Books Published in September 1972

New Books List: 47 titles

  • Hush Little Baby

    Aliki

  • The Pumpkin Smasher

    Anita Benarde

  • Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

    Judy Blume

    Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the "secret" Shelia who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs. When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face ...

  • Jasper and the Giant.

    Nicholas. Brennan

  • Angry Amazons

    Carter Brown

  • Honestly, Katie John

    Mary Calhoun

    Katie is now in the sixth grade, and things are changing too fast for her. The girls seem to like boys, lipstick and movie actors, much to her disgust. Katie tries to deal with this by rebelling and ends up a pariah for a while. Highly imaginative, s...

  • The Flamboyant Tree

    Isobel Chace

    Frances Whitney had read an article about the self-help villages of Tanzania, where the population worked together in a kind of co-operative for their mutual benefit, and before anyone could stop her she had volunteered to go to one of these villages...

  • A Spectrum of Worlds

    Thomas D. Clareson

    Stated First edition bound in black cloth in near fine condition. Soiling to the upper page block and mild remainder spray on the bottom page block. The dust jacket is in VG condition. Rear panel is dust soiled and has creases at the lower left corne...

  • The Year of the Intern

    Robin Cook

    “DR. PETER’S, “THE PATIENT HWAS STOPPED BREATHING AND DOESN’T HAVE ANY PULSE!” The nurse’s voice of the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peter’s, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgo...

  • Wayaway

    Dorothy Cork

    When Keitha arrived in Australia she was still smarting from an unsatisfactory love affair -- and she could hardly believe it when she realized that she had suddenly fallen out of love with one man and into love with another -- the forceful Dane Lang...

  • The Terrible Wave.

    Marden Dahlstedt

  • A Stranger Came

    Jane Donnelly

    It was a bombshell when old Mr. Elsgood said that a newcomer, Stephen Harmon, was coming from London to take over the law firm of Elsgood and Elsey in the sleepy Midland town of Cheslyn Slade. Nell, Mr. Elsgood's secretary, was not at all sure...

  • Escape to Koolonga

    Amanda Doyle

    Emmie Montfort had always been the quiet, plain Jane among her beautiful and talented family -- and it was partly to escape from it all that she had come here to Koolonga to take over her inheritance of a small general store.... But when she had ...

  • The Story of the Phantom

    Lee Falk

    Why is also known as The Ghost Who Walks --and The Man Who Cannot Die? Is he really 400 years old? It is whispered that he who looks upon the Phantom's unmasked face will die instantly--in agony. Who is THE PHANTOM? This masked hero is the neme...

  • The Valley of the Eagles

    Eleanor Farnes

    Juliet Arnold went to Spain to work, but her plans went awry and instead she found herself very much involved with two men. There was Harry Boyd, who was nice and calm and kind, who loved her and wanted to marry her. She always felt so comfortable an...

  • Hog on Ice

    Charles Earle Funk

  • Nobody's Business

    Penelope Gilliatt

  • The Diddakoi

    Rumer Godden

    A timeless children''s classic reissued with a stunning new package.Everyone in Kizzy''s town hates her because she''s half-gypsy a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn''t care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns...

  • Master of Moonrock

    Anne Hampson

    Thane Benedict was the last person Loren Knight would have chosen to be her guardian. However, there it was: he was indeed to have charge of her until she was twenty; and here she was, at Moonrock, his vast cattle station in the middle of Australia&#...

  • Stonehenge

    Harry Harrison

    Three against an Empire!Ason: Prince of an ancient house, intent on restoring the keystone of his father's power, braves the limits of the land-rimmed sea to sail North, through the cold fog, to the icy island where, with heroic effort, the key to vi...

  • Good-Night, Owl!

    Pat Hutchins

    Owl can’t get to sleep in this Classic Board Book edition of Pat Hutchins’s beloved Good-Night, Owl!How is Owl supposed to sleep the day away with the bees buzzing, the woodpecker pecking, the doves cooing, and the squirrels crunching? But when n...

  • The Master of Go

    Yasunari Kawabata

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire...

  • The Diary of a Paper Boy.

    Jean-Jacques Larrea

  • The Boy in the Bush

    D.H. Lawrence

    At D.H. Lawrence's suggestion, a nurse and author, Mollie Skinner wrote about a young Englishman's reactions to late nineteenth-century Western Australia; then Lawrence completely rewrote it. This is the first critical edition of that novel, The Boy ...

  • The Farthest Shore

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Arren, the Prince of Enlad.. . Ged, the Archmage of Roke.. . The young prince brought harsh news. There was no longer true magic in Enlad--the mages had forgotten their spells. The springs of wizardry were running dry ... With Arren, Ged set out t...

  • The Stepford Wives

    Ira Levin

    All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two ch...

  • The Extraordinary Engagement

    Marjorie Lewty

    When he had broken off their engagement, Terry had told Liz, "It's not dishonest to marry where the money is, it's just plain common sense. I don't believe there's a man alive who'd pass up a chance like I've got." ...

  • The Maude Reed Tale

    Norah Lofts

  • The Shining Years

    Emilie Loring

    IRRESISTIBLE FORCE, IMMOVABLE OBJECT When editor Stanley Holbrook rejected Sherry Winthrop's first novel, he didn't know what he had started. Sherry's fiance had been away on secret army business for months so she decided to come East and take Ne...

  • Victory for Victoria

    Betty Neels

    Victoria was a pretty girl - unless her three far prettier sisters were around as competition. And Alexander van Schuylen was clearly as impressed by her sister's beauty as any other man would be. So Victoria had better not take his attent...

  • Secret Language

    Ursula Nordstrom

    At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School.Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.

    Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Mar...

  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Flannery O'Connor

    An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction -- now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others ...

  • Man Out of Reach

    Lilian Peake

    The new deputy head, Dr. Adrian Crayford, plainly regarded women as an interference in his life. "No woman can penetrate my barriers again. I'm woman-proof," he told Rosalie Parham firmly. But Rosalie was very attractive - and so wa...

  • One Dark Night

    Edna Mitchell Preston

  • A Man Called Lucy

    Accoce Que

  • South Moon Under

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    "This version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawling''s first novel captures the richness of the Florida wetlands and tells the story of a young man, Lant, who must support himself and his mother by making and selling moonshine. ""South Moon Under"" was included...

  • A Marriage of Inconvenience

    Janet Louise Roberts

    Lovely Sophia Forest was a very intellectual young lady for the year 1816 in Regency England--quite different from her beautiful and flighty sister, Daphne. All London was agog when Sophia rather than Daphne wed the dashing Earl of Gresham, whose sco...

  • Lone Rifle

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Jonas Carlisle was determined to get his cattle to Montana, even if he had to push straight through hostile Indian country to get there. Jonas was a man who thrived on risk - why else would he take his beautiful wife and the hide of a rare albino b...

  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    Neil Simon

  • Pilgrims in Paradise

    Frank G. Slaughter

    It was a cold winter day in the England of 1647, and Paul Sutton, a young doc­tor, began to feel the lure of the tropics. But when he signed on as medical officer to a shipload of pilgrims bound for the Bahamas, the beckoning attractions spell...

  • My Father the Coach

    Alfred Slote

  • Gloria Barney

    Florence J. Soman

  • London Bridge Is Falling Down

    Peter Spier

  • Smoldering Fire

    D.E. Stevenson

  • Museums & Women And Other Stories

    John Updike

    Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title...

  • The Jews of Silence

    Elie Wiesel

    In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show wind...

  • Theatre of War

    Eric Bentley