Books Published in February 1977

New Books List: 99 titles

  • Island of Love

    Julia Alcott

    Beautiful Bonaire with its stark white beaches and sea-blue waters was the perfect place for romance, though for lovely young Sarah Tolliver it was the only place to recover from the tragic accident that had claimed her fiancé's life. ...

  • Actions Passions

    Patrick Anderson

    Charles Pierce: A handsome young senatory-on-the-move, he had given too much to politics, too little to his wife and children. In his calculated climb to the top of the political heap, there had been no time for personal problems. But now the worl...

  • Yo Yo

    Diane Balson

  • Secret List of Heinrich

    Michael Barak

    From a secret war room in Tel-Aviv where Israeli leaders hear a terrifying report, to the inner sanctum of the Kremlin where the final touches are given to a deadly scheme of conquest, to CIA headquarters in Washington where a beautiful double-agent ...

  • Back to top Wld

    Joanne Barkan

  • The Jacaranda Tree

    H.E. Bates

    This is H. E. Bates’s acclaimed novel about Burma. During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice mill, organizes the evacuation and takes with him his Burmese mi...

  • Fair Stood the Wind for France

    H.E. Bates

    When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind: the safety of his crew, and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a Fre...

  • Bachelor Territory

    Gloria Bevan

    Thoughts of Craig kept creeping into Alison's mind. She brought herself up sharply. What was the matter with her? Craig might be attractive in a rugged sort of way, but he was a constant reminder of the past she was trying to forget Anyway ...

  • Blood Red Gold

    Gary Blumberg

  • Instar

    Ryder Brady

    Hugh Murray, a man who married into money, is destined to spend a few weeks over the upcoming summer of 1976 at the house of his wife's aunt and uncle. The uncle's all right, but the aunt makes Hyacinthe Bucket (of Keeping Up Appearances fame) look l...

  • The Dancing Granny

    Ashley Bryan

    Spider Ananse gets Granny started dancing so he can raid her garden--but his own trick "does him in."Spider Ananse takes advantage of Granny Anika's love of dancing and sets her to dancing again and again while he steals food from her luxuriant garde...

  • Falconer

    John Cheever

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe ben...

  • One against the Wilderness

    William L. Chester

    DAW Books, Collector's No. 228. First book publication, 1977. "Lost race" tale, first serialized in Blue Book magazine in 1937. This is the second of three books published by DAW collecting these stories; the other two are "Hawk of the Wilderness" (1...

  • It's Hard to Leave While the Music's Playing

    I.S. Cooper

  • It's Hard to Leave While the Music's Playing

    Irving Spencer Cooper

  • The Faraway Island

    Barbara Corcoran

  • Dangerous Alliance

    Jane Corrie

    Somehow, Kent realized, she must go away. She had no defences where Matt King was concerned. And she was no good at pretending. Meeting his eyes firmly, she answered his question. "In a way, you're right," she said coldly. "You once asked me if I ...

  • Strange Adventure

    Sara Craven

    Lacey Vernon couldn't understand her mixed feelings. She should be glad that Troy wasn't behaving as her lover. Bad enough that in a few short days she would have to accept him as her husband. "Does it disturb you when I remind you wha...

  • Birthday Gift

    Ursula Curtis

  • Eugenia

    Clare Darcy

    Miss Eugenia Liddiard was utterly charmed with her solution to the marriage muddle. Since she must find a husband in her first season (to wait longer would be to disoblige her guardians), she made the practical choice of Tom, her childhood country pl...

  • Breakout in Angola

    Major DaSilva

  • Year Hungry Tiger

    John Gordon Davis

  • The Tritonian Ring

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Night falls on the bronze-age world of Poseidonis, a continent threatened with destruction.

    In the smoke of the magician's fire appears the figure of the witch Gra. "What wish the lords of Lorsk with me?"

    "Advise us how to avert the ...

  • Return to Thebes

    Allen Drury

    The spectacular conclusion to the Egyptian epic begun in A God Against the Gods. After his brother's assassination, a new pharaoh must take the throne and battle the corrupt and violent priesthood.His name is TUTANKHAMUN.Pulitzer Prize winning author...

  • Storm of Desire

    Glenna Finley

    A Dangerous Romance Lovely career girl Carrie Shaw was just hoping for a peaceful, refreshing vacation when she arrived in the sunny South. How could she know that a broken car and a plea for help would send her on an unplanned voyage with handsom...

  • Labyrinth

    Aaron Fletcher

  • The Fountain of Love

    Norrey Ford

    However unwillingly she'd come, the Island of Fountains cast its spell over Elvi. With her grandfather's death, somehow the island had become peculiarly her own. Then Heriot Steele barged in. "You're young yet," he said. "T...

  • Orphan Star

    Alan Dean Foster

    One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinx’s past"and that man is trying to kill him! It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx...

  • Away We Go!

    Irene Friedman

  • Moonstar Odyssey

    David Gerrold

    SHE WAS BORN IN THE MOONSTAR'S SHADOW when the storms of Satlik raged their worst. Because of this Jobe was different. The family never spoke of it but everyone knew Jobe was special. So Jobe came to know of it too. She had a destiny beyond that of ...

  • Cold Comfort Farm

    Stella Gibbons

    When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm....

  • The Panchronicon Plot

    Ron Goulart

  • Rolling Thunder

    Richard graves

  • The Secret in Miranda's Closet

    Sheila Greenwald

  • Hypnotist Hilry Mn

    Arthur griffin

  • City of Many Days

    Shulamith Hareven

    City of Many Days traces the interwoven lives of many residents of Jerusalem in the years of the British mandate, the decades that formed its modern character. Hareven, through her unique polyphonic writing, creates characters who are instantly empat...

  • The Memoirs of Jesus Christ

    Marcus Harrison

  • The Viking Process

    Norman Hartley

    The Viking Process is a spellbinding novel about a giant multi-national corporation that sets out to destroy its rival, using all the techniques of sophisticated terrorism " assassination, kidnapping, media exploitation and ultra-violence. Philip...

  • Rio Loja Ringmaster

    Lamar Herrin

  • Maulever Hall

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    Who Am I? " Her only key to the past was the brooch she wore. "Marianne" -- the inscription echoed through her mind as she wandered across the bleak moors, clutching the tiny hand of the child at her side. After hours of frantic searching, she fo...

  • How Long the Heart Remembers

    Mary H. Hollingsworth

  • Crisis on Conshelf Ten

    Monica Hughes

    Visiting the undersea community of Conshelf Ten, moon resident Kepler is puzzled by the uneasiness of his cousin, Jon, and Jon's girlfriend, until he meets a gillman and learns about a threat to Earth and Moon...

  • Pandora's Box

    Betty Hale Hyatt

    Lovely Emma Lucas's marriage had begun with a lie --and now it had turned into a nightmare. She had traveled from Regency England under an assumed name to marry a French nobleman she had never seen, Jules, Comte du Chaillard. And only after the c...

  • The Diehard

    Jon A. Jackson

    The explosive debut novel featuring hard-nosed cop “Fang” Mulheisen -- from an author who “stands right up there with the best chroniclers of urban crime” (The New York Times).   The city of Detroit doesn’t have many places anyone woul...

  • The Quark Maneuver

    Michael Jahn

  • The Aspern Papers

    Henry James

    Originally serialised in the Atlantic Monthly during 1888 and published in book form the same year, The Aspern Papers is a celebrated novella from the middle stage of James' career. The plot concerns the efforts of the unnamed narrator to obtain ...

  • The Sanctuary Tree

    Norma Johnston

    Fifteen-year-old Tish faces the death of her grandfather, parting from her sweetheart, and the birth of a niece....

  • How to Save Your Own Life

    Erica Jong

    Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Erica/Isadora are the perfect literary and libidinous g...

  • Station Wagon in Spain

    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    THE DESERTED SIDEWALKS, the scanty lighting and the strangeness of this unfamiliar region of the city made Allan feel uneasy. He began to doubt the wisdom of going alone to the mysterious meetingplace his caller had designated. In fact, he had begu...

  • Ilene, the Superstitious

    Katheryn Kimbrough

    For lovely, lively Ilene Dumphy, growing up in a poverty-stricken Irish family in 19th century Boston, the world was filled with magic. She believed in the myths of old Ireland, in leprechauns and fairies - but she was not prepared for what awaited h...

  • Scapegoat for a Stuart

    Kate Kirby

  • That Nairobi Afair

    Betty leslie-melville

    Now in paperback for the first time--the first title in the popular Jesse Bear series. Playtime, lunchtime, bathtime, bedtime--all the everyday but special moments in a little bear's day--are captured in lilting verse and full-color illustrations. A ...

  • To Catch a Butterfly

    Marjorie Lewty

    Kate openly admitted her prejudice against business tycoons. And Damian St Ewan--despite his attractive, charming and forceful appeal--was a business tycoon. But Kate had always adored Cornwall, and when Damian offered her a two-month job there, s...

  • The Medici Lover

    Anne Mather

    Suzanne's decision to visit Villa Falcone was an impulse. Suddenly she was thrust into a family whose passions and jealousies pervaded their ancestral Italian home. Perhaps she had been meant to go, Suzanne thought later; otherwise she woul...

  • Rainbow Magic

    Margaret Mayo

    Taryn scoffed at the village theory. How could a special rainbow bring about a change in one's life? But when she saw it, she couldn't help her growing excitement. Her meeting with Luke Major immediately afterward was a distinct letdown......

  • Girlfriends

    Dallas Miller

  • East Wind, Rain

    N. Richard Nash

  • A Place Beyond Man

    Cary Neeper

  • The Mythology of Middle Earth

    Ruth S. Noel

  • Swords Against Darkness

    Andrew J. Offutt

  • They've Killed Anna

    Marc Olden

    When his source is murdered, Harker knows he's on the right track

    Finally, Harker has a break in the nuclear story. There is a vast conspiracy inside the government to keep the dangers of nuclear energy from the public, and now he has a sou...

  • Egil's Saga

    Hermann Palsson

  • The Chinatown Connection

    Owen Park

  • Somewhere to Lay My Head

    Lilian Peake

    Liam's words came slowly. "So they were all lies he told me about you, all lies. And I believed him, everything he said about you. Well," he added, "everything's over now, finished." Everything's over, finished. The wor...

  • The Time of Miracles; A Legend

    Borislav Pekic

    Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based ...

  • Lancelot

    Walker Percy

    Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which s...

  • Raffles of the Albany

    Barry Perowne

  • Playing for Change

    Bruce Pollock

  • Surface With Daring

    Douglas Reeman

    Hiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16.Though one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy, she's not much to look at; she's only 54 feet long, with no defensive armament. But her four-man crew knows that the outcome of the war could depe...

  • Don't Hurt Laurie

    Willo Davis Roberts

    "You have no consideration for anyone else! Now clean up this mess!" Laurie bent down to pick up the things she'd dropped. And Annabelle kicked her.... Laurie's been keeping a secret for as long as she can remember, a secret that she's afraid to t...

  • The Lion Hearted

    Harriet May Savitz

  • The Street of Crocodiles

    Bruno Schulz

    "Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian)



    The Street of Crocodiles is inspired by the lif...

  • Oliver's Story

    Erich Segal

    Oliver Barrett IV found his true soulmate when he met and fell in love with Jenny Cavilleri. Their love was magical, exhilarating... and though heartbreakingly brief, it was enough to last a lifetime. Or so Oliver told himself. Two years have passed...

  • Mariners End

    Elaine selig

    A ghostly presence pursued her on the cold, forbidding New England coast! “There’s an insidious evil in this house.” Claudia credited Arthur Cunningham’s warning. Mariner’s End seemed to be the perfect haven she sought…until the ar...

  • Arizona Justice

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs spins tales of the old west that are exhilarating and bigger than life. You'll find two such full-length tales in this double volume sure to please even the most discerning consumer of Western fiction.In A...

  • Son of Man

    Robert Silverberg

    The classic science fiction novel, now back in print Clay is a man from the 20th Century who is somehow caught up in a time-flux and transported into a distant future. The earth and the life on it have changed beyond recognition. Even the human race ...

  • Curse of Jezebel

    Frank G. Slaughter

    NO WOMAN WAS AS ALLURING AND HYPNOTIZING AS JEZEBEL. Like a desert snake, she had captivated young Prince Michael of Judah with her beguiling blend of beauty and evil. This was the curse of Jezebel -- to desire her was to be completely possessed b...

  • The Thorn of Arimathea

    Frank G. Slaughter

  • Critical Threshold

    Brian Stableford

    They call them the “rat-catchers.” They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship...

  • Husband

    Sol Stein

    Peter Carmody is a man most people would envy. He has a successful career, an attractive wife, two children he loves and who love him. Yet Peter Carmody has been playing at a marriage that has run down over the years through emotional attrition and b...

  • Celia's House

    D.E. Stevenson

    There’s no place like homeCelia Dunne may be an old spinster, but she’s no fool. She knows that changing her will to leave the grand family estate, Dunnian, to her grand-nephew will ruffle feathers within the family. But Celia also knows that Dun...

  • Girl in a White Hat

    Rebecca Stratton

    Charlotte had been enjoying her job in Spain as secretary-companion to an old friend of her mother. Then, suddenly, the complications in her life made her head spin. Rescued from a series of predicaments by Don Gerardo Cortez, the local lord of th...

  • Lords of the Land

    Dana Thomas

  • Pirate's Island

    John Rowe Townsend

  • Poorhouse Fair

    John Updike

    “Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewThe hero of John Updike’s first nov...

  • Green Hill Far Away

    Pat Upton

  • Eyes of the Overworld

    Jack Vance

    INTO BLINDING MADNESS...OR VISIONS OF SPLENDOR! Such was the power of the priceless, magic eyes of the overworld that it could exalt their wearer to realms of wonder or plunge him into dark terror. Now Iucounu, the Laughing Magician, has dispat...

  • The Dying Earth

    Jack Vance

    They wait-in a dying world of mystical spells, occult curses, and demonic creatures of the night.... THE DYING EARTH They are Turjan, the scientist who struggles to create life ... T'sais, the enchantress from Embelyon, who journeys to Earth seek...

  • Swiss Bank Connection

    Leslie Waller

  • A Place to Come To

    Robert Penn Warren

    After achieving world renown as a classical and medieval literary scholar, marrying twice, fathering a son, and having an ill-fated love affair, uprooted and alienated Jed Tewksbury returns to his Alabama hometown to visit his mother's grave and make...

  • The Chosen Baby

    Valentina Pavlovna Wasson

  • The Flame and the Fury

    Lionel Webb

  • Shadow Play

    Mark Werlin

  • The Woman Said Yes

    Jessamyn West

    In a memoir filled with compassion and deep resolve, West celebrates the lives of three women-her strong Quaker mother, her beloved and courageous sister, and herself-and gives personal insight into her own battle to survive tuberculosis....

  • Space Vampires

    Colin Wilson

    Circa 2100 A scourge of sex and death from an alien spaceship WHEN CAPTAIN CARLSEN ENTERED THE VAST DERELICT SPACESHIP, he was shaken by the discovery of its immobilized humanoid passengers.Later, after three of the strange aliens had been transporte...

  • The Killing Gift

    Bari Wood

    A beautiful woman possessed with a deadly power. To meet Jennifer was to know evil. To love her was even worse....

  • The Law's Delay

    Sara Woods

    It’s a case of murder,’ said Horton. Antony Maitland sighed. ‘Your client, I suppose, being the murderer,’ he said. Well, I think so. It’s a woman… Ellen Gray.’ Ellen Gray is on trial for murder. She is defended by Antony Maitl...

  • Rogue Sheriff

    James Wyckoff