Books Published in July 1974

New Books List: 43 titles

  • The Road to the Border

    Elizabeth Ashton

    Mavis had grown accustomed to the fact that men found her glamorous sister Aline more attractive than her nondescript self. But when David MacAuchie came on the scene, for once she felt like competing with her sister. She had got off to a head sta...

  • The Annotated Mother Goose

    William S. Baring-Gould

  • Badge of Honor

    Dallas Barnes

  • Jack-O'-Lantern

    Edna Barth

  • Midsummer Eve

    Louise Bergstrom

    When Jennifer Lawrence fell under the spell of handsome Anders Molin, little did she dream how far her love would take her. Anders had to return to Sweden after finishing his studies in America, and he begged Jennifer to follow and marry him. Ande...

  • Stars in My Crown

    Joe David Brown

  • The Third Gift

    Jan R. Carew

  • An Exaltation of Stars

    Terry Carr

    Pocket Books, 1974, paperback. Reprints the 1973 Simon & Schuster first edition. Introduction by the editor and three original novellas: The Feast of St. Dionysus by Robert Silverberg; Kjwalll'kje'k'koothaïlll'kje'k [Nemo] by Roger Zelazny; My Brot...

  • Houses That Kill

    Roger de Lafforest

  • The Cattleman

    Joyce Dingwell

    Robin was the only member of her family who had inherited her grandfather's love of the land. When her brother sold out to Tamar Warren, she couldn't bear the thought of leaving the sheep station. But, for reasons of his own, Tamar would o...

  • Let's Go Metric

    Frank Robert Donovan

  • Three of Us

    Joyce Elbert

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO BEAUTIFUL SISTER RIVALS There was ELIZABETH, a gorgeous actress on the make for fame, fortune, life, love, and every other conceivable kick. And there was IRIS, lovely, shy, inexperienced, who came to big, bad Ne...

  • The Dogs of War

    Frederick Forsyth

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers an international thriller that takes readers into the darkest hearts of men and nations… In a remote corner of the impoverished African republic of Zangaro lies Crystal Mountain. ...

  • Omoteji's Baby Brother

    Mary-Joan Gerson

  • Pinochle is the Name of the Game

    Walter Gibson

    The author goes through the major variations of the game (3-handed; auction; 2-handed; partnership; etc) and gives tips and strategies for each type. The book is easy to read and gives some great tips....

  • The House of a Thousand Lanterns

    Victoria Holt

    The house she had dreamed of since childhood...The house where her worst nightmares were about to come true... Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background ...

  • The Bostonians

    Henry James

    Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Bostonians’. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin an...

  • Kreutzman Formula

    Dominic Koski; Virgil Scot

    James Kregg American professor on sabbatical to Jamaica, knows plenty. But what he doesn't know could cost him his life - or topple a few nations. Jean Meadows On a cruise to Jamaica to forget her recent divorce, fits right into Jim Kregg's plans for...

  • Sweet and Low

    Mary J. Latsis

  • Kiss Hollywood Good-By

    Anita Loos

  • Trucks

    Loretta Lustig

  • Breakheart Pass

    Alistair MacLean

    A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre.The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873…One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cho...

  • The Arrogance of Love

    Anne Mather

    Susan didn't want to admit it, but Amanda was right. She shouldn't feel this way; she should try not to think about Dominic Halstad. But Susan found that even the prospect of spending time with his son was infinitely more desirable than remai...

  • To Open

    Samuel Menashe

  • Centennial

    James A. Michener

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERWritten to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado -- the Centennial...

  • The Mysterious Red Tape Gang

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mike’s father say if it weren’t for all that dratted red tape, all the forms you have to fill out and sign, maybe their neighborhood would get fixed up. That gives Mike and idea. Soon he’s the leader of the highly secret Red Tape Gang. They’r...

  • Night

    Edna O'Brien

    "Edna O''Brien''s classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, a four poster no less,"" Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs s...

  • Gun Hand

    Frank O'Rourke

  • Killer Warrior

    Marc Olden

    Robert Sand, Black Samurai, knew that saving New York from atomic destruction was close to mission impossible, even for him. Ranged against him were a monstrously rich Japanese murder-master, a fiendish French Connection who could deliver a diabolica...

  • Another View

    Rosamunde Pilcher

    Emma Litton couldn't get on with her life until she found out just what place she'd had in her fathers heart. She'd been going to school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was d...

  • Stalker

    Bill Pronzini

    Men who participated in a never solved robbery of an armored truck are being picked off one-by-one 11 years after the crime. Pronzini makes people and events so real that you're living those explosive days of terror. -Robert Ludlum Once in a crocodil...

  • Blow Hot Blow Cold

    Ellery Queen
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    A summertime slaying sets a suburban housewife on the hunt for a killer On a scorching summer afternoon, Nancy Howell bakes in the sun, hoping her neighbor will invite her inside. Lila has central air conditioning -- a priceless luxury this time of y...

  • The Four Johns

    Ellery Queen
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    A teaching assistant knows that a man named John is out to kill him -- but which John is it? Mervyn Gray sits at the college coffee shop scowling at his notes. The waitress assumes he’s just another overworked Berkeley undergrad, but she is dead wr...

  • The Space Circus

    Alex Raymond

    THE SPACE CIRCUS is the third in the series of fabulous novels inspired by the famous comic strip FLASH GORDON, read daily and Sunday by millions of fans throughout the world. Kidnapped, auctioned, forced to perform as a trapeze artist in a circus...

  • The Mind Masters

    John F. Rossman

    THE MAN CALLED BRITT To the public, Britt St. Vincent is a great Grand Prix racing driver. To the Pentagon, Britt is a dangerous renegade scientist who quit their frighteningly effective mind-control research project. To a vast secret organization k...

  • Crime File

    Dell Shannon

    'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesLieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best restaurants in town? And who was responsible for the b...

  • Rogue's Castle

    Sandra Stanley

    Depravity and danger lurked within the castle walls…and Sara would never be a child again. Ensnared! Orphaned by the death of her grandfather, Sara de Poterie came to the vast and brooding Chateau Coquin, built by the wealthy and ruthless de ...

  • Fields of Force

    George Steiner

  • For Pete's Sake

    Bradford Street

  • Flamingo Flying South

    Joyce Dingwell

    Cyprus held bitter-sweet memories for Georgia -- memories of a never-to-be-forgotten summer with Justin, whom she had loved but who hadn't wanted her -- and it was difficult to resist the opportunity of visiting it again. It was difficult, too, t...

  • Pride and Power

    Anne Hampson

    To Leona, Konnon Wyndham was no different than any other man--at first. Proud and arrogant, Leona despised all men. Not until Kon beat her in a yacht race did he come in for her special treatment. Only, unlike the other men she'd known, he just w...

  • Flash

    Mel Juffe

  • Falcon on the Mountain

    Gwyn Lavender

    After an unhappy romance Melanie was only too glad to take the opportunity offered her of teaching for a while at a community centre in Switzerland. Yet even in these idyllic surroundings there were problems to be solved -- not the least of thes...