Books Published in November 1977

New Books List: 106 titles

  • In the Future Perfect

    Walter Abish

  • Revenge of the Horseclans

    Robert Adams

  • Running Away

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    WOMAN ON A TIGHTROPE Isabel Gary. 40 years old. Beautiful. Talented. And tormented... ... by the memory of a husband who had died so tragically early... by the problem of a teenage daughter hellbent on a course of self-destruction ... by the de...

  • Ronnie and Rosey

    Judie Angell

  • Moths

    Rosalind Ashe

    The spirit of a long-dead actress possessed her--setting her body afire with its lust and consuming her soul with its evil. As soon as Nemo Boyce saw Dower House she fell in love with it and convinced her husband to buy it. As soon as Professor...

  • The Eyes of the Amaryllis

    Natalie Babbitt

    Experience love and loss in this enchanting sea mystery from Natalie Babbitt, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, the basis for the 1982 movie adaption of the same name.When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were s...

  • Son and Heir

    Edith Begner

  • In the Ocean of Night

    Gregory Benford

    Gregory Benford is an eminent physicist, multiple award-winning author, and recipient of the United Nations Prize for Literature. Now in a new, revised edition, here is the first novel of his classic Galactic Center series, a triumph of breathtaking ...

  • Star Trek 12

    James Blish

    Bantam, 1977. Mass market paperback. 5 stories from the original TV show. Episodes include: Patterns of Force, The Gamesters of Triskelion, And the Children Shall Lead, The Corbomite Maneuver, Shore Leave....

  • Twelve Bells for Santa

    Crosby Bonsall

  • The Accursed

    Paul Boorstin

  • Blow a Wild Bugle

    Ben L. Burman

  • Seven Stars for

    Ben L. Burman

  • Monarch of Deadman Bay

    Roger A. Caras

  • Panther!

    Roger A. Caras

  • To Follow a Star

    Terry Carr

  • Night of No Moon

    Margaret Chapman

    "I'm a stowaway and I must get to Bali !" Dismayed at being caught, Faith didn't reveal the reason behind her desperate measures. Her fiance, Jeremy, was in Bali and she feared he was in some kind of trouble. She was shocked at ...

  • Hndbk natl Remediee

    Linda Clark

  • Careen

    Virginia Coffman

    Beth Milford had come to Saltbridge Tower on the wild and desolate Irish coast to take her motherless cousin Careen under her wing. But instead of the gently bred girl she had expected, she found a sensuous hoyden whose dark knowing eyes looked impu...

  • They Rose Above It

    Bob Considine

  • Patterson's Island

    Jane Corrie

    Past experience made her wary this time! "I'll give you some good advice." Gavin snapped. "Go back to the poor devil you jilted. You won't find anyone else willing to put up with your tantrums!" Sparks flew between them as Beth made an effort, ...

  • Battle of the Bismarck Sea

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Dark Priestess

    Juanita Coulson

    She Craved a Mortal Love... Delicate, dark, touched by the divine gifts and earthy voluptuousness of Ishtar, goddess of love, her own fate swept her from obscure poverty to the golden palaces of power. A PASSION BEYOND TIME... There she would f...

  • Solo Kill

    S. Kye Coult

    UNDER TWO SUNS High above the heavy air, the March People and the winged Drak met where the two suns crossed: locked in a battle as old as the ritual of Life itself. For Amarson and his fierce Lady Ameera, to live was to kill Drak; to die was noth...

  • A Place of Storms

    Sara Craven

    Andrea tried to harden herself to her cousin Clare's appeal for help. She'd been getting her out of scrapes for too long. Still, she couldn't just sit back and let Blaise Levallier blackmail Clare into marriage, and destroy the lives ...

  • Desires of Thy Heart

    Joan Carroll Cruz

    A WARRIOR KING VOWED TO CELIBACY--AND HIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BRIDE AFLAME WITH DESIRE... They had come together in an arranged marriage. Edmund, the Anglo-Saxon ruler of an embattled kingdom, vowing himself to celibacy to purge a haunting guilt. And ...

  • Legacy

    Jere Cunningham

    Somewhere in the darkness it is watching and waiting -- for you!THE LEGACYChester Rawlings is the first victim - he blows his brains out to escape a living death.THE LEGACYThen old Sam is discovered lying beside his friend's grave, dead of an unnatur...

  • The Sea Gull

    Jean D'astor

    The small town was in an uproar... An invisible hand was uncovering terrible secrets. Anonymous calls for justice appeared like magic, each one signed -- The Sea Gull. Elise Topard had witnessed a crime. She had never told a sole; but The Sea...

  • The Matchmakers

    Janet Dailey

    His words were like a knife in her heart Of all the romantic fools, Kathleen thought, she had to top the list. In her crazy old-fashioned thinking, she had believed Jordan Long would want to marry her. Instead, he wanted to set her up as his mistr...

  • Amethyst Love

    Rebecca Danton

    "I promised solemnly that I would take care of you, Valerie," Malcolm said. "Promised! And I'm not old enough to be your father. And I can't look after a young lady like you unless I marry. So it's got to be marriage, Valerie....

  • The Thief of Hearts

    Rachelle Edwards

    "YOU MARK MY WORDS, ONE DAY SARA IS GOING TO FALL FOR SOMEONE QUITE UNSUITABLE, AND HAVE HER HEART BROKEN. IT'S ALWAYS THE WAY WITH FEMALES WHO ARE CONSIDERED 'SENSIBLE'" Everyone agreed Sara Auden was sensible. Until the day h...

  • The House of Landsdown

    Caroline Farr

    Demon of Darkness. He had the face of Lucifer and a soul filled with evil. And he had sworn that lovely young Sally Lane would die if she revealed his presence on the Landsdown estate to anyone. Was he a man or a demon? Sally didn't know or care. Sh...

  • To Catch a Bride

    Glenna Finley

    In beautiful, sun-drenched San Diego, a lovely young woman is caught up in a tangled web of love and intrigue… Assignment…. Love Beautiful young Nicola Warren was amazed when her boss, high-fashion photographer Alex Laird, called from Calif...

  • Latin American Literature Today

    Anne Freemantle

  • The Judas Pair

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series....

  • By Love Forgotten

    Caroline Gayet

    Wasted by starvation, scarred by torture... Frederic stood there. Some unknown force had brought him to Vezaley. A victim of amnesia, the only clues to his elusive past were remnants of a dream -- the image of a Gothic church and a name ... Anne. Ann...

  • KG 200

    J.D. Gilman

  • Stephanie: The Emperor's Agent

    Marceline Gobineau

  • Two Piano Tuners

    M.B. Goffstein

  • The Masters and Disciples

    Chaim Grade

  • Zemba

    Maxwell Grant

  • Loser Takes All

    Graham Greene

    Bertram had no belief in luck. An unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time - quietly. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches the honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Here Bertram's gambling ...

  • Bliss

    Elizabeth Gundy

    Shy and plain, Leona writes books on seventeenth century love poetry, but her own experience of love is meager. Her last affair, if you can call it that, was nine years ago. Into her barren world of manuscripts walks Bliss. He is one step from illite...

  • Who Is Julia

    Barbara S. Harris

  • The Iron Jehu

    Ray Hogan

  • Watcher in the Shadows

    Geoffrey Household

    After an assassination attempt, an ex-spy must run for his life As far as the police are concerned, Charles Dennim is a zoologist, and there is no reason anyone would want to kill him. And yet, one afternoon when Dennim is working at his desk, death ...

  • Red Anger

    Geoffrey Household

    Accused of treason, a former British security operative and his ally must run for their lives across a vast and wild English landscape According to British intelligence, Alwyn Rory is a traitor to his country. They say the ex"security officer acce...

  • The Cavalier's Woman

    Joan Hunter

    Rupert, The Devil Prince He was a hot-tempered, arrogant Cavalier, the most favored of the king's generals, a brilliant tactician and a royal prince. His love seemed far beyond Venetia's reach. Yet she knew from the first moment she saw him that he m...

  • The Man from Cannae

    John Jakes

  • The Whims of Fate

    Claudette Jauniere

    Despair clutched at her... Nicole was speechless! Paul had told her calmly that he was going to marry Linda Doria, adding, "And I can't fit you into my next film." After their astounding success at the Cannes Festival he no longer needed ...

  • Odile

    Robert Joseph

    Erotic Vixen... She was a proud Creole beauty, the sensual and knowing mistress of Mandragore, a warm and exciting woman with a gift for passion. She was Odile. Two powerful, influential men, vastly different, desired her. One had charmed her s...

  • Death Squad

    Herbert Kastle

    They were cops by day. They did their jobs, played it square, busted the pimps, junkies, rapists, and murderers that held the city hostage, and then watched in disbelief as they were turned onto the street again by the revolving door of the criminal...

  • In Gallant Company

    Alexander Kent

    "WARS ARE NOT FOUGHT WITH HIGH PHRASES. THEY ARE FOUGHT WITH POWDER AND SHOT, CUTLASS AND CANNON, STOUT SHIPS AND GALLANT MEN..." Fighting from the blood-reddened deck of a great ship-of-the-line--boarding privateers from a launch in an offshore f...

  • Love Is a Wild Assault

    Elithe Hamilton Kirkland

    BEAUTIFUL Delicate and dark-eyed, Harriet Potter became a legend for all time - a woman compeling sudden loves and fierce loyalties against the colorful backdrop of a brawling, newborn republic. BRAVE Abandoned to the savage wilderness and...

  • The Nights Of The Long Knives

    Hans Hellmut Kirst

  • Return to Wuthering Heights

    Anna L'estrange

    Old passions and hostilities come back to life in a narrative that continues Bronte's "Wuthering Heights". Hareton Earnshaw (Catherine's nephew) and Cathy Linton (Catherine's daughter) share their predecessors' passion for each other. But has Cathy r...

  • Hawk in a Blue Sky

    Charlotte Lamb

    The family could be split in two! Amanda had been frightened rather than flattered by Cesare Druetso's proposal of marriage when she was eighteen. She had refused to be a slave to his masterful ways. Now, five years later, she was back in his h...

  • The Deceptive American

    William J. Lederer

    In 1965, the authors of The Ugly American published the novel Sarkhan, a book which they felt had an even more dramatic message than their great best-seller. Sarkhan was greeted with high praise, was a selection of both the Literary Guild and the ...

  • Snake Among the Sunflowers

    Joan Lingard

  • Hauntings

    Norah Lofts

    A ghostly caress in an empty room... A rush of emotions not entirely one's own... A mysterious presence on a dark staircase......

  • The Last Celt

    Glenn Lord

  • Champion of the Gods

    Jeffrey Lord

  • Francesca

    Valentina Luellen

    "Now you belong to me...only me!" Her husband spoke softly, menacingly, and Francesca quivered beneath his touch. She had been forced to marry Raoul, a man who represented everything she despised. But, unable to ignore her growing attraction for hi...

  • The Substitute Bride

    Dorothy Mack

    Angelica Wayne was in a most devilish dilemma! It began when she was forced to take a post as a governess to Lord Giles Weston's motherless daughter. It grew more difficult when Angelica lost her heart to this dazzling viscount who once had been ...

  • The Last Transaction

    Barry N. Malzberg

    The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision ...

  • Rafaella

    George McNeill

  • Seasons of Celebrations

    Thomas Merton


    This work, originally inspired by the liturgical renewal brought on by Vatican II, contains Thomas Merton's meditations on the seasons of the liturgical year. He examines the words, songs, ceremonies, signs, and movements that are designed to ope...

  • Old Blood

    Edgar Mittelholzer

  • Disappearances

    Howard Frank Mosher

    New England Book Award Winner: A father and son smuggle liquor across the border in Depression-era Vermont in this “remarkable and wonderful” novel (The Christian Science Monitor).This endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling co...

  • Head Men

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    WASHINGTON MENU When an honored and respected business executive is blown up into liver pâté as a warning to the president, will the head man become the main course? The president thinks he's safe. With the White House electronic detection dev...

  • The Little Dragon

    Betty Neels

    "Love doesn't need to come into it" No matter what Jeroen said, however, Constantia knew she would rather marry for love. Still, Dr. Jeroen van der Giessen was undeniably handsome and nice. And Constantia, who believed that 'money...

  • The Opal-Eyed Fan

    Andre Norton

  • Hidden Persuaders

    Vance Packard

  • Tenants of the Earth

    Sandra Paretti

  • Better to Forget

    Margaret Pargeter

    "Grant, how well did I know you?" Liza waited anxiously for his answer. She couldn't remember Grant Latham--or anything else. She had been told that she'd had an accident; that there had been a fire; and that she had worked for ...

  • The Devil and Karen Kingston

    Robert W. Pelton

  • The Predator

    Denis Pitts

  • Weird Heroes Volume 8

    Byron Preiss

    Jove / HBJ, 1977. Mass market paperback. Eighth and final volume in this anthology series that attempted to revive the excitement of the old pulp magazines. Each story includes some great black and white illustrations by Howard Chaykin and others. Au...

  • Push the Past Behind

    Henrietta Reid

    Helen had carefully built herself a new life--a life that now seemed to be based on a misunderstanding. She couldn't help overhearing Max's argument with Corina Manville. Corina had accused Max of using Helen to make her jealous. And Max h...

  • Sisters at War

    Liliane Robin

    Suddenly I knew who the killer was... There he sat, across the table from me, without a shadow of expression on his face. There was no doubt that he had every reason to hate Christabel: her self-serving schemes had ruined him. But was that hatred so ...

  • The Enigma Project

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Attachments

    Judith Rossner

    A haunting story of an obsessive love relationship, physical, spiritual, and sexual bonding; jealousy and eroticism, tenderness and exploitation; a woman who draws her closest friend into a bizarre union; the two men who marry them - want them, need ...

  • The Venice Plot

    Raymond Rudorff

  • Purity's Passion

    Janette Seymour

    PURITY She was Purity, a maddeningly beautiful woman who wanted to save herself for the one man she had always loved--the man who rescued her from the horror of the French Revolution, who found her a place in England's highest aristocracy and who re...

  • Equus

    Peter Shaffer

    *Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play* *A Broadway production starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe*An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed o...

  • These Golden Pleasures

    Valerie Sherwood

    They called her THAT BARRINGTON WOMAN She was beautiful--and notorious. But beneath the silks and the diamonds, within the supple body so many men had embraced, was the heart of a girl who yearned still for love. At fifteen she had learned her bea...

  • Alpha 8

    Robert Silverberg

  • Dream of Winter

    Rebecca Stratton

    Anything had seemed possible then.... There was a time when Sophie had felt very differently about champion skier Karl Bruner. But that was three years ago; then she had been eighteen years old and dazzled by the charm and reputation of a man of t...

  • Monday Begins on Saturday

    Arkadi Strugatski

  • Starshine

    Theodore Sturgeon

    Collection of stories, including: Derm Fool (1940); The Haunt (1941); Artnan Process (1941); The World Well Lost (1953); The Pod and the Barrier (1957); How to Kill Aunty (1961). "The World Well Lost" is the first sympathetic portrait of homosexualit...

  • Flea Story

    Robert Tallon

  • Place of the Dawn

    Gordon Taylor

  • Capture My Love

    Mary Ann Taylor

    It was only natural that Jennifer Cartwright's wealthy, overprotective relatives wouldn't want her to travel alone in Europe. But Jennifer just didn't like Scott Mitchell, the handsome, young lawyer they chose to accompany her. Somehow, t...

  • Caldo Largo

    Earl Thompson

    Jacket Description/Back: Everyone wants a pice of Johnny Hand. But he will risk almost anything to remain independent. So when they come to him with a proposition to smuggle guns into Castro's Cuba...

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  • Lost

    Thomas Thompson

    In July 1973, Bob Tininenko; his wife, Linda; and his brother in-law, Jim Fisher, set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a thirty-one-foot trimaran down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but ten days into...

  • The Hit Team

    David B. Tinnin

  • Serengeti Home

    Kay Turner

  • Master of Hestviken

    Sigrid Undset

  • Tell me my Name

    Molly Wigand

  • The Loved and the Feared

    Violet Winspear

    One night in Rome Donna Lovelace's life suddenly changed. That night she fell in love with a mysterious stranger. But Rick Lordetti was a hired bodyguard, and he already belonged to her new employer, Serafina Neri, the beautiful retired actres...

  • I Think This Is Where

    Phyllis Anderson Wood

  • Out of the Deeps

    John Wyndham

    When a deep-sea probe investigating unexplained ship sinkings disappeared, people began to get nervous. When the authorities resorted to depth-bombing in retaliation against the unseen menace, the situation turned critical. The aliens attacked. Then ...

  • Goat Song

    Frank Yerby

    ARISTON THE SPARTAN: LOVER, WARRIOR, PASSIONATE ADVENTURER Conceived in brutal lust, Ariston was both blessed and cursed with a beauty that brought suffering and death to everyone he loved. Proud women fought with harlots for his embraces. Men fol...

  • The Loved One

    Evelyn Waugh

    “A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything [Waugh] has ever done,” satirizing 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide (New Yorker).Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow f...

  • Vile Bodies

    Evelyn Waugh

    “A wickedly witty and iridescent novel” satirizes the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s (Time).In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the...