Books Published in November 1975

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New Books List: 74 titles

  • Monster Rally

    Charles Addams

  • Warlord's World

    Christopher Anuil

  • Smoke Into Flame

    Jane Arbor

    When her engagement to Bruno Cavour fell through, Clare was offered a job by the attractive Italian, Tarquin Roscuro. Thoughts of Bruno soon faded when she fell in love with Tarquin -- but alas, he seemed no more interested in marrying her than Br...

  • Crown of Willow

    Elizabeth Ashton

    To regain his family's chateau and fortunes, Raoul, Comte de Valpres, had only to marry the more-than-willing Mariette Dubois, spoilt daughter of the chateau's present owner. But how could unimportant Halcyon Grey, who loved him, stand by ...

  • A Seventh Man

    John Berger

  • Rest Without Peace

    Elizabeth Byrd

  • Georgia Boy

    Erskine Caldwell

    In this appealing collection of fourteen interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between Martha, his hardworking, sensible...

  • Mixed-Marriage Daughter

    Hila Colman

  • Reverend Mama

    Parley J. Cooper

    Do you know where your teen-agers are? If they’re with Reverend Mama, God help them… Even the forces of heaven seem helpless against the soul-seducing power of this woman and the sinister spell of violence and evil she casts over her young fol...

  • Red Diamond

    Dorothy Cork

    Martyn's carefree life had come to an end, and somehow she had to earn her living. The offer of a job on an outback station seemed to be the answer -- until it turned out not to be a job at all. And the whole situation was too involved with th...

  • Maybe, a Mole

    Julia Cunningham

  • A Conflict of Women

    Emma Darby

  • Corporation Boss

    Joyce Dingwell

    When they had first met, Constance knew Anthony Vine had been interested in her. But now that she had come to work with him at Corporation City in the Northern Territory, he was cold and distant. What had gone wrong between them, and was there any...

  • Collision Course

    Jane Donnelly

    Everyone in the village was agog with excitement because Luke Hannay, the world-famous journalist and television personality, was coming to open the new club house. Everyone, that is, but Rosemary Smith - and she was determined that her path and L...

  • Crossfire

    Cliff Farrell

  • The Texts of Festival

    Mick Farren

  • McBroom Tells a Lie

    Sid Fleischman

  • Flashman in the Great Game

    George MacDonald Fraser

    “Hilariously funny.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewOne of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as we...

  • Flashman at the Charge

    George MacDonald Fraser

    “Hilariously funny.” -- The New York Times Book Review   “Great dirty fun!” -- Grand Rapids Press   “The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful ...

  • Royal Flash

    George MacDonald Fraser

    "Horse riding, sword fighting, fistfights, escapes, chases... If anyone is looking for a successor to James Bond, Flashy is the one." -- The New York TimesIn Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the das...

  • Bloodstalk

    Ron Goulart

  • The Best of Sydney J. Harris

    Sydney J. Harris

  • Snowbound with Betsy

    Carolyn Haywood

  • This School Is Driving Me Crazy

    Nat Hentoff

  • Dark Intruder

    Nerina Hilliard

    Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it. So she wasn'...

  • The Beach of Sweet Returns

    Margery Hilton

    The little beach had been Kate's childhood paradise. But when she returned home to Malaya as a successful model, she was determined to make no sentimental pilgrimages. Ever since her first unhappy love affair, Kate wore the cool assurance of h...

  • The Affair

    Morton M. Hunt

    Extramarital sex long has been a subject veiled by gossip, rumor, hearsay. But what are the facts about this vey human activity? How many Husbands indulge in infidelity? how many wives? And what are the effects on the participating parties and their ...

  • Professor Branestawm

    Norman Hunter

  • Ward 402

    Hadley Irwin

  • Bladon's Rock // Doctor Gaston

    Pamela Kent

    Richard was coming home! When Valentine first met Doctor Gaston Lamoine, the famous neurologist, she found herself provoked by his remark that they were both ships that pass in the night. The remark didn't say very much for the impression she had ...

  • The silent clowns

    Walter Kerr

    This book is both a scholarly study of silent comedy movies, and an illustrated guide to the major comedians for the general reader. It covers such characters as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy. The author is one of ...

  • Prince for Sale

    Rachel Lindsay

    A horrified "No", was Melissa Benton's first reaction to Prince Louis' proposal. Rich, beautiful, head of the powerful Benton Company--she had no interest in a man she'd never even met. And that was a!I right with Prince Louis -- ...

  • Boy Without a Name

    Penelope Lively

  • The Town House

    Norah Lofts

    The Town House is the first in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the ...

  • The Gamesman

    Barry N. Malzberg

    A staggering vision of Earth in the not-so-distant future. . .In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response....

  • Come the Vintage

    Anne Mather

    Her situation was impossible, Ryan realized, more impossible than even Alain could imagine. What had he said? "We are married, Ryan. I suggest we attempt to salvage something from the wreck." But friendship was something she and Alain c...

  • For the Love of Sara

    Anne Mather

    Rachel had tried to escape the torture of her thoughts and memories. She had loved Joel--loved him with all the wealth of tenderness and passion she possessed. He had taken her love and destroyed it... . Now she heard Joel say, "I know what I ...

  • The Sea King's Daughter

    Barbara Michaels

    Sandy Bishop arrived on the Greek Island of Thera to dive for forbidden treasure with her archaeologist father, from whom she had been separated for twenty years. She hoped it would bring them closer together, hut even now he remained strangely dista...

  • Fires of Heaven

    Beulah Miller

  • Deadly Seeds

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    HUNGER POWER James Orayo Fielding is a multimillionaire. He hates people. Considers them little more than bugs...to be controlled or eradicated. Fielding also has a new way to solve the famine that is escalating in many overpopulated countries....

  • Cobweb Morning

    Betty Neels

    What was the truth about Penny? Nurse Alexandra Dobbs met a distinguished Dutch doctor, Taro van Dresselhuys, when he asked her to help with Penny, a teenager with amnesia. Before long, Alexandra had fallen in love with Taro -- and Penny did, too....

  • Time Slave

    John Norman

    Dr. Brenda Hamilton—a PhD mathematician from Caltech—is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensual, though her senses have been dull...

  • The Sky Children

    Donald Olson

  • The Sun of Summer

    Lilian Peake

    Now I know, him better, thought Marilyn bitterly. Blair Barron van Heiden would allow no woman to lure him in any direction. He would pursue a relationship as far as he desired, then walk away from it as though it had never been. Holiday romances ...

  • Telltale Summer of Tina C

    Lila Perl

    Can a twelve-year-old, five-foot-nine-inch girl who thinks she has "horsy" teeth find happiness for a summer? It's bad enough that Tina's mother and father get separated. And Tina can't understand what her dad sees in "Rosebud," his new girlfriend...

  • Prohias Fourth M

    Antonio Prohias

  • The Gentleman Pirate

    Janette Radcliffe

    For Sheila O'Donnell, Regency England seemed a world away from the tropical plantation that she managed in the absence of its owner. But when Lord Lionel Maitland suddenly returned to his island estate from London with a party of elegant ladies a...

  • Bloody Marvellous

    Julian Rathbone

  • The Secret Life of T. K. Dearing

    Jean Robinson

  • Detour to a Funeral

    V.J. Santiago

  • Stavisky

    Jorge Semprun

  • Leviathan

    Robert Shea

    Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dol...

  • Dont Get Me Wrong I

    Sidney Sklosky

  • A Touch of Glory

    Frank G. Slaughter

    GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? When young Dr. Chris Land came back from the war he needed a complete rest. But his first night home he either had to let a child die or perform a risky emergency operation -- without a license. A month later Chris was loc...

  • Buccaneer Surgeon

    Frank G. Slaughter

  • Doctors' Wives

    Frank G. Slaughter

  • Cotswold Honey

    Doris E. Smith

    It was love that made Charlotte move from a busy animal hospital in London to the peace of a veterinary practice in the Cotswolds. But she was to find that her new employer, the devastatingly attractive Kenneth Carr, provided her with more heart sear...

  • The Goddess of Mavisu

    Rebecca Stratton

    Delia knew she should never have let herself fall in love with the devastatingly attractive Kemal Selim. He was a Turk, with all the traditional Turkish preference for a meek and docile wife of his own nationality -- someone like Suna Kozlu. But s...

  • Urban Wilds

    Ogden Tanner

  • Sugar Cane Harvest

    Kay Thorpe

    Tessa Wright's carefree existence in her Caribbean home was threatened by the news that Bryn Marshall was coming back. Their relationship had always been uneasy, and she had little hope that it might change. For he seemed no more interested in...

  • Escape to Happiness

    Mary Whistler

    It was just another newspaper story to Rose -- a Society wedding, nothing that would ever touch her life. Certainly, when the wedding was called off, the bride left at the altar, the last thing Rose expected was to find the bridegroom on her doors...

  • That Man Bryce

    Mary Wibberley

    Who was the mysterious Bryce Drovnik? What was he doing in Austria -- and why was he keeping Kim virtually a prisoner in his house? He really was quite detestable! How could she manage to get away from him? Hero: Bryce Drovnik Heroine: Kim Dal...

  • The Wilderness Hut

    Mary Wibberley

    Eve Carrick was a rich girl who had only to lift her little finger to be waited on hand and foot. Garth Seton was the pilot she had hired to fly her about and generally do her bidding on a trip to Finland. But Garth Seton didn't jump to anyon...

  • The Devil's Darling

    Violet Winspear

    A place out of a dream - but to Persepha it seemed more like a nightmare from which she couldn't awake... A place to love - had she loved Don Eduardo, her husband. But Persepha didn't even know him and so the beautiful Hacienda Ruy seemed...

  • Mulliner Nights

    P.G. Wodehouse

  • The Luck of the Bodkins

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Things on board the R. M. S. Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated. Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet, who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks she has a thing for his brother Reggie, who is struck by Ma...

  • The Inimitable Jeeves

    P.G. Wodehouse

    The 11 stories prepared in this collection are the original stories which were all first published between 1918 and 1922 in the magazines Strand and Cosmopolitan, now in the public domain. They were then revised and re-published together as 18 storie...

  • Right Ho, Jeeves!

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on born on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a magistrate.After two years in Hong Kong Wodehouse and his two brothers were sent ba...

  • Very Good, Jeeves!

    P.G. Wodehouse

    “To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.” -- Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one o...

  • Lord Emsworth and Others

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves... From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally i...

  • Seventy Days Sing

    Stanley L. Falk

    Here is the definitive story in fresh, thrilling detail of how the British Empire's last and greatest fortress, Singapore, fell in 1942. Novelistic in its drama and in the telling, this is a superb achievement of the chief historian of the United st...

  • The Girl at Danes' Dyke

    Margaret Rome

    "Women aren't welcome at Danes' Dyke," the inscrutable Thor Halden told Raine; nevertheless circumstances forced him to take her under his roof and to persuade her to masquerade as his wife for a time. Even before she found herself...

  • Moon Tide

    Rebecca Stratton

    Kate Wilmot had inherited a house in Hawaii, jointly with two other people: the charming Calvin Morton and the equally charming but unpredictable Kai Fernandez. Under the conditions of the will they had to live there for a year. Inevitably, emotio...