Books Published in May 1971

New Books List: 26 titles

  • But Not for Me

    Mary Burchell

    Quite frankly, Ariane was making a marriage of convenience. But Frank Muldane was very nice, and for her family's sake, she thought she could go through with it. But that was before she met and fell in love with his dark, disapproving elder br...

  • The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

    Robert Coover

    J. Henry Waugh is an accountant, albeit an unhappy one. However, each night after he comes home from work, Henry immerses himself in a world of his choosing: a baseball league in which every action is ruled by the dice....

  • A Thousand Candles

    Joyce Dingwell

    Pippa and her cousin Rena Franklin had never been particularly close, and it was mainly for the sake of her beloved little brother Davy that she had accepted Rena's invitation to visit her in Australia. Rena had never liked her, so Pippa chose to...

  • Sweet Kate

    Lucy Gillen

    The feud between the Montagues and Capults was no more bitter than that raging between old Mrs. Jeavons and Mr. Yearby -- so when Mr. Yearby's great-grandnephew Tim fell in love with Mrs. Jeavons' nurse-companion Kate, there was bound to be...

  • That Man Next Door

    Lucy Gillen

    Kim was looking forward to living in a delightful seaside village and working with a celebrated and -- as it turned out -- handsome and charming author, George Daley. But that was before she met someone very different indeed: her maddening next-do...

  • Forsaken Army

    Lisa Verge Higgins

    On November 22, 1942, Russian forces closed around the 270,000 German soldiers who had come to take Stalingrad. Only a handful of these men ever returned to Germany: Heinrich Gerlach was one of them, and he determined to spend the rest of his life te...

  • Marx Brothers

    Lisa Verge Higgins

  • Penmarric

    Susan Howatch

    "I WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW THE INHERITANCE AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW JANNA ROSLYN, BUT MY REACTION TO BOTH WAS IDENTICAL. I WANTED THEM...." Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally ent...

  • Into a Golden Land

    Elizabeth Hoy

    Could she remain indifferent? Seeing Brett Meredith in the oasis town of Sidi bou Kef was the last thing that Alison Warrender expected. What was he doing in this out of the way North African hospital. Alison was having a fascinating time in Al...

  • Confessions

    Larry L. King

  • Seen by Candlelight

    Anne Mather

    Although Karen Frazer had been divorced by her husband Paul two years before, and had heard that he had since become engaged to another woman, she still loved him. But she was not yet free of him -- for Paul's married brother was pursuing Karen...

  • In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

    Larry McMurtry

    This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American lite...

  • The Scorpion

    Albert Memmi

  • Tulips for Augusta

    Betty Neels

    ...hearts and flowers What a maddening, impossible man Constantijn van Lindemann was! Wherever Augusta went, there he was: inviting her out, paying her compliments, sending her enormous bouquets of tulips, even kissing her on occasion. Augusta had...

  • Law of the Gun

    Lewis B. Patten

    Written by Lewis B Patten. For five years Owen Scobey had successfully hidden his past from young Matt. And during that troubled time he had grown to love the boy as he would have loved his own son. But with that love was fear - fear of the moment wh...

  • Love in the Ruins

    Walker Percy

    Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument -- the Ontological Lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu. Though scorned by the experts, Tom embarks on an outrageous odyssey to prove...

  • A Summer to Remember

    Hilda Pressley

    Sheila did not have a home and had never had one. She had been comfortable in some places and the opposite in others, and it had not mattered very much. She was transient, a bird of passage, but she was not quite so sure about it when she took a h...

  • The Door Between

    Ellery Queen

    Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk, su...

  • The Made Marriage

    Henrietta Reid

    Owen was a man who didn't need anyone "Lonely farmer needs bride. Good nature and ability to establish warm domestic atmosphere essential," said the advertisement--and in a fit of bravado Kate answered it. She soon found herself en ...

  • Nurse in Acapulco

    Ruth McCarthy Sears

    Candy Conners realized her heart's desire when she came to work at the fabulous Norte Americana Hospital in Acapulco. While America's richest and most beautiful people were playing on the beaches and in the villas of this world-famous resort,...

  • Return to Dragonshill

    Essie Summers

    Johnny Carruthers had broken Henrietta's heart once, when he got engaged to another woman. Now that engagement was over, and Johnny had come back into her life, offering her a second-best love. Would Henrietta have the courage to refuse, or would ...

  • Michael Faraday P

    L.P. williams

    This definitive biography illustrates for the first time the full extent of Michael Faraday's monumental contributions to modern physics. For a major portion of his life. Faraday was one of the more controversial figures in nineteenth-century science...

  • Across the Top of the World

    Wally Herbert

  • My Galleries

    Daniel Henry Kahnweiler

  • Marshall McLuhan

    Jonathan Miller

  • New World Beginnings

    Olivia Vlahos