secret of Quarry House

    Claire Lorrimer

    At twenty-four Kate marries her first love, Campbell Rivers, and becomes mistress of Quarry House, set brooding and isolated on the Yorkshire moors. Kate is blissfully happy, falling in love should mean happiness and fulfilment, but gradually, it cha...

  • Nightmare

    J. Anthony Lukas

  • Napoleon and Love

    Philip mackie

  • The Tenants

    Bernard Malamud

    With a new introduction by Aleksandar HemonIn The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenemen...

  • A Song for Lya

    George R.R. Martin

    MISTFALL IS TOMORROW The Hugo Award-winning story of a culture with a strange religion, and the young woman who succumbs to the consequences of its belief system...a man trapped between the realms of real and not-real in a lonely deep-space outpost....

  • Valley Deep, Mountain High

    Anne Mather

    "Andrea," the voice began, "I told you once that I didn't care to be mistaken for a fortune-hunter. So, with your father's permission, I contrived to play a little trick on you...." The tape continued to turn, but Andrea he...

  • Apple to Core

    Peter McCabe

  • Enchanted Twilight

    Kristin Michaels

    Traveling with her folklorist aunt, Kit discovers beauty, history, folklore, and magic in Norway. Attracted to famed artist Ragnar, she encounters hatred from his sister and comes to love Eirik whom she cannot trust....

  • Grand Papa & Ellen Aroon

    F.N. Monjo

  • Walking Through the Dark

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  • Three Into Two Wont Go

    Andrea newman

    Steven and Frances are struggling to save their marriage: she wants a child and he wants sexual variety. Can Ella satisfy them both, or is she playing a dangerous game of her own? Divide three into two and there's always one over....

  • Goddes and Other Women

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • There May Be Heaven

    Elisabeth Ogilvie

  • Stormy Rapture

    Margaret Pargeter

    "I would just like to make it quite clear," Simon smiled grimly, "that I am not running a charity. I expect to be fully rewarded for what I do, and don't you forget it, my dear Liza." His words rang in Liza's ears. This man...

  • Hang for Treason

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Clouded Waters

    Sue Peters

    The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets was like a childish squabble compared to the long-standing quarrel between the Dane and the Baird families. It had already ruined the romance between Marion Dane and Adam Baird. But now Fate had brou...

  • The Dark-Eyed Queen

    Lozania Prole

    Henry VIII’s most celebrated Queen Even in France rumors had reached Anne that King Henry VIII was unhappy with his aging Spanish queen. Upon her return to England, Anne dared not think that he would notice her -- although the entire court was c...

  • Prince of Central Park

    Evan H. Rhodes

  • Challenge the Hellmaker

    Walt Richmond

  • Mindfogger

    Michael Rogers

  • Temple of Darkness

    Marilyn Ross

    Signs of Satan For most of those who'd survived the plague, London in 1666 had become a carnival of decadence, but for kind, considerate Enid Jason it was still a city of sorrow. She was haunted by memories of her courtship with the late Roderick ...

  • Fruit of the Spirit

    John W. Sanderson

  • Blood Justice

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

  • Imperial Stars

    E.E. "Doc" Smith

    The Empire of Earth, spanning more than a thousand solar systems, is threatened by a conspiracy from within. Now, with more than three-quarters of the Galaxy ready to fall into enemy hands, the Empire is forced to call on its top-secret weapon: the r...

  • Swiss Conspiracy

    Michael Stanley

  • Atlantis Rising

    Brad Steiger

    Startling similarities in technology and culture among peoples who never could have seen each other. Universal myths of a great flood. Superhighways in countries that had not yet invented the wheel.

    Unifying all these and other mysterious facts is...

  • The Mannings

    Fred Mustard Stewart

  • Young Pattullo

    J.I.M. Stewart

    This is the second of the ‘A Staircase in Surrey’ quintet, and the first in chronological order. Duncan Pattullo arrives in Oxford, destined to be housed off the quadrangle his father has chosen simply for its architectural and visual appeal. On ...

  • Robert La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit

    David P. Thelen

    Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit is a closely argued, lively, and readable biography of the central figure in the American Progressive movement. Wisconsin's “Fighting Bob” La Follette embodied the heart of Progressive sentiment and ...

  • The Royal Affair

    Kay Thorpe

    After a disastrous love affair, Peta Sheppherd was "off" men -- with a vengeance. Therefore, she was in no mood to put up with her new boss, Lee Merril, his sweeping changes and his assumption that everyone was going to jump to his bidding...

  • For Us the Living

    Antonia Van Loon

    A Woman of Price --Two Men of Passion -- A Saga of Love Blazing Free! -- Against the tumultuous drama of a land ravaged by the Civil War, Antonia Van-Loon has woven a tale of three extraordinary people whose destinies clash in suddenly awakened des...

  • 1876

    Gore Vidal

            The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United Stat...

  • The Child of Judas

    Violet Winspear

    When her flighty cousin Penela O'Dell jilted the Greek tycoon Heraklion Mavrakis at the last moment, Fenella took her place at the wedding and married Lion herself, under false pretenses. When he discovered her deception he was at first, naturall...

  • Shadow of An Unknown Woman

    Daoma Winston

    A Haunted Love. To lonely Devil's Dunes came beautiful Paget Browne, seeking the answers to her sweetheart's strange silence and stranger outbursts. But an eerie menace brooded over the house. Someone she didn't know was plotting ...

  • German eng Dict

    Staff Langenscheidt