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Books Published in September 1974
New Books List: 69 titles
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Beyond the Beyond
Poul Anderson
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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Signet, 1969. Mass market paperback, One of several printings. Paperback original collection of stories. Includes: "Brake" [Psychotechnic League] (1957); "Day of Burning" [David Falkayn] (1967); " The Sensitive Man" [Psychotechnic League] (1954); "Th...
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Meet the Sun Halfway
Jane Arbor
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Alice's best friend who worked as Warden of a children's home in Morocco had not got on well with the landlord. "Whether this is because he is a woman-hater or just anti-social, your guess is as good as mine," she wrote to warn Alice ...
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The Best of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
- Sep-1974
- / Science Fiction
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Fawcett Crest, 1976, paperback. One of several printings. Includes a bibliography, an introduction by Asimov, and these STORIES: Marooned Off Vesta (1939); Nightfall (1941); The C-Chute (1951); The Martian Way (1952); The Deep (1952); The Fun They Ha...
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The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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Discusses the ships, small boats, and airplanes that have mysteriously vanished in the area between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, offering possible natural and supernatural reasons for the disappearances...
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High-Country Wife
Gloria Bevan
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Roseanne enjoyed her work in the nursery aboard ship until she committed the fatal mistake of becoming too involved in the future of one of her charges, four-year-old Nicky. It was a mistake which led her into marriage with the disturbingly attrac...
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The Spell Sword
Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Sep-1974
- / Fantasy
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Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored... and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew ...
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That Summer of Surrender
Rebecca Caine
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Even after her father's death, Perdita had always had a perfectly happy relationship with her attractive young stepmother Olivia. She was certainly no Cinderella! So when Olivia's chance of making a new life for herself came along, Perdita...
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The Connoisseur
Evan S. Connell
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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Acclaimed author Evan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest, a rapt fixation, and the becoming of a connoisseur. The Connoisseur trails the evolution of Muhlbach,...
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Spy Story
Len Deighton
- Sep-1974
- / Espionage
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A Russian admiral prefers defection to death . . . a beautiful blonde does custom-tailoring for cadavers ... a London computer center plays at macabre war games . . . a cocky colonel in the American Marines takes over a British intelligence caper ......
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Strange Gods
Roger Elwood
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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As Man reaches out beyond the gates of Heaven, or into the deepest space of his own mind, how far will he really go? To the End, the infinite -- the sources of the Divine itself? In STRANGE GODS, top science-fiction writers answer that question in...
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Dark Star
Alan Dean Foster
- Sep-1974
- / Science Fiction
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ALL SYSTEMS -- SNAFU! If anything could possibly go wrong aboard the scoutship Dark Star, sooner or later it would. Now, in the twentieth year of their mission--destroying unstable planets--the ship and its crew were slowly and steadily falling ap...
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Star Trek: Log Two
Alan Dean Foster
- Sep-1974
- / Space Opera
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More lively adaptations from television's most popular science fiction series! --Complete in this volume-- THE SURVIVOR Our old friend Carter Winston is back aboard the Enterprise for a visit--or is he? THE LORELEI SIGNAL A strange "siren'...
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The Secret Challenge // Dr. Holly's Surprise
Annie L. Gelsthorpe
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Holly Lattimer vowed that any man she married would have to accept her as a capable doctor as well as a pretty young woman -- but so far that man had not appeared. When Holly arrived to take over part of her overworked brother John's medical prac...
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The Bastard
John Jakes
- Sep-1974
- / Historical
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Set against the rich fabric of our heritage, and the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to a fledgling nation, this vibrant novel of romance and adventure introduces a stunning new historical figure to excite the imaginings of future generation...
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Victorine // The Gold Slippers
Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Sep-1974
- / Historical Romance
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Victorine -- beautiful, willful, sophisticated -- had returned to her father's magnificent estate in the Deep South. It was a quiet world after a young life of wealth and international travel, but soon she was deeply in love with her handsome neighbo...
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Sackett's Land
Louis L'Amour
- Sep-1974
- / Historical
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Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills. Declared an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. The ruthless pira...
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Utah Blaine
Louis L'Amour
- Sep-1974
- / Historical
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RANGE WAR Utah Blaine had escaped from a Mexican prison and was headed north on foot when lie came upon a hanging. The man in the noose was a tough old Texas rancher, the executioners were his own men turned against him, and Blaine stepped out of ...
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Nella Waits
Marlys Millhiser
- Sep-1974
- / Gothic
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He was her beautiful son, even with the shabby clothes and hair, every precious inch so straight and well formed. No one would take him from her again. Nella had been dead for thirty years. Her son, Jay, now a grown man, returns to the old homeste...
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Death of a Heavenly Twin
Anne Morice
- Sep-1974
- / Police Procedural
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She lay on her back, her head and shoulders at an unnaturally curved angle, as though she had arched herself in a last tremendous convulsion as death overtook her. The grass around her was stained with blood and a dart was sticking out above the neck...
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Iris Murdoch
- Sep-1974
- / Romantic Suspense
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Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets l...
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The Milagro Beanfield War
John Treadwell Nichols
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” -- The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for t...
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The Deadly Pearl
Marc Olden
- Sep-1974
- / Action Adventure
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Sand attacks the empire of New York's deadliest pimp Her name is Rochelle, and she is only fifteen when she disappears. Her father is a secret service agent assigned to ex-president William Baron Clarke, and when he asks for help, Clarke calls the...
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The Storm Within
Sue Peters
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Martyr's Green was a perfect, storybook English village, and Rob would have loved living and working there as assistant vet -- if it hadn't also contained her new boss, the incredibly difficult Hallam Rand! Hero: Hallam Rand Heroine: Robe...
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The Time Trap of Ming XIII
Alex Raymond
- Sep-1974
- / Space Opera
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THE TIME TRAP OF MING XIII is the fourth in the series of fabulous novels inspired by the famous comic strip FLASH GORDON, read daily and Sunday by millions of fans throughout the world. After his scientists design the Tempendulum, a machine that ...
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Ishmael Reed
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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"The Last Days of Louisiana Redblends paradox, hyperbole, understatement and signifyin' so expertlyyou can almost hear a droll black voice telling the tales as you readit." - The New Republic
When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, an...
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Dragon Island
Henrietta Reid
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Morna went to a remote Scottish island looking for a challenge, and certainly found it in the person of the annoying Murrie Grantham. She had no intention of allowing such arrogant man to browbeat her and made it clear to him. But soon she was to ...
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A Hearse for Dark Harbor
Clarissa Ross
- Sep-1974
- / Gothic
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A LEPER'S GHOST Rose was worried when her friend Helen went to live in a commune on Pirates Island. And when Helen wrote, saying that Rose should never again try to contact her, Rose knew she must come to Dark Harbor to find her friend. Thus be...
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Other Men's Daughters
Richard Stern
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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“Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the first page of Other Men’s Daughters. It is the late 1960...
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Case and the Dreamer
Theodore Sturgeon
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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James Blish called him the “finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.” Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor...
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Through All the Years
Essie Summers
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Thomasina heard that she had won a competition and would be able to take her young half-brother and sister on the holiday of a lifetime, she was thrilled. Not only would she be able to travel to New Zealand, but once there she would see her f...
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Lord of the Sierras
Anne Weale
- Sep-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sophie fell in love with a man she had only encountered once and whose name she did not know. She called him her "Lord of the Sierras" and dreamt of what he would say when she saw him again. But the masterful Carlos Walsingham was very different f...
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Harlequin
Morris West
- Sep-1974
- / General Fiction
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Paul Desmond admires his close friend George Harlequin for his impeccable European breeding. Head of a prestigious Swiss bank, Harlequin belongs to a vanishing class of gentlemen whose handshake is their bond. Then their gilded world is blown apart. ...
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