Books Published in April 1970

New Books List: 33 titles

  • The House Called Green Bays

    Jan Andersen

    When Tracy inherited her father's South African fruit farm, Green Bays, she realised that she could never hope to run it without the help of the indispensable manager, Roger Louw. But how could she be sure that Roger had the interests of Green Bays a...

  • Men in Dark Times

    Hannah Arendt

    “Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity . . . each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works . . . of ten exemplary men and women” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).“Dark times” is Brecht's phras...

  • Night of the Singing Birds

    Susan Barrie

    Angela had been born and brought up in Spain, and in the Spanish way it had been arranged that she make a highly suitable marriage with Don Felipe Martinez. But half of Angela was English, and the English do not take very kindly to such arbitrary arr...

  • Burden of Guilt

    Carter Brown

    Every bedroom door opens for Al Wheeler - but behind one waits a woman who likes her sex mixed with murder! It started as a naked corpse of a call girl by a pool. It looked like the usual vicious mixture of sex and murder until the trail of blood l...

  • The Afterglow // Alpine Doctor

    Rose Burghley

    Lacey Cavendish enjoyed her job as English teacher at an exclusive girls' finishing school in Switzerland -- but she certainly had no intention of following the example of her young charges and falling in love with the school doctor, Roger Soames...

  • Sugar in the Morning

    Isobel Chace

    When Camilla won a small fortune, she decided to go out to the West Indies to meet her only relatives. But it was not long before she discovered that they had all kinds of plans for helping her to spend her own money! Hero: Daniel Hendrycks Heroi...

  • Runaway Ralph

    Beverly Cleary

    Ralph has made up his mind. He is going to run away. He is tired of being bossed around by his mother and Uncle Lester. He's fed up with his silly, pesky little brothers and sisters. Ralph is determined to grow up to be something more than just anoth...

  • Scarlet Sunset

    Mary Cummins

    Rennie had inherited her grandfather's farm in Scotland, but of course she couldn't run it herself and a lot was going to depend on the farm manager. And when he looked like being hostile from the start, she couldn't help wondering how it was all goi...

  • Serenade at Santa Rosa

    Iris Danbury

    After her engagement was broken off, Davina was glad of the chance to work for a while on the lovely Mediterranean island of Ibiza, but was determined not to get involved with any more men for a while. Easier said than done! Hero: Forde Anscombe ...

  • Take the Far Dream

    Jane Donnelly

    Justin Denning was against marriage for men whose jobs took them all over the world -- and he was an archaeologist himself! Sanna Smith knew that this put him out of court as a prospective husband, but it could not stop her thinking about it! Hero...

  • Anne of a Thousand Days

    Edward Fenton

  • Agaton Sax and the Scotland Yard Mystery

    Nils Olof Franzen

    Agaton Sax faces one of the most challenging cases of his career when a secretive and evil mastermind steals Scotland Yard's Register of Current Criminals from under the very nose of Inspector Joshua Lispington. To get it back, Agaton will need to em...

  • In the Service of the

    Willard Gaylin

  • Heir to Glen Ghyll

    Lucy Gillen

    Mora had come to visit Glen Ghyll so that she could meet Hamish McLean's family and make up her mind whether or not to marry him -- but she found herself thinking more and more of his brother Adam, the 'black sheep' of the family....

  • Hugo

    Maria Gripe

  • The Survivor

    Thomas Keneally

    A professor at an Australian university, Alec Ramsey has lived an eventful life, much of which he is reluctant to discuss. In the 1920s, he was a member of a small expedition to Antarctica that resulted in the tragic death of its leader and Ramsey’...

  • By the Waters of Whitechapel

    Bernard Kops

    “By the Waters of Whitechapel is as much a comedy of pain as Goodbye, Columbus is a comedy of sadness; but it is a luminous, tender comedy centered on feeling and irony . . . mixing realism and fantasy in a way that recalls Chagall.” R...

  • The Wonderful Tree

    Ulf L'Ofgren

  • My Valiant Fledgling

    Margaret Malcolm

    To Nikki Walden, Kittiwake was more than just a boat-it represented her old, carefree life with her father. And when her stepmother took it upon herself to rent it to Jervis Tarrant, trouble started brewing-in no uncertain terms!. ...

  • Archy and Mehitabel

    Don Marquis

    This beloved illustrated classic tells the tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life. 

    Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. Marquis's satirical...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Anne Mather

    The Conde, with his looks, his money, his castle in Portugal, was not the kind of man who could forgive anyone who tried to deceive him. When Toni Morley attempted to do just that, the Conde proceeded to exact a very subtle revenge. "Look,"...

  • Bagman

    Frank McAuliffe

  • Nurse in Holland // Amazon in an Apron // A Match for Sister Maggy

    Betty Neels

    Who was the bride to be? Sister Maggy MacFergus was tall, and she discovered that most men found this off-putting. When Dr. Paul Doelsma offered Maggy a nursing job in Holland, she took it. There was something special about Dr. Doelsma, and it was...

  • Man of the Forest

    Hilda Pressley

    Matt Windbourne's arrival as the new Head Forester set the cat among the pigeons with one strike against him. For a start, he had been appinted in place of local men, and the local men resented his appointment. To make matters worse, the medical doct...

  • Devil Boy

    Willo Davis Roberts

    In Keathley Castle live an ambassador, an actress, a writer, a senator and a brilliant small boy they all fear is capable of murder... Ride through the iron gates of Keathley Castle, Miss Sabria Somers. Be governess to that strange little boy. You wi...

  • Aspects of Depression

    Edwin S. Schneidman

  • Family

    Ellie Simmons

  • Joseph and Koza or the Sacrifice to the Vistula.: Or, the Sacrifice to the Vistula

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Conversations

    G. Charbonnier

  • Time for a Story

    Eileen Colwell

  • In the Forest

    Marie Hall Ets

  • My World Line: Fragments

    George Gamow

    George Gamow, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist and an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. was awarded the Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for his popularization of science. Born in Odessa, Russia, he was a colleague of Albert...

  • Better Frames for You

    Fred Taubes