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Books Published in October 1974
New Books List: 60 titles
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Lonesome Little Colt
Clarence W. Anderson
- Oct-1974
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This is a story on a farm in the country there were many ponies of all sizes and colors. Each one had a little colt and they all lived happily together...All except the Lonesome little colt who had no mother. The other colts would not let him near t...
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Mission to Malaspiga // The Malaspiga Exit
Evelyn Anthony
- Oct-1974
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Amid the splendor of Florence, the Tuscan countryside, and the family villa and castle, Katharine Malaspiga Dexter falls in love with her charming cousin Alessandro Malaspiga, the Duke, although she knows he's married -- and is the ocult mastermi...
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The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!
Otto Bettmann
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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The Good Old Days -- were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so -- especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900’s. This period of history has receded into ...
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Blubber
Judy Blume
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her desk. She didn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just then. Jill wanted to think about Halloween. ...
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The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
- Oct-1974
- / Fantasy
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Make storytime a little spookier with fantasy master Ray Bradbury as he takes readers on a riveting trip though space and time to discover the true origins of Halloween. Join the shadowy Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud as he takes eight trick-or-...
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Expandable America
Paul Brodeur
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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Focusing on the dismal experiences of workers in the asbestos and chemical industries, Mr. Brodeur painstakingly documents how entrenched industry doctors and consultants, allied with key public health officials at various levels of the state and fed...
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Glory and the Lightning
Taylor Caldwell
- Oct-1974
- / Historical Romance
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Aspasia was born to danger. Before her birth, her father had announced his intention of abandoning the child to die, should it be a girl. Hidden away and trained as a courtesan, Aspasia was educated in the arts of seduction in the exotic world of Per...
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Stranded
Matt Christopher
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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A young blind boy and his dog are stranded alone on an uninhabited Caribbean island after a hurricane shipwrecks the family???s sailboat. His parents are washed overboard and disappear. Andy and Max, his faithful dog, must struggle together for survi...
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The Blank Page
K.C. Constantine
- Oct-1974
- / Law Enforcement
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An Edgar Award nominee’s “best [mystery] yet -- an understated small town tragedy handled in his level -- dead-level -- fashion” (Kirkus Reviews). A young college student is found murdered in her dorm room, a blank sheet of typing paper ...
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Gate of the Golden Gazelle
Dorothy Cork
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Natalie Jones had got herself into a rather complicated and mysterious situation in Morocco -- and somehow she persuaded her friend Josian Jones to take her place. This led Josian into a lot of adventures -- with or without the disturbing Raymond ...
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The New Broom
Joyce Dingwell
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sophie felt strongly that her father should have been appointed headmaster of the Apa School for Girls, and she was furious when Grant Saxby not only got the job instead, but proceeded to turn the school coed. But what did Grant Saxby care about S...
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Marathon Man
William Goldman
- Oct-1974
- / Espionage
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William Goldman's remarkable career spans more than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions of readers as the author of the classic comic...
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My Apprenticeship
Maxim Gorky
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was sent out into the world at the age of 11 to fend for himself. This second volume of his autobiographical trilogy records his first encounters with the senseless, violent side of Russian society during the later years of th...
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Delgado Kill
Robert Hawkes
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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The Snow Queen Delgado was king of the cocaine trade, a hard, ruthless man whose only weakness was pretty young men. Now one of his teen-aged boyfriends had sung to the narcs, and his whole corrupt empire could come tumbling down unless he elim...
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A Bag of Marbles
Joseph Joffo
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father''s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family''s safe...
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Leopard in the Snow
Anne Mather
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Helen simply couldn't believe her eyes when, stranded in the snow in the wilds of Cumberland, she found herself confronted by a leopard! But luckily it was a tame one, and its owner, the mysterious Dominic Lyall, was able to offer Helen shelter i...
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The Selected Poems of Milton
John Milton
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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A major new edition of Milton’s selected works of prose, including his political and doctrinal writings and the famous Areopagitica
John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is... -
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The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
- Oct-1974
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Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclai...
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God Save the Child
Robert B. Parker
- Oct-1974
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A boy was gone, the victim of a kidnapping or his parents' indifference, Spenser couldn't tell. Either way, Spenser had been hired to find him, and now that meant going up against a sexual predator masquerading as a hero. But into this ugly case c...
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The Dream on the Hill
Lilian Peake
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nicola Dean and Connor Mitchell had both curtailed promising careers in order to help their parents, so they ought to have had a lot in common. Unfortunately, they just couldn't stand the sight of each other! Hero: Connor Mitchell Heroine:...
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The Pirate
Harold Robbins
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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Badyr Al Fay is one of the richest men in the Middle East and can have any woman he wants. Born in a desert sandstorm that takes his mother's life, he is raised as an Arab, unaware of his true Israeli identity. But his life -- and his fate -- are con...
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The Wildest Heart
Rosemary Rogers
- Oct-1974
- / Historical Romance
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No man can own Rowena Dangerfield -- a sensuous, strong-willed lady with a fiery, unchained spirit--though many desire her. She has come to claim her birthright, following her destiny to the sprawling New Mexican frontier... and to the only man who c...
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Purple Quest
Frank G. Slaughter
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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A turbulent story of violence, desire, and intrigue in ancient Phoenicia. Straton, royal descendant of a past ruling house, watched as his native land—the great Phoenician port city of Tyre—was torn apart by intrigues within the...
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Bacchae of Euripides
Wole Soyinka
- Oct-1974
- / Literary
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A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.
Wole Soyinka has translatedâ,”in both language and spiritâ,”a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences an... -
The Flight of the Hawk
Rebecca Stratton
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jenny Francis was surprised but pleased when her grandfather left her part ownership of his wine-producing business in Spain, and she went off at once to Andalusia to inspect her inheritance. She discovered that her cousin Antonio Francisco had ha...
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Victory at Sebastopol // Hazard to the Rescue
V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart
- Oct-1974
- / Historical
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Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15,000 troops, five batteries of artillery, and virt...
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The Gold of Noon
Essie Summers
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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"The Gunns never did bring the Keiths anything but sorrow," Theresa Keith acknowledged after she had left her home in New Zealand for Austria in the hope that fresh scenes and new faces would take her mind off Murdoch Gunn, the man she was to...
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Fugitives
Meriol Trevor
- Oct-1974
- / General Fiction
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When Petronella's romantic dreams came true...a nightmare of fierce and private torment began. All London called him a traitor! Exiled and in poverty, Thierry was taunted like an animal on display, but bore it with the nobility of a true ar...
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Bonnie and the Haunted Farm
Barbara Van Tuyl
- Oct-1974
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The adventures of Julie and Bonnie continue in this fourth in the series of The Bonnie Books. With Sunbonnet Julie Jefferson's beloved Bonnie retired from racing and expecting a foal, Julie is excited over her new jumper prospect Cache and her new ne...
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Sweet Sundown
Margaret Way
- Oct-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ever since she was a little girl Gabriele had been promised a, trip to Sundown, the lovely old mansion where her mother had been born. And now she was going there at last at the invitation of her glamorous aunt Camilla. What would that visit bring...
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