Books Published in September 1973

New Books List: 55 titles

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    James Agee

    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee photographed by Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973. This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the...

  • Moorland Magic

    Elizabeth Ashton

    Charity wanted to work with children, and the chance of becoming nanny to Frances, the granddaughter of her sister's friend, seemed too good to miss. But how was she to receive the attentions of Gabriel, who made it obvious that he found her attracti...

  • Monkey's Raincoat

    Matsuo Basho

  • The Bad Bell of San Salvador

    Patricia Beatty

    In the 1840's in California a young Comanche refuses to accept the ways of his Mexican captors but wins their acceptance and admiration when he helps to cast the church bell and uses it to warn the villagers of approaching danger....

  • The Thirteenth Trick

    Russell Braddon

    Russell Braddon opens this novel of character and suspense with a murder as viewed by the victim herself. Then the body is found in the back row of a rural English cinema, and it appears that the murderer who victimizes only young, blond female hitch...

  • Moonraker's Bride

    Madeleine Brent

    The stranger she married that night was gone by morning. But she could never forget she was "Moonraker's Bride." Set against the exotic backdrop of China and England at the turn of the century, this breathtaking novel unfolds a fasc...

  • World without End, Amen

    Jimmy Breslin

    Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past   The department has taken away Dermot Davey’s gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing mom...

  • Passionate

    Carter Brown

  • The Astrologer

    John Cameron

  • Flight of the Grey Goose

    Victor Canning

    Fifteen-year-old Smiler is still on the run.Smiler is aiming to evade the police until his father, a ship's cook, comes home to clear him of a crime he hasn't committed. Hitching a train to Scotland, he finds work as an animal caretaker within the gr...

  • Billy Jack

    Frank Christina

  • The Hero of Downways

    Michael Coney

    Once there was a Hero who confronted the dreaded Daggertooth and slew it. Unfortunately he was also slain by it - but the legend persisted. If it could be done once, then another Hero could be raised to do it again. Because the Daggertooth was danger...

  • Lovely Is the Rose

    Belinda Dell

    Corinne came to the Scottish Borders because she wanted to stay near her boss, handsome Travers Eldin. She had no intention of getting involved with local feeling nor with Duncan Donaldson. Try as she might to avoid him, however, he kept coming in...

  • Jillions of Gerbils.

    Arnold Dobrin

  • A Fairy Tale of New York

    J.P. Donleavy

    A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director, with whom he re...

  • The Young Doctor

    Sheila Douglas

    It was the charming Martin Cochrane who was interested in Mary, but it did not take her long to realize that it was his older brother Richard who was the better man. And Richard was clearly earmarked for the glamorous, self-assured Christine Whart...

  • Come Nineveh, Come Tyre

    Allen Drury

    In one of two possible ends to the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning thriller series, the US president faces threats from half-way around the world -- and much closer. The Advise and Consent series is a landmark of political fiction, displaying a depth of ins...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1973

    Martha Foley

  • Zoo Gang

    Paul Gallico

  • Eye Winker, Tom Tinker, Chin Chopper

    Tom Glazer

  • The Princess Bride

    William Goldman

    The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible journey and artfully rendered love story is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, memorable surprises both t...

  • Necessary Objects

    Lois Gould

  • Jack Jouett's Ride

    Gail E. Haley

  • Windward Crest

    Anne Hampson

    There was no way to save their happiness. Dominie Worthing was delighted when an unexpected legacy enabled her to enjoy a Caribbean cruise -- her first real holiday in years. But she certainly hadn't bargained on missing the boat halfway an...

  • Some Other Place, the Right Place

    Donald Harington

    It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs. Bored and impatient, Diana leafs through the loc...

  • Bang the Drum Slowly

    Mark Harris

    A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball teams friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.

    A L.A. Theatre Works full-ca...

  • Upstairs Downstairs

    John Hawkesworth

  • The King David Report; A Novel.

    Stefan Heym

  • Miranda's Marriage

    Margery Hilton

    Desperation forced Miranda to encamp for the night in Jason Steele's office suite, but unfortunately he found her there, and after the unholy wrath that resulted she never dreamed that a few months later she would become his wife. For Jason was r...

  • The Room

    Ruth Holland

  • Kesey's Garage Sale

    Ken Kesey

  • Carnival Coast

    Charlotte Lamb

    It had been a big decision for Claire to travel to the South of France to visit her orphaned baby nephew and niece, as she had foreseen that she would meet with hostility from the children's French relatives. What she had not foresee was the o...

  • Frieda Lawrence

    Robert Lucas

  • Therese

    Francois Mauriac

  • The Midnight Dancers

    Anne Maybury

    An exotic villa on the burning rim of the Sahara. .. A mysterious and threatening message in a lovely silver box ...The senseless theft of a child's diary ... A murderous rock slide in a prehistoric cave ... Frenzied escape through a maze of sordid, ...

  • A Figure of Speech

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Both overlooked in the middle of a big, noisy family, Jenny and her grandpa will always have each other to confide in . . . right? No one in Jenny Pennoyer’s family understands her at all -- no one, that is, except her grandfather, w...

  • To Take Arms

    Maria McGuire

  • The Curious Affair of the Third Dog

    Patricia Moyes

    Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, look forward to a peaceful vacation while visiting Emily's sister in the country village of Gorsemere. However, an emergency phone call involves Henry in a search for a missing dog and quite unexpectedly leads him in...

  • The Flight of the Horse

    Larry Niven

    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? WELL. SORT OF... "Get a horse!" That's what his boss told him. And off Svetz went with the best intentions in the world. But finding a horse, especially when you've never seen one, was no easy matter, as Svetz quickly d...

  • Protector

    Larry Niven

    THE MISSION OF PHSSTHPOK Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before... Brennan w...

  • Breed to Come

    Andre Norton

    When desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thri...

  • The Wind at Morning

    Donald Gordon Payne

  • Murder with a Past

    Ellery Queen

    David Tully hunts for a burglar’s killer in order to save his wife It’s been 3 days since David Tully has seen his wife, and there’s a homicide cop waiting at his front door. Someone has been murdered, but it’s not Ruth Tully. The dead man is...

  • Intruder at Windgates

    Henrietta Reid

    When Jane arrived at Windgates in the Scottish Highlands to visit her great-aunt, Ellen Ferguson, it was to discover that the old lady had been bought out of her beloved home by a complete stranger -- Morris Leslie -- and was understandably bitter ab...

  • How Does a Czar Eat Potatoes?

    Anne K. Rose

  • Marilyn: An Untold Story

    Norman Rosten

  • Trevayne

    Jonathan Ryder

  • As We Are Now

    May Sarton

    "I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."

    So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 7...

  • Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case

    Donald J. Sobol

    THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAN ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE TEN MYSTERIES INSIDE -- CAN YOU SOLVE THEM ALL? • A karate master with fast fingers… • A house that talks… • A cheater at the Dog-Paddle Derby… • Mysterious handpr...

  • Star Spang Banner

    Peter Spier

    Illustrates three verses of our national anthem, written at the battle of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Includes music, background history, and pictures of flags used in the United States, past and present....

  • Islands of Summer

    Anne Weale

    The prospect of a six-months' trip to the beautiful island of Bermuda, working in the beauty salon of a luxury hotel, seemed like Paradise to Caroline. But she had reckoned without the dampening effect of Ian Dryden, the hotel's disapprovi...

  • The Palace of Gold

    Hilary Wilde

    Peter Crosby required a cheerful and competent female to take charge of three children and help to run a farm in Swaziland. "Courage, good temper and common sense also needed as there are crocodiles at the bottom of the garden," the advert continued....

  • Forbidden Rapture

    Violet Winspear

    When Della Neve went on a Mediterranean cruise she wanted a rest, not a holiday romance. Her future was already bound to Marsh Graham, the fiance to whom she owed everything -- who had brought her up, moulded her into a great star, and who loved her ...

  • The Plot That Thickened

    P.G. Wodehouse

    There is no explaining tastes--particularly tastes in love. Monty Bodkin had for some reason fallen in love with Gertrude Butterwick, a beefy girl with large feet, who played on the All England women's hockey team.......

  • School My Heart

    Penelope Walsh

    Sybil wasn't very happy about the way her boy-friend Adrian was taking her for granted, so she went off for a week on her own to a summer school for artists where she met Martin and Johnnie. Would she manage to teach Adrian a lesson, or would she dec...