Books Published in May 1972

New Books List: 43 titles

  • We

    Yvegeny Zamyatin

    “[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism -- human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself -- makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” -- George OrwellTranslated by Natasha Randall • Foreword by...

  • Captain Blackman

    John A. Williams

    A “fascinating novel” of race and war in historical US conflicts -- through the eyes of a black soldier inexplicably traveling through time (The New York Times Book Review).   In the midst of the racial tensions in the army during the Vietna...

  • A Treasure for Life

    Anne Weale

    Jane was helping out with a friend's children when David Carleton arrived on the scene. She didn't like him - he was obviously one of those insufferable men who regarded unmarried women as playthings, and married women as unpaid housekeepers. A...

  • Robert the Bruce

    Nigel Tranter

  • The Way: An Anthology of American Indian Literature

    Stan Steiner

  • Garth of Tregillis

    Henrietta Reid

    To Garth Seaton, master of Tregillis, Judith Westall was only the governess he had engaged to look after the two children in his care. But Garth did not know that Judith's reasons for coming to Tregillis had nothing to do with her job .. . ...

  • Rendezvous: South Atlantic

    Douglas Reeman

    Readers of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith will love this gripping, spell-binding and unputdownable WW2 historical adventure full of vivid battle scenes and masterful characterisation from multi-million copy bestselling author Dougla...

  • A Killing in Kiowa

    Lewis B. Patten

  • The Wrong Plantagenet

    Marian Palmer

  • Golf in the Kingdom

    Michael Murphy

    While on his way to India, Michael Murphy, founder of the Esalen Institute, stopped in Scotland to play a round of golf at the famous Burningbush course. There he met Shivas Irons, golf pro and mystic, and in a single day and night he had his life --...

  • The Birds of America

    Mary McCarthy

    An “endlessly fascinating novel” of an American student finding his way in 1960s Paris from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group (San Francisco Chronicle).
     It is 1964, and Peter Levi, a young stud...

  • Moment of Decision

    Jean S. MacLeod

    Caroline Norton had inherited her grandmother's farm jointly with her cousin Heinie, and she was determined to keep it in the family. Her cousin, though a charming man, was weak and irresponsible. The task of running the farm was going to be diff...

  • Wife to the Bastard

    Hilda Lewis

    Matilda of Flanders, queen to William the Conqueror was beautiful, exquisitely small, clever, with a perfect courtesy trained in the rigid school of medieval manners. But within lay a root of darkness - inheritance, perhaps, of Viking ancestors. Twic...

  • Deryni Checkmate

    Katherine Kurtz

    TROUBLE OVER GWYNEDD The number of the Deryni was small, very small--for they had been hounded for generations, their very identity kept secret for so long that many who were of Deryni blood did not know it. Those who did, those few who had ma...

  • Twice upon Time

    Carolyn jones

  • Rosshalde

    Hermann Hesse

    Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged...

  • Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales

    Hermann Hesse

  • Tudor Interludes

    Peter Happe

  • Wife for a Penny

    Anne Hampson

    Liz had never particularly wanted to be married -- she hadn't a high enough opinion of men! -- and she certainly hadn't wanted to marry the half-Greek Nigel Shapani. Yet here she was, married to him indeed and firmly settled in his beautif...

  • The House of Blue Leaves

    John Guare

  • The Pengelly Jade

    Lucy Gillen

    The Pengelly family vas very united, and Bryony knew that nothing would give her old Uncle Miklas more pleasure than to see her married to his heir, her cousin Giles. Giles, she knew, would be only too willing -- but where did Bryony's feeling...

  • The Ghost Downstairs

    Leon Garfield

    A bargain of a lifetime - seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!By day, Mr Fast was a solicitor’s clerk, drawing up strangle-tight agreements and contracts. By night he repaired to his rooms to spy upon his neighbours (f...

  • People of the Dream

    James Forman

  • Bridal Affair

    Glenna Finley

    A beautiful young heiress risks her fortune and her life... In her search for love... Dilemma Of The Heart When lovely young heiress Jean Cameron quite by accident spends the night at the cottage of handsome Grant Stevenson, she violates the ...

  • Comanche Moon

    Cliff Farrell

  • A Castle in Spain

    Caroline Farr

    A Castle in Spain. Pretty young Lisa Walton and her traveling companion were delighted when Desmond O'Neill offered to guide them through Spain. He was irresistibly handsome and charming, and Lisa found herself intensely attracted to him. But then th...

  • Fastest Gun Pulpit

    Jack Ehrlich

  • Five Were Missing

    Lois Duncan

    IT WAS AN ORDINARY SCHOOL BUS RIDE …at first, Glenn was being his usual wonder-boy self, while his brother Bruce quietly sat in his shadow. Shy, dark-haired Jesse French tried to concentrate on the book she was reading. Dexter, sullen and self-con...

  • Camille, Or, the Fate of a Coquette

    Alexandre Dumas

    Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazenand expensivecourtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneyed life of nonstop parties and aristocratic balls and savors every day as if it were her last. I...

  • The Lady Ambassador

    Vivian Donald

    It all started when Mary MacKay was sent to the Republic of Seralippe as England's first lady ambassador; it was a most satisfactory climax to a brilliant Foreign Office career. But the seemingly staid Miss MacKay never expected to be the victim of a...

  • Jacaranda Island

    Iris Danbury

    It had been a long journey to Tenerife just to learn that the job she had been going to had folded, so rather than return home, Lorian decided to look for another position. But after accepting one from the austere Don Ricardo Ferrano, Lorian bega...

  • Summer Mountain

    Dorothy Cork

    It was a bit daunting, Helen found, when she arrived in Australia to marry Nicky Jamieson only to discover that Nicky himself was abroad on an extended holiday -- with another girl! However, the girl, it appeared was only a lifelong good friend, and...

  • The Devil Child

    Parley J. Cooper

    Captive of Darkness Lillith was young, strangely pretty, and different. The townspeople called her a witch because she lived in the ominous, walled mansion known as Clarke House. Her aunt, with whom she shared the shadowy darkness of Clarke Hou...

  • Certain Women

    Erskine Caldwell

  • Jenny by Nature

    Erskine Caldwell

  • Open Heart

    Frederick Buechner

  • The Aseptic Murders

    Carter Brown

  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

    Judy Blume

    This Fudge isn't so sweet. Two is a crowd when Peter and his little brother, Fudge, are in the same room. Grown-ups think Fudge is absolutely adorable, but Peter and his pet turtle, Dribble, know the truth. From throwing temper tantrums to smearin...

  • Galactic Cluster

    James Blish

  • Midsummer Century

    James Blish

  • Vineyard in a Valley

    Gloria Bevan

    It wasn't Tracy's fault that she had been more or less wished onto Stephen Crane and his aunt. She had, after all, come right across the world to New Zealand for her cousin Alison's wedding to Stephen's brother, and now that Alison ha...

  • Outlaw Brand

    Todhunter Ballard

  • Gods Themselves

    Isaac Asimov

    In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference p...