Books Published in October 1972

New Books List: 54 titles

  • The Man from Coral Bay

    Jan Andersen

    Rossi's brother Tom, out in Ceylon, had run into some domestic difficulties, and had begged Rossi to go there for a few weeks to help him out. And there she met Matt Lincoln, who was responsible for the domestic difficulties -- and all Tom'...

  • A Parade of Peacocks

    Elizabeth Ashton

    It was only by chance that Charmian had met the worldly Alex Dimitriou in Paris, and it was only a brief meeting, but it was long enough for her to learn his philosophy -- "Love and marriage are two very different things." She would never...

  • Dust on the Sea

    Edward Latimer Beach

    World War Two. The battle for the Pacific rages. The most destructive subs in the U.S. Navy are dispatched to Bungo Suido in the Yellow Sea to harass and destroy enemy troop ships--a near-suicide mission in the very heart of Japan's home waters. Reis...

  • The Ape People

    Geoffrey H. Bourne

  • Getting It All Together

    Michael Capizzi

  • Flight One

    Charles Carpentier

  • Number Four.

    Molly Cone

  • Once upon a Time: The Fairy-Tale World of Arthur Rackham

    Margery Darrell

  • To Serve Them All My Days

    R.F. Delderfield

    "R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller." -- Sunday MirrorTo Serve Them All My Days is the moving saga of David Powlett-Jones, who returns from World War I injured and shell-shocked. He is hired to teach history at Bamfylde School, where he rejects...

  • Catch Me a Colobus

    Gerald Durrell

    The author provides a humorous account of his experiences maintaining a zoo on the Isle of Jersey and exploring the wilds for animals to add to his collection, revealing his concern for the protection of endangered species...

  • A Castle in Canada

    Caroline Farr

    It Was Called "The Chateau of Tears". From the moment lovely Darleen Tracy enters the Montaigne family chateau a sense of foreboding brushes like warning wings against her heart. She has come to the Chateau des Larmes expecting a romantic...

  • Kiss a Stranger

    Glenna Finley

    Where Love And Danger Lurk Spirited and headstrong though she was, lovely blonde Carolyn Drummond had always managed to keep a tight rein on her heart. But that was before dashing Mike Evans appeared on the horizon and Carolyn felt her grip weaken...

  • The Sunlight Dialogues

    John E. Gardner

     John Gardner’s sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town One summer day, a countercultural dri...

  • Give Me Daggers

    Catherine Gavin

    Fiery romance in the midst of worldwide conflict In the tumultuous aftermath of the Russian Revolution, with the future of humanity hanging in the balance, dedicated men and determined women struggle with opposing ideologies and dangerous passions...

  • Apache Death

    George G. Gilman

    ROUGH It was his way of life. And for those who got in his way or didn't agree, it was even rougher. Beneath his rugged exterior burned a fire, kindled by pain and fed with hate, ready to flare at the slightest provocation. Life is rough, but the al...

  • Unmaking of Rabbi

    Constance C. Greene

  • Traveling on Credit

    Daniel Halpern

  • The Big Knockover

    Dashiell Hammett

    Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthus...

  • San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion

    Marguerite Henry

    Peter Lundy has two joys in life: the rugged western plains where he has grown up and San Domingo, a Medicine Hat Stallion. The Indians believe such a horse is sacred -- that neither bullet nor arrow can harm its rider. As they explore the prairie to...

  • Acapulco

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Blood Debt

    Stuart Jason

  • Speculations About Jakob

    Uwe Johnson

    This arresting novel by one of Germany's foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt. The story, which centers around Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher, ...

  • The Taming of Lisa

    Flora Kidd

    "Women use children to snare fathers ...." So that was how Lisa appeared to Fraser Lamont--as a pestering woman who was using his child to ingratiate herself with him. The egotistical conceit of the man! Lisa's blood began to boil. ...

  • Zanballer

    R. Rozanne Knudson

  • Treasure Mountain

    Louis L'Amour

    Gold--Easier Found Than Kept How do you bring a million dollars in gold down off a mountain? First you have to find it, and that's mighty hard when you're tracking a trail that's twenty years old. But the Sackett brothers were determined to find t...

  • Sunshine on the Mountains

    Margaret Malcolm

    When Charles Ravenscroft first met Dinah Sherwood, they were both spending a carefree winter sports holiday in the Alps, and his first impression of her was that she was the happiest girl he had ever seen. It was easy to see why -- she was in love wi...

  • The Greek Portfolio

    Constantine Manos

  • Jennie, Volume II

    Ralph G. Martin

    JENNIE, VOLUME II: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill The Dramatic Years 1895-1921 The climactic years of scandalous passion and immortal greatness of the American beauty who raised a son to shape history, Winston Churchill. "An extraordinary ...

  • The Night of the Bulls

    Anne Mather

    It was only desperation that had brought Dionne back to the Camargue, that remote, still little-known part of southern France that had been so important -- and so tragic -- a part of her life three years ago. Back she had to come to the Mas St. Sa...

  • The Funny Little Woman

    Arlene Mosel

    In this Caldecott Medal-winning tale set in Old Japan, a lively little woman who loves to laugh pursues her runaway dumpling -- and must outwit the wicked three-eyed oni when she lands in their clutches.
     
    “The pictures are in perfect harm...

  • A Whale for the Killing

    Farley Mowat

  • The One Quest

    Claudio Naranjo

    In the opinion of the Editors, this text as it stands is still the best non-partisan overview of the approaches to human development, in its broader and most fundamental sense, which has been produced within an academic environment in order to clarif...

  • Saturday's Child

    Betty Neels

    Abigail was a true 'Saturday's child'; she worked very hard for her living. And it looked as if she could expect to go on earning her own living, for no one seemed to be in any great hurry to marry her -- least of all Dominic van Wijke...

  • The Time Element & Other

    John O'Hara

  • Wilderness Days

    Sigurd F Olson

  • Tubby and the Poo-Bah

    Al Perkins

  • The Visitor

    Josephine Poole

  • Lighthouse

    Eugenia Price

    A compelling, vibrant saga of conflict, love, and a young man's search to fulfill his dreams. In this enthralling first novel of the St. Simons Trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Eugenia Price shares the compelling story of James Gould, a ...

  • The Persian Boy

    Mary Renault

    “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”"The Atlantic Monthly

    The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover...

  • Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues

    Alvin Schwartz

  • Code Five

    Frank G. Slaughter

    "Code Five!" Is the almost universal term for cardiac arrest--the gravest of all hospital emergency situations. "Code five!" Is the cry which introduces Dr. Jud Tyler to St. Luke's Hospital--and the words might stand for the hospital itself. Ov...

  • Olive Island

    Kay Thorpe

    It was a wonderful job Nicky had got herself--representative for a travel firm on the lovely holiday island of Corfu. In fact everything would have been perfect had it not been for the hotel owner, the lordly Nikos Alexandros, who seemed to think the...

  • Ballroom of Roman

    William Trevor

    William Trevor's second book of short stories proves once again that he is the master of the art.
    CONTENTS
    Access To The Children
    Nice Say At School
    The Ballroom Of Romance
    The Forty-Seventh Saturday
    A Happy Family
    Goin...

  • The Living Clocks

    Ritchie R. Ward

  • A Man Like Daintree

    Margaret Way

    Steven Daintree had saved Andrea Swanson's life, and on learning that she was alone in the world, her memory gone, he had taken her back to his vast Queensland estate, Mokhana, until she recovered. So Andrea owed him a lot. All the same, did t...

  • The Little Nobody

    Violet Winspear

    She didn't know the facts of her own life. But somehow Ynis Raiford realized that she didn't quite belong in Gard's world. Gard St. Clair, embittered by the accident that had ended his career, was as mysterious and wild as his house on th...

  • The Stop.

    William Wondriska

  • The Guns of Avalon

    Roger Zelazny

    AMBER Here is the second novel in Roger Zelazny's classic Amber series. Amber, the one real world, of which all others--including our own Earth are but Shadows... Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of the blood royal, heir to the throne ...

  • Boyhood with Gurdjieff

    Fritz Peters

    In this vivid portrait of G. I. Gurdjieff, Fritz Peters goes back to the 1920s to recall the four boyhood years he spent in France at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Peters tells how the Master used every situation in the...

  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!

    Barbara Robinson

    Hey! Unto You A Child Is Born The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the L...

  • I Never Had It Made

    Jackie Robinson