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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1975

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Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

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  • Betty Neels

    When Henrietta Brodie was left a house in a Dutch village, she decided to make her home there, and settled happily into her new abode. She thought she would like everything about Holland -- except Marnix van Hessel. As 'lord of the manor'...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    IT WAS A PEACEFUL PLANET...IF YOU KNEW HOW TO STAY ALIVE! Born was a child of the rainforest that covered Midworld...part of a primitive society that the peaceful tree planet had sustained for hundreds of years. He was wise in the ways of his worl...



  • Sara Seale

    When twenty-year-old Laura, after a careful, sheltered upbringing, was suddenly thrust into the turbulent household of the 'dark Trevaynes' she felt young and defenseless, and always overshadowed by her glamorous cousin Cleo. There had bee...



  • Joyce Dingwell

    Roslyn had always adored baby Belinda Forrest, and had always cared for her and about her -- which was more than the child's relatives had ever done! Now, belatedly, they wanted to claim her, but Roslyn had no intention of parting with her. Ho...



  • Andre Norton

    Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton's books have sold millions of copies worldwid...



  • R.F. Delderfield

    This tale of the Peninsular Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars offers unforgettable adventure. A group of ten set out to wend their way out from behind French lines in Portugal and back to the British Army. In the lead is young ensign Keith Graham, try...



  • James Clavell

    SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES â�,�¢ A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the str...



  • Tanith Lee

    A mysterious woman awakens in the heart of a dormant volcano. She comes forth into a brutal ancient world transformed by genocidal pestilence, fierce beauty, and cultural devastation. She has no memory of herself, and she could be anyone -- mortal wo...



  • Ellery Queen

    An American cop stumbles across a drug ring on a tropical island No matter how hard she tries, Tracy can't seem to kill herself. Her hands shake too much to cut her wrists. Wading into the ocean, her body refuses to be drowned. Even the heroin sh...



  • James Baldwin

    From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime -- "a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously...



  • Tim O'Brien

    A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDOriginally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the National Book Awa...



  • Janette Radcliffe

    The fabled romance of Venice seemed a mockery to lovely young Prudence Tarrant. Left penniless by the disgrace and death of her beloved brother, she came to this foreign city not as the lady she was born, but as a scorned governess to the ambitious H...



  • Janice Gray

    Peta wanted nothing more from life than her carefree existence in Norfolk, "messing about in boats" with her old friend, Mike Mandeville. At least, she thought she wanted nothing more -- until Nicholas Waring came along!...



  • Paul Gallico

    ***A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM***

    Now a major film, starring Leslie Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs and Lucas Bravo

    'Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction - so real that ...



  • Fiona Hill

    "...considerably more wit and pizazz than the legendary Georgette [Heyer] herself." -- Kirkus Reviews Lady Laura consents to give her hand to Thaddeus Grey, a man she has known all of her life. Perhaps there is some romantic ingredient missing from ...



  • James Crumley

    Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young...



  • Jacquelyn Aeby

    Indian drums in the night beat out a message of danger for pretty young Serena Dahl, on an archaeological expedition to the remote mountains of New Mexico. Now this beautiful landscape had been transformed into a place of menace by fearful figures in...



  • Laurie Colwin

    When Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of seventy-seven. With no pretense of "courage", Olly griev...



  • E.L. Doctorow

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePublished in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of t...



  • Marc Olden

    For the sake of his master’s memory, Sand will kill to recover a magnificent sword

    Though useless in battle, the emperor’s katana is a beautiful weapon. Cast from solid gold, this 1,200-year-old blade was thought to be lost unti...



  • Max Ehrlich

    Plagued by nightmares of his own death, a California professor puzzles out the riddle of his dreams in this classic spine-tingler about past livesDr. Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the...



  • Patrick Tilley

    Alien Day. The date was Friday, the third of August. For some people the day was just beginning, for others it was the ending in a perfectly normal way. Then right across the world every ground and airborne radar screen went haywire… This time i...


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