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Books Published in January 1974
New Books List: 388 titles
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Assignment: Sumatra
Edward S. Aarons
- Jan-1974
- / Espionage
Sam Durell had been with K Section for more years than he cared to remember. As chief field agent he knew the world’s cities and jungles better than any man alive. And the fact that he was still alive was proof of his toughness. But this assignm...
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Castle of Evil
Sandra Abbott
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
The search for a missing sister leads Andrea into a house of horrors... First Look at Evil Her twin sister wrote Andrea from Rumania that she planned to get married. Anxious to see Helene and meet her future husband, Andrea started out for the ...
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Dark Angel
Elizabeth Ashton
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Francesca Temple came to Italy to stay with her parents and to introduce them to her fiance Desmond. But fate decreed that her visit was to end in her marriage to another man -- the disturbing Angelo Vittorini. Could Francesca ever understand the ...
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Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie. Journalist, party girl, book...
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Havana Hit
Mike Barry
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he ...
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Love for Lydia
H.E. Bates
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
'An honest and skillfully told love story' - New York Times
Lydia - shy, sheltered, beautiful and just nineteen - glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town's young men. But it is the young Mr Ri... -
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The book of Eve
Constance Beresford-Howe
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blis...
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Master of Evrington
Vanessa Blake
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
A simple mission of mercy had involved lovely Caro Farrell with notorious Tony Gallant, a darkly handsome man of dubious background. To save her reputation, Caro consented to masquerade as Gallant's "betrothed" and to serve as governess to the two In...
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The Greater Happiness
Katrina Britt
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Emmy's delicate small nephew was a great responsibility, and she had firmly decided to keep any ideas of love and marriage in the background for the next two years until the child's health improved. But when she made that vow she hadn'...
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Total eclipse
John Brunner
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thous...
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Deck With Flowers
Elizabeth Cadell
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
Madame Landini's memoirs promised to be sensational. Rodney, who had captured them for his publishing house, and Oliver, his literary agent friend who would handle the business side of the book, could congratulate themselves on a brilliant coup. B...
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In Celebration of Small Things
Sharon Cadwallader
- Jan-1974
- / Mystery
A toolbox full of expertise -- how to: unclog drains; repair pipes and wiring; build beds, shelves, coffee tables; paint; can; sew -- that even the four thumbed will be able to get a handle on. Cadwallader, who a couple of years ago wrote the delecta...
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The Last Fathom
Martin Caidin
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
1974, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1967), Pinnacle Books, NY. 306 pages. The author is a fine novelist, specializing in books of aviation, nuclear warfare, and hydrospace. A US killer sub is up against Russia's ...
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Invisible cities
Italo Calvino
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels -- a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, thei...
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The Lion Triumphant
Philippa Carr
- Jan-1974
- / Historical Romance
Against the backdrop of Elizabethan England is spun this engrossing story of the stormy loves and dangerous adventures of beautiful Catharine, called Cat. When fiery-tempered Cat meets arrogant, lusty Captain Jake Pennlyon, she is both attracted a...
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Thank You, Jackie Robinson
Barbara Cohen
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
The Unforgettable Season Sam Green doesn't just like baseball...he loves it. Especially the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson. There isn't a single Dodger stat Sam doesn't know, or game he can't recite, play by play, from memory. Baseball is hi...
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier
- Jan-1974
- / Historical
The Revolution was tearing Tim's family apart. All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave, and always knows the right thing to do. In fact, everyone in town had admired Sam Meeker. Until now. Now Sam is par...
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Passion and Affect
Laurie Colwin
- Jan-1974
- / Romance
Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you'll meet: # Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz. # Benno Morna, a temporary bachelor, free to indulge in T...
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The Red Plains of Jounima
Dorothy Cork
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Two weeks after she arrived in Australia from England, Pippa found herself in the middle of the outback on the sheep station of Jounima doing battle with Skye Bannerman. 'Skye's an ogre,' Bron Lightfoot had told Pippa, and after her initial encounter...
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Westworld
Michael Crichton
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Live out your fantasies for $1,000 a day at Westworld - the ultimate resort! Murder, violence, wild sexual abandon, any human desire is fulfilled by totally computerized, humanoid robots programmed for your pleasure alone...Until a small computer cas...
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Ghost Song
Dorothy Daniels
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
Dark Bondage. Lovely, dark-haired Mavis longed for an opera career -- in vain, she thought. But then one night she dreamed of Ernestine Hillary, the fabled soprano whose life had ended tragically and mysteriously sixteen years before. When Mavis a...
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Island of Bitter Memories
Dorothy Daniels
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
Would she be a helpless victim of history's relentless repetition? In the secret compartment of an old desk, Aldis discovered her Aunt Evangeline's diary written long before. How curiously her aunt's story paralleled her own broken romance with a...
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Chase
Norman Daniels
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
They had a helicopter, a hopped up police cruiser, a motorcycle and their wits. As a special undercover police team, the cases they were assigned were “the ones nobody wants, the bottom of the barrel, the tough ones.” This one was really tough...
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The Darling Pirate
Belinda Dell
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Trying to get away from a "problem" man in London, Maggie took a job as receptionist in a luxury hotel in Jersey. But the first person she met was a man who was even more of a problem, a rebel who laughed at everything she thought important. Could...
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A Time for Titans
Vina Delmar
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
For Sale: The Louisana Territory. While white men toyed with the future of nations in the gilded drawing rooms of Europe, black men fought a bloody and desperate battle for independence on a small Caribbean island... a struggle which held the key to ...
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Tokyo Purple
Lionel Derrick
- Jan-1974
- / Action Adventure
The Penetrator Mark Hardin flew to Japan for a vacation, but his visit touched off a chain reaction of terror. First a renowned atomic scientist was kidnapped; then a madman announced he had a stockpile of thermonuclear weapons for sale. Instead of r...
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Gremlins, Go Home!
Gordon R. Dickson; Ben Bova
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
GREMLINS TAKE TO SPACE! These little dudes may be the stuff of legend, but they’re just as real as you and me. Far from the mythical, magical creatures of rumor, they are actually tiny aliens, marooned for centuries on this miserable mudball kno...
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The Judas mandate
Clive Egleton
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
The Russian Occupation Force are pulling out of England and the Resistance Movement calls once again on the services of David Seymour, alias Agent David Garnett, and his partner, the girl Dane. This time they place them squarely between the Hawks, wh...
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The Vampires and the Witch
Lee Falk
- Jan-1974
- / Suspense
A plague of human vampires -- a 300-year-old witch who, legend says, can only be freed from her chains and returned to youth and beauty by a PHANTOM kiss. Incredible in the twentieth century? Yet a tiny nation is terrorized by these ghastly bei...
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The Thickening Light
Georgina Ferrand
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
Katherine met Darius Tarrant at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He was handsome enough to sweep any girl off her feet, but sensitive, sensible Kate was taken completely off guard. Men usually preferred her cousin Arabella. But not Darius. After a whirl...
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Surrender, My Love
Glenna Finley
- Jan-1974
- / Romance
Against the dangerous intrigues of exotic Morocco, a beautiful girl becomes the captive of love... The Desert Whispered Romance… but lovely Krista was hardly prepared for “true” love when she arrived in Morocco with Ryan Talbot, her handsom...
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Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
Louise Fitzhugh
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
In the world of children''s literature, Louise Fitzhugh''sHarriet the SpyandThe Long Secretare widely recognized as epoch-making. They have been received by young readers, year after year, with excitement and love. Nobody''s Family is Going to Change...
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Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power
Hugh Gregory Gallagher
- Jan-1974
- / Literary
This biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskimo radical, is the story of the struggle to protect Alaska Native land rights and way of life in the face of the relentless onslaught of Western culture.
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The Property of a Gentleman
Catherine Gaskin
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
There were treasures at Thirlbeck, home of the 18th Earl of Askew. Treasures beyond one's wildest dreams. Then lovely young antique dealer Joanna Roswell and her mentor pay a visit to Thirlbeck, and are confronted not only with rare splendors of the ...
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Operation Peeg
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Jarred loose from the ocean floor by a tremendous explosion, an island occupied by a young girl and her two companions floats out to sea under the command of two British sailors who believe that World War II is still in progress....
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Futility
William Alexander Gerhardie
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
This is the first novel by William Gerhardie, first published in 1922, and it was made famous by H. G. Wells, who described it as 'true, devastating - a wonderful book'.Based on Gerhardie's own experiences as a member of the British Military Mission ...
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Sioux Uprising
George G. Gilman
- Jan-1974
- / Historical
HOT Trailing smoke and flames, a blazing wagon has rolled through a quiet, dusty town in the Dakotas. Two white women are tied to stakes within it, their bodies a mass of arrows. And Edge's wife, Beth is gone. Edge arrives too late to save her,...
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Bloody Summer
George G. Gilman
- Jan-1974
- / Historical
BRUTAL Colonel George P. Haven. Probably the most despised man in the U.S. Army. Put him in a fort in the Badlands of Dakota -- American territory by law but Sioux land by right. Add the Ball gang -- as vicious a group of robbers and killers a...
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Moonglade
Janice Gray
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
The chance of a working holiday in Corfu was too good to miss. It would give Philippa time to sort out her relationship with Rick and offer her an opportunity to work with Drew Gilmore. No romantic complications, Philippa vowed. But she found her ...
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Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Bette Greene
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
The Newbery Honor-winning book from the author of Summer of My German Soldier
Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, sports, and almost everything else d... -
The Spirit of Brynmaster Oaks
Anne J. Griffin
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
ETHEREAL VISIONS OF EVIL It began in a rush of romance and excitement for Betty, a beautiful young librarian. She met and married handsome Tommy Brynmaster, the wealthy owner of Brynmaster Oaks, and they came to the old family mansion to live. ...
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The Tango Briefing
Adam Hall
- Jan-1974
- / Espionage
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London Bureau sends Quiller to the Sahara desert on a mission to examine a crashed freighter and its mysterious cargo. The danger to Quiller comes not only from the cargo itself and from political cells trying to capture Quiller, but also from hi...
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The Way of a Tyrant
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Because Jane desired a little mastery in her husband she turned down the gentle and accommodating Scott Kingsley, and had never regretted it. Now, four years later, she had come to work in Barbados, and in this beautiful, romantic Caribbean setting h...
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Moon Without Stars
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Well, Jill thought, it was no use crying over the past, she'd had her chance with the handsome Dean Lester and she'd muffed it. If only she'd known that the strange hostility and antagonism that grew up between them could change to lov...
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Something Happened
Joseph Heller
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
The number-one bestseller by the author of "Catch-22" is about greed, ambition, love, lust, hate and fear, marriage and adultery. It is about the life we all lead today--and you will never be able to look at that life in the same way again. "Brilli...
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Hellstrom's Hive
Frank Herbert
- Jan-1974
- / Science Fiction
The hellish hive in Oregon The time: The 1970's, Police State, U.S.A. The all-powerful secret government agency wanted Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40. But it also knew that Hellstrom was dangerous. Any move to investigate his hidden farm must be ve...
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Wondermakers 2
Robert Hoskins
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Wondermakers 2 offers a view of science fiction's development over the past two decades. The twenty stories included here are representative of the work of writers who are shaping the science fiction of today and tomorrow. Perhaps in the shape of the...
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Look a Lion in the Eye
Kathryn hulme
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
In the autumn of 1971, Kathryn Hulme, her dearest friend Lou -- on whom her famous best seller, The Nun's Story, was based -- and their friend Juliet made a bone-shaking safari of twenty-five hundred miles in a Land Rover with an open hatch, photogra...
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The Tree of Idleness
Elizabeth Hunter (1)
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Caroline had always had a stormy relationship with Philip Klearchos, and when she went back to Cyprus all the old antagonism flared up between them again. Yet more than one person seemed to be hoping they would make a match of it. But why should ...
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The Way of the Sacred
Francis Huxley
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Over the centuries men have believed that a startling variety of objects and places, people and experiences, are possessed of a strange and overwhelming power. These rites and symbols, beliefs and tabus, which have seemed supernatural and invested wi...
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Earth Lies Sleeping
Laurence James
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
“KEEP THE STARS FREE” â€" That’s the motto of the Galactic Security Service. Using vast ships and the massive weight of Federation diplomacy, it sweeps the star-ways to hold inter-stellar conflict in check. Most of the time.The Federation fleet...
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War on Aleph
Laurence James
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
It is five hundred years in the future. Strange new worlds and alien races have evolved. The universe as we know it has become a densely populated community. Interplanetary travel is now a routine matter. - In this fascinating world of tomorrow the I...
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The Radiant Dove
Annabel Jones
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Miss Jane Bird had been born rich. Her background would serve her well--now that poverty forced her to take a position as governess for spoiled and willful Arabella Mellowes. It surprised Jane that her charge was 17. Only seven years younger tha...
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Witch's Business
Diana Wynne Jones
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
They're in the revenge business!Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four whole months! That means that Jess can't go anywhere or do anything with her friends. Worse yet, Frank owes money to Buster Knell, the bully. How can Jess a...
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Gomorrah
Marvin Karlins
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Set in a future New York City, this science fiction mystery involves a complicated manhunt through the bizarre and deadly streets of an urban nightmare. Victor Slaughter's assignment is to unravel the mystery behind the abduction of an important poli...
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The Winking Ruby Mystery
Carolyn Keene
- Jan-1974
- / Amateur Sleuth
"Save Carlo . . . winking ruby . . . hurry!" This plea uttered by Gino, a mysterious violinist, just before he lapses into a coma, launch Jean and Louise Dana on their first exciting adventure in Europe. Is the mysterious "ruby" a gem...
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Signal--Close Action
Alexander Kent
- Jan-1974
- / Action Adventure
The year is 1798. Napoleon's naval forces are amassing in the Mediterranean, preparing to annex Egypt, and it is there the newly promoted Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent with a small squadron of ships under his command. Alone in friendless waters, ...
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The Paper Marriage
Flora Kidd
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Brooke's hasty marriage to the disturbingly attractive Owen Meredith was one of simple convenience on both sides. He wanted a companion for his motherless daughter, she needed to get to Venezuela urgently to get news of her missing father and sei...
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Life Is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." -- Boston Globe"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest liter...
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Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
"An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Lau...
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Hot to Trot
John Lahr
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
TV executive George Mellish has separated from his wife and seems determined to live it up in the lonely grandeur of his new penthouse flat, yet he finds himself still obsessed by his wife, to the point of spying on her from a treehouse. A comic nove...
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The word and the sword
Theo Lang
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Clean dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, very slight hint of fading to board edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, clean endpapers with no names, writing or marks. 450 pgs. Cle...
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An Eligible Connection
Elsie Lee
- Jan-1974
- / Traditional Regency
THE RED-HAIRED REBEL AND THE DASHING RAKE She never had vapors, never played the coquette like her ravishing sister Almina, "The Dark Incomparable" of London's haut ton. Fanny Cherill's flame-colored hair was a hopeless liability, her cheeky wit a...
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A Praying Mantis Kills
Howard Lee
- Jan-1974
- / Historical
LISTENED FOR -- they cannot be heard. LOOKED FOR -- they cannot be seen. FELT FOR -- they cannot be touched. The Masters of the Elite Science of KUNG FU Caine is such a master! Half-American, half-Chinese, he has been trained by Shaolin mo...
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Shade of the Palms
Roberta Leigh
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
To Stephen Brandon, Julia was no more than Miss Watson, his unflappable, highly - efficient secretary. A dowdy woman wearing unfashionable clothes, sensible shoes and spectacles, he would have described her, if he'd considered the matter at all. ...
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Buried in the Past
Elizabeth Lemarchand
- Jan-1974
- / Suspense
Secrets can’t stay buried forever… Everyone in Corbury is looking forward to the town's millenary celebration. Everyone, that is, except Bernard Lister. Brought up by his aunt and uncle, Bernard never got along with his new family, and as s...
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The Enemies Within
Michael Z. Lewin
- Jan-1974
- / Private Investigator
A gray-haired gentleman, living in discreet domesticity with his young boyfriend...nothing there to raise eyebrows these days. But when the boyfriend turns out to be a girlfriend, and the girlfriend's on the run from a jealous husband, and the husban...
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The Georgian Rake
Alice Chetwynd Ley
- Jan-1974
- / Traditional Regency
Reckless, seductive, she defied the customs she was raised to honor to prevent her sister's wedding... Amanda Twyford had to face the unwelcome news that Charles Barsett would wed her sister Isabella. Charles' roguish reputation made such a marria...
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Food for Love
Rachel Lindsay
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Nowadays we all take supermarkets for granted -- but how many of us give a thought to the small shopkeeper, gradually being forced out of business by the huge business combines? That was what happened to Amanda Stewart's father, and it was theref...
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Crown of Aloes
Norah Lofts
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
A novel about Isabella of Spain -- the Queen and the woman AS A QUEEN, ISABELLA RULED WITH AN IRON HAND. AS A WOMAN, SHE WAS RULED BY HER CROWN. On the throne she seemed a proud queen. In her private life she suffered tragically. She could not...
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The Classic of Tea
Yu Lu
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Written more than one thousand years ago, Lu Yu's book has done more than any other text to elevate tea and tea drinking to its unique place of veneration in Chinese society. This is the first complete translation that also includes an introduction...
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Without Any Amazement
Margaret Malcolm
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Jacynth was eighteen, and literally just out of the schoolroom, when Jonathan Branksome, married her. He hardly knew her, but drastic measures were necessary to protect her from being exploited by a heartless wastrel, and Jonathan knew he was the rig...
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A Bright Particular Star
Margaret Malcolm
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Emma felt from the very first that Roderick was different from any man she had known. "A man apart" was how she thought of him, because he had the ability to withdraw into a world of his own into which she could not follow him. Yet she was foolish...
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Black As He's Painted
Ngaio Marsh
- Jan-1974
- / Police Procedural
TRIBAL TREACHERY The president of an African republic is planning a good-will mission to England, and someone seems intent on including murder in his itinerary! Inspector Alleyn, normally exempt from duty on security protection, finds himself ...
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The Japanese Screen
Anne Mather
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Susannah met and fell in love with Fernando Cuevas in London. She little thought when she traveled out to Spain to work for a wealthy family that the child she had come to teach was Fernando's child and that she would be meeting Fernando himself ...
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Dark Moonless Night
Anne Mather
- Jan-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
Seven years ago, Caroline had considered Gareth Morgan unsuitable as a husband. Now she was to find herself part of Gareth's life again when she got a job in Central Africa where he was living. And Gareth wasted no time in telling her. "If yo...
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Dark Masquerade
Patricia Maxwell
- Jan-1974
- / Gothic
"There is danger all around us. We must think twice before we say every word. Someone tried to kill the boy and make it look like an accident. And someone has tried twice to harm me. They were not successful, but the next time they may be...."...
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Tim
Colleen McCullough
- Jan-1974
- / General Fiction
Tim has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....
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