Books Published in October 1975

New Books List: 95 titles

  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

    Paul Anderson

  • Fire Time

    Poul Anderson

    Every thousand years Fire Time came to Ishtar...a time when the giant red sun Anu approached, scorching the planet and driving the barbarian hordes from the north. For once Larreka, commander of the Legions of the Gathering in the south, hoped tha...

  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

    Poul Anderson

    Raconteur, bon vivant, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, Dominic Falndry doesn't crave further danger in the service of galactic unity.

    But duty calls, so it's back to the spaceways for the most elegant Special Agent is a hundred ...

  • Space Guardians

    Brian N. Ball

  • Georgie's Christmas Carol

    Robert Bright

  • The Flight of the Heron

    D.K. Broster

    What would a young Highlander leave his home and his bride-to-be to follow? D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron, set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, is the first book in a trilogy and follows the intersecting f...

  • Such Is Love

    Mary Burchell

    When Gwyneth married Van Owslie she thought she had buried the past, finally and irrevocably. She had believed her mother's statement that the child she had had secretly after her brief, tragic bigamous marriage was dead! Only when it was too ...

  • Remembered Serenade

    Mary Burchell

    Joanna Ransome was hoping to embark on a singing career -- and with the great conductor Oscar Warrender taking an interest in her she could hardly fail! But how could she manage to convince Elliot Cheam that she was not just a cheap little gold di...

  • The School

    John Burningham

  • The Watcher and Other Stories

    Italo Calvino

    This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times).Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fict...

  • Katherine Hepburn

    Gary Carey

  • The Desert Castle

    Isobel Chace

    When her mother, rather highhandedly, arranged for her to go out to work for Gregory Randall in Amman, Marion Shirley was uncertain about her feelings. Although that part of the world was bound to be fascinating, perhaps Gregory himself might be t...

  • If the Earth Falls Inaineic Stopsed

    Marvis T. Clark

    Resentful of her poverty, a fifteen-year-old girl decides to run away, but her involvement with two rival boys leads not to a new life but a fight for survival as all three are trapped in a caved-in mine shaft....

  • Grover

    Vera Cleaver

  • The Case of the Burgled Blessing Box

    Scott Corbett

    Angel Rose truly lived up to her name -- white robe, blond hair like a halo around her beautiful plump face, and singing strong enough to beat the organ. And when the tent church was emptied, Angel Rose came home with the Tearles and confided her pro...

  • Wandalilli Princess

    Dorothy Cork

    The dream of Frazer Madigan's life was to find a priceless opal -- and she knew she would find it on Jay Dexter's land. But Jay didn't exactly welcome her. And Frazer had another reason for getting the better of him... Hero: Jay De...

  • Inspector West Alone

    John Creasey

    West has been lured into a horrific scenario. He found his face covered with scratches, his blood-stained clothes not his own, and an axe with his fingerprints all over it beside a dead young girl. The police had been called and Chief Inspector Roger...

  • After the Storm

    Janet Dailey

    "You are still legally my wife," Rad pointed out bluntly. "All I'm asking is that you resume those duties once more." Lainie stared at him. What a fool she had been not to accept his previous offer. But that refusal had been di...

  • The Ballad Of Beta 2

    Samuel R. Delany

  • Deep in the Forest

    Joyce Dingwell

    Selina was going to marry Roger Peters -- but unless they waited another three years, Selina would forfeit a large legacy and lose her beloved Tall Tops. She was prepared to wait; so was Roger. That maddening Joel Grant had no right to be so sarca...

  • Time of Hunting

    Wayne Dodd

  • Return to Tuckarimba

    Amanda Doyle

    As soon as Nonie heard that her beloved old childhood home, Tuckarimba, was for sale, she made up her mind to buy it and make it into a home for herself and her young sister, Pru. But Jacey Lomax, the present owner, thought otherwise -- and so the...

  • Nightmare Blue

    Gardner Dozois

    Nightmare Blue: the most addictive drug in the universe. The alien race known as the Aensalords alone know from whence it comes, and are its sole purveyors. Already its effects are visible on Earth???in the stark, raving eyes of the hopelessly addict...

  • The Realms of Gold

    Margaret Drabble

    An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the “richest, most absorbing novel” by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates).   Frances Wingate is one of England’s most renowned archaeologists, having recent...

  • The Time of the Dragon

    Dorothy Eden

    Sweeping from China to the Thames Valley, spanning seventy-five years in the fortunes of a great trading dynasty, Dorothy Eden spins a spellbinding tale, of three generations of the Carrington family whose dealings in priceless antiques take them to ...

  • The Other Side of Tomorrow

    Roger Elwood

  • A Toad for Tuesday

    Russell E. Erickson

  • The Memoirs of Schlock Homes

    Robert L. Fish

    Back from the brink of death, Homes tackles eleven baffling mysteries in his own peculiar style When Dr. Watney last saw Schlock Homes, the great detective was flinging himself over a waterfall. Since then, Watney has lived quietly at 221B Bagel Stre...

  • Mystery Stories

    A.L. Furman

  • Trouble With Tribbles

    David Gerrold

    David Gerrold, the creator of "Tribbles," recalls how this popular episode of Star Trek was made, from conceptualizing the first draft to the final script, shooting on set, and explaining the techniques and disciplines of TV writing. Plus, receive 32...

  • The Hungry Tide

    Lucy Gillen

    When Rachel accepted the job of looking after the small orphaned boy, Nicholas, she took to her little charge immediately. But her new job was, it soon appeared, not going to be all plain sailing. There were problems and there were mysteries.... ...

  • Mr. Mcfadden's Hat

    Rumer Godden

  • Daisy Summerfield's Style

    M.B. Goffstein

  • The Immortals

    James Gunn

    YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER IN THIS WORLD...BUT NOT IN YOUR OWN BODY. One single error can land you in a medical bank, awaiting removal of your eyes, arteries -- any working organ that could help rebuild a broken body. But there is an ultimate weapo...

  • Where the South Wind Blows

    Anne Hampson

    "I will never fall in love again!" Melanie had had enough. For the second time in her life, she had lost the man she loved to her glamorous but unscrupulous sister, Romaine. She wanted nothing more to do with love, or with her sister. S...

  • The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks

    Donald Harington



    The Ingledew saga follows six generations through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving in a book that was praised as one of the year's best novels by the American Library Association. Drawings by the Author


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  • All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.A gold Cadillac, about as large as an ocean liner, rocks a woman to the pavement...

  • Do You Know What Day Tomorrow Is?

    Lee Bennett Hopkins

  • The Sycamore Song

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    Victoria was supposed to be supervising her late father's excavations in Egypt. But nobody there would take a woman seriously, and the problems began to grow. The mysterious Tariq suggested a solution; but it seemed a rather drastic one. ...

  • The Kids' Candidate

    Jonah Kalb

  • Time for Jody

    Wendy Kesselman

  • Fielding's Folly

    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    From the moment she met him, Eunice Hale knew that her fate would be linked to dashing Francis Fielding, impoverished master of one of the South's most beautiful and glamorous plantation. But it wasn't until their round-the-world honeymoon that Eunic...

  • Sunshine

    Norma Klein

    A young mother dying from cancer finds peace within herself and joy and fulfillment with her husband and baby daughter during her last few months of life. Based on the true story of a dying young mother who used a tape player to record messages for h...

  • Bottom Line

    Fletcher Knebel

  • Trespass

    Fletcher Knebel

  • The Man from the Broken Hills

    Louis L'Amour

    The Sacketts were fierce fighting men from the hills of Tennessee. The Talons were French, but a life of piracy brought them to America. Milo was half Talon, half Sackett. He'd been riding the outlaw trail for three years, but now he was hunting-a ma...

  • A Plague of Demons

    Keith Laumer

    THE SECRET MASTERS OF THE WORLD...WEREN'T HUMAN When John Bravais went on a secret mission to observe a war in North Africa, he found out more than it was safe to know. Lupine-like aliens were harvesting the brains of the fallen, for an unknown pu...

  • The Brothers Lionheart

    Astrid Lindgren

    In the kingdom of Nangiyala all is peaceful and happy when Jonathan and Karl Lionheart arrive. But across the mountains lies Karmanyaka, a country enslaved by the evil Lord Tengil. Jonathan knows that he must join the secret struggle against Tengil, ...

  • Folk Song USA

    John Lomax

  • Unwilling Rebel

    Miriam Lynch

    THE YEAR WAS 1775, THE PLACE WAS BOSTON and the world was changing as quickly and capriciously as a summer day takes on the chill of autumn. Yet, for Alida Howard, the politics and revolutionary fever that threatened to boil over was no concern of he...

  • Crossfire

    Dennis Lynds

  • Take What You Want

    Anne Mather

    An odd combination--young in years, mature in emotions. But that was Sophie. From childhood, Sophie's whole world had revolved around her stepbrother, Robert, and her feelings had not lessened with the years. But how could she get anyone to...

  • Saturday, The Twelfth Of October

    Norma Fox Mazer

    After falling asleep in a park, fourteen-year old Zan awakens to find herself transported back in time to the forest world of a band of prehistoric cave dwellers. Adopted by the group, she learns their language and customs, exults in their triumphs, ...

  • Andersonville

    John Mcelroy

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

  • Terms of Endearment

    Larry McMurtry

    In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award"winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.Aurora is the kind of...

  • Hitler Has Won

    Frederic mullally

  • Anthology of Islamic Literature

    Multiple Authors

    Covering over thirteen centuries of Islamic writing, this quintessential anthology contains the most important and seminal works of the Islamic world. Told from all types of storytellers from different classes and cultures, these stories encompass th...

  • Old San Francisco

    Doris Muscatine

  • Guerrillas

    V.S. Naipaul

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims.“A brilliant novel in every way.… [It] shimmers with artistic cer...

  • Indians' Summer

    Nasnaga

  • Maximum Game

    Edmund Naughton

  • The Devil's Own

    Christopher Nicole

    A Beautiful, Rapacious Mistress, a Savagely Strong Master -- and a Plantation Seething with Fearful Hatred and Forbidden Lust... The lush sugar plantation of Green Grove was the envy of every planter on the island of Antigua -- just as its breathtak...

  • Ride a Black Horse

    Margaret Pargeter

    The advertisement for a Girl Friday seemed just the job Jane was looking for-with a chance to work in the wild border country of Northumberland and train for a riding school of her own. Without hesitation, she started off to apply for a position ...

  • Mortal Stakes

    Robert B. Parker

    The Rabbs were a major league success. Marty was the Boston Red Sox star pitcher. Linda loved her husband, her baby, her beautiful home, and the adulation of the fans. She loved everything about her life except the blackmailer who was trying to wreck...

  • Alfalfa Hill

    Peter Parnall

  • Angry Town of Pawnee

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Deep Furrows

    Sue Peters

    Lorne loved her job restoring the beautiful old country house, then as time went by she realized she also loved the owner, Guy Noble. But he was preparing to marry a most unsuitable woman. At least that was Lorne's opinion, but what did it matter? ...

  • Five Way Secret Agent

    Mark Reynolds

    Two novels in one volume. "The Five Way Secret Agent" was serialized in Analog (April and May, 1969); this is the first book publication. "Mercenary from Tomorrow" is a 1968 work which was first published by as an "Ace Double," bound with "The Key t...

  • Mask-Making with Pantomime and Stories from American History

    Laura Ross

  • Thine Is the Glory

    Samuel Agnew Schreiner

    The growth of Pittsburgh as forge and focus of the nation, from the Civil War through World War II, is chronicled through the fortunes of Scott Shallenberger Stewart, his descendents, and their families...

  • The Golden Apple

    Robert Shea

    Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there''s a pyramid on a one-do...

  • Gd better Comp

    Harry shefter

  • Explore cosmic Egg

    Erica Silverman

    The classic follow-up to the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg • Explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting “cosmic egg” of consensus reality • Reveals how our biological development innate...

  • Out of Their Minds

    Clifford D. Simak

    A writer finds himself trapped in an isolated village where anything imagined becomes reality in this wildly inventive contemporary fantasy Hoping to write his book in quiet and seclusion, Horton Smith has returned home to Pilot Knob. Here, in the ti...

  • Passions, and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    “Through the twenty stories Singer continues to evolve his characters with the sustained scrutiny of kinship and a candlelit intimacy. Physical presences, speech and circumstances flicker into being as sharply as that cosmic instant in each tal...

  • Convention M.D.

    Frank G. Slaughter

    PRESCRIPTIONS, POLITICS -- AND SEX! At the annual meeting of the Central Medical Association an epic battle was brewing. On its last day, the convention would choose a new president. Would it be H. Edward Danton, world-famous heart surgeon and her...

  • The Healer

    Frank G. Slaughter

    A patient dies, Dr. Don Carter is tormented by the fear that he might have been careless. Only Laura, his operating room nurse, could tell him the truth. If he saves this woman's memory, could he be expelled from the world of medicine forever?...

  • Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles

    Donald J. Sobol

    Match wits with the supersleuth in sneakers! Two golden eagles mysteriously shot... A hypnotized lobster... A pizza parlor thief... A cheater in the state worm-racing championship... And a magician who hid his will before his final disappearin...

  • Tell No Man

    Adela Rogers St. Johns

  • Whales to See the

    Glendon Swarthout

  • Stardust Voyages

    Stephen Tall

  • Ice and Iron

    Wilson Tucker

    The time might well be today in this intriguing science fiction tale in which the vagaries of weather open the door to an unknown civilization from the past - or is it the future? Across the globe a new ice age is encroaching. From Alberta to Ontario...

  • The Magician of Cracow

    Krystyna Turska

  • I Was All Thumbs

    Bernard Waber

  • 6 weeks word Power

    Pauline Watson

  • The Dark Isle

    Mary Wibberley

    Janis Sutherland didn't want her beloved, peaceful Dark Isle to be spoiled or changed in any way --and Breck Fallon with his brash ideas threatened everything that she most cared about. He was to threaten her peace of mind in more ways than on...

  • Beria Papers

    Alan williams

    highlight what monsters Joseph Stalin and Lavrenti Beria were. I enjoyed that the Author has taken us to a number of different countries, and the detail he has gone into with some unique and interesting characters....

  • Doctor's Hospital #1

    Maud Willis

  • Dearest Demon

    Violet Winspear

    Coming to life again was painful. For over two years Destine had been in a sort of frozen limbo -- a composed, efficient woman whose life had seemed to stop with the death of her husband, Matthew on their wedding day. Now, like it or not -- in t...

  • The Wakefield Witches

    Daoma Winston

    “Evil walks my street,” the old man said. “And she had a pretty face.” Mr. Crown was ninety-two. He had watched Wakefield grown from village to town to suburb, slowly surrounded and strangled. Suddenly, where everything was beautiful, ther...

  • The Medea Legend

    Elizabeth York

    "Trust no one," Aunt Hester tells sensitive Medea when she is called to Margrave House by her mysterious guardian. Once there, Medea's clairvoyant visions intensify, plunging her into a nightmare of murder, pagan sacrifice, family tragedy, and a ps...

  • Arthur Young and His Times

    Arthur Young

  • Premeditated Man

    Richard Restak

  • About Teddy Robinson

    Joan G. Robinson

  • The Seven Sisters

    Anthony Sampson

    An account of the men and events behind the rise of the world's largest oil companies, their domination of the world petroleum industry, and their current status subsequent to their control being challenged by the producing nations...