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Books Published in June 1972
New Books List: 75 titles
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Papa's Wife
Thyra Ferre Bjorn
- Jun-1972
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All the girls had crushes on the handsome, silver-tongued preacher. But he was determined to remain a bachelor forever. Then Maria took matters into her own hands. She moved right into the same house with him, as his maid. So began one of the most de...
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Mouse Cafe
Patricia Coombs
- Jun-1972
- / General Fiction
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Thrown out by her selfish family when she becomes exhausted from overwork, Lollimops' fortunes change when she gets a job at the Mouse Café....
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A Day in the Life;
Gardner Dozois
- Jun-1972
- / General Fiction
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Stated first edition bound in purple cloth in VG+ condition. A lightly shelf worn copy. The dust jacket is in VG conditon. Wrinkling and dust soiling to the rear panel. SF anthology with stories by Samuel Delany, Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, Roge...
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The Needle's Eye
Margaret Drabble
- Jun-1972
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"THE NEEDLE'S EYE is that rare thing, a book one wishes were longer than it is."
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Rose Vassiliou and Simon Camish meet at a friend's dinner party. He's a barrister in a loveless marriage, she's divorced, but ... -
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Question of Power
Bessie Head
- Jun-1972
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It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission school principal's cruel revelation of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown. She has left South Africa with her son and is living in the village of Motabeng, the place of sand, in ...
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Clerycastle
Monica Heath
- Jun-1972
- / Gothic
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THE WOLF WAS THE SYMBOL OF THE McCLERYS A wolf's green eyes glinted from Lord McClery's ring. The yelping of penned wolves rose from the garden of Clerycastle. And there were tales, told by the Irish villagers, of a young woman attacked by ...
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Lawman for Slaughter
Ray Hogan
- Jun-1972
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Lawman for Slaughter Valley:Starbuck wondered if young Bishop really had the guts to last. Opposed by an evil rancher and his ruthless henchmen, a corrupt mayor and a townful of roughneck cowboys, he didn't have much of a chance. How could Starbuck h...
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The Phantom Surfer
Carolyn Keene
- Jun-1972
- / Amateur Sleuth
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With their Starhurst School friends, Jean and Louise Dana spend spring vacation at Horizon, located on the Atlantic coast. The seaside resort town is being restored to its former Victorian-era character. But the restoration project is plagued by thie...
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The German Lesson
Siegfried Lenz
- Jun-1972
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In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life sin...
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Moonlight and Magic
Rachel Lindsay
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jane Berry was, in looks, the image of Janey Belton, the famous and glamorous heiress. For certain reasons, Jane agreed to "double" for the other girl on a luxury cruise of the Mediterranean. Little did she foresee the complications that ...
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Dark Enemy
Anne Mather
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nicola had never met Jason Wilde, but she hated him for the way he had hurt and deceived her sister, and was determined to be revenged on him. So she worked out a plan that seemed fool-proof. She took a job with the oil company for which Jason wo...
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Troublemaker
Robert McKay
- Jun-1972
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To some, Jesse is a born troublemaker but to many others he is a high school senior asking to be treated as a citizen with feelings and rights. “He’s the most hostile boy I ever saw in my life.” “He’s the grooviest hostile boy I ever saw...
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Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
- Jun-1972
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"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his c...
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The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
Thomas Nashe
- Jun-1972
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Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they...
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Wish With the Candles
Betty Neels
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Emma Hastings knew that she was an excellent Theatre Sister, and as such was admired and appreciated by the devastating Dutch surgeon Justin Teylingen. But liking and appreciation are not love, and there were' plenty of girls around with far m...
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Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
- Jun-1972
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Learn to read with the classic Amelia Bedelia!
Ever since Amelia Bedelia made her debut in 1963, young readers have been laughing out loud at the antics of this literal-minded but charming housekeeper.
Guess who''s at bat?...
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Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
- Jun-1972
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This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle). August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port ...
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The Long Night of Fear
Marilyn Ross
- Jun-1972
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Lucy's honeymoon suddenly turns into a nightmare when she learns her new husband may be a desperate killer. After a whirlwind courtship, Lucy became Chad's bride. After her honeymoon, will she become his victim? Lucy and Chad Burton's honeymoon is...
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The Towers of Silence
Paul Scott
- Jun-1972
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Third in the epic quartet about the end of the Raj: “Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful . . . His contribution to literature is permanent.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station...
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Mr. Brown // The Unknown Mr. Brown
Sara Seale
- Jun-1972
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Original title: Mr. Brown. From the age of fourteen, orphaned Victoria was cared for by a benefactor whom she was never able to meet, the unknown "Mr. Brown". As she grew older she found herself weaving romantic fantasies around him - but ...
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The Watching Windows
Ruth McCarthy Sears
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Marly had come to towering Regent Manor, as private nurse to the elegant Mrs. Regent, with hopes of finding the home she did not have. But from the start she was besieged by troubles. First, she found it necessary to enter the Manor by scaling its ir...
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
- Jun-1972
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A Latino-centric movie adaptation is coming soon to Disney+!From children’s book legend Judith Viorst comes the perennially popular tale of Alexander’s worst day. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a story that belongs...
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The Car Thief.
Theodore. Weesner
- Jun-1972
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[Read by Paul Michael Garcia]
Described as ''one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century,'' Theodore Weesner's modern American classic is now on audio!
It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fo... -
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Deathwatch
Robb White
- Jun-1972
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"An exciting novel of suspense, based on a fight to the finish between an honest and courageous young man and a cynical business tycoon who believes that anything can be had for a price."--Horn Book. An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, Ed...
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The Fire of Life
Hilary Wilde
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Rayanne had gone to the Jefferson Wild Life Reserve in Africa to write a thesis on wild life conservation -- and came up against Cary Jefferson, who was far from believing that woman were cut out for such things. And it was not long before Rayanne ...
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe
- Jun-1972
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Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other i...
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The Dawn and the Dark
George Woodcock
- Jun-1972
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In Dawn and the Darkest Hour, poet and author George Woodcock explores the famously complex life and career of Aldous Huxley. A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a popular journalist and essayist on scientific and political subjects; a pr...
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Samuel de Champlain
Samuel Eliot Morison
- Jul-1972
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Citing frequently from Champlain's own published accounts of his explorations of New France, Legare chronicles Champlain's intense efforts to publicize, map, and colonize the northeastern shores of North America and the valley of the St. Lawrence. Fr...
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The Rainbow Bird
Margaret Way
- Jul-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Paige Norton's friendship with Joel Benedict was progressing very satisfactorily. In fact, it had reached the stage of his "taking her home to meet the family". Home was Koombala, the vast Benedict cattle empire in the middle of the Au...