Books Published in August 1979

New Books List: 153 titles

  • A Cat of Silvery Hue

    Robert Adams

  • A Sword for Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    The most popular game among the many peoples of Kregen, world of Antares, is one that resembles chess, called Jikaida. Jikaida is a battle of wits and war game pieces that suited well the tension charged atmosphere that enveloped Dray Prescot. For re...

  • Annie Oakley World Her Time

    Clifford Lindsey Alderman

  • The Animals Who Changed Their Colors

    Pascale Allamand

  • Moments of Meaning

    Erika Vaughn Allen

    In a panic, Lyle Maxwell takes the first flight out of Sydney and winds up in Perth, spending her days in the hotel swimming pool, trying to deal with the horror of her recent experiences with the man she had come to Australia to marry.

    Jimmy ...

  • Hawks

    Joseph Amiel

    Global Universal Airlines is fighting to survive, and its aging president is fighting for his dream. Now an implacable conglomerate seems certain to swallow up everything he has given his life to build. Then a 747 plummets to disaster. Then another. ...

  • Stephanie

    Caroline Arnett

    Stephanie Langley, fresh from the country, was in London to be introduced into society. She was lovely and innocent but intelligent enough to long for experiences beyond the teas and parties and silly drawing-room chatter. Then she met Lord Airde ...

  • Marie

    Margot Arnold

    Marie Laveau..she was the bewitching, seductive queen of the voodoos, none in New Orleans could escape her spell. She ruled the city of sin...She shone like a jewel in the squalor and splendor of Old New Orleans: Marie Laveau... pagan priestess, daug...

  • Just Above My Head

    James Baldwin

    The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience.  Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to a church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It On The Mountai...

  • Inoculate!

    Neil Bayne

    When a flu epidemic broke out on a remote air force base in Michigan, Phage T-36, as this new virus came to be called, proved to be even more horrible than the Black Plague! People are dying all around the world. The President of the United States au...

  • Stars in Shroud

    Gregory Benford

    The first novel by New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford, "The Stars in Shroud" original story was a Hugo and Nebula nominee.The alien Quarn strike suddenly at the heart of Earth's interstellar Empire. Their weapon is a deadly plague -- a...

  • The Best of James Blish

    James Blish

    ONE OF THE WRITERS WHO TURNED SCIENCE FICTION FROM PULP ENTERTAINMENT INTO A LITERARY CATEGORY WITH BROAD AND LASTING APPEAL, JAMES BLISH IS AT HIS PEAK IN ... THERE SHALL BE NO DARKNESS A werewolf can be a very awkward houseguest... COMMON TI...

  • Saturdays in the City

    Ann Sharpless Bond

    Finding a stolen diamond ring and catching the criminal, accidentally boarding a plane to Washington, D.C., and appearing on television are a few of the extraordinary adventures that Adam Tyler and Noah Carter have when on their own in the big city...

  • Kinsman

    Ben Bova

    To Chet Kinsman, space held the promise of peace and beauty that Earth denied him - yet it was Kinsman who stained the purity of space with murder. His atonement shaped his life and the destiny of his planet - and drew him inexorably to use, and fina...

  • The House in Paris

    Elizabeth Bowen

    When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Little does Henrietta know what fascinations the Fisher hous...

  • The Ruins of Isis

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    DOMINATION OR DESTINY The women of Isis held fast to a near-extinct culture of matriarchal rule. Deep within their sacred ruins dwelled the Builders, an ancient spirit -- a spirit that spoke only to women. Cherished and worshiped, their soft, warmin...

  • The Door Through Space

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    FANGS OF THE WOLF WORLDAt one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he ...

  • Toby and Johnny Joe

    Robbie Branscum

  • The Liquidator Number One

    R.L. Brent

  • Future at War, Vol. 1

    Reginald Bretner

  • The Strawberry-Blonde Jungle

    Carter Brown

  • Something About Eve

    James Branch Cabell

    "Something About Eve, an entry in the Poictesme series, ""shows its non-hero feebly intending to gain promised glory awaiting in the land of 'Antan' but forever delayed on Mispec Moor (anagram: 'Compromise'), wearing literal rose-colored spectacles a...

  • The Crimson Chalice

    Victor Canning

    Victor Canning has structured a new interpretation of Arthurian times -- and his sage is a dazzling union of realism and fiction. - King Features Syndicate...

  • Follow the Shadows

    Jocelyn Carew

    CRUSADING HEARTS SOLANGE DE ST. FLORENT the silver-blonde beauty on a fateful crusade to an exotic land of longed-for love and bitter betrayal. AIMERY DE MONTVERT lover to Queen Eleanor of Acquitane, and Solange's husband by royal command. ...

  • The Password Is Courage

    John Castle

    The man who broke into Auschwitz. When he was captured in France in 1940 Sergeant-Major Charles Coward launched his own private war against the Germans (although he was being held as a prisoner-of-war). For several years he was the most incredi...

  • Matilda's Stepchildren

    A. Bertram Chandler

    John Grimes, owner of the deep space pinnace Little Sister, could not afford to be fussy about whom he carried. But there were compensations, for if his ship had not been chartered to take Fenella Pruin, muckraking reporter, to exclusive New Venusber...

  • Saint Abroad

    Leslie Charteris

    Two more adventures for the Saint based on episodes from the TV series starring Roger Moore: in 'The Art Collectors' the Saint comes across a collection of Old Masters that have been hidden for many years, but then the art collector herself goes m...

  • Ramona and Her Mother

    Beverly Cleary

    Ramona wished her mother would quit her job and stay home all day the way she used to. Then maybe she'd have time to notice that Ramona was not a baby anymore. She was seven and a half and quite grown up! If her mother stayed home, Ramona wouldn't ha...

  • The Further Adventures of Solar Pons

    Basil Copper

  • Air Force One

    Edwin Corley

    The President's Carrier: On the ground, the most meticulously cared for, closely guarded aircraft in the world. In the air, vulnerable to terrorism - and attack. The President's Crew: Rugged men and beautiful women - skilled and dedicated in the air,...

  • Leo the Lop: Tail Two

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • A Land Called Deseret

    Janet Dailey

    "Are you admiring the view?" he asked "Yes," LaRaine agreed without turning. She didn't want Travis McCrea to see the brightness of the unshed tears in her eyes. "It's a vast, beautiful .... " The lie stuck in he...

  • Thief of Kalimar

    Graham Diamond

    An epic adventure in the world of speculative fiction. Ramagar was a thief--a thief of thieves. One night he became the owner of a prize beyond his wildest dreams, taking he and his partner, Mariana, upon an incredible journey to free a once-proud la...

  • The Genocides

    Thomas M. Disch

    This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells

    In this harrowing novel, the...

  • Walt Disney Productions Presents The Small One

    Walt Disney

  • Shadow of Earth

    Phyllis Eisenstein

  • Rendezvous in Athens

    Jessica Eliot

    She couldn't believe her eyes. Was that glamorous, sophisticated woman in the mirror really Pamela Peyton? It was like a dream. Only yesterday she had been a hard-working lawyer in New York. Now suddenly she was in Athens, involved in a multimillion-...

  • The Rack

    A.E. Ellis

    A young English student, Paul, is sent to a Swiss sanatorium just after the end of the second world war. At a time when effective medication for tuberculosis was unknown, Paul undergoes an unimaginable regime of regimented medical intervention, both ...

  • Longarm and the Texas Rangers

    Tabor Evans

    IF YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, SEND FOR THE ARMY -- OR ONE TEXAS RANGER That's what the Texans always said. But now the Rangers themselves were in trouble. A comrade had been shot down, they were hot for his killer's blood, and Longarm had been sent to...

  • Jesus on Mars

    Philip Jose Farmer

    As billions of people around the globe sit glued to their television sets in the year 2015, Richard Orme, captain of the first expedition to land on Mars, takes another giant step for mankind. His first words, as he steps of the landing craft onto th...

  • Freedom Road

    Howard Fast

    Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master. — Chicago Daily News...

  • Entanglement

    Catherine Fellows

    When Ellen Farrell was asked by her cousin Anthony to pretend they were betrothed so his father would increase his allowance, she agreed. She hoped to turn his affections away from the greedy mistress who was quickly putting him into debt. But she...

  • Keeping Christmas

    Phyllis R. Fenner

  • Timed for Love

    Glenna Finley

    The glamorous world of international broadcasting holds terrifying danger and unexpected romance for a beautiful career woman… Surrender Of Her Heart From their first meeting, it was obvious to Jane Chapin that Josh Blake, was an enemy to be ...

  • Escape from Splatterbang

    Nicholas Fisk

    Left behind on a hostile planet, Mykl finds that Ego, a friendly computer, is no substitute for human companionship and meets a Gypsy girl named Amina who figures out the planet's terrible secret which makes escape nearly impossible...

  • Triple

    Ken Follett

    "It was never determined what had actually happened to the 200 tons of uranium", but three countries know the truth. Three young men met decades ago and now world events have cast them as adversaries. Nat, Israel's hero, known as 'The Pirate', stages...

  • Whistler's Lane

    Anthea Fraser

    Destined to Love… When Sophie left her arrogant, willful lover, Jake Petersen, to care for her invalid aunt, she realized their romance was finished. But in the charming little village of Pendelmere, Sophie soon forgot her sorrow. For fate had thr...

  • Diary of a Nazi Lady

    Gillian Freeman

  • Stonewall

    Jean Fritz

  • Come Spring

    Kathryn O. Galbraith

  • Dil Dies Hard

    Kelly P. Gast

  • North Dallas Forty

    Peter Gent

    National Bestseller: The “powerful novel” about the hidden side of pro football, written by a former NFL player (Newsweek).  On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But w...

  • Glendower Legacy

    Thomas Gifford

    Ancient treason threatens to ignite a new skirmish in the Cold War.

    It’s January, 1778, and William Davis is standing guard for the Continental Army at Valley Forge when he witnesses something sickening: an American selling intelligen...

  • Love's Bold Embrace

    Brynn Gilbert

    Castlemayne Thomas, a penniless orphan, had come from Trinidad to live with her mother's family in England. She quickly learned that her grandfather's new wife would do everything in her power to discredit Cassie and advance the claims of her own dau...

  • My Universities

    Maxim Gorky

    Written by the founding father of socialist realism in literature, this is an autobiographical work. The author also wrote "Fragments from my Diary", "My Apprenticeship", "My Childhood", "The Lower Depths", "The Zykovs" and "Children of the Sun"....

  • Pay Your Respects

    Richard Graber

  • Heart of the Scorpion

    Janice Gray

    "Would you like to come to Greece?" Annabel had thought Ran was joking when he asked her. Although his younger brother, Kit, had been her companion since childhood, it was Ran -- reserved, clever, complex -- she'd grown up loving. N...

  • It'll All Come Out in the Wash

    Nigel Gray

  • Tagget

    Irving A. Greenfield

    A history-book item about a top-secret Maguis cell prompts John Tagget to search through Europe for information on a World War II he cannot remember and leads him into an espionage net run by the agents who betrayed him thirty years before...

  • Sweet Wind of Morning

    Belinda Grey

    "You're not much of a gentleman," she accused. "But, my dear," he replied softly, "whatever gave you the notion I was a gentleman?" And before Catherine had a chance to form her furious retort, his hand tore at her...

  • Chateau in the Palms

    Anne Hampson

    Tied to Don, she loved Philippe... Jane was stunned when her husband wanted a divorce so he could marry the woman he really loved. Jane had to get away--had to think things out. The job in Mauritius was a godsend, but caring for the two small c...

  • The Play Begins

    Toni Handy

  • Lovers Meeting

    Mollie Hardwick

    LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE... It is a winter's night in 1813. Four actors meet on the stage of a London theater - Jannie Sorrel - a beautiful young chorus dancer ready for love... Ivor Bryn - who came in to the chorus from a valley in Wales...

  • The Rich and the Beautiful

    Ruth Harris

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

    Harry Harrison

    Creatures from an unknown star are closing in on mankind and Slippery Jim deGriz, your favorite con man turned secret agent, must save the galaxy from a horrible doom!...

  • Benjamin and Jon

    Mary Ellen Heath

  • The Smuggler's Daughter

    Sandra Heath

    Corralie Somerford's sheltered past has left her quite unprepared for the seductive sophistication of Sir Madoc Vaughan. Some believe Sir Madoc is a notorious rake after her fortune, but Corralie knows she has to have him, even if it means follow...

  • Passion's Slave

    Alexis Hill

    FROM THE DECADENCE OF LONDON... Flashing-eyed Julie Duval, a highborn English belle, swept into the seething London underworld... Rakish Antoine Riviere, exiled cavalier, plied the King's highways for a lawless, glittering fortune. His first bold ga...

  • Morgan's Castle

    Jan Hilliard

    Morgan's Castle -- its turrets, rising high over the valley, had seen their share of death by violence, and destiny decreed that they were to see even more... Laura Dean was young, pretty, and innocent in the ways of the world when she came to...

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice

    Alfred Hitchcock

    Twenty-seven prime stories of suspense, murder, mystery, the macabre, and the supernatural make up a breath-stopping, spine-chilling brew from the likes of Ross Macdonald, Lawrence Block, and Charlotte Armstrong...

  • The Earl

    Cecelia Holland

    In this, her sixth brilliant novel, Miss Holland demonstrates once more that the novel of history can incorporate the most serious purpose with the color and excitement of large adventure. At the book's heart stands the 12th century Earl of Stafford,...

  • The Spring of the Tiger

    Victoria Holt

    When Sarah Ashington's actress mother dies after a devastating scandal, Sarah is left at her long-lost father's rambling, ancestral estate, to face the disturbinbg questions of her own past. Then her father's death draws her to his Ceylon plantation ...

  • Aldo Applesauce

    Johanna Hurwitz

  • How Six Found Christmas

    Trina Schart Hyman

  • Little Mouse Nibbling

    Tony Johnston

    As a lonely, shy mouse sits nibbling at Christmastime, wishing she could see the snowy outdoors, a black cricket introduces her to the forest, and they watch Christmas carolers make their way to the mouse's door...

  • Just Like Humphrey Bogart

    Adam Kennedy

  • Tangled Shadows

    Flora Kidd

    "I'll never give you a divorce..." Cesare had told Kathryn firmly. "Because we married in haste it doesn't make our marriage any less solid, to my way of thinking." Kathryn had been stung by his words. It was true she ha...

  • The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951

    Kenneth Koch

  • The March

    W.S. Kuniczak

    Their army defeated by the Nazis and their hopes directed toward Russia, several Polish families and individuals courageously struggle to survive despite imprisonment, betrayal, and a single-minded attempt to destroy them...

  • Love Is a Frenzy

    Charlotte Lamb

    "How much to get out of my son's life?" Mark Hammond's question was contemptuous. Rachel was furious. As a night-club singer, Rachel had become indifferent to men's admiration. But young Nicky Hammond was special. His boyish...

  • Electric Forest

    Tanith Lee

    The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that world's only genetic misfit, the shunned outcast of an otherwise ideal society, she became the focus of attention for mighty forces. Once they had ...

  • Blood of the West

    Paul Evan Lehman

    Alonzo Pelly wanted the rangeland for his own. He didn't care who owned it. He didn't care how he got it. He aimed for it to be his --- the land, and the power belonging to the king of the range. Alonzo Pelly would stop at nothing to get that land. I...

  • Fatal Legacy

    Luisa-Maria Linares

    A hasy note...a rendezvous with death! "Don't mention my last letter to anyone!" Audrey couldn't make any sense of her husband's scribbled note. She had never received the letter he referred to. Instead, a telegram arrived from the Spanish Emb...

  • The Cubs and Other Stories

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on s...

  • Identity Unknown

    Lorena

    Who was the mysterious stranger? What was behind the stranger's disguise? The man standing in front of Sarah Watson was obviously poor. His tie was ugly and his suit shiny from wear. The following night Sarah was astonished to find him at ...

  • The Turnaround

    Giles A. Lutz

  • Mission Hopeless

    J.E. MacDonnell

  • Raven after dark

    Donald MacKenzie

    First American Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Rubbing to the head and base of the spine and to the book's corners. The dust jacket has creases and rubs to its spine tips and rubs/bumps to its corners....

  • The Boy Who Turned into a TV Set

    Stephen Manes

    Although his mother warns him that if he continues to watch television so much he will turn into one, Ogden Pettibone does not believe her until he discovers a clear, color picture glowing on his stomach...

  • Lure of Eagles

    Anne Mather

    The will stated that Lisel would inherit! Domine and her brother naturally expected to inherit their grandfather's fortune. It was a shock to learn it was left to a cousin they'd never heard of. And living in Peru! To make matters worse...

  • Mara, Daughter of the Nile

    Eloise Jarvis McGraw

    This compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt, was written by the three-time Newbery Honor and Edgar Award winning author Eloise Jarvis McGraw.   Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom i...

  • Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

  • The Eternal Champion

    Michael Moorcock

    From one of Britain’s foremost fantasy writers comes this Tolkienesque series opener about destiny, war, betrayal -- and the return of a long-dead hero John Daker dreams of other worlds, and a name: Erekosë. He finds the strength to answer th...

  • The Mangan Inheritance

    Brian Moore

    James Mangan is a failed poet and when he is deserted by his beautiful wife his life is devastated. Searching among his father's papers he finds a photo of an Irish ancestor, also a poet. In search of his past he uncovers a sad, violent history of in...

  • Man of the High Country

    Mary Moore

    "You have no proof he's my father! " Morgan had quickly answered Katriona Carmichael's challenge. "Proof?" he echoed. "You're so like him it's ridiculous--an attractive, utterly feminine version of a proud, stub...

  • Hearts Divided

    Paula Moore

    HEARTS DIVIDED Arriving in St. Louis to search for his missing brother, Danny O'Lee meets a lovely but mysterious young girl named Liberty Wells who has known his brother and perhaps been his lover before they were parted by the bitter slavery...

  • Lily Cigar

    Tom Murphy

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG INNOCENT, DRIVEN INTO THE SINS OF WOMANHOOD BY THE DARK DESIRES THAT RULED MEN’S HEARTS You will never forget Lily -- as a child watching her mother die in want…as an orphan struggling to protect her reckless brotherâ...

  • Californio!

    Virginia Myers

    Don Francisco, a suave señor who seeks to dominate early California. Petra, the unyielding señorita, will not give up her land so easily to Francisco. She will teach Don Francisco that he cannot just trounce into town and take what he wants like so...

  • The Last Magic

    N. Richard Nash

  • How Lazy Can You Get

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Timothy, Amy, and Douglas John Megglethorp are in for the shock of their lives! Their parents have gone away for a week and they've hired Hildegarde Brasscoat to stay and keep watch. The thrree Megglethorps aren't really troublemakers, but they do...

  • Bigfoot Makes a Movie

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • To Love Again

    Denise Noel

    Had she been lured there to be killed? The volcano was a vision of hell. Lost and alone, Claire stumbled over smoking lava rock. Stone shapes loomed all around her. The icy wind sliced through her clothes. Ash and smoke had reduced the blazing Medite...

  • Some Irish Loving

    Edna O'Brien

    Anthologizes letters, drama, poetry, and short stories ranging from Cuchulain to an anonymous schoolgirl to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, revealing Irish responses to love in all its forms and providing a catalog of the ways of love...

  • Falling Star

    Lillian O'Donnell

    After Julia Schuyler, a washed-up actress who planned to write a scandalous memoir of her notorious father, is found brutally murdered, Mici Anhalt calls on Julia's old theater connections and uncovers a variety of suspects...

  • Son of the Morning

    Joyce Carol Oates

    The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates’ early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vi...

  • The Doctor Game

    Howard Olgin

  • Heir Presumptive

    Patricia Ormsby

    They were so young, so very, very young When Judith and Rodney first set eyes upon each other, they were little more than children. What Judith saw was a slim, fine-featured youth with arresting gray eyes; he saw a yellow-robed angel with hair of ...

  • Love's Tender Tears

    Kate Ostrander

  • The Magic Ship

    Sandra Paretti

    Summers in Bar Harbor, Maine, were by no means dull. But the arrival of a big German cruise ship in 1914 loaded with passengers and crew caused a whirlwind of parties, romance, and splendor. For Temperance C. Butler and her innocent granddaughter A...

  • Savage Possession

    Margaret Pargeter

    The future held no bright prospects Melissa's wealthy cousin Helen tried to pressure her into a loveless marriage, so Melissa fled back to her Cornish home. There she found that the small market garden business leased by her mother and step...

  • Clunie

    Robert Newton Peck

  • The Chicken and the Egg

    Penguin Books

  • Fly Free

    Joan Phipson

    Anxious to go on a school trip to a remote island, two Australian boys with divergent philosophies decide to earn the neccessary money by trapping wild animals --a scheme that badly misfires when one of them becomes involved with unscrupulous poacher...

  • The Golden Pirate

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    "I neither invited you nor consider you welcome in this house." Susan Harcourt's "uncle" Richard stood before her like a blond, bronzed statue, shirt open to the waist, one eye blazing at her, the other hidden behind an ominous black patch. Had...

  • Haunted House

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Constable on the Hill

    Nicholas Rhea

    Reassigned to the North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, Constable Rhea is struck by the beauty of the area and the eccentricities of its inhabitants, including his colleague-a policeman who does not believe in arresting people...

  • The Dark House of the Sea Witch

    Joan G. Robinson

  • The Supermarket

    Anne Rockwell

  • Kiss of Vengeance

    Roberta Roleine

    "Karl never told us he was married...." Her brother-in-law, Harold, threw these words at her. Stunned, Monica reeled with disbelief. As Harold's stern gaze swept over her and his eyes hardened with suspicion and distrust, her anguish gave way t...

  • Massacre in Rome

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • The Ghost Writer

    Philip Roth

    The novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winnning author’s most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol....

  • Majorettes

    John Russo

    They were young, beautiful and terrified. Already, two of the girls had been raped and murdered, victims of a brutal knife and a psychotic killer. But behind the veil of a murderous psychosis, there worked a cold, cruel, calculating logic with an ult...

  • Willow Wood

    Elizabeth Savage

  • Wings

    Robert J. Serling

    Barney Burton. A brassy, attractive, driving and driven man with a dream, who founded a small airline when the world was exciting and romantic, and times, like planes, were rugged, unreliable, courageous. This is Barney's story: how he became the obs...

  • Big Bird's Rhyming Book

    Sesame Street

  • Uncle Boris and Maude

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    After baking crunchy worm cookies, digging a new room in her underground house, and doing lots of other things, Maude Mole digs her way to Uncle Boris's house and tries to think of ways to stop him from being bored...

  • Ballad in Blue

    Linda Shaw

    A Rebellious Southern Beauty Sarah had lost everything to the war-except her baby son. To protect him, though she was sure she could never love another man, she married Nathaniel Garrett. A Handsome Yankee Captain Nathaniel took Sarah and he...

  • Different Dances

    Shel Silverstein

    This collection of Silverstein's startling, irreverent, and provocative cartoons satirizes the social absurdities and calamities of the adult world, covering the misalliances, misconceptions, and misdemeanors of contemporary life...

  • All the Traps of Earth

    Clifford D. Simak

  • Mazel and Shlimazel: Or the Milk of a Lioness

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    A retelling of a classic tale pits Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, against Shlimazel, the wicked spirit of bad luck, in a confrontation that enables a poor but honest lad to win and marry a king's daughter. Reissue....

  • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel's Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter P...

  • A Friend of Kafka

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    The Stanley family is moving to Italy! David, Janie, and twins Esther and Blair are thrilled. But their moody stepsister Amanda, thwarted from spending time in California with her father, spends the trip alternately moping or boasting about how rich ...

  • Endless Love

    Scott Spencer

    David Axelrod's memories take him back to his seventeenth year when one obsessive act--setting a "perfectly safe" fire to the home of the girl he loved and continues to love passionately and sacrificially--changed the shape of his life forever...

  • The Teville Obsession

    Caroline Stafford

    WAS THE STRANGER SHE MARRIED HIDING A DREAD SECRET? She had lived so long on the charity of her greedy cousins that when Mark Trecourt, the Baron Teville, suddenly asked her to marry him, she said yes. A marriage of convenience, he had said. Melan...

  • Journey Outside

    Mary Q. Steele

    A Newbery Honor book

    This fast-paced story is more than an adventure -- it is a search for answers in a bewildering world that is as terrifying as it is beautiful. 
     
    Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar ...

  • By Our Beginnings aka Kit's Hill

    Jean Stubbs

    In spite of ostracism from her circle in the market town of Millbridge and hostility from the Lancastershire farmers, Miss Dorcas Wilde marries yeoman farmer Ned Howarth and together they found a dynasty...

  • One More River to Cross

    Essie Summers

    Rebecca had landed herself in a jam! It had been her own impulsive decision to help her look-alike cousin, Becky, by taking her place at Craigievar. Becky had promptly vanished. Then the river had flooded, cutting off access to the remote shee...

  • The Hair Book

    Graham Tether

    An easy reader about hair--and all the things you can do with it--that''s perfect for fans of classic Dr. Seuss concept books like The Foot Book and The Eye Book!

    This super-simple, rhymed riff features a charming cast of human and animal char...

  • The Ancient Enemy

    Donald Thompson

  • Don't Forget Michael

    Jean Thompson

  • This Side of Paradise

    Kay Thorpe

    Gina just wanted a glamorous holiday Gina was embarrassed by her traveling companion's behavior, but she was hurt when author Ryan Barras accused her of coming to the Bahamas to pick up a wealthy man. Ryan's cynical attitude made Gina d...

  • The Death of Jim Loney

    James Welch

    James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from b...

  • The Devil on the Road

    Robert Westall

    Caught in a freak storm, John Webster takes shelter in an old barn with weird symbols carved in the doors. The landowner offers him a place to stay and John, on leave from University, takes him up on the offer.But it turns out the barn has more his...

  • Manner of a Lady

    Cilla Whitmore

    How could a pretty merchant's daughter learn the gracious ways of a lady--and win a title of her own--when she was born to dance? Ballerinas were never ladies in Regency London. But lively Betsy Cotton was a very special dancer, and soon all Engl...

  • Vieux Carre

    Tennessee Williams

    Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in t...

  • Silver Storm

    Cynthia Wright

    A RECKLESS NOW ENGLAND BEAUTY...A DAUNTLESS FRENCH BUCCANEER...THEIR LOVE BLAZED TO FIERCE FULFILLMENT! UNTAMED INNOCENCE Devon Lindsay was a restless, high-spirited girl when she met Andre Raveneau, a notorious sea captain whose pirate's plunder...

  • Call the Darkness Light

    Nancy Zaroulis

    The sweeping epic novel of America's early industrial society ... the poignant, awesomely powerful saga of a young woman's unbreakable courage against fearsome odds and her passionate struggle for independence.... SABRA KNEW EVERY KIND OF LOVE... ...

  • Some Laughter, Some Pain

    Sholom Aleichem

  • Divining Hand

    Eric Bird

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1979: 33rd Annual Collection

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Alone Around World

    Naomi James

    The first woman to make a solo voyage around the world describes the 271 days she spent battling rough seas, sixty-knot winds, and repeated mechanical failures to break Sir Francis Chichester's record for speed...

  • Best Science Fiction Stories, 1979

    Multiple Authors