Books Published in July 1973

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1973

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New Books List: 39 titles

  • At the Drop of a Veil

    Marianne Alireza

    Autobiography: A harem is a female group composed of a married woman's mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, children, and servants. Californian Alireza arrived in Arabia in 1945 with her husband Ali. Shew grew to lover her expanded family and the harem. Af...

  • Errant Bride

    Elizabeth Ashton

    Antoine de Mericourt was going to turn Sylvie into a great star of the ballet -- which was why he had married her, just to ensure that no romantic distractions would interfere with her career. He had no intention of allowing the marriage to beco...

  • The Girl from Rome

    Nan Asquith

    Jane had had a wonderful summer in Rome with Gino -- but now, unhappily, it was all over. Would it help to solve her problems if she accepted Vance Morley's invitation to go with him to Corfu -- and its unusual condition? Hero: Vance Morley H...

  • Murder Package Deal

    Carter Brown

  • Except My Love

    Mary Burchell

    When Erica married her boss she was under no illusions as to the nature of the marriage. She knew that for Oliver it was merely one of convenience, that he would never have considered her had he not lost the woman he really loved. All the same, Er...

  • When the Green Star Calls

    Lin Carter

    To him, Earth was a prison of the mind and body. Only on the world of the Green Star would he walk -- in the borrowed body of a primitive youth. A thrilling adventure in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as only Lin Carter can tell it! Thi...

  • Andy, That's My Name

    Tomie DePaola

    A little kid who wants to play the big kids uses the alphabet and spelling to get his way in this classic story from Strega Nona author and illustrator Tomie dePaola, now featuring a new cover and refreshed artwork.Andy may be the littlest kid on the...

  • Rocks Under Shining Water

    Jane Donnelly

    Jenny had always been the ordinary one, her sister Caterine the one who had everything -- looks, talent, personality, and a brilliant marriage to Paul Tremain. But now, tragically, Caterine was dead, and Jenny had gone to Paul's imposing hous...

  • Don't Look Now

    Daphne Du Maurier
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    John and Laura are on holiday in Venice, but it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose. A pair of grief stricken parents and a strange set of psychic sisters whose vision of f...

  • Future City

    Roger Elwood

  • The Mysterious Ambassador

    Lee Falk

    Why does a powerful General tremble at the sight of a simple mark? Can 50,000 soldiers protect him from that mark of the PHANTOM--the SIGN of the SKULL? One man fighting to save a new nation, and his beautiful sweetheart, Diana Palmer. One man mat...

  • The Book of Philip Jose Farmer

    Philip Jose Farmer

    DAW Books, collector's No. 63, paperback original, 1973. Foreword by Farmer and these works: My Sister's Brother (1960); Skinburn (1972); The Alley Man (1959); Father's in the Basement (1972); Toward the Beloved City (1972); Polytropical Paramyths (e...

  • The Runaway Visitors

    Eleanor Farnes

    Victoria thought she could look after her young brother and sister while her parents were abroad. They decided otherwise. So Victoria found herself in Italy, entrusted to the care of the disagreeable Charles Duncan, who was anything but pleased at...

  • Lobo Gray

    L.L. Foreman

  • Secrets Of Magic

    Walter Brown Gibson

    From the dawn of time , the lure of magic has been felt by men of every race and clime. Man's awe of natural forces and the unknown inspired a trust that self-appointed wonder workers soon turned to their advantage. Whether they really believed they ...

  • Hatter Fox

    Marilyn Harris

  • To Reach a Dream

    Nathan C. Heard

  • Stories of Five Decades

    Hermann Hesse

    This selection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form--novel, essay, autobiographi...

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • The King's Grey Mare

    Rosemary Hawley Jarman

    The King's grey mare was Elizabeth Woodville, Queen and wife of Edward IV. Beautiful beyond belief, with unique silver-grey hair, she had once known joy of a marriage based on love only to see it snatched away on the battlefield. Hardened and changed...

  • Deadly Deal

    Stuart Jason

  • Lament for Lost Lovers

    Alanna Knight

    Brigante House was an old English mansion built on a hill near Hadrian's Wall. The local legend - handed down for centuries - told of a tragic pair of Roman lovers buried beneath the hill along with a fabulous treasure. When Joy Brigante moved into ...

  • A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

    E.L. Konigsburg

    Eleanor of Acquitaine has been waiting in Heaven for a long time to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission--and while Eleanor waits, three people close to her during...

  • The Bronze Axe

    Jeffrey Lord

    Blasted into a fantastic new world, Richard Blade woke at the feet of a strange and beautiful woman, Taleen, Princess of Voth. Running for her life from the savage Albs who had kidnapped her. Without clothes or weapons of any kind, Blade was in troub...

  • Goldenrod

    Malcolm MacDonald

    A champion bronco rider faces incredible adversity, suffers pain and humiliation, loses his wife to another man, loses heart - and then somehow finds the spirit to go on. Goldenrod is also about love in its widest, deepest meaning, and, like love, it...

  • Winter of Change // Surgeon in Charge

    Betty Neels

    Mary Jane might have inherited a house and a comfortable income, but after all, she was twenty-two, a competent staff nurse, and she certainly had no need for a guardian - especially the high-handed Fabian van der Blocq. But what could she do abo...

  • The Hide Hunters

    Lewis B. Patten

    THE WOMAN WAS BOUND TO BRING TROUBLE... Jess Burdett was just a solitary buffalo hunter, en route to join a group of others in the Indian country south of the Arkansas. The killing of the buffalo was prohibited by treaty, and that meant danger eno...

  • Branch-Bearers

    Glen Petrie

  • The Nurses

    Willo Davis Roberts

    The book that does for the noblest profession what “Coffee, Tea Or Me” did for the airline stewardesses… These are THE NURSES: six girls, young, beautiful, meeting life head-on… Karen " oldest of the group, burned by passion...

  • The Hollow Hills

    Mary Stewart

    Dark Ages. Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny i...

  • A Touch of Magic // Lodestar in the South

    Essie Summers

    "Farmer Giles", Lucinda had called Giles Logie, mockingly on the occasion of their first stormy meeting -- though anyone less like the traditional "Farmer Giles" was difficult to imagine! And indeed she soon learned that Giles h...

  • The Forbidden Valley

    Essie Summers

    Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyllis, who seemed to have run away from home and left her children. It just didn't seem possible -- although Phyl's rather forbidding brother-in-law Edmund Leigh was only too ready to believe ...

  • The Snake Pit

    Mary Jane Ward

    Never before has the grotesque world of the insane been chronicled so poignantly. Here is a young woman’s story of her dark journey back from madness to reality. It is a story of violent emotions and heartbreaking struggle -- a revealing triumph of...

  • Beloved Enemy

    Mary Wibberley

    Holly Templeton hated Gareth Nicholas at first sight -- a situation that often leads to love at second sight! But there was one good reason why that should not happen as far as Holly and Gareth were concerned. Hero: Gareth Nicholas Heroine: Ho...

  • Roman Summer

    Jane Arbor

    She mustn't let her love override reason. Ruth had lived in and loved Rome for several years, so when she was offered a job which involved teaching a bright young teenager like Cicely to know and love it too, she didn’t think it seemed parti...

  • The Mutual Look

    Joyce Dingwell

    Jane adored her horses -- so much so that when the stud had to be broken up she had been willing to go out with them to Australia and a new life, although she realized it would mean once again running into the man who had jilted her. But Rodden Ga...

  • Moscow Mansions

    Barbara Guest

  • Gothic Tales of Terror

    Peter Haining