Books Published in October 1970

New Books List: 28 titles

  • Take a Girl Like You

    Kingsley Amis

    Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squaloremotional, material, sexual, you name itof modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good...

  • Backward Shadow

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Stubborn Bear,

    Robert Sidney Bigelow

    Bear refuses to change his feeding habits in response to a changing environment. Instead, he grows skinnier and skinnier while stubbornly clinging to his old routine. The surprise ending will make you laugh out loud and read the book all over again. ...

  • Mile High

    Richard Condon

    A Prohibition-era bootlegger builds a savage empire in this “whiplash entertainment” by the author of Prizzi’s Honor and The Manchurian Candidate (Kirkus Reviews). Millions of acres of forest separate Edward Courance West from the outside worl...

  • The Night Watchmen

    Helen Cresswell

  • Mrs. Wallop.

    Peter De Vries

  • The Vermilion Gateway

    Belinda Dell

    "In the eyes of every Japanese, it's an elopement. Everyone expects you and Kan to get married! " Valerie went to hot and then cold at his words. Marry Kan? Nothing could been further from her mind. What was she going to do now? In 48 hou...

  • The Pool of the Pink Lilies // The Pool of Pink Lilies

    Joyce Dingwell

    There were many secrets to unfold Greer and her frail sister, Holly, found their trip to beautiful Bombay in India to be more fascinating than they had thought possible. For Greer, there was the lure of an ancient Hindu shrine with its dark sec...

  • Silent Heart

    Louise Ellis

    Young Nurse Sara Danley was too kind-hearted for her own good - and was it worth it, when all her good nature seemed to be doing for her was losing her one boy-friend after another? Hero: Dr./Doctor Andrew Haynes Heroine: Nurse Sara or Sarah Danl...

  • Wallflower at the Orgy

    Nora Ephron

    A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes -- from one of the most creative minds of our time.“Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything.” -- The New York...

  • The Eternal Moment, and Other Stories

    E.M. Forster

    A collection that explores the human spirit through a series of fantasy vignettes, including "The Machine Stops," "The Point of It," "Mr. Andrews," "Co-ordination," "The Story of the Siren," and the title story.
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  • Sam Houston

    Jean Lee Latham

  • D H Lawrence Novelist

    F.R. Leavis

  • In Name Only

    Roberta Leigh

    Jane Roberts had married Nicholas Hamilton because she loved him, yet knowing that his only reason for marrying her was that under the terms of his father's will he would be disinherited if he didn't. From such a bad beginning, and with th...

  • It Can't Happen Here

    Sinclair Lewis

    “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.” -- SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragili...

  • The Widening Stream

    Rachel Lindsay

    Had it been just a shipboard romance? Loris Cameron's Atlantic crossing with her friend Melanie had been a dream fulfilled--including falling in love with Brett Halliday. He had proposed and Loris had joyfully accepted. But now everything h...

  • Bleak Heritage

    Jean S. MacLeod

    Alan Mailland had been estranged from his parents because of his marriage to Rhona, but it had been his wish that his son Robin be brought up at his family home in Scotland. When Alan died, Rhona, after much heart-searching, agreed to let Robin go to...

  • Banjo

    Claude McKay

    Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking - about their homes in Africa, the...

  • Constant Reader

    Dorothy Parker

  • Faces

    Ellery Queen

  • In the Night Kitchen

    Maurice Sendak

    From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create.

  • Live or Die

    Anne Sexton

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope With her emotionally raw and deeply resonant third collection, Live or Die, Anne Sexton confirmed her place among the most celebrated poets of ...

  • Blaze of Silk

    Margaret Way

    More than anything else in the world Dana Gregory wanted to clear her father of the scandal that so unfairly hung over his name. How annoying that the only person, apparently, who could help her to do it was that infuriating Brett Cantrell! Her...

  • Oh, How Silly!

    William Cole

  • The Hidden Sea

    D. Smith Faulkner

  • Those Endearing Young Charms

    Margaret Malcolm

    They were enemies right from the start. Anthony Roscot had returned from two years abroad to find a noisy party taking place in his home. He was furious. But that was only the beginning of his problems with Kit Conway, the party's irrepressible organ...

  • Fate Is Remarkable

    Betty Neels

    Sarah had worked with Hugo van Elven for a long time, and she was astounded when he suddenly proposed to her. Sarah Dunn and Hugo van Elven were married for the wrong reasons. Even if it was just a marriage of convenience. They were both recove...

  • Dream of the Rood

    Michael J. Swanton

    The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading ...