Books Published in May 1974

New Books List: 49 titles

  • Shardik

    Richard Adams

    A thundering tale of love and adventure, of kingdoms won and lost -- the story of a lone hunter. Kelderek, who pursues the secret of Shardik across the length and breadth of a fabled world....

  • 2 Is Lonely

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Two Is a Team

    Lorraine Levey Beim

  • Beautiful Lofty People

    Helen S. Bevington

  • American Gothic

    Robert Bloch

    The Castle: it looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors. The Castle is home to G. Gordon Gregg, physician-murderer. His victims are...

  • The Sad Geraniums, and Other Stories

    Wolfgang Borchert

  • They Came to Valeira

    Rosalind Brett

    Hoping for some degree of solitude and complete relief from woman, Julian Caswell had gone as plantation manager to the tropical island of Valeria. When he discovered a lone white girl in his fastness of men he was, not unnaturally, hostile, and Phil...

  • Home to the Wilderness

    Sally Carrighar

  • Evil Is the Night

    Joselyn Chadwick

    Dark Curse of Death Linda Barnett left the Hacienda Estrella as a young child, but her father's tragic illness brought her back. From the moment she arrived at the Hacienda, she felt demonous stirrings. Her father was paralyzed and unable to ta...

  • The Way the Cookie Crumbles

    James Hadley Chase

  • A Time to Love

    Ruth Clemence

    Angie had no intention of falling in love with Pablo Pendleton -- but in spite of herself she had. For Pablo was her sister Netta's property -- and even though he seemed to have no scruples about flirting with her, how could Angie hurt her sis...

  • Winter Kills

    Richard Condon

    A whistleblower looks too deeply into a president’s assassination in this darkly satiric conspiracy thriller from the author of The Manchurian Candidate.   It has been more than a decade since the assassination of US President Timothy Kegan, w...

  • Marianne's Kingdom

    Parley J. Cooper

    She was a prisoner in a nightmare, a tormented captive bound by fear to a house of satanic terrors. EVIL BONDAGE When they arrived at the strange, brooding, desolate house in the black-forested hills, Marianne was warned by her aunt never to me...

  • Victoire

    Clare Darcy

    A DELIGHTFULLY IMPUDENT IMPOSTOR Sparkling young Victoire Duvernay made her first appearance in Regency England posing as her cousin who had been shamefully wronged by the dashing, devastatingly handsome rake, the Marquis of Tarn. But soon she eme...

  • The Habit of Love

    Joyce Dingwell

    Brit had always spoiled and indulged her young sister Cara, so perhaps she deserved it when Cara rewarded her by leaving her without a penny in the world. Link Wayland came to the rescue with the suggestion that she marry him -- but was that the a...

  • The Millionaire's Daughter

    Dorothy Eden

    THE UNFORGETTABLE 19TH-CENTURY LOVE STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS CAUGHT UP IN THE CROSSCURRENTS OF AMBITION AND DESIRE Christabel Spencer's life had been carefully planned before she was even born. This cherished child of New York's newest millionai...

  • A Cry of Angels

    Jeff Fields

    “An authentic cry of American innocence . . . The author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go.” -- Time Magazine   It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope’s l...

  • Westerns

    Philip French

  • Gasp

    Romain Gary

  • The Uprooted

    Oscar Handlin

    This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the great migration that made the American people, from author Oscar Handlin. The story starts in Europe where the end of peasant life gives the impetus for a vast movement of 35 million people across the At...

  • Tunnel Through the Deeps

    Harry Harrison

  • Ripley's Game

    Patricia Highsmith

    With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero.Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the ...

  • Arthur's Honey Bear

    Lillian Hoban

    Arthur and his sister Violet are selling their old toys--even Arthur's favorite Honey Bear. When his little sister buys his bear, Arthur misses him terribly. But Arthur realizes that even though he's growing up, he can still have a special relationsh...

  • Cashelmara

    Susan Howatch

    The New York Times bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict. When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to ...

  • Number One with a Bullet

    Elaine Jesmer

  • Isle of the Seventh Sentry

    Fortune Kent

    A family inheritance, a forbidden love, and a faceless enemy-can Beth endure it all? Lost at sea along with her parents as a young child, Beth Worthington shouldn't have survived. Years later, she is returning to her family estate to claim her in...

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    John Le Carre

    A modern masterpiece, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet equivalent, as he's assigned to identify and destroy the double agent--a mole--who has burrowed his way into the top echelo...

  • The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    A TALE OF TWO PLANETS In her most ambitious and prophetic novel to date, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a stunning tour de force--the spellbinding story of Shevek, a brilliant physicist who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off fro...

  • All Made of Wishes

    Marjorie Lewty

    "He gets under your skin," Averil's sister Sara had said of William Randall, and Averil's reply had been, "Well, he won't get under mine!" Yet she was to find this disturbingly attractive man was in her thoughts all too...

  • Ultramarine

    Malcolm Lowry

    Malcolm Lowry, who would permanently stake his claim to literary immortality with the masterpieceĂ, Under the Volcano, wroteĂ, Ultramarine, his debut, as an undergraduate at Cambridge. Displaying the linguistic virtuosity and haunting image...

  • Cherish This Wayward Heart

    Margaret Malcolm

    Poor Judith! Her father had always wanted a son, and had shown his daughter plainly that she was a disappointment to him. So she had grown up aggressive, touchy, determined to show that she was as good as any man -- or better. Then her father died...

  • Dear Colleague

    Francis murray

    by Frances Murray. A fascinating novel of Victorian romance and intrigue. Intelligent, pretty, but without "prospects," Elizabeth McLeod was resigned to her native Scotland and living out her days in quiet spinsterhood. But that was before she ...

  • Cruise to a Wedding

    Betty Neels

    When Loveday heard that her friend Rimada had a stern guardian who objected to her wedding plans, it seemed only natural to sympathize and offer practical help in getting round the problem. But Loveday was to find that Adam was harder to organize...

  • Gunsmoke over Big Muddy

    Frank O'Rourke

  • Black Samurai

    Marc Olden

    Rescued by a Japanese samurai master, trained for seven years, Robert Sand became the Black Samurai, a man to be reckoned with. And having suffered at the hands of military racists and seeing his teacher and brother samurai killed before his eyes by ...

  • The Golden Kill

    Marc Olden

    No one seemed able to combat the vast secret global network of money, power, and violence that was step by step enslaving mankind. Its mysterious masters commanded armies of men, gigantic corporations, entire governments, every means of destruction i...

  • Conjunctions and Disjunctions

    Octavio Paz

    Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a "history of man". Unlike countless other histories that simply chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work explores the human heart, the meaning of human nature, and the du...

  • The Blue-Eyed Gypsy

    Janette Radcliffe

    Valerie Bennett was a desperate, frightened little girl when she ran away from home to join a gypsy tribe. She was a beautiful young woman when her abominable stepfather and her submissive mother found her and forced her to return to the family estat...

  • The Plague of Sound

    Alex Raymond

    A SPACESHIP CAPTURED in a magnetic field and pulled beneath the earth into an underground city, FLASH GORDON jumps to safety only to be caught in the web of a giant man-eating spider, then saved by a titian haired beauty. Pan, a madman musician, s...

  • The Man with the Black Worrybeads

    George Rumanes

    In the port of Pireaus, Greece, the early summer rains stopped and the clouds cleared away. The sun, slowly gliding onto the sea, cast its last rays on the German fleet. After the night patrols ran past and the sound of jackboots faded, Petros Zervas...

  • Sar

    John Robert Russell

    Nothing remains of the human race but a few tribes struggling to survive. Ruled by strongmen and warlords, the people toil, produce babies, and submit sullenly to brutality and sexual exploitation. But one man does not submit. His name is Sar, and, ...

  • Falling

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  • Miss Bianca

    Margery Sharp

  • Elizabeth Alone

    William Trevor

    Alone together in a London hospital ward, four women take stock of their lives in this “deeply moving novel” by the award-winning author of The Old Boys (The New York Times). At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizab...

  • Theories of Film

    Andrew Tudor

  • The Vandals of Treason House

    Nancy Veglahn

  • The Mystery of the Gulls

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    Taffy Saunders finds mystery and adventure on beautiful Mackinac Island, where her mother has unexpectedly inherited a hotel. A stipulation in the will states that Mrs. Saunders must manage the hotel successfully for a summer in order to gain title t...

  • The Nun

    Denis Diderot

    Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight in...

  • The Longest Mile

    Rena Gazaway