Books Published in May 1978

New Books List: 116 titles

  • Geranium on Windowsill Died

    Albert Cullum

  • Hostage: London: Diary of Julian Despard

    Geoffrey Household

    A terrorist with a conscience turns against his radical cadre in a desperate attempt to prevent a nuclear nightmare Julian Despard has devoted his life to the New Revolution. As cell leader for the notorious international terrorist organization Magma...

  • Hawksbill Station

    Robert Silverberg

    A “dark, restrained, and powerful” mirror of current politics from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Science Fiction Ruminations).   In the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period, a penal colony sits high above the ocean on the east c...

  • Heiress to Love

    Lisabet Norcross

    A HEART BEQUEATHED Cornelia Coyningham would soon inherit a great deal of money -- but only if she married Anthony, Lord Garland, Earl Northmoor, the most eligible young nobleman in the county! Granted that Tony was an uncommonly bold and hands...

  • Myriah

    Claudette Williams

    It started with a stolen kiss … Fiery Myriah Whitney is wild of nature, contrary, and independent. But when her father catches her kissing the handsome Sir Roland (how else is she to determine if he is the one who will make her feel thunder and ...

  • Risk

    Dick Francis

    Roland Britten was an amateur jockey, and an accountant by profession, who woke up one morning and found he couldn't move his hands. He also could not see. And all he could hear was the noise of an engine, very close by. He finally decided he was lyi...

  • Altered States

    Paddy Chayefsky

    Edward Jessup, a neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School, relentlessly seeks the origins of human consciousness and, with the aide of an isolation tank and a hallucinogenic drug, regresses farther and farther into a proto-human state...

  • Delphine

    Mel Arrighi

  • The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

    John Bellairs

    A young boy discovers a clue that points to an incredible treasure…When Miss Eells gives young Anthony a job at the library, he thinks he’ll just be dusting shelves and filing books. Instead, he discovers a hidden clue leading to the treasure of ...

  • Court of Honor

    Maria Fagyas

  • The Bad Lands

    Oakley Hall

    From the acclaimed author of Warlock comes “an elegiac, incandescent 1880s Dakota badlands Western that bears comparison to the greats” (Kirkus).   It’s 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory -- a rugged, wide-open landscape o...

  • Family Fortune

    Jerome Weidman

    A world where "the family" stood above all else...where murder was a cure for treachery...where respectability could be purchased for vast sums of money...where love struggled to survive in a climate of corruption and violence...where memories of a p...

  • The Rag Bag Clan

    Richard Barth

    When a bag lady is found murdered with one thousand dollars stuffed in her shoes, undercover cop Sergeant Schaeffer recruits an elderly local resident to disguise herself as a bag lady in hopes of solving the mystery...

  • Silas and the Black Mare

    Cecil Bodker

  • The Pirates

    Douglas Botting

  • 0.44

    Jimmy Breslin

  • Treasure Hunt

    Frederick Buechner

  • The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

    Michael Dibdin

    LONDON 1888: MANIAC STALKS WHITECHAPEL! Three female paupers of dubious morals are gruesomely murdered. Their corpses are horribly mutilated. Instantly, London is thrust into a state of terror. A monstrous ghoul is prowling the night, untouchable ...

  • The Death of Nora Ryan

    James T. Farrell

  • Noonan

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Violet Clay

    Gail Godwin

    Violet Clay had come to New York City from Charleston to take the art world by storm. But nine years, many affairs, and thousands of drinks later, the reality of her shadow life is made clear when she is fired from her job as a freelance illustrator....

  • The World According to Garp

    John Irving

    Millions have entered Garp's world . . . And loved it! Journey through four generations, across two continents with the astonishing family of T.S. Garp -- the famous bastard son of a belligerent mother -- who loves, lusts, labors, and triumphs in...

  • Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

    William Kennedy

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycleBilly Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, moves throuh the lurid n...

  • The Retrieval System

    Maxine Kumin

  • Stories

    Doris Lessing

    This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate--spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career--highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating world....

  • The Wolves of Paris

    Daniel P. Mannix

    An historically and zoologically accurate reconstruction of the terrorizing of the French countryside in the 1430s by a pack of man-eating wolves and of the animals' invasion of the city of Paris itself...

  • Set in Motion

    Valerie Martin

    Helene Thatcher, a social worker who helps the hungry and homeless by day, is in her private life the perfect victim. Helene's need to satisfy her lovers Reed, Michael, and Richard is erotic, powerful . . . and dangerous....

  • Prudence Be Damned

    Mary McMullen

    It was going to be a quiet little family affair. Rob Devore would kidnap his mother for a quarter of a million dollars in ransom. Of course Dad would pay, and then Rob and his girlfriend, Margaret, could live happily ever after.

    Everything wen...

  • The Drought on Ziax II

    John Morressy

  • Time in Its Flight

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  • Ike and Mama and the Once-A-Year Suit

    Carol Snyder

  • The Magdalene Scrolls

    Barbara Wood

    When the first of the Magdalene Scrolls arrives, Professor Ben Messer is puzzled, intrigued, excited. What scholar of ancient languages wouldn't be, when he held in his hands something even more astonishing than the Dead Sea Scrolls -- a scroll just...

  • The Daughter of Henry VIII

    Rosemary Churchill

    A brilliant historical novel, first published in England, is at last in paperback! It is set in the colorful, brutal, bawdy England of the seventeenth century. The central figure is Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of ...

  • Perrine

    Dorothy Daniels

    His name was Razko. By Gypsy law, he was her betrothed. he was handsome, powerful, and women desired him -- but not Perrine. She knew his cruelty; and when the gypsy camp was raided and her father killed as the result of a murder Razko had committed,...

  • The Hired Heart

    Pamela D'arcy

    A far-too-eligible young woman... a surprising pact... a most unladylike wager.... LADY MARGARET BUCKHAM FORMS A PLAN... London, Meg thought disdainfully as she galloped furiously down the dark country lane. The glittering balls and society gossip...

  • The Ruling Passion

    Shaun Herron

    BLOODLINE OF DESIRE When Carrach MacDonnell, head of the powerful and wealthy MacDonnell clan in strife-torn Ireland, fell wildly in love with his brother's beautiful young daughter Isabella, he knew he was betraying his wife with a girl forbidden...

  • The Mountain Valley War

    Louis L'Amour

    CUT 'N' SHOOT Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering ...

  • Precious Moments

    Suzanne Roberts

    Pretty young Jamie Eden had always though of the beautiful people in the glittering ski resort of Aspen as a race apart from her. But now, as secretary to best selling novelist David Saunders, Jamie suddenly was in the center of their dazzling social...

  • The Laird and the Lady

    Vivian Donald
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    When lovely, dark-haired concert pianist Lorna Forrest and composer Ranald MacDonnell meet at a music festival, they are immediately drawn to each other. Only later does Lorna learn that the handsome young man is the Laird of Coigach and owner of a s...

  • Purity's Shame

    Janette Seymour

    To the breathless peak of soul-maddening rapture!" -- "At last! The story that millions of readers have longed for ... Purity's Shame -- The fervor that blazed across the pages of PURITY's PASSION and PURITY's ECSTASY now sweeps Purity to the con...

  • The End

    Carol Sturm Smith

    A terminally funny novel of a man's brave attempt to commit suicide. Based on the screenplay for the motion picture starring Burt Reynolds; Dom DeLuise; Sally Fields; Strother Martin (COOL Hand Luke), & Joanne Woodward. Hilarious!...

  • The Secret of Stone Face

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    The stone face glared from its mountain perch. What was it trying to say? At first that tall column of rock seemed no different from others near the Mountain House. Then Jo noticed the face with wide, staring eyes and angry brows that had been car...

  • Damien: Omen Ii

    Harvey Bernhard

  • Kioga of Unknown Lands

    William L. Chester

    This is the fourth and last of the epic adventures of Kioga, the Snow Hawk, in the wilderness of the unknown Arctic continent of Nato'wa, homeland of the American Indian. Here Kioga comes to his ultimate challenge as he finds a lost land within a los...

  • On or About the First Day

    John Colleton

  • Grandmother's Pictures

    Sam Cornish

  • Journey of the Wolf

    Douglas Day

    Sebastian Rosales, known at the time of the Spanish Civil War as a "lobo", quickly became a fearless killer. He goes to France where, 34 years later, he decides it is time to return home to his native village. This novel recounts his journey home....

  • Outbreak

    Robert De Maria

  • A Thunder at Dawn

    Jack Hoffenberg

  • Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

    Joanna Lee

  • Thirst (Revised 1958 Edition:.Tide Went Out)

    Charles Eric Maine

  • Convoy

    W.L. Norton

  • Jane

    Dee Wells

  • When Worlds Collide

    Philip Wylie

    A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists r...

  • The Dead Father

    Donald Barthelme

    The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by th...

  • Godsfire

    Cynthia Felice

    Adventures in Shadowland.. - Heao is a member of Academe, a future cult of intellectuals on a planet in the throes of a receding ice age. She and all her people have been conquered by a primitive king whose dreams of destruction haunt him....and may ...

  • The Incandescent Ones

    Fred Hoyle

    Young Peter, a student of Byzantine art forms at Moscow University, through a cryptic sentence in a lecture receives a message to buy two books of his choice at exactly 1.30 pm in the university bookstore. When he opens the package, a third book, 'Th...

  • Omar Khayyam

    Harold Lamb

  • Master of the Hashomi

    Jeffrey Lord

  • Attack from Atlantis

    Lester Del Rey

  • Miss Bianca in the Orient

    Margery Sharp

  • Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines

    Margery Sharp

  • Keepers of the Gate

    Steven Spruill

    Eridani III... An ancient garden of perfection, dwelling place of the Proteps. For years, the Earth had coveted this lush Eden far beyond their reach in the stellar vastness. But now the Terran starcruisers could make the eleven-light years' journey...

  • City of the Sun

    Brian Stableford

    The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entir...

  • The Pollinators of Eden

    John Boyd

    Penguin Books, 1978. British paperback edition of this 1969 novel. Researchers from Earth investigate a potentially intelligent, sexually voracious species of plants native to a newly discovered extrasolar planet....

  • None Dare Call It Treason

    Catherine Irvine Gavin

    In the winter of 1941, Jacques Brunel returns to France to organize a network of guerrilla fighters determined to drive the German invaders from their native soil and soon finds the Resistance itself threatened by political struggle...

  • The Gold of Karinthy

    Diana LaPoint

  • Star Giant

    Dorothy Skinkle

  • Greyland

    Dave Van Arnam

    It was an alien world of infinite peace...or was it? He awoke as from some misty, prolonged, vaguely disturbing dream, yet somehow he knew that what had happened and what was happening had a strange reality. It was not the kind of reality his discip...

  • Royal Scot

    Vivian Donald
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    The beautiful young duchess of Iona, Aline, agreed to help the Scottish Royalist Party restore the monarchy to Scotland, she never dreamed of the adventure awaiting her....

  • The Atrocious Two

    Sheila Greenwald

  • The Wind from Hastings

    Morgan Llywelyn

    Edyth, wife of King Harold of England, disappeared forever on the day of the great Battle of Hastings in 1066, taking with her the legitimate heirs to the thrones of England and Wales. This is the story of that amazing woman, who loved and married th...

  • Kathleen, Please Come Home

    Scott O'Dell

    Fifteen-year-old Kathleen Winters has always been a good girl, trying to please her mother. But now, things are changing. First, there’s the new girl, Sybil Langley. Sybil is confident, rebellious, and worldly—everything Kathleen wishes s...

  • Tender Torment

    Jane Archer

    INNOCENCE DESTROYED ... SLEEPING PASSIONS AWAKENED, STIRRED, SET ABLAZE ... IN A MAJESTIC TALE OF ROMANTIC ADVENTURE! ALEXANDRA a woman no man could tame; a woman who used what she had to get what she wanted. Ravaged brutally by a man determine...

  • Country Cousin

    Jacqueline Gilbert

    He proposed -- but it was to her sister! And Eleanor was devastated, because she was in love with him, too. Never again, she vowed, would she let herself become so vulnerable. But then she met Edward Mansel, who was too handsome, wealthy and ex...

  • New Man at Cedar Hills

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    "I'm the boss. No man tells me what to do!" Abigail Mackenzie's father, in his will, had asked the West family to oversee Cedar Hills. Though she'd never met any of the Wests, Abby resented them. And she was determined to show ...

  • Philomena's Miracle

    Betty Neels

    "Are you going to marry her, Walle?" the old man's question was unexpected. The answering "yes" took Philomena completely by surprise. Philomena had hoped her new hairdo and wardrobe would have some effect on her handsome new ...

  • The Jewelled Caftan

    Margaret Pargeter

    It was written in the desert stars... You can't keep me here as your prisoner!" Rosalind's voice was husky with alarm. Sidi Armel ben Yussef had saved her from death at the hands of an unscrupulous band of desert barbarians. What would...

  • Rebel in Love

    Lilian Peake

    She was a challenge he couldn't ignore. Lex Moran, chairman of the education committee, had the final decision on closing the village school. Katrine Hume, teacher and newcomer to the village, instead of tactfully trying to influence his de...

  • The Wilderness Trail

    Kay Thorpe

    "You'll keep quiet and do as I say!" Regan was shocked to hear Cal Garrard's words. Who did he think he was? She hadn't wanted to travel in his private plane, but it was the only means of reaching Ben--the brother she'd fin...

  • Conflict in Paradise

    Sally Wentworth

    "We don't want you on Aparoa, Major!" Tansy told him bluntly. "I hate everything you stand for -- war, violence and the belief that you can fight force with force!" Major Blake Aston had come to Aparoa to explore the tiny Sout...

  • Forbidden Yearnings

    Candice Arkham

    Southern California seemed a place for dreams to come true for talented young Jill Schaeffer. She had come from Ohio to launch a career in photography and found a job with famous photographer Rex Alvarado. She expected the hard work, the long hours i...

  • Unwanted Wife

    Rachel Lindsay

    Tanya dazedly tried to understand what Adrian was saying. "Six years ago," he went on, "your government announced that all its citizens who were married to foreigners had divorced them. So seeing you was something of a shock." Some...

  • Mudd's Angels

    J.A. Lawrence

    INTRUDER ALERT! Join Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the Enterprise crew as they encounter his majesty, fat Harry Mudd the First, thief, swindler, con artist, liar and intragalactic rogue. Meet a strange cargo of beauties destined for the men o...

  • The Foolish Dinosaur Fiasco

    Scott Corbett

  • What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown

    Charles M. Schulz

  • The Altered I

    Lee Harding

  • The Function of the Orgasm

    Wilhelm Reich

    This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work onthe living organism from his first efforts at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 to the laboratory experiments in Oslo in 1939 which revealed the existence of a radiating b...

  • Railroad Arthur

    Alan Coren

  • Who Are the Handicapped?

    Jim Haskins

    Discusses the causes and effects of such disabilities as blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and mental retardation and shows the ways in which the handicapped can lead normal lives...

  • Narrow Exit

    Paul Henissart

  • Children Are Children Are Children

    Ann Cole

  • China Phoenix

    Peter Townsend

  • Inventing America

    Garry Wills

    From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and th...

  • A Mad Look at the Future

    Lou Silverstone

  • Outlaw Trail

    Ben Thompson

  • Santa Mouse Meets Marmaduke

    Michael Brown

  • Hurdles: The Admissions Dilemma in American Education

    Herbert S. Sacks

    Experts in various areas of academia examine obstacles to and consequences of current college, graduate-school, and professional-school admissions policies and practices and attendant assumptions and developments...

  • Merry Tales and Three Shrovetide Plays

    Hans Sachs

    Excerpt from Merry Tales and Three Shrovetide Plays

    Though the most famous of the Meister-singers, the great popularity that Hans Sachs enjoyed was due, not so much to the elaborate production of meister songs under the two hundred and thirty ...

  • The Bleeding Land

    Giles A. Lutz

  • Between Friends

    Sheila Garrigue

  • The Dream Book

    Olga Litowinsky

    Explanations of the various systems of dream interpretation introduced by Freud, Jung, and other researchers are illustrated by accounts of children's actual dreams and augmented by directions for keeping a personal dream journal...

  • White Fires Burning

    Catherine Dillon

    FROM THE STATELY MANORS AND SINISTER SECRETS OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND -- TO THE NAKED GREED AND LUST OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND PITS ABIGAIL LANG, a beautiful young woman seeking justice for her wronged mother, and searching for the true identity of...

  • The White Khan

    Catherine Dillon

    A GOLDEN KINGDOM OF BURNING SINS AND SAVAGE GREED Harriet Rogers, the beautiful daughter of a Yankee missionary. Unjustly accused of her husband's murder, she found a dangerous ally in Khurdistan's mysterious khan. Adam MacKenzie, the ...

  • Castlereagh

    Monica Heath

    PURSUED BY EVIL Orphaned by a tragic accident, lovely Schuyler Garnet Lacy was stunned by the arrival of Lucas O'Connell, a handsome stranger who claimed to be her brother. If not for several mysterious attempts on her life, Schuyler never wou...

  • Make-Believe Love

    Kristin Michaels

    Robin is invited to camp on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico by Matt whom she secretly loves. He's taking his fiancée, so Robins boss, daredevil Quinn, offers to come along and pretend to adore Robin in order to make Matt see her as a desirable woman...

  • City Life

    Donald Barthelme

  • German eng Dict

    Richard Scarry

  • Unto Death

    Amos Oz

    “Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” -- Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for under...

  • Dinosaur Planet

    Anne McCaffrey

    STRANDED ON A STRANGE WORLD THE MISSION The Exploratory and Evaluation Corps of the Federated Sentient Planets had sent ARCT-10, with its mixed crew of shipbred and planet bound technicians, to Ireta to catalogue fauna and flora and search for n...

  • The Vines in Splendor

    Helen Bianchin

    Instinct warned her to avoid a man like Nick! But as he was the new owner of the vineyard where Shannon rented a small cottage, their meeting was inevitable. Life hadn't been easy for Shannon. Supporting her young orphaned niece had left he...

  • Dragon's Lair

    Sara Craven

    Brief and disastrous. That described exactly the marriage of Davina and Gethyn Lloyd. Now, their first meeting in two years -- at Gethyn's home in Wales -- only confirmed the tangle of misunderstanding that lay between them. And while Davin...

  • Loves Rebel Pleasure

    Violet Ashton

  • CliffsNotes on Detective Fiction

    L. David Allen

  • Chester Chipmunk Tha

    Barbara Williams

  • Facades

    Bill Cunningham

    'Facades' brings together 128 of the best architectural settings and fashions from a 200-year period. Within the confines of Manhattan were found Egyptian temples and Russian cathedrals. Beaux-Arts mansions and Gothic Revival churches, Art Deco offic...