Books Published in November 1976

New Books List: 65 titles

  • Sheba

    Will B. Aarons

    Sam Durell is sent into the wilds of dangerous Ethiopia to find out about a deadly blast in the desert. He is faced with assassins, a rogue CIA ex-SEAL that he cannot trust, a couple of tough and determined ladies that can hold there own, a sinister ...

  • Sweeter Music

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    In the spotlight, she was a woman singing--drawing listeners into her soul. But in the sunlight, she was a woman alone. And the arms of anonymous men in interchangeable she sought solace in towns. Looking for someone to give her the identity that co...

  • The Oranging of America and Other Stories

    Max Apple

  • Russia

    Joanne Barkan

    They're gruesome! They're ghastly! They're REAL MONSTERS, and they're learning how to scare the pants off of you. Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monsters, attend the elite Monster Academy. Here they are honing their skills in the hope of o...

  • To Jerusalem and Back

    Saul Bellow

    In 1975, Saul Bellow traveled through Israel, turning his keen powers of observation upon the country he did not know. This book is a record of his stay -- his personal experiences and fleeting impressions -- and a reflection upon what he ultimately ...

  • The Coming of the Terrans

    Leigh Brackett

    A dying planet, dried up and hostile; a planet of countless years and countless mysteries.

    When the Terrans came, they found a world of dead sea-bottoms, lost civilizations, and secretive tribes bitterly resenting their intrusion on the fad...

  • World's Final Hour

    C.C. Carlson

  • Planets of Wonder

    Terry Carr

  • A Sense of Words

    Madeline Charlton

    Judith knew that her assignment in Switzerland, translating for a big engineering firm, was going to be a challenge. But just how much of a challenge she didn't realize, until she met the stern head of the firm, Dieter Steiner, who believed only ...

  • Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee

    Vera Cleaver

  • Jane Goodall Gb

    Eleanor Coerr

  • The Strasbourg Legacy

    William Craig

    A CIA agent fights a sinister plot by escaped Nazi Martin Bormann in this thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates.   In the chaos of defeat, while Germany’s roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled a...

  • Sweet Promise

    Janet Dailey

    Would she ever be free of the past? Erica was starved for love. Daughter of a Texas millionaire who had time only for business, she thought up a desperate scheme to get her father's attention. Unfortunately, her plan backfired and she fou...

  • Juniper Hill

    Dorothy Daniels

    A munificent inheritance from an unknown benefactor ... a fabulous Victorian mansion in San Francisco, the only one on Juniper Hill to escape destruction in the great earthquake ... a ghostly pianist who plays a locked grand piano in the depths of th...

  • A Hostage for Hinterland

    Arsen Darnay

    APOCALYPSE FROM THE HINTERLAND They rode to the floating urban structure city on horseback, Ecofreak tribesmen in beaded leather suits. Their long hair was braided, their faces tanned; and gilded red Crestmore bibles hung from their belts. They...

  • The Admiral

    Martin Dibner

  • Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream

    Denis Diderot

    Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot -- of the triumvirate that dominated French letters in the eighteenth century, Diderot was unmatched in the sheer breadth and depth of his interests and ideas. Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream are dazzling expo...

  • Family Fortune

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    A great plantation isolated by the Civil War...its young and beautiful heiress...the ruthless brother with whom she struggles for her birthright...the mysterious lover whose claims of distant kinship she can only half believe...the lovely mulatto gir...

  • Chatham Killing

    Jack Ehrlich

  • Fire Mountain

    Rose Elver

    Amelia had loved Professor Donovan Lyne for a long time; she should have been thrilled when he asked her to marry him. But his careless proposal was so unashamedly businesslike and hurtful that all she wanted was to sever all connection with him. But...

  • Effi Briest

    Theodor Fontane

    Effi Briest is steered into marriage with a man twenty years her senior, and taken to live in a remote Baltic seaport. Isolated and bored, she drifts into an affair, which is quickly ended. Years later the past catches up with Effi, with profound co...

  • Society

    Raymond Foxall

  • October Light

    John E. Gardner

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    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.

    October Light is one of John Gardner''...

  • The Ottawa Allegation

    Paul Geddes

  • The Girl from Finlay's River

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Mairi left her home in Saskatchewan for the big city of Vancouver and a new start in life. It wasn't long before she fell in love with her boss, Philip Grenville. But where would that get her? After all, she was still "just a little farm girl." Why s...

  • Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays

    Simon Gray

  • Smoky Valley

    Donald Hamilton

  • Isle at the Rainbow's End

    Anne Hampson

    What a fantastic coincidence that she and Charles should meet here, on the island of Bali, after all these years! It had been the merest chance that Kara was there at all. If Hugh's secretary had not let him down, she would never even have had...

  • The Story of Stevie Wonder

    Jim Haskins

  • A Raging Talent

    Jack Hoffenberg

  • The Black Knight

    Flora Kidd

    When Sandy Phillips first set eyes on the dark, unsmiling Lymond Caldwell, she was reminded of a knight of olden days. And like a chivalrous knight, he seemed to be constantly rescuing her from some predicament or other. But she must beware of being ...

  • When the Change-Winds Blow

    Fritz Leiber
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    THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER is a brand new collection of some of the finest SF, FanLasy and Horror stories produced by the internationally acclaimed author of THE BIG TIME. It is a collection handpicked by the author and contains two Change-War stori...

  • Unwilling Bridegroom

    Roberta Leigh

    Melisande Godfrey had had a grudge against Andre Lubeck since her childhood, and she had longed to be revenged on him for years. Now her chance had come. Her method was to force him to marry her -- and the terms were such that he had no alternative b...

  • The Marquis Takes a Wife

    Rachel Lindsay

    "It can't be true," Beth said to herself. "How can I love a man I met only a week ago?" In a way, however, she had known him much longer--ever since she'd first arrived at Powys months before. Every family portrait she studied, every page of famil...

  • Byron

    Elizabeth Longford

  • The Deer Park

    Norman Mailer

    Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this ...

  • The Brides of Bellemore

    Anne Maybury

    Young, beautiful, innocent - Elizabeth Bellenmore had no reason to suspect that someone in her grandmother's house wanted her dead. Yet a strong pair of hands had reached out of the shadows to push her down the curving stairwell-the very stairwell th...

  • No Holly for Miss Quinn

    Miss Read

    Miriam Quinn has never married. She's a kind, but unsentimental lady. By today's standards, she's still young, but fifty years ago she would have been called an old maid! She's an efficient office manger and has a well ordered life that she enjoys. H...

  • Crazy Cowboy

    Guillermo Mordillo

  • Wooden Wolf

    Kelly Oechsli

  • The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV

    Gerald W. Page

  • Blue Skies, Dark Waters

    Margaret Pargeter

    When an old friend asked Jan to go to Barbados to see what his nephew, Earl Elton, was up to, she could hardly refuse. But Earl neatly turned the tables on her. He became deeply suspicious of her activities! What with that, and falling in love ...

  • Be Ready at Eight

    Peggy Parish

  • The Posse from Poison Creek

    Lewis B. Patten

    The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country... and some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan...

  • Are You in the House Alone?

    Richard Peck

    Are You in the House Alone? "Forget it," Alison counseled. "It never happened." But it was happening. The obscene notes. "Stop reading that garbage!" Alison shrieked and grabbed the neatly lettered page from Gail's frozen hands. And whenever Gail wa...

  • Dispensable Man

    Wolf rilla

  • Wilderness Inn

    Janet Louise Roberts

    Christine had finally escaped from her leering, avaricious guardian. Now, only twenty-one, she traveled alone to the Northwest wilderness in search of her beloved brother, Oliver. But instead of her brother, she found undreamed-of fear... and then b...

  • Last Enemy

    Berton Roueche

    The 1955 copyright makes you wonder why this was withheld until now--it falls only slightly short of Roueche's customary perfectionism. Rex Corn, an itinerant criminal, kills the servant girl in the house of the wealthy Sessions; son Leland Sessions ...

  • The Bait

    Richard Scarry

  • Earth in Transit

    Shella Schwartz

  • Edgemont

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Shores of Tomorrow

    Robert Silverberg

  • Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • The House by Exmoor

    Caroline Stafford

    Pretty and penniless Alexandra Townsend thought the job of companion to Theresa Andover, a rich young invalid, would be ideal. But from the moment she arrived at Twelve Oaks she was treated like an intruder. Theresa completely ignored her presence - ...

  • The Final Circle of Paradise

    Arkadi Strugatski

    Ivan Zhilin, posing as a writer working on a novel, visits a seaside resort city to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. Zhilin's role as an undercover agent becomes apparent to the reader only gradually and is not brought into the open until t...

  • King Harald's Saga

    Snorri Sturluson

    This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that ...

  • Blaming

    Elizabeth Taylor

    'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard* A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest novelists.When Amy is suddenly left widowed ...

  • Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun

    E.C. Tubb

    Earl Dumarest, now a vanquished and captive mercenary, is offered the choice of surrender to the fearsome Cyclan or the chance of freedom by the beautiful and ruthless Lady Delphine. The risks are terrifying - but has Dumarest a choice?Intent on find...

  • Devil's Fire, Love's Revenge

    Barbara Vstedal

  • Peter Abelard

    Helen Waddell

    A new edition of the historical novel Peter Abelard by Helen Waddell introduced by Kate Mosse, the bestselling author of The Burning Chambers and Labyrinth.The story of Heloise and Abelard is one of the most famous love stories of all time. He was a ...

  • The World Asunder

    Ian Wallace

    Once again the astonishingly inventive mind of Ian Wallace has come up with a novel jampacked with new conceptions, mind-boggling conflicts, and edge-of-the-seat excitement. Ian Wallace, author of A VOYAGE TO DARI and CROYD, is unlike any other scien...

  • The Man on Half-Moon

    Margaret Way

    Katharine Sutton's brother, Darin, had disappeared somewhere in Queensland. She could not rest until she had gone up there to see if she could find him. But the problem of Darin's whereabouts paled into insignificance in the face of the much ...

  • Tarnished Star

    Lee F. Wells

    Breck Malone rode into San Alma looking for peace. He'd been gone for ten years when he received the letter telling him his uncle had died and left him his ranch. Now it was time to settle down on his own place in the quiet town where he had grown up...

  • Power Of Blackness

    Jack Williamson

    To win the right to a name, he fought - without weapons - the dreaded beast. Only to be cheated of his prize. Branded a criminal he sought refuge with a mysterious clan of intergalactic revolutionaries - and found his heritage at last. As Blacklan...

  • Weep in the Sun

    Jeanne Wilson

    JAMAICA LUSH, UNTAMED, STARTLINGLY BEAUTIFUL... In this restless new land, young Robert Vane, English gentleman, came of age as an indentured slave on a great plantation.... Here he found Maria--vibrant, black, forbidden, his first love ... ...