Books Published in May 1975

New Books List: 64 titles

  • Without Feathers

    Woody Allen

    The comedian-writer-filmmaker offers stories, essays, parodies, one-act plays, and fugitive pieces, in which he grapples and gallivants with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes and fortuitous outrages...

  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

    John Ashbery

  • American Made

    Shylah Boyd

    Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR AND RARE--------------American Made by SHYLAH BOYD. THIS ITEM IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE!!! DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!!! DON'T STAY HOME WITHOUT IT!!! 'Much of this dazzling but largely forgotten novel is set...

  • Corpse

    Carter Brown

  • Mash Goes to London

    William E. Butterworth

  • Gone to Texas

    Forrest Carter

    Having lost wife and child, Josey Wales heads west from Missouri with his Cherokee friend Lone Watie and then, joined by an Indian woman and an old white woman and her granddaughter, moves southward to Texas....

  • Goss Women

    R.V. Cassill

  • Short History

    E.M. Cioran

  • The Great Train Robbery

    Michael Crichton

    In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunni...

  • Boss Man from Ogallala // Searching For Santa

    Janet Dailey

    Surely heartbreak doesn't last forever, Casey Gilmore thought. It was ironic, actually, because Casey hadn't wanted Flint McCallister to manage the ranch at all. Her hostility had been open. Now, here she was contemplating a world without ...

  • Isle of Dreams

    Elizabeth Dawson

    Alison had lost her memory, and it would be best, they told her, if she recovered it herself, without any help. On the beautiful island of Capri, where she had been taken to recover, there were two men -- Guy and Steve -- who seemed to be inextric...

  • Checkpoint Charlie

    Gerard De Villiers

  • Ehrengard

    Isak Dinesen

    A fairy-tale set in the early-19th century in the Grand Duchy of Babenhausen. The story revolves around the desire of the court painter, Herr Cazotte, to seduce Ehrengard, maid of honour to Princess Ludmilla....

  • Nurse in Spain

    Diana Douglas

    Had the glamour of an exotic land blinded Fran to the truth about love...? DOCTOR OR MATADOR, WHICH WOULD WIN HER LOVE? Lovely young Fran Kelly had accepted a transfer to the American Army base at Coronado, hoping for an easy tour of duty and a...

  • Continuum 1

    Roger Elwood

    Stories include: Stations Of The Nightmare, Part one Philip Jose Farmer, My Own, My native land P.Anderson, Shaka! C.Oliver, The Armageddon Tapes Tape 1 T.Scortia, Prelude To A Crystal Song Anne McCaffrey, The Dark Of The June G.Wolfe, The Children's...

  • The Great Stone Heart

    Mona Farnsworth

    HOUSE OF MYSTERIES Amanda comes to Santa Fe still stunned by the tragic loss of her parents, too wrapped in her grief to notice at first the feeling of doom that pervades the elegant old house. Then suddenly she finds herself struggling in a ne...

  • Two Hundred Years of Great American Short Stories

    Martha Foley

  • Corsican Dead

    Robert Hawkes

  • The Rats

    James Herbert

    A special fortieth anniversary edition of The Rats, the classic, bestselling horror novel that launched James Herbert's career.With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were di...

  • The Eagle Has Landed

    Jack Higgins

    Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill - or kill him. A disgraced war hero receives the suicidal mission - to take his commandos into the heart of England. In the quiet seaside...

  • Sing to the Dawn

    Minfong Ho

  • Counterfeit Kill

    E. Howard Hunt

  • Under the Raging Moon

    Joan Hunter

    Tamzin Vern was very young, regally seductive -- and homeless. So she was overjoyed when by a quirk of fate, she fell into the entourage of Arbella Holden, England’s celebrated actress. Tamzin bloomed in the rich, lusty clamor of theatrical life...

  • It's Me Again

    Donald Lamont Jack

    “On the way back to the Front I ran over a general.” With this opening line you know that Bartholomew Bandy is back, with a vengeance. It may be 1918 and the war may be grinding on, but Bandy will make a difference. Now he’s in charge of his ow...

  • The Littlest Rabbit

    Robert Kraus

  • House, Bridge, Fountain

    Maxine Kumin

  • Something Queer at the Ballpark

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Flowers in Stony Places

    Marjorie Lewty

    When Adam Royle came to Kings Worthy School as temporary headmaster, Samantha was warned that all women made fools of themselves over him. She certainly didn't intend to join the queue. After all, she had Richard, didn't she? But remaining cool to...

  • The Transition of Titus Crow

    Brian Lumley

    The Transition of Titus Crow is the second book in the Titus Crow series from bestselling horror novelist Brian Lumley The Titus Crow novels are adventure horror, full of acts of nobility and heroism, featuring travel to exotic locations and alternat...

  • The Hundred Penny Box

    Sharon Bell Mathis

    Michael's great-great-aunt Dew is a hundred years old. She keeps a box in her room filled with pennies -- one for each year she has lived. Michael's mother wants to get rid of the old box. But Michael knows that if Aunt Dew loses that old box, it ...

  • Twentieth Century American Short Stories

    Jean A. McConochie

  • Black Widower

    Patricia Moyes

    Sir Edward Ironmonger, the ambassador to the United States from the newly independent island republic of Tampica, and his beautiful, temperamental wife, Mavis, are throwing a party for the Washington diplomatic corps. Despite her promises to behave, ...

  • Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff

    Walter Dean Myers

    Stuff doesn't know anyone when he first moves to 116th Street. But all of that changes when he meets Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Gloria. Stuff and the gang grow close that eventful year, and nothing is ever like it again. That's the year modern science...

  • A Star Looks Down

    Betty Neels

    Beth had agreed to help Professor Alexander van Zeust look after his young nephews and nieces for a week while their mother was in hospital. The week stretched to two; then it was proposed she accompany them to Holland for a further period. Would...

  • Garden of Broken Glass

    Emily Cheney Neville

    Unable to work out a satisfactory relationship with his brother and sister and cope with their alcoholic mother, a young boy finds solace with neighborhood friends and in his relationship with a stray dog....

  • Gift from Earth

    Larry Niven

    NO PLACE FOR BLEEDING HEARTS The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans -- it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life only existed on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could no...

  • The Baby Merchants

    Lillian O'Donnell

    Married six years, Norah Mulcahaney yearns for a child. Miscarriage after miscarriage convinces her that she is not able to carry to term. Adoption seems her only hope. But finding a child is not so easy. The sudden opportunity to adopt three year ol...

  • Women in the Wall

    Julia O'Faolain

    'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.'Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid portrai...

  • Track the Man Down

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    Keen on revenge, Big Torrey lures a coldblooded murderer named Manigault into Morales Valley, knowing all the while that Manigault's family are on their way to administer their own brand of justice. Original....

  • The Tender Night

    Lilian Peake

    Hurt and embittered when her fiance broke their engagement on the eve of the wedding, Shelly Jenner had vowed never to get emotionally involved with a man again. Certainly not with someone like Craig Allard, who represented everything she most dislik...

  • Hawaiian Hellground

    Don Pendleton

    ON THE RAMPAGE The big picture window at the north wall popped and vibrated as something sizzled into that room and exploded into the face of Puli's escort, jerking the guy like a rag doll and sending pieces of him spraying everywhere. The window ...

  • Wheels of Conflict

    Sue Peters

    Sherry was perfectly capable of running her uncle's car-hire firm while he was ill; she didn't want that interfering, bossy Dee Lawrence keeping an eye on her, thanks very much! But she was to come to depend on Dee rather more than she had...

  • Welcome to Oblivion

    Paul Petersen

    The trial was ominously secret, and when it was over Saveman had been banished from ZED. Alone, he faced the treacherous Dr. Oblivion, whose maneuvers in oil could precipitate global war! Only Saveman could stop him, and his own survival depended o...

  • Best of Frederik Pohl

    Frederik Pohl

    This is a British paperback, published by Orbit. Best short fiction by one of science fiction's Grand Masters. Includes essays by Pohl and Lester del Rey, plus the following stories: The Day the Icicle Works Closed (1960); Day Million (1966); The Mid...

  • The Six Million Dollar Man

    Evan Richards

  • Demon Island

    Kenneth Robeson

  • Long Man's Song

    Joyce Rockwood

  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Judith Rossner

    Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid...

  • The Kidnapping of the Coffee Pot

    Kaye Saari

  • Butterfly Magic

    Kjell Bloch Sandved

  • I'm Not Oscar's Friend

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Memoirs of Juli Grant

    John Simon

    Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. Mrs. Grant was raised the pampered daughter of a Missouri ...

  • The Saragasso Sea

    John Teal

  • The Betrayal of Bonnie

    Barbara Van Tuyl

    racing luck Bonnie just had to win the Marquesa Stakes and make her racing comeback. Everyone said she was good enough to do it. And it would mean everything to Bonnie's owner, Julie Jefferson, lying in a hospital bed after a cruel accident at the...

  • Beware the Huntsman

    Sophie Weston

    Susanna wasn't happy about her young cousin Claire's unsatisfactory romance with sophisticated Giovanni di Montefiorino. She decided to do what she could to make Claire give it up as a bad job. And then, ironically, Susanna found herself falling in...

  • Mystery of the Black Diamonds

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    When Angie and Mark first look at the treasure map given them by the old prospector, they are unable to figure out its meaning or even decide whether or not it is a hoax. But when they persuade their parents to visit the ghost town of Blossom, one cl...

  • The Infinity Box

    Kate Wilhelm

    A man's eerie ability to enter--and control --the mind of a vulnerable young woman turns into a sexual nightmare. . . A hack writer with fading skills finds his soap operas foretelling the future. . . . His retirement present, a watch, takes a man ba...

  • The Twenties

    Edmund Wilson

  • A Multitude of Sins

    M.K. Wren

    "I'LL BE ON YOUR PATIO AT FOUR O'CLOCK. IF YOU AREN'T THERE, I'LL UNDERSTAND...." That was the gist of the mysterious plea for help that Conan Flagg found lying on the counter of his Holliday Beach Book Shop. The writer was beautiful Isadora Canfi...

  • Tobias and the Angel

    Frank Yerby

    The tumultuous adventures of Tobias Tobit, a quiet soldier home from the war on his way south to become the honorable husband of one of his identical twin cousins -- only to find himself waylaid into an orgy of fleshly experience and forced into a ch...

  • Final Stage

    Edward L. Ferman

  • Prisoners of Sept

    Leon Garfield