Books Published in September 1970

New Books List: 29 titles

  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Richard Bach

    Amazon.com Review "Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most g...

  • A New Day

    Don Bolognese

  • Lady Is Transparent

    Carter Brown

  • The Other Linding Girl

    Mary Burchell

    Rachel, with two far more dazzling sisters, felt she would always be "the other Linding Girl" unless she broke away from Loriville and the family home. But there still seemed plenty of obstacles to prevent her from being the special one for N...

  • Simon

    Molly Cone

  • West of the River // Guardian Nurse

    Joyce Dingwell

    Original title: West of the River. West of the River, Burn West's estate out in the Riverina district of New South Wales, was sufficiently far off the map for Frances to realise why Burn needed a nurse-governess for little seven year old Jason Wes...

  • The Man in the Next Room

    Jane Donnelly

    Barney Hollis had no use for family ties. Or so Sian had been led to believe since working for his brother, Langley. The impression she'd gained of Barney was that of a selfish, uncaring man who was only coming home now to recover from a ca...

  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Jean Dunbar

    Elizabeth suspected that she loved her fiance George more than he loved her, and gradually she found herself taking more interest than she should in her employer, Doctor John Allardyce. But what was the use of Elizabeth thinking of any man at all, wh...

  • Talking without Words

    Marie Hall Ets

  • Castle on the Loch

    Caroline Farr

    Terror Stalks the Highlands. Beautiful Jody Fastier came to the Scottish Highlands as understudy to the star in a lush historical film. However, right from the start, the movie seemed sure to fail, as one misfortune after another took its toll. But i...

  • Fairy Tales Fables

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • Good Morning, Doctor Houston

    Lucy Gillen

    "Do you ever jump to wrong conclusions?" "But you were with Janet that evening when you told me you were working," Sarah replied slowly. "I know you were, Adam, because I saw you." She could see that Adam was obviously g...

  • Isle of the Rainbows

    Anne Hampson

    When Penny arrived on the island of Dominica, her employer, Mrs. Redfern, warned Penny that her son Max was used to authority, and expected to be obeyed. Penny herself decided that here was one girl who was not going to comply! But could she be su...

  • Goliath

    David Harris

    GOLIATH is the nation-state AMERICA But this book is really about you and me, and what we must do to keep from being crushed by Goliath, and what we must build in place of it-something which has not yet been built in the whole history of mankind. -JO...

  • I'm the King of the Castle

    Susan Hill

    'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But, young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian hous...

  • The Flower of Eternity

    Margery Hilton

    "It'll be fun meeting one of those strong, silent explorer types," Gail Denning said blithely when she joined the all-male expedition Max Christiern was to lead into the Peruvian jungle in search of a lost valley and the flower reputed to...

  • Greek Wedding

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    Romance had been the last thing in Phyllida Vannick's mind when she began her journey across the Atlantic to the shores of Greece in search of her younger brother. But amidst the bloody revolution that swept across that troubled land, she found herse...

  • How Santa Claus Had a Long and Difficult Journey Delivering His Presents

    Fernando Krahn

  • Exile's Quest

    Richard Meade

  • Sing Down the Moon

    Scott O'Dell

    THE SPANISH SLAVERS WERE AN EVER-PRESENT THREAT TO THE NAVAHO WAY OF LIFE. One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon...

  • To the Highest Bidder

    Hilda Pressley

    Freda loved her work in the world of antiques, and when Bob Arnold proposed to her she felt marriage and its ties were impossible for her. But it was significant that the same principle did not apply when she found herself thinking of Maurice Chandle...

  • Member of the Gang

    Barbara Rinkoff

  • Rich Man, Poor Man

    Irwin Shaw

    Rich Man, Poor Man is the story of two brothers whose contrasting natures reflect the turmoil of post-war America. Rudy is the rich man - a romantic who would let no one stand between him and success. Tom is the poor man - the black sheep of th...

  • To Sing Me Home

    Doris E. Smith

    Deborah had the best of reasons - she thought - for having a low opinion of the singer Colin Cameron. But somehow he kept finding his way back into her life.......

  • Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day

    Donald J. Sobol

    A camper who's been bound and gagged...A stolen bike wheel...Two kidnapped pigs...A boy with wings...And a foot-warmer inventor who accidentally puts his own foot right in his mouth!These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclo...

  • The Bay of the Nightingales

    Essie Summers

    Margot Chesterton had traveled to New Zealand to look for her long-lost father -- but Pierre Laveroux persisted in believing that her motive was a more sinister one. Which was a pity, as Margot would so much have preferred him to have a good opinion ...

  • Adios, Scheherazade

    Donald E. Westlake

  • A Bargain for Frances

    Russell Hoban

    One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind?

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  • When Birds Do Sing

    Flora Kidd

    Lindsay had returned from Canada to her Scottish home to sort out her widowed mother's problems. That didn't take long -- but meanwhile Lindsay had met the formidable Scott Nicolson, and soon had plenty of problems of her own! Hero: Scot...