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Books Published in December 1971
New Books List: 25 titles
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Pay Me Tomorrow
Mary Burchell
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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The improvident Laverhope family were in the worst financial straits that even they had ever been in, and the eldest daughter, Ismay, knew that the only thing that would save them would be her marriage to the richest man in the district, Keith Otterb...
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The Breaking Point
Daphne Du Maurier
- Dec-1971
- / General Fiction
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LADY BEWARE! Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk -- every Sunday afternoon. The pattern never changed. Then Fenton reached his breaking point. The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But sudden...
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Follow a Shadow
Anne Hampson
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lady Margaret's words echoed in Laura Vernon's mind. Words she wasn't meant to hear. "We don't want her falling in love with you," she'd said to Bren Dewar. But it was too late. Laura was already in love with Lord Br...
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Wolf
Jim Harrison
- Dec-1971
- / General Fiction
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Jim Harrison’s first novel -- a walk on the wild side from “a force of nature in American letters” (The Seattle Times). The New York Times"bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- including Legends ...
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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
John Le Carre
- Dec-1971
- / Suspense
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"I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed." Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounte...
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The Fifth Day of Christmas
Betty Neels
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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For her own sake she had to back off It hadn't taken Julia long to fall in love with Ivo van den Werff -- but she had better fall out of love equally quickly, she decided, when she met Marcia Jason and realized just how much stronger a claim t...
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Pride's Banner
Marjorie Norrell
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Pride holds its banner between you and me," the poem goes, and the words were very true of the relationship between Nurse Nona Hoyle and Craig Roper, the new S.S.O. at Emley General Hospital. Who was going to break down the barrier betwee...
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A Pagan Place
Edna O'Brien
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from “one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world” (The New York Times)“O’Brien’s evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on ...
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Man of Granite
Lilian Peake
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was ten years now since the Kathryn's brief, youthful marriage to Jon Wright. They had parted in anger any misunderstanding, and she had never seen him again. Since then, the only important thing in Kathryn's life was security. It was f...
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The Carpet People
Terry Pratchett
- Dec-1971
- / Fantasy
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In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet's home to many different tribes and peoples, and there's a n...
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A New Love for Cynthia
Jane Scott
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lovely Cynthia Marlow stood at the crossroads of her young life. She was about to marry her childhood sweetheart, Jethrow Collins. His family, like hers, had lived at Nantucket for centuries. But Jeff hated the beautiful island as much as Cynthia lov...
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Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
Robert Sheckley
- Dec-1971
- / General Fiction
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A treasury of fiction from “one of SF’s all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story” (Booklist). In “The Cruel Equations,” a planetary explorer finds out how lethal it can be when a robot guard has b...
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Sweet Running Filly
Barbara Van Tuyl
- Dec-1971
- / General Fiction
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dream horse It was love at first sight! When she first saw the junk dealer's injured, underfed little filly. Julie Jefferson knew this was the horse for her. It wasn't until later, after she had nursed the horse back to health, that Julie realized...
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Pathway of Roses
Mary Whistler
- Dec-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Janie Dallas bore a striking resemblance to the beautiful singer Vanessa Brandt, but when Vanessa suggested that Janie should impersonate her for one vital week, only the thought of having the constant company and support of the world famous conducto...
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