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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1973
New Books List: 333 titles
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The Flight of the Kestrel
Margaret Abbey
- Jan-1973
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She was proud, defiant, beautiful. Two countries claimed her allegiance, but one brave man captured her heart. STORM TOSSED DESIRES Miguel, her handsome cousin, desired her. Sir Robin Mallory, the Englishman who saved her life, loved her deepl...
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Hassle and the Medicine Man
Clifton Adams
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Image not available Add to Wishlist Browse Related Subjects Fiction > WesternsWestern storiesFiction in English To California Sam, con artist extraordinaire, making a pitch and pulling in the sucker's money is a very satisfying way of life. But sudde...
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The Rocks of Arachenza
Elizabeth Ashton
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lorena encountered the domineering Mario Marescu in Sardinia -- and from the first he made it clear that he disapproved of her way of life. How dared he presume to judge her? Lorena had never met such an exasperating, arrogant male. Yet why did it...
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One More River
Lynne Reid Banks
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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"WE'RE GOING TO EMIGRATE" The words dropped into Lesley's mind innocently...and exploded like a bomb. Emigrating meant leaving home forever. She couldn't believe it. But her father had made up his mind. "WE'RE GOING WHERE WE CAN LIVE ON AN EDGE...WI...
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Night Raider
Mike Barry
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He's simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over American and all over the world. He is the lone wo...
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To Seek Where Shadows Are
Miriam Benedict
- Jan-1973
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Posed for Death…. Laurie’s fiancé hated the apartment she’d chosen for them to live in when they got married. Steve couldn’t be specific, but something about the old Victorian building really bothered him. But Laurie loved their futu...
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The Frost and the Fire
Gloria Bevan
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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The property for sale in Aukland sounded exactly what Liz had had in mind for the riding school she dreamed of, so she promptly bought it, sight unseen. It was a rude shock when she discovered what the place was really like, but Liz was undeterred. ...
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Reluctant Voyager
Katrina Britt
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Freya had joined this cruise to Portugal and North Africa to convalesce from a bad bout of 'flu -- but it was hardly going to help the recovery process when the first man she met -- the Captain himself -- turned out to be Derek Leighton, whom she...
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown
- Jan-1973
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“The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don’t yet know Molly Bolt -- or Rita Mae Brown, who created her -- I urge you to read and thank them both.” -- Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award |...
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It's Rumoured in the Village
Mary Burchell
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was a surprise to Naomi when she found herself in charge of a young niece and a large house in a charming Dorsetshire village, and without much money to keep either of them. She was grateful for the willing help and advice of the villagers, but...
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Murder Remote // The Shrouded Way
Janet Caird
- Jan-1973
- / Gothic
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Dangerous Shores For Elizabeth Cranston it all started when she discovered that the little fishing village of Mourie in the Scottish Highlands was not the peaceful refuge she had expected. A search for sunken treasure off Mourie’s beautiful shor...
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The Tartan Touch
Isobel Chace
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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From being the prim daughter of the Manse, within a few days Kirsty found herself amazingly on the other side of the world, in the Australian Outback, as the wife "in name only' of Andrew Fraser. It was going to be difficult enough to adj...
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The Edge of Beyond
Isobel Chace
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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"I'll treat you like a woman when you're prepared to behave like one!" were almost the first words Laurence Wilder addressed to Rosalind Janes. How dared he! she thought furiously. All she was doing was to try and help her Aunt Bea...
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The Dragon's Cave
Isobel Chace
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Senor Carlos Vallori Llobera seemed to think Megan ought to be grateful to him for whisking her out of her job in a nightclub and taking her to Majorca as companion to his stepmother. Megan wasn't so sure -- especially as his stepmother didn&#...
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Alpenrose
Madeline Charlton
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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The hotel was called the Alpenrose. The vacancy was for that of a resident representative. The place was Interlaken. It would have been perfect; thought Mari, if it had not been for the proprietor, Herr Karel von Werner, whom it did not seem she c...
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The Saint and the People Importers
Leslie Charteris
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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When a waiter at an Indian restaurant is crucified, and when a customer of that restaurant happens to be the infamous Simon Templar, it spells trouble for one of the more unusual import-export businesses that you’ve ever heard of.
Les...
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Mystery Coach
Matt Christopher
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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When their coach becomes ill and their baseball team starts falling apart, several of the Blazers begin receiving coaching tips from an anonymous phone caller. What can a team do when all of its members know they are getting absolutely no coaching...
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The Wall Around the World
Theodore Cogswell
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Pyramid Books, later printing of 1962 Pyramid paperback original. Collects ten previously published science fiction stories. Introductions by Anthony Boucher and Frederik Pohl and these STORIES: The Masters (1954); The Specter General (1952); Wolfie ...
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Clone
Richard Cowper
- Jan-1973
- / Science Fiction
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Alvin is a clone. One of four, all raised separately, all with unnatural powers. Terrified by their potential, their creator attempts to wipe their recent memories, their knowledge of the talents. But the process goes wrong, and all four are left ...
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Trish
Margaret Maze Craig
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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First Love Patricia Ingram, seventeen, is in love for the first time in her life. She couldn’t resist the appeal of tall, rugged Dick Keating who was the smoothest boy in her class. Dick was a challenge to Pat, for his way of life was totally...
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Paul Gallico's the Small Miracle
Edward Cunningham
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Selected for inclusion in the Best of the Best: Books for Great Kids and Teens list by the Chicago Public Library.
“Once there was an orphan boy named Pepino who lived in the mountain town of Assisi. His home was a stable and he shared it w... -
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Fanny
Louis Dantin
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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"Fanny is the fictionalized autobiography of Louis Dantin, the ""nom de plume"" of author Eugene Seers. Two great upheavals shape the character''s life -- he leaves the priesthood and exiles himself to the United States,working for many years in the ...
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Lydia
Clare Darcy
- Jan-1973
- / Traditional Regency
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On his arrival at one of his recently inherited estates, the Fourth Viscount Northover is surprised to learn that a family from Louisiana have made themselves at home there. In his library he meetes Miss Lydia Leyland, who engagingly confides that s...
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We Mainline Dreams; the Odyssey House Story
Judianne Densen-Gerber
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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The Odyssey House story is more than just history and statistics, and this book is much more than a simple description of the origins and development of the country's most successful program for curing drug addiction. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, Ody...
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Rule Britannia
Daphne Du Maurier
- Jan-1973
- / Gothic
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Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in t...
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The Leopard Dagger
Constance Fecher
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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In London a 13-year-old boy, abandoned as a baby, has a chance to help the struggling Globe theater and look for clues to his identity....
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Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Bloodhype
Alan Dean Foster
- Jan-1973
- / Science Fiction
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BLOODHYPE WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG IN THE GALAXY It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciatingly slow death, and there was no known -- or unknown -- antidote. It was a killer! Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated fro...
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Chapayev
Dm Furmanov
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Chapayev, written while Soviet literature was yet in its infancy, has become a heroic epic of the socialist revolution. A novel about the gifted and popular Civil War hero and commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887-1919) - about the role of the P...
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Jason and Medeia
John E. Gardner
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King ... -
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From the Diary of a Snail
Gunter Grass
- Jan-1973
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Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central sym...
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No Peace, No Place
Jeff Greenfield
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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In this memoir, the author probes two traumatic decades; the 1950's and 1960;s. From the public myths that gradually disintegrated, to the heroes who retired and left no successors, and finally the accelerating loss of innocence. 266 pages....
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Wheels
Arthur Hailey
- Jan-1973
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Master storyteller Arthur Hailey’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a turbocharged thriller about America’s automobile industry, from the bottom up Ford. Chrysler. General Motors. They were the Big Three, accused by critics ...
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A Kiss from Satan
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Place your hand on a woman's heart and she's yours instantly," said the arrogant Greek Julius Spiridon, who was certainly devastating enough to know what he was talking about. But Gale Davis was not just any woman, she had been h...
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Blue Hills of Sintra
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Eleanor was delighted when the Portuguese Conde Ramiro Vicente Miguel de Castro offered her a job -- as companion to his young sister, in the splendid Castro family home at Sintra. It was a chance that was not likely to come her way again, and she wa...
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Dear Plutocrat
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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From the commonsense point of view, Mark Copeland was right. Kate should sell her small holding to him. It adjoined Mark's big spread and was too small to do anything with. But Kate was not in the mood for common sense. She'd been misinfor...
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Hunter of the East
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Kim Lyttleton's flighty young foster-sister was about to ruin her life by running off with a married man, and her family were worried to death about it. It was the practical Kim who decided that something drastic would have to be done -- and s...
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Stormy the Way
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Wanted, good-looking young man to per-form simple task. Few hours only. Generous remuneration." When Ricky had blandly jilted her in order to make a more advantageous marriage and had then had the nerve to invite her to the wedding, Tara ...
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The Black Eagle
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Roxanne had always been rather used to doing as she was told without question -- which was presumably why, when the mysterious Mexican Don Juan Armando Ramires, known as 'the Black Eagle', swept into her life, married her, and carried her off...
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We Have All Gone Away
Curtis Harnack
- Jan-1973
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In We Have All Gone Away, his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of relatives. With a directness and a beauty that recall Thoreau,... -
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Orlando Furioso
Richard Hodgens
- Jan-1973
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Ariosto's immortal classic in a new English translation. An epic fantasy of the age of chivalry, thronged with sorcerers and hippogriffs, ladies and their knights, magic rings, wondrous swords, magnificent horses, and more plots than you can shake a ...
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The Curse of the Kings
Victoria Holt
- Jan-1973
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"WHOEVER DISTURBS THE SLEEP OF THE KINGS WILL DIE." For centuries the tombs of the Pharaohs had been haunted with this curse. When two eminent archaeologists died mysteriously, Judith Osmond was certain that they had died because of the curse. ...
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Last Contract
Clark Howard
- Jan-1973
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A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author. He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he’s killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional...
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Call in the Night
Susan Howatch
- Jan-1973
- / Gothic
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THE TELEPHONE CALL Late in the night came the frantic call from my sister Gina, in London. “Claire, Claire, please come. Oh, Claire, I’m in such dreadful, terrible trouble. I don’t know what to do -- Claire, you just have to come, please,...
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Friary's Dor
Betty Hale Hyatt
- Jan-1973
- / Traditional Regency
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Beautiful Honor Dillard fled fashionable Regency London for the place she loved best in the world -- Friary's Dor, an ancient manor on the windswept Kentish coast. Here she would be safe from those who were trying to force her into a marriage she...
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The Black West
William Loren Katz
- Jan-1973
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A history of the black people who participated in the development of the Western frontier in the United States, in such categories as the explorers, fur traders, early settlers, slaves, cowboys, and soldiers....
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The Secret of the Swiss Chalet
Carolyn Keene
- Jan-1973
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Handsome Prince Rudolph Krisler’s request for help in finding his family’s long-lost heirlooms launch Jean and Louise Dana on a thrilling mystery while on vacation in Europe. First, the young investigators’ search is hampered by a mysterious...
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The Haunted Lagoon
Carolyn Keene
- Jan-1973
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Louise and Jean Dana stare unbelievingly through the swirling mists in an isolated lagoon. Floating in mid-air is a full-rigged sailing ship! A moment later it vanishes. Never before have the Danas encountered so eerie an challenging a mystery. To...
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Command a King's Ship
Alexander Kent
- Jan-1973
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In 1784, at a time when most of the fleet was laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighed anchor at spithead to begin a voyage to India. As her new captain, Richard Bolitho was glad to go, despite the nature of his orders and the immensity of the...
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The Ferguson Rifle
Louis L'Amour
- Jan-1973
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They called him Scholar Ronan Chantry took his prized Ferguson rifle and went west to die. He found himself a civilized man in the rugged wilderness. He joined up with some rough trappers and traveled on--until they met up with hostile Indians, a ...
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The Man from Skibbereen
Louis L'Amour
- Jan-1973
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FIGHTIN' IRISH Crispin Mayo was a stranger to the law of the gun. He had come West from Ireland to seek his fortune-one man with nothing but his fists to protect him. Was he tough enough to tangle with a cut-throat band of renegades? It was none o...
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The Quick and the Dead
Louis L'Amour
- Jan-1973
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HE RODE ALONE Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie-fighting a pack of ru...
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A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'engle
- Jan-1973
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A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles W...
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Hiero's Journey
Sterling E. Lanier
- Jan-1973
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A Mission of Terror Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath--and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on a mission that seemed beyond even his extraordinary powers. For t...
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The Glory Game
Keith Laumer
- Jan-1973
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WAR GAMES... As the Hukk maneuver on the fringes otTerran Space, the Terran Navy is about to begin the most important "game" in the history of the human race. For too many years the Hukk have been pushing, pushing at humanity's frontiers, testing ou...
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The Wicked Guardian
Elsie Lee
- Jan-1973
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Intrigues of the darkest design abound when a beautiful heiress loses her memory, her inhibitions, and her heart. The Beauty And The Rogue Nothing seemed more unpleasant to lovely, dark-haired Miss Araminta Surtaine than a coach journey with he...
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Cinderella in Mink
Roberta Leigh
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nicola Rosten was used to the flattery and deference accorded to a very wealthy woman. Yet Barnaby Grayson mistook her for a down-and-out and set her to work in the kitchens. Should she tell him the truth? And how would he react? Hero: Barnaby...
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Cage of Gold
Rachel Lindsay
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Laurel wasn't sure whether she loved Tony enough to marry him, and the holiday in Greece was to give her an opportunity to make up her mind. And there she encountered Dimitri Janis, who thought he could master everything and everybody -- incl...
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Mad Hatter's Holiday
Peter Lovesey
- Jan-1973
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“Lovesey’s best yet.” -- H.R.F. Keating, The TimesBrighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own a...
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The Natural
Bernard Malamud
- Jan-1973
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The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first -- and some would say still the best -- no...
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Jake Howard's Wife
Anne Mather
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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He despised her but wanted her as a wife Jake Howard and his wife, Helen, were outwardly a perfect couple with a perfect marriage. Jake was immensely attractive, rich and successful. Helen was beautiful, intelligent and wellbred. But Jake had c...
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Chase a Green Shadow
Anne Mather
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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The child of a broken marriage, seventeen-year-old Tamsyn wasn't at all looking forward to going to Wales to visit the father she hardly knew -- until she arrived there and met Hywel Benedict. Her first feelings of antagonism towards him soon ...
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Mask of Scars
Anne Mather
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Christina thought the long university vacation would be an excellent time to visit her brother and sister-in-law in southern Portugal. But she soon realized that she was unwelcome and she was thankful when she was offered a job by the local lord of t...
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President Mcgovern's first term
Nicholas Max
- Jan-1973
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1973, Doubleday. Hardcover title, 158 pages. Very unusual title, in which George McGovern, back in 1972, surprised Richard Nixon and became President. This title tells who the new President appointed to the top 12 Cabinet posts and why. Also, we have...
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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Larry McMurtry
- Jan-1973
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A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Doug...
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Syzygy
Coney Michael
- Jan-1973
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The Planet Arcadia has six moons, describing erratic orbits. But once every fifty-two years, the Moons of Arcadia come together in a constellation that creates havoc on the surface--raging tides, storms, and worse. And meanwhile the Moons grown close...
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Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps
Christina Milner
- Jan-1973
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Originally published in 1973, Black Players was the first book to do a thorough examination of the urban pimp culture. Social anthropologists Richard and Christina Milner were allowed access to the secretive and controversial world of pimps and prost...
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The crystal man;
Edward Page Mitchell
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 1973
Binding: hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Doubleday , NY , 1973 First Edition , First Printing 358 page Hardcover in Dust jacket. Stories by Edward page Mit... -
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The Baron and the Arrogant Artist
Anthony Morton
- Jan-1973
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Mannering quite admired the arrogance of the self-opinionated young artist who asked him for patronage for a subsidy to keep him painting. It was also clear that the young painter wasn't actually asking for a favour, he was conferring one! With so...
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The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Shiva Naipaul
- Jan-1973
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Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, was winner of the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a ne...
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Freddy's book
John Neufeld
- Jan-1973
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Freddy's Book is a book for parents and children to read together about a nine-year-old boy who sees a four-letter word everywhere but doesn't really know what it means. A delight for kids who know, real data for those who don't....
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H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
- Jan-1973
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Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and...
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The Redskin
Lewis B. Patten
- Jan-1973
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Charlie, the young grandson of a prominent rancher, had been taken hostage by a band of vicious Cheyennes after they hadslaughtered his parents. The search party forced Charlie to act as their scout but Charlie had other ideas....
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A Prayer for the Dying
Harry Patterson
- Jan-1973
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Martin Fallon was on the run. From the police who wanted him for murder. And from the terrorist organization that wanted him for refusing to murder anymore. He had come to his last hope of escape. A Greek called Kristou. Kristou said, "There is a ...
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Gone Before Morning
Lilian Peake
- Jan-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Kim needed a job, and Owen Lang needed a housekeeper--although he had made it very plain that it was only a housekeeper he wanted, and not a prospective wife. But Kim had gone to work for him under so many false pretences that it was hardly likely...
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Twilight at Monticello
William Harwood Peden
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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First edition. Attemped murder and suicide stock the three day meeting of Thomas Jefferson enthusiasts at the University of Virginia. Small spot on front pastedown. xii, 241 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo.....
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Temporary Kings
Anthony Powell
- Jan-1973
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Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...
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New Adventures of Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen
- Jan-1973
- / General Fiction
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The classic mystery novella The Lamp of God is paired with eight short stories in this collection featuring “the prince of American detective fiction” (Kirkus Reviews). Is it possible for a man to lift himself off the ground by his shoe...
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The Hostile Shore
Douglas Reeman
- Jan-1973
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Crammed with refugees, harried and bombed by enemy planes, the Sigli had struggled south in a desperate attempt to escape. Rupert Blair's family had been among the passengers on that fateful journey in which the ship and all aboard had disappeared. T...
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