Books Published in October 1971

New Books List: 40 titles

  • The Wanderer

    Henri Alain-Fournier

  • The Man in the Shadow

    Jan Andersen

    There was a tragic mystery surrounding Richard Kendall, and Jess, as a budding reporter, had been sent out to Spain, where he was living, to get to the bottom of it -- keeping her identity a secret. But could she bring herself to do the job, knowi...

  • Cmdr Prince USN

    James Basset

  • Lion Country

    Frederick Buechner

  • Pagan Heart

    Rebecca Caine

    Kalinda was Christie Irvine's dream come true -- almost! She'd inherited her uncle's Pacific Island home and business -- but she'd inherited problems as well. She could learn about shells and coral and island living -- but what could ...

  • Devils Advocate

    Taylor Caldwell

    Andrew Durrant could have had everything the world had to offer -- wealth, fame, honors, authority. All he had to do was sacrifice that fragile thing called integrity. Instead Andrew Durant chose a different path. Against him were ranged the mighty f...

  • To Marry a Tiger

    Isobel Chace

    It all happened when Ruth Arnold intercepted a letter from Mario Verdecchio to the sister Pearl, inviting Pearl -- presumably with ulterior motives to visit him in Sicily and Ruth decided to teach him a lesson and go herself and instead. But it wa...

  • Our Kate

    Catherine Cookson

    Catherine Cookson novels are set in and around the northeast of England, past and present. This, her autobiography, makes plain how it is she knows her background and her characters so well. The Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mot...

  • The Alien Heart

    Alice Lent Covert

    “You’re afraid of me aren’t you, Jen?” It was the same cruel, taunting smile -- the same Robin -- unchanged since the scandal five years before, Except, perhaps, more beautiful. Now she was back -- back at Seacliffe to claim the husband a...

  • Sea Tangle

    Mary Cummins

    Jenny was happy in her temporary job in a small village in Ayrshire -- at least she would have been happy, she might even have fallen in love, if it had not been for the shadow of Beryl McLean, a girl she had never even met -- or had she?. ...

  • Fifth Business

    Robertson Davies

    The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly LinkRamsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Vi...

  • Sister Pussycat

    Joyce Dingwell

    Bitterly hurt at being deprived of her two beloved little nieces, Catriona Quentin had vowed never again to let her feelings get involved in love for anyone else. But it was difficult not to get emotionally involved with the orphans at Camp Unive...

  • Mystery Nurse

    Diana Douglas

    Dangerous Deception! DOUBLE LIFE Strange orders awaited Nurse Diane Halliday on the lush California estate. She was to be living la dolce vita, but in reality be prepared with a life-or-death crisis that could strike anywhere, anytime. Tita...

  • Down in the Black

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Maurice

    E.M. Forster

    An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster''s Maurice is edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt...

  • The Hill of Devi

    E.M. Forster

  • The Enchanted Ring

    Lucy Gillen

    Rowan was loving every minute of her job in Ireland as companion to dear Mrs. Laura O'Neil -- every minute, that is, that she was not in the company of Michael Doran, the local lord of the manor, who was far too fond of exercising his feudal rights!...

  • Pair of Shoes

    Aline Glasgow

  • The Yellow Bone Ring

    Genevieve S. Gray

  • South of Mandraki

    Anne Hampson

    The only way Daros Latimer could save Toni Freeman from the ancient Cretan law of vendetta was to marry her. As Daros was charming and rich, Toni might well have done worse for herself -- except that she didn't care about him any more than he did...

  • Wine atlas Wld

    Hugh johnson

  • Me Day

    Joan Lexau

  • Bear Island

    Alistair MacLean

    The classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above t...

  • Barbary Shore

    Norman Mailer

    Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and muc...

  • Doctor Faustus

    Thomas Mann

    """John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.""  —The New Yorker

    ""Doctor Faustus is Mann''s deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods."" —The New Republi...

  • Pony Called Lightning

    Miriam E. Mason

  • Guy Lenny

    Harry Mazer

  • I, Trissy

    Norma Fox Mazer

  • Sesame Street Storybook

    Albert G. Miller

  • This Moment in Time

    Lilian Peake

    Lynne Hewlett was young and eager and full of advanced theories where her job was concerned. Christopher York not only disagreed with her along the way, but was in a position to put a stop to her. So when she began to fall in love with him she ju...

  • Prelude to Poetry

    Jean Rhys

  • This Land Turns Evil Slowly

    Mary Linn Roby

    MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE It had begun as a seaside picnic on a tranquil summer's day. There had been four of them-Nora, Deborah, Joanne, and Warren-barely past childhood, but already stirred by longings they did not understand. Before that day closed,...

  • The Bears' House

    Marilyn Sachs

    A Perfect Place To Live Fran Ellen loves the Bears' House more than anything in the world. It sits in the back of her fourth grade class and it's a wonderful place for Fran Ellen to visit. Her good friends Goldilocks and The Three Bears always mak...

  • The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

    Sei Shonagon

    In the tenth century, Japan was both physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. The Pillow Book  recaptures this lost world with the diary of a young court lady. Sei Shōnagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, wh...

  • Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down

    Donald J. Sobol

    A tiny submarine that flies through the  air...A half-dollar worth five thousand  dollars...Some tipsy  birds...A world that fits in the palm of your  hand...And a case that turns out to be a  real ca...

  • Rabbit Redux

    John Updike

    In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s...

  • Linda's Homecoming

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    When Linda Hollis' widowed mother remarries, Linda has to move to a small town to live with her new stepfather and his kids, who aren't at all nice to her. And to move to a small town after living in the apex of wonder, Manhattan? Linda has t...

  • Jeeves & the Tie That Binds

    P.G. Wodehouse

    A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle. Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's ...

  • The Rotten Years.

    Maia Wojciechowska

  • Tommy Takes a Bath

    Gunilla Wolde