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Books Published in October 1973
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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1973
New Books List: 64 titles
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Theophilus North
Thornton Wilder
- Oct-1973
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“An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era.” — New Yorker
The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the...
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His Burial Too
Catherine Aird
- Oct-1973
- / Law Enforcement
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Murder in the Tower At 11:30 PM. in the old Saxon church tower at Randall's Bridge, a huge statue toppled and smashed. Heavy blocks of broken marble now lay up against the doors, barring any exit. The solitary window was too narrow for a man to p...
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Living Dangerously
D. Stuart Briscoe
- Oct-1973
- / Christian
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"Begins with one of the most intriguing observations ever to greet a reader: the thought that the reader might be dead! Not physically dead, but spiritually dead, a condition which unfortunately infects too many Christians."...
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The Guarded Gates
Katrina Britt
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Dionis Ward was an interior decorator, and a very good one, too; so when her sister got engaged to a Spaniard it seemed the natural thing to get Dionis to make the trip to Spain and do up the villa they planned to live in. But the villa's landlor...
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Beulah Land
Lonnie Coleman
- Oct-1973
- / Historical Romance
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BEULAH LAND..... the tremendously engrossing saga of a great Georgia plantation in its golden age, and of the men and women, white and black, who were born and died there, knew every pain and pleasure, virtue and vice. BEULAH LAND.... where the ...
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The Girl at Saltbush Flat
Dorothy Cork
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Burton Alexander invited Christine to his cattle station in the outback, posing as his fiancee, it suited her to agree -- until she fell in love with him, and then learned that he was planning to marry another girl. Just what was Burton playi...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan
- Oct-1973
- / Suspense
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THEY THOUGHT IT WAS OVER Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has learned the truth. The horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger out there who is stalking them in a...
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The Hydra Monster
Lee Falk
- Oct-1973
- / Suspense
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What is the meaning of HYDRA--a mysterious evil that spans oceans and continents? Who are the black clad men-- with V's tattoed on shaven skulls--who appear in the wake of wars, earthquakes, fires and other catastrophes? The final mumbled words of...
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Joshua, Son of None
Nancy Freedman
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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The dream of asexually reproducing man from a single cell becomes a reality for a third-year surgical resident at the Dallas hospital in November, 1963 when the dying President is brought in for emergency treatment...
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Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Perez Galdoz
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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Galdos has been called the Balzac or Dickens of Spain, and "Fortunata and Jacinta" (1887) is his masterpiece. Set in Madrid between 1868 and 1875, it treats both political tumult and personal obsession, telling the story of two women who love the sam...
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Hell's 7
George G. Gilman
- Oct-1973
- / Historical
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EDGE A man always at war. He learned how in the Civil War, and never stopped after that war ended. Except to remember. Now he's remembering the summer of 1863. There was a great train robbery. There were Chinese bandits and a village of innocent w...
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Girl in Jeopardy // Stepping Under Ladders
Maysie Greig
- Oct-1973
- / Gothic
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A sheltered girlhood had not prepared lovely young Margie Norman for the web of malice and slander that entrapped her. Beautiful, scheming Kitty Roland accused Margie of trying to steal her husband, and suddenly there seemed no one -- not even Margie...
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The Trees of Tarrentall
Linden Grierson
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Irene didn't like working in a big city, so she left Sydney and went to work in Tasmania. And there she met Alex -- and Carl, who would have been an easy man to love; but who, alas, seemed to care more for his beautiful home, Tarrentall, than he e...
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Bitter Sage
Frank Gruber
- Oct-1973
- / Historical
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Unjustly branded a killer, Wes Tancred vowed never to touch a gun again. So he rode the trail alone, changed his name and hoped to lose himself in the new bustle the railroad brought to Sage City. Then Hong Kong Smith and his killers rode into town....
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Boss of Bali Creek
Anne Hampson
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Wade Harcourt had once said she'd be the fourth bride of Bali Creek: the most beautiful and the best loved of them all. But then Lorna had been forced into a heartbreaking decision; and she made a sacrifice that robbed her and Wade of what might ...
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Chateau of Shadows
Monica Heath
- Oct-1973
- / Gothic
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Evil The doctor was handsome, enigmatic, and brooding over the mysterious death of his wife. But Marva McLarnen could sense that there were other reasons for his presence at the chateau. Yet despite a nightmare of suspicions, she was drawn toward...
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Fear of Flying
Erica Jong
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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The groundbreaking #1 New York Times Bestseller -- updated for the 50th Anniversary with a New Foreword by Molly Jong-Fast and a New Introduction by Taffy Brodesser-Akner!“The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality.” -- O MagazineIsador...
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The Mystery of the Bamboo Bird
Carolyn Keene
- Oct-1973
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When a bamboo Garuda bird containing a sacred gold statue is stolen from Malee Wongsuwan at Starhurst School, she begs her friends, Louise and Jean Dana, to help recover the treasured possessions. Despite a warning of possible danger, the Danas ag...
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The Rest Is Magic
Marjorie Lewty
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Melissa loved her job as Girl Friday to a group of musicians -- but Richard Hawker-Rose insisted that she was nothing but a "nanny-watchdog" and ought to be doing something worthier of her. But what business was it of his?...
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The Lonely Road
Margaret Malcolm
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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'Millionaire's daughter weds father's employee.' That, Lucy realized numbly, had been the reason for Dick Corbett's jilting her on the very morning of their wedding. But Lucy was courageous and set out to build herself a new l...
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Phase IV
Barry N. Malzberg
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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Triumphant from a fifteen thousand year battle in space, a bolt of energy reached the third planet of a Class B star. A new life force spawned seven grey towers in the Arizona desert. Now, from out of their dark mysteries marches a new breed of kill...
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King of Spades
Frederick Manfred
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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Under the veil of one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to humankind, a king is born. Magnus King, the son of a well-born English woman, continues his family’s aristocratic legacy on the frontier of the American West until the night a deadl...
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Temple of Dawn
Yukio Mishima
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. • “Surpassi...
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Christmas Mouse
Miss Read
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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WONDERING AT THE PLEASURE IT HAD GIVEN HER. IN THE NEXT BEDROOM, HER LITTLE DAUGHTER STRUGGLED TO KEEP AWAKE TO DISCOVER IF FATHER CHRISTMAS REALLY BROUGHT THE PRESENTS. BEFORE THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS DAY DAWNED, MUCH WAS DECIDED IN THAT LITTLE HOUSE....
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The Wounded Cormorant, and Other Stories
Liam O'Flaherty
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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Liam O’Flaherty, who has written short stories in Gaelic and in English, is a worthy successor to the anonymous storytellers of the past. ―Vivian Mercier
The Irish have always excelled at the short story, if we can judge by what survives o... -
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Wedding at Blue River
Dorothy Quentin
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was Steve Forrest's vivid descriptions of his sheep and cattle station in the Australian outback that gave Jane Lesley' a yearning to see Blue River; that, and the fact that she had fallen in love with the gay young Australian. Steve ha...
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Bird of Prey
Henrietta Reid
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Caroline needed a home and a job -- but her rich cousin Grace had made it very plain that she needn't turn to her for help. So when Grace's over-whelming friend Randall Craig offered Caroline a job instead, it seemed a little unreasonable...
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The First Deadly Sin
Lawrence Sanders
- Oct-1973
- / Law Enforcement
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The most incredibly popular suspense thriller ever written ... the unforgettable story of ruthless killer with a special hatred for women, and the dedicated cop who vows to track him down ... is now the big movie event of 1980, starring Frank Sinatra...
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Quarry Line Mystery
A.C. Stewart
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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Bill Parks thought he knew everything there was to know about the trains that went through his hometown--but that was before he hitched a ride on the mysterious freight train and his life became unexpectedly entangled with the ventures of some desper...
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Burr
Gore Vidal
- Oct-1973
- / General Fiction
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For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel -- and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledglin...
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The Fields of Heaven
Anne Weale
- Oct-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Imelda opened her antique shop, Charles Wingfield expressed doubts about her ability to handle the venture. She assured him, "I can't be duped by a phony person," and he replied, "Not as a dealer. As a girl, you might be." Was he right?...
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Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
- Oct-1973
- / Literary
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Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel “Night and Day”, her second, is the story of three Edwardian British women. The beautiful Katharine Hilbery, who must choose between two disparate suitors, her mother Margaret, who is writing a biography of her own f...
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