Books Published in August 1972

• Aug-1972
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Catherine remembered a song about journeys ending in lovers' meeting, but a lover was the last thing she expected to meet in Seville. Had she not been named for St. Catherine, who was the patroness of single women and seamstress? And yet, in ...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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A novel about a fortunate man tripped up by temptation, from the New York Times�"bestselling author of The Embezzler and The Partners.   Tony Lowder is the able and good-looking grandson of an Irish immigrant who prospered as a contractor -- an...

• Aug-1972
• / Fantasy
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A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bel...

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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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Valerie wasn't in a very happy situation -- not fit enough to work, and clearly unwanted by the relatives with whom she had been living. But in impetuously accepting the proposal of a man she scarcely knew, wasn't she in danger of jumping ...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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Rory McDermot's arrival on the Greek island of Exos caused quite a stir, but nowhere more so than at the Villa Julia. Rory had the dream of having a white house on a cliff over a warm blue sea, which he could fill with people with a need for solitu...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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When a red-eyed Goblin peeks out of the laundry basket, the Big Witch faints and Cook predicts disaster. The evening’s Tea and Magic Show will be ruined! Anxious to help, Dorrie offers to Goblin-sit only to discover that it’s a bigger job than...

• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Catherine's fiance was tragically killed, she accepted the Sheridan's invitation to go and stay with them and work in their family business, which was based on freshwater pearls taken from Scottish rivers. Catherine's own father had found a w...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was to meet Curran's family that Nicola had come to visit Malinbrae, but it was Curran's cousin Mitchell who was soon occupying far too much of her thoughts. Mitch clearly looked on every female within sight as a challenge to his talents, and N...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben “Doc” Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible “con” that has branded Doc’s books as classics of Western Americana.  Some Mo...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Gothic
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A haunting tale of a young girl, a strange love and an evil house... A birthday party -- with a surprise gift of sudden death... From the moment that Rachel Lord joined the celebration at Roshven, she was enveloped in an aura of impending doom...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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A tormented and humiliated mixed-race Australian man reaches his breaking point and takes terrifying revenge on his abusers in this critically acclaimed novel based on actual events In Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, Jimmie Blacksmith...

• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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All her life Melanie had worked with her father, Richard Lawrence, in the family firm of R. Lawrence & Son. There was no son, and sometimes Melanie wondered wryly why one never saw the sign and Daughter. But that was before she met Drew !...

• Aug-1972
• / Historical
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• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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The job Cleone Aston had just been offered -- editor of a fashion magazine -- was going to be tremendously thrilling, and demanding, after her job as reporter on a local newspaper. But the biggest challenge was to come from her new boss -- Ellis...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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Ishmael Reed's inspired comic fable of the ragtime era - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred greatest books of the Western canon America, 1920s. A plague is spreading, and it's spreading fast, from New Orleans to Chicago to New Y...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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James Harker, a former New York governor and washed up politician, is enlisted by a medical lab to guide them through the legal and ethical pitfalls of unveiling their new technique to the world: to reanimate the recently dead! Facing opposition from...

• Aug-1972
• / Historical Romance
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IN THE TWILIGHT OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA - THEIR UNTAMED LOVE BLAZED LIKE THE SUN... RONYA VON GLASMAN - She was the dove, the dark-eyed Jewish beauty, the wealthy daughter of a family with pride - and passions - all its own... BORIS PIROV - He was h...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in two ways: as a novel about a woman in the age of celebrity culture and as a text with its own story to tell. With the publication of this workshop edition of Ida, we have the novel exactly as it was published ...

• Aug-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1972
• / Epic Fantasy
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The Sword And The Stone recreates, against the background of magnificent pageantry and dark magic that was medieval England, the education and training of young King Arthur, who was to become the greatest of Britain's legendary rulers.

• Sep-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1972
• / General Fiction
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