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Books Published in January 1970
New Books List: 172 titles
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Twenty-One Stories
S.Y. Agnon
- Jan-1970
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name...
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My Path Belated
Norma Ames
- Jan-1970
- / Romantic Suspense
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Darkening Shadows The terror began slowly, when Carla’s mother returned from her strange vacation in the Transylvanian mountains. From the moment she arrived there was a scent of evil in the air, evil that seemed in the most horrifying way, dete...
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Walk Into the Wind
Jane Arbor
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Craig Carolan, grudgingly, gave Adair the job of governess to his young ward in Tunisia, he warned her "If you've a head full of starry-eyed notions about the romance' of the desert, you need disillusioning on that..." But Adair was not the sort...
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Turn the Page
Nan Asquith
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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After Cathie lost all her money, her fiance's domineering mother did her best to break off the engagement. Should Cathie take the hint -- especially as another equally attractive man was taking an interest in her? Mills & Boon It was a shoc...
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Design for Loving
Margaret Baumann
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Neil Haslam became principal of the Technical and Art institute in a remote country town, he found the place grinding to a standstill, and started a one-man revolution to reverse the process. Neil let it be known that the whole staff had not an ...
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The Punctual Rape
Campbell Black
- Jan-1970
- / Suspense
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Berg comes to the village to begin a new job and a new life far from the oppression of his mother. From the start, he feels ill at ease. His landlady is a widow whose husband died after eating poisoned mushrooms, and who cooks the foulest stew he has...
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The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
Cecil Brown
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Ci...
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White Witch of Kynance
Mary Calhoun
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Good or Evil? Who was the White Witch? Why did the villagers shun her? All the villagers were afraid of her except Jennet. Jennet, who dreamed of spirits and spells. Jennet, who dared to learn the secrets of good and evil. Jennet, who, under the a...
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Moon Rocks
Henry Cooper
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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SUBJECT: "An account of the activities at the Houston Space Center during the Apollo 11 moon landings, and the events afterwards among the scientists connected to the program. Henry S.F. Cooper takes you to the Lunar Receiving Station and reports wha...
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Memories
Vera Cowie
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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When World War II broke out, Sarah Luttrell's husband, Giles left to fight in the Western Desert. Alone, she falls in love with a US Airforce fighter pilot. When her husband returns, badly wounded, Sarah gives up the man she adores for the man that n...
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Diamonds on the Lake
Mary Cummins
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Kyla arrived to live with her Grandfather Tim near Bassenthwaite Lake, she was astonished to learn that he had already arranged a marriage for her. Such things did not happen in this day and age! Besides, she already had a prospective husband in...
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Island of Mermaids
Iris Danbury
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Her love must remain a bitter secret ... Living on the exotic island of Capri, and in love with the handsome Kent Sanderby, Althea should have been in the seventh heaven of delight. And she would have been -- if she had any reason to suspect th...
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Willow Weep
Dorothy Daniels
- Jan-1970
- / Gothic
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"As The Willow Weeps, so shall the House of Hayward weep. As the willow dies, so shall a Hayward die. And if the willow burns, so shall the House of Hayward burn..." Doom hung heavy over the Hayward mansion. The master of the house lay de...
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The Dark Stage
Dorothy Daniels
- Jan-1970
- / Gothic
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The theater held a clue to her father's death .. but finding it could cost Louise Charton her life! When Louise was still a child, her father committed suicide in his dressing room after being accused of killing another actor. Although he was inno...
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Next Stop Gretna
Belinda Dell
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Janice hoped Hector could keep a secret! After all, innkeepers were supposed to be discreet. Hector Murchison had quickly guessed that Janice was in Scotland to set up residence for a runaway marriage. She just hoped he wouldn't learn who she w...
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The Vines of Yarrabee
Dorothy Eden
- Jan-1970
- / Gothic
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It was her aristocratic beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested from the wil...
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The General Zapped an Angel
Howard Fast
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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An imaginative, strange, and boldly inventive collection of stories from a singular mind, with a new introduction by Mark Harris
In The General Zapped an Angel, featuring nine supremely entertaining fantasy and science fiction tales, a ...
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Snowed up
Rosalie K Fry
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Cut off from help! -- Caught in a snowstorm, three children take shelter in an old deserted farmhouse. but the storm turns into a blizzard and buries their house in drifts so high, Anna, Verity, and Brian are trapped inside. No one knows where they...
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By Fountains Wild
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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"What is there in marriage for a woman? I wouldn't marry the best man breathing!" declared Kim Mayfields--and meant it. Married women, she was convinced, were downtrodden, exploited, at the mercy of their selfish husbands, and she wanted...
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Love Hath An Island
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Cyprus is by tradition the island of Aphrodite, the goddess of love -- but Mary could not feel that the goddess was looking on her with much favour, when Mary went there to work for Adrian Stanning! Hero: Adrian Stanning Heroine: Mary Roberts...
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The Gunniwolf
Wilhelmina Harper
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Wilhelmina Harper's The Gunniwolf is a classic-beloved by readers, storytellers, and teachers. Unavailable for years, it is back with fabulous new illustrations by Barbara Upton, perfect for our time. Little Girl learns her lesson, and a new generati...
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Stainless Steel Rat
Harry Harrison
- Jan-1970
- / Science Fiction
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Jim DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. I...
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I Will Fear No Evil
Robert A. Heinlein
- Jan-1970
- / Science Fiction
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The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant from New York Times bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein.As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely ta...
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A Clandestine Affair
Georgette Heyer
- Jan-1970
- / Traditional Regency
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Historical romance short-story....
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A Husband for Fanny
Georgette Heyer
- Jan-1970
- / Traditional Regency
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Historical romance short-story....
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To Have the Honour
Georgette Heyer
- Jan-1970
- / Traditional Regency
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Historical romance short-story....
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Alvin Fernald, Mayor for a Day
Clifford B. Hicks
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Alvin Fernald, possessor of the Magnificent Brain, strikes again this time causing citywide repercussions with his one-day administration as Mayor of Riverton. Author Clifford B. Hicks teams our hero with Speedy Glomitz, the only kid who has ever off...
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Frail Sanctuary
Margery Hilton
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Robin's marriage to Adam Grant had been, to say the least, on unorthodox. She had felt herself stranded on the tiny Pacific island of Alzena three months, the only woman in a small community of men and obligated to accept Adams hospitality, and h...
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Music I Heard With You
Elizabeth Hoy
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was a comedown for Claire to have to live in a tumbledown castle in the west of Ireland, after the life of luxury she had been used to -- and Doctor Dermot MacDara's scornful attitude towards 'poor little rich girls' didn't help to make it more be...
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Form Line of Battle!
Alexander Kent
- Jan-1970
- / Action Adventure
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This panoramic novel sweeps you into a dramatic period of naval history, as Britain fights the rising power of Revolutionary France. The year is 1793 and the setting is the Mediterranean. Captain Richard Bolitho of the Royal Navy is given command of ...
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Thirteen o'clock and other zero hours
C.M. Kornbluth
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Edited by and with preface by James Blish. Collects all Kornbluth's stories originally published under the pseudonym 'Cecil Corwin', plus 'Ms. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie', in which SF author Cecil Corwin is the main character. According to Jam...
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The Man Called Noon
Louis L'Amour
- Jan-1970
- / Historical
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TREASURE HUNT There was gold buried somewhere on the Davidge spread. No one knew where for sure, but a whole lot of people were ready to kill for it. Peg Cullane was as cold as a Texas blizzard. She wanted the gold and she didn't care what her ...
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Swords Against Death
Fritz Leiber
- Jan-1970
- / Fantasy
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THE SECOND BOOK OF FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER WHEREIN two formidable young heroes embark on a quest to forget their sorrows, and make the acquaintance of two equally formidable old wizards. When Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser, the tw...
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My Heart's a Dancer
Roberta Leigh
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Melanie's marriage to Timothy Ransome had ended before it had begun, when she found him making love to another girl only hours after the wedding. She tried to forget the heartbreak by devoting herself to her career as a ballet dancer, and the un...
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Black Folktales
Julius Lester
- Jan-1970
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Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester. Arranged by topic - Origins, Love, Heroes, and People - the tales combine universal themes and ...
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Under a Mushroom
Anita Lobel
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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A family of trolls lives under a mushroom until some out-of-hand partying and a rainstorm destroys their home. Extols the virtues of living in neighborhoods and communities rather than boring isolation. Black and white ink drawings with decorated red...
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One Love
Jean S. MacLeod
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Out of the mists which enveloped Culloden came a tall figure in a kilt, and Deirdre caught her breath while the color drained slowly from her face. It was only an illusion, however, which had rolled back the years and brought her face to face with ...
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Star Dust
Margaret Malcolm
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Charlotte, an out-of-work actress, thought her "chance of a lifetime" had come when she found out where the well-known playwright, C. J. Lethbridge, would be writing his next play -- but, having tracked him down, she found she had been pursuing the...
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Master of Falcon's Head
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Perhaps Tamar had been too young when she fell in love with Ross Falcon, master of the Big House, Falcon's Head, in her Irish village home. At any rate, it had all ended in disaster, with Tamar's heart broken, her life in ruins -- and Ross...
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Moon Witch
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jarrod guarded Sara even against himself Sara Robins had never even heard of Jarrod Kyle until he became her guardian. He was far removed from anyone Sara, at seventeen, had known in the small, quiet world she'd lived in until her grandfather&...
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The Arrogant Duke
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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For years, Juliet's father had used his wealth, power and influence to rule her life. But now, she was free to make her own decisions. She had assumed a new name and identity, and had run away to a job on this beautiful West Indian island. But ha...
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Who Rides the Tiger
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Who rides the tiger dare not dismount" goes the Chinese saying -- and Dominique felt the proverb could well apply to her strange, impulsive marriage to Vincente Santos. She dared not dismount from the tiger she rode -- but what if she was th...
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Charlotte's Hurricane
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Perhaps it was the hot tropical atmosphere of the Pacific island of Manatoa that caused the sparks to fly between Charlotte Carlisle and Patrick Meredith. But it was only when the island showed its most dangerous side that they really came to underst...
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Lord of Zaracus
Anne Mather
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Carolyn joined her archaeologist father in Mexico, she found herself immediately in conflict with Don Carlos, who owned the valley where her father was searching for a Zapotec city. Don Carlos thought she was 'a typical product of the permis...
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The Swamp Witch
Janet McCaffery
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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First Edition X LIBRARY DJ has some wear and a couple of little tears. No scribbles or crayon marks. Overall a good little book. Pages have wrinkles and slight page turning tears. Price has been clipped. Good 16 Oz...
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If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
Ann McGovern
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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What if you sailed on the Mayflower? A different time.a different place. What if you were there? If you sailed on the Mayflower -What could you take with you? -How would you keep clean? -What would you do when you first got to shoer? Get rea...
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Cindy, Tread Lightly
Karin Mutch
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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At Cindy's first dramatic meeting with Stuart Newman in the Queen City, she sensed a kind of ruthlessness about him -- ruthlessness of touch, manner and determination in that nothing should or would stand in his way. He was a man who took what...
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The Financial Expert
R.K. Narayan
- Jan-1970
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In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, human-scale hopes and epiphanies express the promise of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resour...
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Depth Psych New Ethic
Erich Neumann
- Jan-1970
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Neumann argues his case with a boldness and passion well matched by his penetrating insights and thoughtfulness. I welcome this book as the first notable attempt to formulate the ethical problems raised by the discovery of the unconscious and to make...
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Assassin of Gor
John Norman
- Jan-1970
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KUURUS, OF THE DREAD CASTE OF ASSASSINS, WAS ON A MISSION OF VENGEANCE. FOR IN THE NEWLY REBUILT CITY OF KO-RO-BA, SOMEONE HAD FOULLY MURDERED A YOUNG WARRIOR WITH FLAMING RED HAIR-THE MARK OF TARL CABOT OF KO-RO-BA, AND FORMERLY OF EARTH. ALL GUILTY...
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The Captive
Marcel Proust
- Jan-1970
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At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seenabove the big inner curtains what tone the first streaks of lightassumed, I could already tell what sort of day it was. The firstsounds from the street had told me, according to whet...
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Shroud of Fog
Willo Davis Roberts
- Jan-1970
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Hannah Starn had been the most vindictive old woman the town had known, and then, in the fog and darkness, she was dead--fallen from the tower window. Although Amy didn't grieve for her, she was desperate to know who had hated her guardian that much....
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Man of Fire
Margaret Rome
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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The celebrated explorer Ramon Vegas had been given the nickname "Caramuru" -- Man of Fire -- by the Brazilian natives, and that, said Tina Donnelly's botanist aunt, was exactly what legend had him to be -- a truly volcanic personality. &#...
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Touchfeather, too
Jimmy Sangster
- Jan-1970
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The Stewardess with a License to Kill is Back!Katy Touchfeather is a fun-loving, British spy with a cheeky attitude and lethal skills who travels the world as a stewardess. Her latest assignment is to bring down what appears to be a gold smuggling op...
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Vengeance of the Zulu King
Jenny Seed
- Jan-1970
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This is the story of a young African boy, Bongiseni, who could have lived in the time of the famed Zulu king and could have been one of the many protected by Mbuyazi, Prince of the Bay. A historical novel....
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The Power of X
Arthur Sellings
- Jan-1970
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The year is 2018. The place is London, where a renamed Buckingham Palace is now the home of the European Federation of states. An outstanding feature of life in London in 2018 is Plying - a recently discovered methods for producing duplicates that ar...
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A Start in Life
Alan Sillitoe
- Jan-1970
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An outrageously funny novel of adventure, sex, corruption, and crime from one of the greatest British authors of the twentieth century. Michael Cullen is proud to be a bastard. His first memories are of the war, when his mother welcomed every soldier...
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared
Maj Sjowall; Per Wahloo
- Jan-1970
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The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.Th...
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Mrs. Eckdorf in O'neill's Hotel
William Trevor
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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The denizens of a crumbling Dublin hotel are the subject of a meddling photographer in this Booker Prize"shortlisted “masterpiece” (Irish Times). Once a flourishing establishment, O’Neill’s Hotel has fallen on hard times. The same could be ...
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The Pnume
Jack Vance
- Jan-1970
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His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the Dirdir, and the Wannek -- while the planet's original inhabitants, the mysterious Pnume, lurk under...
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The Avenger
Edgar Wallace
- Jan-1970
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Francis Elmer has vanished, and all that is found is a typed note signed 'The Head Hunter'. Elmer's niece Adele Leamington is an extra at the Knebworth Film Corporation. The actress Stella Mendoza keeps the whole set waiting to shoot, in the best Hol...
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Fourth Street East
Jerome Weidman
- Jan-1970
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A New York Times bestselling author's poignant novel of a boy's coming of age on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1920s. When Benny Kramer's father came to the United States, he was hungry, broke, and ignorant. Handed a banana and told it was ...
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Stranger by My Side
Jeanette Welsh
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Everyone saw Vicky as a coming tycoon! Vicky, in spite of their predictions, didn't see herself that way. Rushed into assuming responsibility for the family business by the sudden death of her sister, Vicky felt young and inexperienced and in n...
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The Emerald Cuckoo
Gwen Westwood
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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What does the cry of the emerald cuckoo mean? " Young girl, don't fall in love." said the Africans. But once she met Lestr Cordell, it was too late for Tracy to follow the cuckoo's advice......
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Bright Wilderness
Gwen Westwood
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Bronwen went out to work on her Aunt Nan's South African farm, she was fully prepared to dislike Lewis Galbraith, the owner of the neighboring farm, Lion's Rest. Lewis had suggested that Nan's farm was too much for her and should be ...
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Gateway to Hell
Dennis Wheatley
- Jan-1970
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"The door was not locked, and opened easily. He switched on the light, and Richard followed him into the room. Nella lay on the bed. She had on the nightdress she had been lent, but the bedclothes had been pulled halfway down. Her head was twisted ba...
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Pilgrim's Castle
Violet Winspear
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Yvain Pilgrim had been named after a character in a fairy-tale, a maiden who had been assisted by a lion in her fight against a dragon -- and in her present situation she could not help feeling that the fairy-tale had come true. Shipwrecked while ...
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The Chateau of St. Avrell
Violet Winspear
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ruan was nineteen, shy and unsophisticated, and always overshadowed by her far more glamorous and assured stepsister -- just about the most unlikely candidate, it would seem, for the attention of Tarquin Powers, the handsome and celebrated actor. ...
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The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Chr...
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Teitlebaum's window
Wallace Markfield
- Jan-1970
- / General Fiction
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A spectacular, lavishly comic send-up of the solemn Jewish family saga set in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s. Tells the story of Simon Sloan, from his days of matzo and milk to his marching off to war....
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Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill
Jean Plaidy
- 1970
- / Historical Romance
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BEAUTIFUL MARIA FITZHERBERT IS ENGLAND'S QUEEN IN ALL BUT NAME. Although the young widow Maria Fitzherbert is a commoner and a Catholic, her dashing suitor is none other than the Prince of Wales, whose unquestioned royal duty it is to marry a Prot...
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The Sophisticated Urchin
Rosalie Henaghan
- Feb-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Hi, urchin -- you haven't changed." John's remark rankled. Bridget liked to think that she had acquired some city sophistication during her three years away from the farm. Of course she had never particularly liked John Hart, so why s...