Books Published in May 1973

New Books List: 43 titles

  • People of the Wind

    Poul Anderson

    When the two star-faring races from which they are descended enter into war against each other, the two species who share the planet Avalon--one of humans, the other of winged creatures--must make enemies of friends. Reprint....

  • The Velvet Vixen

    Carter Brown

    TOO MANY GIRLS can be too much of a good thing, especially when the redhead is a liar, the brunette is frigid and the blonde is dead -- so dead that someone had doped, strangled, and killed her just to make sure! Fast-talking police lieutenant Al...

  • A Man of Kent

    Isobel Chace

    Sarah had willingly given up, for the time being, her promising career as an actress, and moved out to Kent to look after her invalid father -- and it didn't seem so much of a sacrifice when it all led to her meeting Robert Chaddox. But that w...

  • The World of Apples

    John Cheever

    Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency, common sense, nostalgia, even truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless sur...

  • Perihan's Promise, Turkish Relatives, and the Dirty Old Imam

    Helen Chetin

  • Traitor Within

    Alexander Cordell

    A fourteen-year-old Chinese boy struggles to prove his loyalty and courage to his commune and country in the face of his fear of a predicted attack on his village by the Taiwanese enemy....

  • The Book of Gordon Dickson

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Hawk Over Hollyhedge Manor

    Dorothy Dowdell

    A Murderer's Welcome It had started out as a lovely day. Andrea, her cousin, and two new neighbors had taken their horses for a long ride in the woods that surrounded Hollyhedge Manor. At some point in the excursion, Andrea and her cousin were mys...

  • The Golden Circle

    Lee Falk

    The lovely blonde put her arm around him and kissed him. "I am so glad you are back" she said. "Whatever took you so long?" He had never seen her before. That kiss in a speeding train plunges the PHANTOM into a circle of mystery and death--"THE GO...

  • When Love Speaks

    Glenna Finley

    In one exciting week a beautiful career girl faces mystery, danger ... and unexpected romance... The Heart Must Have Its Say Lovely Andrea Sinclair didn't think rugged cowboys were her type--until she met Steve York, the handsome young foreman ...

  • The Life to Come, and Other Short Stories

    E.M. Forster

    The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; others give serious and powerful expression to some of Forster's profoundest concerns....

  • Red River

    George G. Gilman

    JAGGED It was a jagged rip in his memory. In jail for a killing he didn't commit, Edge is puzzled by the prisoner in the next cell. Where had they met before? Was it at Shiloh, or in the horror of Andersonville? This is the sequel to Killer's ...

  • Moly, and My Sad Captains

    Thom Gunn

  • A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett

    Hugh Kenner

  • Dark Horse

    Fletcher Knebel

    Three weeks before election day a presidential candidate dies...in a hastilly called party conclave. Eddie Quinn is names to take his place. Eddie Who? An obscure highway official from New Jersey, whose chief pleasures are cars, bowling and women....

  • Jesus Song

    R. Rozanne Knudson

  • Follow a Stranger

    Charlotte Lamb

    Kate hadn't liked the haughty Greek, Marc Lillitos, from the first moment she met him, and it was only for the sake of her fiance Peter, a keen archaeologist, that she had accepted Marc's invitation to the two of them to visit his Greek islan...

  • Something Queer Is Going on

    Elizabeth Levy

    Jill and Gwen do some sleuthing when Jill's basset hound disappears.A boundary-breaker, a story about girls that boys will read—it's too much fun to miss.—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books....

  • The Christmas Secret

    Joan Lexau

  • Serpico

    Peter Maas

  • Carlotta's Castle

    Jane McCarthy

    The evil legend of Carlotta's Castle, high on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, seemed an amusing superstition to lovely Brooke Billington when she took possession of her unexpected legacy. Soon, however, Brooke's laughter turned to gasping horror....

  • Runaway Horses

    Yukio Mishima

    The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility -- and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun) -- narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In...

  • Matai Valley Magic

    Mary Moore

    Fern Fraser had been hitchhiking when she was hurt in a crash, which led to the driver, Hamish Alexander, inviting her to stay at Matai Valley. Mr. Alexander was nice, which was more than she could say for his nephew Brett, who described her as a ...

  • Lord of the Forest

    Hilda Nickson

    Linda didn't have any doubts about her feelings for Brett Faulkner -- but he was the local lord of the Manor, while she was just a very ordinary girl. Why should he be interested in her? Or was Linda being snobbish and out-of-date about it all?...

  • Borrower of the Night

    Elizabeth Peters

    It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For Vicky Bliss -- tall, beautiful, and brilliant -- it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have been no c...

  • Black Glass City

    Judson Pentecost Philips

  • Death of the Fuhrer

    Roland Puccetti

  • Dead Man's Tale

    Ellery Queen

    A fixer hunts down a man in Europe for the sake of his lover’s fortune In 1943, Barney Street was flying a bombing mission over Holland when the Germans knocked his plane out of the sky. He bailed out at the last minute and was rescued from the Naz...

  • Spear of Destiny

    Trevor Ravenscroft

  • Last Ball

    Charles Rigdon

  • Barranca

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Gordon D. Shirreffs, Spur Award and Owen Wister Award winning author, tells the tales of the old west as they were meant to be told-with no holds barred action and adventure.In Barranca, a dying blind man vows to reveal the site of a lost silver mine...

  • The Lusitania

    Colin Simpson

    A correspondent for the London Sunday Times unfolds the events surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania, presenting startling evidence about the role of British and American officials in this disaster...

  • The Hothouse by the East River

    Muriel Spark

    In 1973 Paul and Elsa are living in New York. In 1944 they were both involved in intelligence work in England, and with the arrival in New York of Helmut Kiel, one-time German POW and lover of Elsa, their past returns to haunt them....

  • Harvest Home

    Thomas Tryon

    In a country village, a family of New Yorkers encounters a chilling ancient rite.

    After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New Englan...

  • No Kiss for Mother

    Tomi Ungerer

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    If there’s one thing Piper Paw hates, it’s being kissed by his doting mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. And one day she does the unforgivable: she kisses Piper in front of his friends! ""Kisses, kisses all the time,"" howls Piper. ""I don&rs...

  • Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye, Blue Monday

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex...

  • House For The Tru

    John Wain

  • The Iron Shirt

    John Whitlatch

  • The Judas Goat

    John Whitlatch

  • The Secret of Hedges Hall

    Lynn Williams

    When pretty Pat Harrison went up the steps of Hedges Hall on the Durwood College campus, she realized the danger she was stepping into. Officially Pat was registering as a student, but in reality she was an ace reporter, assigned to investigate a rec...

  • The Kisses and the Wine

    Violet Winspear

    Lise supposed she should be grateful to the imperious Conde Leandro de Marco Reyes for helping her out of an awkward situation -- but not so grateful that she would pretend to be his fiancee. A domineering conquistador-type Spanish nobleman was not h...

  • Don't Stop the Carnival

    Herman Wouk

    The basis for the Herman Wouk"Jimmy Buffett musical: A middle-aged New Yorker buys a Caribbean hotel and learns that paradise has its drawbacks in this novel that “moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie” (The New York Times Book Review). Broadw...