Books Published in March 1972

New Books List: 25 titles

  • The Butterfly Picnic // A Cluster of Separate Sparks

    Joan Aiken

    An idyllic, sun-drenched Greek island ... a fortified palace whose ancient walls hid dark and dangerous secrets ... a sardonic millionaire with bizarre tastes and lavish charities ... a disappearing sailboat ... a vanishing corpse ... a gaunt and gui...

  • Georgie's Halloween

    Robert Bright

     Halloween was just the time for Georgie, the gentle little ghost. When the town gave a party on the Village Green, everyone else had to dress up, but Georgie went as he was. How...

  • Blonde on a Broomstick

    Carter Brown

    The Pot Boils... It's a heady brew, spiked with plenty of black (and blonde and brunette) magic. and who's in the soup? Rick Holman, of course. Stirring up things are four gorgeous sorceresses whose specialty is bewitching men....

  • Pilgrim Fathers

    L.W. Cowie

  • Mistress of Elvan Hall

    Mary Cummins

    "One doesn't marry for love of a house." Annie had told Francis Wyatt that when he asked her to become mistress Elvan Hall. She had accepted nevertheless, unable to refuse the man she secretly loved -- even though he said nothing of l...

  • If They Come Morning

    Angela Davis

    With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

    One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Da...

  • Southern Mail

    Antoine De Saint-Exupery

    In his first novel, Saint-Exupéry pays homage to “those elemental divinities -- night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commerci...

  • Red Ginger Blossom

    Joyce Dingwell

    Rowan was thrilled when an unknown uncle left her a cafe in Queensland. She could just picture it, in its sub-tropical surroundings - dainty curtains, delicious sandwiches and cakes . . . But it wasn't at all like that, as Rowan found to her h...

  • The Mill in the Meadow

    Jane Donnelly

    Emma had given up her job in London to return home and look after her father -- and, she couldn't help admitting to hope for a second-chance with the man she had always loved, Mark Hurditch. That annoying Corby Kempson declared that she was wasti...

  • Folklore on the American Land

    Duncan Emrich

  • Elephant in a Well

    Marie Hall Ets

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Penelope Gilliatt

  • The Conspiracy

    John Hersey

    Nero’s secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor’s life. Once promising and gifted -- friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca -- Nero has now bloodied himself and grown fat on power, and he has turne...

  • The Dark Shore

    Susan Howatch

    The anonymous voice from the past whispered into the receiver, "Welcome home, Mr. Towers. Does your fiancee know how you killed your first wife ten years ago?" Soon after Sarah moved into her new home as the bride of charming, enigmatic Jon Towers...

  • Remedy for Love

    Flora Kidd

    It was a long time since a Rigg had lived in Riggholm, and when Simon Rigg appeared there to take up residence the local people, in particular Susan Thorpe, were very curious about him. But Simon made it clear that he just wanted to be left alone. Wa...

  • Crossfire Trail

    Louis L'Amour

    Rafe Caradec was a man who always rode at the ready, hardened by a life spent among ruthless men who played for the highest stakes. The only thing Rafe held sacred was his word--and now he had sworn to a dying man that he would save his Long Valley r...

  • It's a Mile from Here to Glory

    Robert C. Lee

  • Not Less Than All

    Margaret Malcolm

    There are some problems that money will solve, but for Rosamund it created them. When, on the eve of her marriage to John, she learned that he was a rich man, she was faced with a dilemma. Should she tell him of her discovery, or should she wait f...

  • My Name Is Asher Lev

    Chaim Potok

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic from the National Book Award"nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. “A novel ...

  • Invaders from Space

    Robert Silverberg

  • The Wicked City

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Star in a Dark Sky

    Dorothy Slide

    It meant an exciting, new life for Kay when her business folded and she took a job at a caravan site in the South of France. Indeed, it could have been perfect - if only she could have come to terms with the baffling Mark Collins! ...

  • The Little Broomstick

    Mary Stewart

    A black cat that needs to rescue its brother from a witch's spell enlists the help of a lonely ten-year-old Mary Smith. It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly after...

  • Starbrat

    John Morressy

  • The Golden Maze

    Hilary Wilde

    Cindy thought she had stepped right into a fairytale when someone left her a castle - a real castle, in the beautiful Lake District. But there were conditions attached to the bequest which slowly but surely began to take all the magic out of the s...