Books Published in March 1970

New Books List: 31 titles

  • Afro-American Literature: Nonfiction

    William Adams

  • Healer of Hearts

    Katrina Britt

    The attractive French surgeon Reeve d'Artanon had been described as a "healer of hearts" by a grateful and adoring patient. But he looked more like a breaker of hearts to Trisha, his latest victim!...

  • Room Outside: New

    John Brookes

  • An Unorthodox Corpse

    Carter Brown

  • The Whole Man

    John Brunner

    Gerald Howson lived in a world where medical science could supply artificial nerves or any other part of a maimed body that was needed. Except for him. And Gerald had a gift of enormous power, which, if left to sicken in his grotesque body, wou...

  • To Journey Together

    Mary Burchell

    Elinor worked in a travel agency, but never expected to visit a of the exciting places whose names streamed through her daily typing -- until all four of a business trip to Austria and Italy opened to her a whole new in enchanting world. This is ...

  • Little Sister

    Mary Burchell

    Brought up to think of herself as an orphan, Alix Farley learned, to her surprise and joy, that she had a mother after all. The discovery that her mother was the world-famous singer, Nina Varoni, added a heady new excitement But Alix soon realized...

  • Mildred Pierce

    James M. Cain

    In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a ...

  • Myths, Dreams, and Religion

    Joseph Campbell

  • Maria Theresa

    Edward Crankshaw

    When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years.

    Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was whol...

  • Pretenders

    Gladys Rockmore Davis

  • Nunquam

    Lawrence Durrell

    The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse by a supremely powerful international corporation. His assignment -- to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of lolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian ...

  • Doctor Lesley's Triumph

    Annie L. Gelsthorpe

    Two shattering blows fell on pretty young Dr. Lesley Colborne on the same day. She lost a hospital assignment she desperately wanted, and discovered her ambitious fiance had betrayed her trust. Things seemed hardly better when she took a post at dist...

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Janice Gray

    Was being forewarned really forearmed? When her father and stepmother asked Jenny to visit them in Nice, she gratefully accepted the invitation. Before she had even met her stepbrother, Raoul de Vaisseau, she had been warned that he was a lady-ki...

  • The Blessing Way

    Tony Hillerman

    WOLF-WITCH MURDERS... High on the desolate mesa they found the body. The mouth was filled with sand ... No tracks, no clues. Every Navajo knew that nothing human killed like that. Lt. Joe Leaphorn and anthropologist Bergen McKee had stalked the...

  • The Rimrocker

    Ray Hogan

    Unceasingly Shawn Starbuck had searched for his brother - a legacy at stake for them both - asking on numberiess trails, in sun-baked towns, at desolate huts and sprawling ranches...now it seemed, at last, his searching would end. Only it wasn't that...

  • It Happened in Paris

    Elizabeth Hoy

    Paris in the spring, an interesting job as secretary-companion to a famous artist, and her old love, Martin Varney, very much in the picture again -- what more could Molly want? But Molly had reckoned without the scheming and jealousy of the woma...

  • Beloved Enemies

    Pamela Kent

    Miss Caprice Vaughan could hardly wait to take possession of the lovely Tudor manor house she had been left by her great-uncle, so it was disconcerting, to say the least, to find a lodger already installed who showed no signs of wishing to leave. How...

  • Elephant Boy

    William Kotzwinkle

  • Genesis as Myth

    Edmund Leach

  • Nurse in Yucatan

    Adeline McElfresh

    It seemed an answer to a prayer when Katy Jameson was offered a job as nurse to ailing young Connie Christopher. The Christophers were going to the Yucatan, where James Christopher hoped to unearth a precious lost Mayan scroll. Katy's father, bef...

  • Two Adolescents

    Alberto Moravia

  • Sister Darling

    Marjorie Norrell

    Doctor Julian Frickley thought Sister Yvonne Darling was a "darling" in every sense of the word - but she had just been cruelly jilted. Was it likely that she would look at him, or indeed any other man, for a very long time -- if ever? He...

  • The Pursuit of Dr. Lloyd

    Marjorie Norrell

    "He's tall and worried looking" And that exactly described Michael Lloyd, the hospital's newest doctor. Elizabeth made the neighborly gesture of helping him to get the vacant apartment next door to her own. It was then she notic...

  • A Touch of Starlight

    Rosemary Pollock

    Jenny Maitland had become engaged to Nicholas Dangerfield because it seemed the only thing to do at the time -- and anyway, it was only a temporary arrangement. But then Jenny's heart took over from her head. Hero: Nicholas Dangerfield He...

  • Fur Person

    May Sarton

    This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton s own cat. Prior to making the author s acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of his vagabond ...

  • The Man on the Bench in the Barn

    Georges Simenon

    Dust jacket art by Ken Braren. Translated by Moura Budberg. The story of a husband and wife, lover and mistress and their confrontation with truth in a single night which cataclysmically change a man's whole life....

  • Music on the Wind

    Dorothy Slide

    When Lyn without experience took up the hotel job in the country, the clerk at the agency had told her not to worry. "Common sense, that's all you want ... and the man sounded desperate." But Lyn found that it was quite one thing to control the hotel...

  • Journey to Untor

    Leonard Wibberley

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    Tennessee Williams

    Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3’s landmark production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece

    Tennessee Williams''s iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in...