Books Published in November 1970

New Books List: 26 titles

  • Present at Creation

    Dean Acheson

  • Canada

    Peter Benchley

    A rich middle-aged man finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess and becomes involved in exposing a conspiracy to sabotage the British General Election. His dogged pursuit of the criminals will throw h...

  • The Fabulous Island

    Katrina Britt

    Greer's delightful employer wanted her to marry her nephew, Lloyd Blair -- and it looked as if that odious Mike Fenton did too, as he was always implying that Greer had only come out to this job in the West Indies to find herself a husband. If...

  • Tobacco Road

    Erskine Caldwell

    Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on the...

  • The Monkey Puzzle

    Mary Cummins

    Young Sarah Hudson's aunt and guardian was not at all impressed by the way Sarah was wasting her time at Art College, so she whisked her away and into a job that she hoped would make Sarah settle down. But the combination of Sarah, the job, and an un...

  • The Post at Gundooee

    Amanda Doyle

    Lindsay thought she had been rather clever to obtain the post of bookkeeper at Gundooee station in the Australian Outback -- although she might be said to have got it under false pretences. But the forbidding station manager, Rod Bennett, didn't ...

  • Man Who Said No

    Sally Edwards

  • Stormy Harvest

    Janice Gray

    It was two years since Lexa Cunningham had left her home in the Scilly Isles in disgrace, unable to dispel the general belief that she had ruined her stepsister Tessa's life. And now she was coming home again. Things had not changed very much...

  • Gates of Steel

    Anne Hampson

    Helen Stewart was disenchanted with the whole idea of love and romance, while Leon Petrou, it was said, had no time for women -- so when he suggested that she should marry him, to provide a background for his small niece and nephew, she agreed, feeli...

  • Heaven Is High

    Anne Hampson

    The new heir to the Manor of Marbeck had been found -- an American from the Rocky Mountains! But it was, to say the least, unfortunate that when he arrived unexpectedly he found an uninvited guest, complete with string tie, high boots and Stetson...

  • The House of the Amulet

    Margery Hilton

    "Fear not the desert, nor the destiny you deny", the sand diviner told Melissa when she came to Morocco in search of her missing sister. But Melissa feared the dark arrogant Raoul Germont even more. And he was the only man who knew the tru...

  • Earthworks

    Sandra Hochman

  • The Age of Longing

    Arthur Koestler

  • The Scented Hills

    Roumelia Lane

    Tessa hadn't liked what she had heard of Neil Stanton, and when she met him for the first time she certainly didn't like what she saw. Nevertheless, he was the one man with the power to wreck her happy relationship with the devastating Ba...

  • Pick Up Sticks

    Mary J. Latsis

  • The Turning Tide

    Margaret Malcolm

    Fenella was brokenhearted when her beloved Anthony announced that he was thinking of getting married -- but not, it seemed, to her. But then something very exciting happened to take her mind off her troubles!...

  • Caroline

    Anne Mather

    A brief encounter or lasting love? When Caroline first saw him on the elevator, she had no idea who he was. She only knew that he was tall and darkly handsome--and that she longed to see him again. Later she would discover that the magnetic str...

  • Queen Cleopatra

    Talbot Mundy

    "EGYPT LIES LIKE A NAKED WOMAN, READY FOR ROME TO VIOLATE," the woman called Royal Egypt confessed to Tros of Samothrace. With his hand on his sword hilt Tros bowed his head as if gathering force from an unseen realm of inspiration, then groped in...

  • A Singing Bird

    Stella Frances Nel

    When Samantha's fiance John was crippled in an accident shortly before they were to be married, she stuck to him loyally -- even travelling with him to the other side of the world to his family home in Australia. But there she met his cousin Mark ...

  • Rival Sisters

    Henrietta Reid

    It was a foregone conclusion that the glamorous Sibylla would ease' herself out of the job of looking after old Uncle Andrew and leave it to her sister Dorie, even though this meant Dorie sacrificing her nursing career. Yet as soon as Dorie, once est...

  • Love Story

    Erich Segal

    Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law... Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe... Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny a...

  • Bless Beast Child

    Glendon Swarthout

  • Destination Universe

    A.E. Van Vogt

    Meet a terrifying creature on a remote pacific island whose soule is atomic fire. Observe the first man on Venus encounter a can of paint - a maddening test of his capasities for survival. Red the bizarre correspondance between two interstelle...

  • The Time of the Jacaranda

    Margaret Way

    Adrienne Brent's home situation was hardly a happy one, with her father absorbed in his glamorous new young second wife, who barely troubled to conceal her jealousy and dislike of Adrienne. So she took a job as secretary at the outback station o...

  • Lost Island

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    THE OTHER WOMAN IN GILES SEVERN'S LIFE IS MARRIED TO HIM Lacey, Elise, and Giles. They grew up together on a mist-shrouded island off the Georgia coast. Long ago, and without Giles ever knowing it, Lacey gave birth to his son. Bit Elise, the beau...

  • The Blue Mountains of Kabuta

    Hilary Wilde

    Not that you could ever get involved with Alex," Jan's mother told her frankly about their neighbour in the shadows of the Mountains of Kabuta. "You're far too naive and young. He needs a more sophisticated woman." Madeleine perhaps? Jan could no...