Books Published in March 1977

New Books List: 113 titles

  • The Canfield Decision

    Spiro Agnew

  • Burglar Bill

    Janet Ahlberg

    Janet and Allan Ahlberg's hilarious picture book, Burglar Bill. Burglar Bill is an entertaining picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo! Perfect as a bedtime story and for child...

  • One Last Glimpse

    James Aldridge

  • Kinflicks

    Lisa Alther

    Bestselling author Lisa Alther’s classic coming-of-age novel set amidst the changing times of the 1960s American South Growing up in Tennessee in a family of privilege, Ginny Babcock’s world is seemingly idyllic. Her father, the Majo...

  • What name Baby

    Winthrop Ames

  • Voyage of Enchantment

    Elizabeth Ashton

    The conversation Audrey had overheard still rang in her ears. Her golden dream dissolved like mist. What a fool she had been! The thought of how easily she had been deceived with sweet words and tender glances made her wince. Damon had agreed to m...

  • Illusions

    Richard Bach

    In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and spar...

  • Adam's Eden

    Faith Baldwin

  • High-Rise

    J.G. Ballard

    The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture. From the author of the celebrated dystopian classics Kingdom Come, The Drowned World, and The Drought, High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. The film adaptation by accl...

  • George the Drummer Boy

    Nathaniel Benchley

    More than two hundred years ago, Boston belonged to the British. George was a drummer boy with the King''s soldiers there. He wanted to be friends with the people of Boston. But they did not like the soldiers. They shouted and threw things at them. <...

  • Avenging Angel

    Helen Bianchin

    "You can insist all you like," Terese assured Manuel spiritedly, "I refuse to become subservient -- blindly obedient to a tyrannical husband." Terese Bennett's reason for marrying Manuel Delgado had nothing to do with love;...

  • Stolen Faces

    Michael Bishop

  • Paddington on Stage

    Alfred Bradley

  • A Dinosaur Is Too Big

    Elizabeth Bram

  • Willard and His Bowling Trophies

    Richard Brautigan

    Brautigan was in many ways the Hemingway of the 60s--but a Hemingway with a playful sense of humor. His epigrammatic stories and poems are clean and simple, but like a pool of quiet water, sometimes deceptively deep; the individual parts of each of h...

  • Fox Eyes

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Pinballs

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    From Newbery-winning author Betsy Byars comes a story full of "poignancy, perception, and humor" (The Chicago Tribune), about three foster kids who learn what it takes to make a family. You can't always decide where life will take you -- especia...

  • The Search for Maggie Hare

    Elizabeth Byrd

    In the Victorian elegance of her Edinburgh home, Dorothea, an orphan raised in the graces of the upper class, read the newspaper account of the return of Maggie Hare, the infamous mass-murderer. Then, all at once she stared at the villainous woman's ...

  • Face Talk, Hand Talk, Body Talk

    Sue Castle

  • Beowulf

    Howell D. Chickering

    This presentation of the translation and the Old English Text on facing pages allows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in a fresh and exciting new way. Includes a Guide to Reading Aloud, Introduction, Commentary and no...

  • Devil Pony

    Matt Christopher

    A Matt Christopher Adventure ClassicHe's everything I dreamed he'd be! exclaimed Stu Bancroft when he saw Midnight, the horse he and his sister Sally had been promised when the horse was just a foal. Now Midnight was a year old and Stu and Sally were...

  • The Mimosa Tree

    Vera Cleaver

  • The Birth of an Island

    Francois Clement

  • Benny

    Barbara Cohen

  • The Blue Lantern

    Colette

  • Stop-Time

    Frank Conroy

    First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of l...

  • Coma

    Robin Cook

    They call it 'minor surgery,' but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again. Som...

  • I Am the cheese

    Robert Cormier

    Before there was Lois Lowry’s The Giver or M. T. Anderson’s Feed, there was Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese, a subversive classic that broke new ground for YA literature.   A boy’s search for his father becomes a desperate journey to un...

  • The Mesa of Flowers

    Harold Courlander

  • A Gift for a Lion

    Sara Craven

    Stay away from Saracina. But to the willful Joanna, used to having her own way, the words were a challenge! Unfortunately the warning was real: her reception on the mysterious Mediterranean island was far from welcoming. She found herself held a p...

  • Hunter's Blood

    Jere Cunningham

  • 2nd Sickle

    Ursula Curtis

  • Out of the Dead City

    Samuel R. Delany

  • The Quicksand Book

    Tomie DePaola

    Poor Jungle Girl. She falls into quicksand. Jungle boy finds her. Jungle Girl starts to sink while Jungle Boy tells her where and how quicksand forms; why people sink in quicksand; what happens to animals in quicksand; how people can watch out for qu...

  • A Book of Common Prayer

    Joan Didion

    A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean"[Didion's] most ambiti...

  • High Street

    Andre Ernotte

  • Lord Libertine

    Anthony Esler

  • Powder Valley Ransom

    Peter Field

  • In the Frame

    Dick Francis

    Charles Todd is an English artist who is well known and respected for his renderings of sleek and athletic horses. What he now faces at his cousin Donald's house is also art--the art of a perfectly brutal murderer. Donald's home has been burglariz...

  • Titus Gamble

    Peter Gentry

  • Master of Ben Ross

    Lucy Gillen

    Melodie tried not to think about what John had implied: that Neil McDowell was too wrapped up in Ben Ross, the large Scottish estate, to care about a woman. She was prepared to admit that Neil had become the most important factor in her life -- bu...

  • Time to Be Human

    John Howard Griffin

  • The Great Horse Race

    Fred Grove

    Poetry-spouting Coyote Walking, smooth-talking Dude McQuinn, and cagey old Uncle Billy travel across Texas, racing their champion quarter horse, Judge Blair, against all comers and winning big, until they hit Three Springs...

  • Legacy of Love

    Arlene Hale

    When lovely Anita Avery flew to beautiful Seven Keys to claim her legacy, she didn't expect to find love. She didn't even know the true extent of her inheritance. Handsome lawyer Phil Conover asked her to stay while he investigated, and even ...

  • On Time and Being

    Martin Heidegger

  • The Survivor

    James Herbert

    A chilling supernatural tale, The Survivor is an unforgettable horror by master of the genre James Herbert, the author of The Rats and The Fog.One of the worst crashes in airline history. 300 dead. One survivor. Keller walked out of the flaming wreck...

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents More Stories My Mother Never Told Me

    Alfred Hitchcock

    For sensitive, jaded souls who were wearied by Mother Goose before they could walk, and found Grimm's Fairy Tales tepid and tedious by the time they could talk, here, belatedly, are 13 stories calculated to terrify and shock....

  • The Rich Are Different

    Susan Howatch

    "Susan Howatch has surpassed herself. This is a mighty book."
    ORLANDO TRIBUNE
    Dinah Slade was young enough to be Paul Van Zale's daughter. But she didn't care. She was a very ambitious and beautiful woman with her eye on Van Zale's tremendous f...

  • Follow That Bus!

    Pat Hutchins

    Field Trip in the Fast Lane The school field trip gets off to a rousing start when the absentminded teacher accidentally switches satchels with some bank robbers. What begins as an ordinary outing then quickly turns into a madcap misadventure -- c...

  • Police Dog

    Roderic Jeffries

  • Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls

    George Jonsen

  • Killing Season

    Adam Kennedy

  • Believing

    Eugene C. Kennedy

    This candid exploration of belief transcends arguments between atheists and people of faith to show that it is our nature to believe and that the key to understanding our reason for being is not what we believe about but believe in. Kennedy, a renown...

  • I, the King

    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    I, The King is the story of Philip IV of Spain and of the women who most influenced his life. Among them was his first wife, Isabel of Bourbon, the beautiful child bride who became his wife and respected Regent; his 'true love' Inés Calderón, the c...

  • Science Fiction in the `30s

    Damon Knight

  • The Exquisite Thing

    Joyce MacIver

  • A Banbury Tale

    Maggie MacKeever

    A tempestuous lady and a notorious rake match wits...A delightful romp They called her eccentric. Lady Mathilda Tyrewhitte Wilson didn't care. A widow at 29, Tilda was free to go on in the spirited way that was uniquely her own. She was not goi...

  • Grandpa and Frank

    Janet Majerus

    What does 12-year-old Sarah McDermott do when her mean uncle Frank threatens to commit her beloved grandpa to the County Nursing Home? She decides to "kidnap" Grandpa, with the help of her friend Joey, and take him to Chicago to find a doctor who wil...

  • Friday's Child

    Pat Mancini

  • Even the Wicked

    Ed McBain

    A man brings his daughter to Martha’s Vineyard to uncover the truth about her mother’s death in this suspense novel by master of crime fiction Ed McBain.   For the first time since their daughter was born, Zachary and Mary Blake are taking a...

  • The Dyskolos

    Menander

    With the discovery and translation of the Dyskolos (“The Grouch”), Menander comes alive with subtle philosophy and vision. His world of troubled lovers, scheming servants, and foolish old men, with its witty dialogue and quick turnabouts in plot,...

  • Day of the Dolphin

    Robert Merle

  • Slave of Frankenstein

    Robert J. Meyers

  • The Dark on the Other Side

    Barbara Michaels

    The house whispered to her, and she thought she must be going mad. Was there no one to help her? Weird, terrifying things were happening. Or was it all in Linda Randolph's mind? Her husband, Gordon, was convinced that it was. Michael Collins,...

  • Earth's Last Citadel

    C.L. Moore

  • History

    Elsa Morante

    History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write ...

  • The Hasty Marriage

    Betty Neels

    Joyce smiled at Laura. "You can have him for a month or two, just while I divorce Larry. Then all you'll have to do is to leave Reiloff, and he can divorce you. He'll see that you're provided for." Laura listened with growing r...

  • Slave Girl of Gor

    John Norman

    Tarl Cabot had resumed his allegiance to the Priest-Kings, the non-human but benevolent rulers of Earth's orbital twin planet, Gor. And accordingly Tart knew that the battle for the possession of the planet was under way--the Kurii, the beastlike inv...

  • Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia

    Peggy Parish

    Learn to read with the classic Amelia Bedelia!

    When Mr. Carter mistakes the lovable, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia for the new teacher, class will never be the same again! This Level 2 I Can Read is perfect for kids who read on their own ...

  • Trig

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Fawn

    Robert Newton Peck

    At the time of the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758, an Indian boy, the son of a Jesuit priest, observes the savagery of the French, English, and Indians, and tries to save his father from what could be a terrible fate....

  • Savage Fire

    Don Pendleton

    PITTSFIELD REVISITED! Blitzkrieg! Blood and thunder! Fire and terror and death! These are the weapons of the man whom the whole world has come to know as The Executioner! Now he is back where it all began -- and perhaps this is where it shall inev...

  • Portrait of Paradise

    Sue Peters

    "May I remind you,- Ross's voice was sharp, betraying the depth of his anger, "that any transactions will be between your brother and me. This house is no concern of yours." Katie glared at him, her eyes stormy. How dare he speak to her like that-...

  • A Gift of Violets

    Janette Radcliffe

    Beautiful young Viola Marchmont dearly loved and deeply respected her proud and distinguished father, Sir Anthony, Regency England's ambassador to Italy's romantic city of Florence. But now the depth of Viola's feelings was cruelly tested...

  • The Fan

    Bob Randall

  • The Giant Panda at Home

    Margaret Rau

    Introduces the physical characteristics and habits of the giant panda describing its role in the ecology of its natural environment in China and its past and present relationship to its human neighbors....

  • The Street

    Mordecai Richler

    In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophist...

  • The Thistle and the Rose

    Margaret Rome

    Once back at her job in Brussels, Helen told herself, she'd be able to forget the barbaric Scotsman who had stripped her entire being of dignity. And to think she had once imagined herself in love with him! To spend a lifetime with a man as im...

  • The Pole Star Secret

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Uhuru

    Robert Ruark

  • Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die

    Charles W. Runyon

    In the sterile white corridors of a mental ward -- and the unexplored passages of the mind -- unfolds a novel of heart-clutching terror, with a cast of characters caught inextricably in its lurking mystery:DAN BOLLINGER -- Ex-Vietnam vet drifting on ...

  • Haunting of Ellen

    Catherine Sefton

  • Blue Lantern

    Roger Senhouse

  • Marazan

    Nevil Shute

    After pilot Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious savior turns out to be an escaped convict and Stenning’s determination to help this man le...

  • Rainbow and the Rose

    Nevil Shute

    When seasoned pilot Johnny Pascoe tries to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes and leaves him stranded and dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, attempts to fly a doctor in to help, but rough weat...

  • California Suite

    Neil Simon

  • Hunter's Point

    George Sims

  • Galileans

    Frank G. Slaughter

    Life forever changes for Joseph of Galilee, a young physician, when he meets Mary of Magdala, a beautiful dancer bent on revenge against a haughty Roman officer, Gaius Flaccus. And then they both come face-to-face with Jesus of Nazareth and uncove...

  • The Devil Hole

    Eleanor Spence

  • The Vorovich Affair

    S.L. Stebel

    A MAVERICK NARCOTICS AGENT... A SADISTIC DRUG SMUGGLER... AND $100,000,000 IN HEROIN! Having failed to win a promotion, and embittered narcotics agent with the unlikely name of Timothy Ogden Vorovich quits his job and embarks on a search of his ...

  • Jethro's Difficult Dinosaur

    Arnold Sundgaard

  • Earthly Possessions

    Anne Tyler

    From the beloved Pulitzer Prize"winning author of Breathing Lessons -- Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husba...

  • The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

    Vladimir Voinovich

    Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forg...

  • Mixed Singles

    Douglass Wallop

  • Kingdoms of Elfin

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Swans' Reach

    Margaret Way

    The bitter irony of fate, Rachel Ross thought. She had resented Nick Retford for so long that it was hard to believe she could be in love with him. What was the use anyway? Loving Nick Retford was like reaching for the moon. He was just as magnet...

  • Seagull Crag

    Elisabeth Welles

    She was threatened by an unknown murderer in a decaying mansion by the sea! Terror at Seagull Crag! From the moment she set foot in the once lovely old mansion, attractive Jannine Austin could feel the tensions crackling around her. For its ...

  • Bride of Bonamour

    Gwen Westwood

    Nothing had turned out as planned. Instead of joining her twin brother aboard the yacht racing for Rio, Sara was life in Cape Town to cope with Steve's boss. Most women would be delighted to work for Jerome de Villiers, the young, handsome vi...

  • Dark Venturer

    Mary Wibberley

    "Goodbye, Mia," Cory said. He left without looking back. Mia willed herself not to cry. After trying to escape for so long, now she was free. And, suddenly, she was not sure what she really wanted. She had tried to put Cory out of her m...

  • Benton's Row

    Frank Yerby

    THE DEVIL'S SPAWN This history of a pioneering Southern family unfolds in this story of triumph and tragedy. In 1842, Tom Benton gallopes in the Red River Valley, one jump ahead of a Texas posse bent on hanging him. He feared no living thing. ...

  • Dinosaurs

    Peter Zallinger

    Illus. in full color. A simple text and detailed illustrations provide an ideal introduction to dinosaurs. Pronunciations and interesting details are included. The author renders the scientific data relevant to young readers.—School Library Jour...

  • The Baron in the Trees

    Italo Calvino

    A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the tr...

  • The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount

    Italo Calvino

    Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald...

  • Catch Me a Colobus

    Gerald Malcolm Durrell

    Gerald Durrell describing his expeditions all over the world - which, of course, get him into crazy situations - in the hunt for animals for his zoo in Jersey, devoted to conserving and breeding threatened species. Catch Me a Colobus is also a plea t...

  • Rafiki

    Nola Langner