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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1975
New Books List: 86 titles
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The Player King
Elizabeth Ashton
- Sep-1975
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The famous actor Dorian Armitage had been a hero of Jocelyn's ever since she had once worked with him. Now, quite by accident, she had the chance to be part of his private life as well -- as companion to his motherless small son. Although she ...
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
- Sep-1975
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With his uncanny wit and perception, Saul Bellow tells the story of Charlie Citrine, a young man whose life is reaching a critical moment. Over several years, Charlie’s almost obsessive love of literature has led him into a deep friendship with the...
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Growing Up Rich
Anne Bernays
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Young Sarah Agard Stern and her stepbrother make a tragedy-caused, traumatic transition from Upper East side luxury and privilege to the budgettightening, public schooling, and left-over cuisine of Brookline, Massachusetts and the household of Sam an...
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The Memory of Old Jack
Wendell Berry
- Sep-1975
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Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.The story tells of the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his...
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South Street
David Bradley
- Sep-1975
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A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, street preachers, blue-collar workers, and small time hoods that changes him and his outlook
Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is fil...
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A Very Tender Love
Katherine Newlin Burt
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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In her rags-to-riches world, could the beautiful young heiress find solace for her lonely heart…? She had lost a fortune to him. How could he dare to claim her heart? From heiress to housekeeper was the story of lovely young Sara Keyne’s li...
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Tales of Power
Carlos Castaneda
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most pow...
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Orphan Jim
Lonnie Coleman
- Sep-1975
- / Historical Romance
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In the hard year of '32 a boy and girl share a great adventure in America's heartland. -- Early one Alabama morning in the midst of the Great Depression, Trudy and Jim, ragamuffins orphaned by poverty and neglect, took to the road. Theirs is a bitt...
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The Ripening Seed
Colette
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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During their final summer of shared childhood and innocence on the Brittany coast, Philippe and Vinca struggle with new, unsettling feelings for one another, a struggle heightened by Philippe's sexual initiation under the tutelage of the expert Madam...
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A Feast of Blood
Charles M. Collins
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Anthology. Contributor Anonymous (Mysterious Stranger); E. F. Benson (Room in the Tower); Carl Jacobi (Revelations in Black); Richard Matheson (Blood Sun); John Polidori (Vampyre); David Scott-Moncrieff (Schloss Wappenburg); Clark Ashton Smith (Rende...
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Switch Bitch
Roald Dahl
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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“Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable.” -- The Daily TelegraphIn Switch Bitch, four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. Topping and tailing this collection are “The Visi...
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Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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The hilarious adventures of Danny and the best dad a boy ever had. "You will learn as you get older, just as I learned that autumn, that no father is perfect. Grown-ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets, but all of them have tw...
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The Lion in the Box
Marguerite de Angeli
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Recently widowed, Mama would only be able to provide a meager Christmas for her five small children. Even though Mama could only get work occasionally, the family was rich in love and affection. The older girls did housework while Mama was away, and ...
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The Wellspring
Janice Holt Giles
- Sep-1975
- / Historical Romance
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The last book Giles published before her death in 1979, Wellspring has been out of print for years. The nineteen selections bring together Giles's fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, and fictionalized autobiography to reveal a behind-the-scenes look ...
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Wait for Love
Arlene Hale
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Marcia Jordan was taking the biggest gamble of her young life when she opened a catering business of her own. Not only was she scared of being "boss" for the first time, but she had a large loan hanging over her pretty head, and a ruthless pr...
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Street Fire
Daniel Halpern
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Dust jacket, in removable mylar, has faded spine and light shelfwear. Size: 5 1/2" x 8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. NOT ex-library. Shipp...
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Troublemaker
Joseph Hansen
- Sep-1975
- / Law Enforcement
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Love and money are the easy motives in the death of a California beachfront nightclub owner, but death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter is certain of one thing: the case is going to be far from easy and the police have it all wrong. Rick...
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A Dove of the East, and Other Stories
Mark Helprin
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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This “dazzling collection” of short stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Winter’s Talecontemplates the human experience across the globe (The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner). In these twenty stories, Mark Hel...
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Lord of the Far Island
Victoria Holt
- Sep-1975
- / Gothic
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Lovely Ellen Kellaway knew very little about her past. Orphaned as a child and taken in by her arrogant mean-minded cousin as a 'poor relation'; she was grateful when the handsome young son of a wealthy family asked for her hand. But mysterio...
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The Voice in the Thunder
Elizabeth Hunter (1)
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Tansy Drummond would have done anything for her brother Fergus; but Fergus's brother-in-law, the stern Cretan Tito Michalakis, didn't have such a high opinion of him -- and his disapproval spilled over on to Tansy. Should she ignore him ...
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Enchantment in Blue
Flora Kidd
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Rosalind had scarcely married Perry Sefton before she was a widow, and in her heartbreak she neither knew nor cared that she was now sole heiress to Perry's vast fortune. But how could she convince his family -- and in particular his formidable c...
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From Sad to Glad
Nathan S. Kline
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Do you feel burned out, tense, anxious, frightened, irritable, turned off? You're not alone, and you don't have to suffer anymore. Depression can be a chemical imbalance -- you can treat it with drugs. Dr. Nathan Kline, a pioneer in the biochemical t...
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Alligator Pie
Dennis Lee
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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A slice of Alligator Pie -- sized for little ones! One of the best loved Canadian poems of all time, “Alligator Pie” established Dennis Lee’s reputation as “Canada’s Father Goose” when it appeared in his classic poetry collection of the s...
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Temporary Wife
Roberta Leigh
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Emily Lamb thought Luke Adams was attractive and powerful enough to arrange his own marriage--but when her friend Gina Harrick asked her to marry him for business reasons, Emily had her own reasons for agreeing. It was, of course, to be a temporar...
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Creighton's Castle
Miriam Lynch
- Sep-1975
- / Gothic
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Judith Deveraux had reasons for not wanting to return to Roger Creighton's strange mansion. Eight years before a bizarre theater game had resulted in an innocent man's death. Now, for some reason, all the players had come back...back to take their pa...
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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Alice Munro
- Sep-1975
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A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize"winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.” -- Los Angeles Ti...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Nordhoff
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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"Mutiny on the Bounty is an ""astounding sea tale"" (New York Times) that thrills readers young and old with its action-packed account of treachery and survival in the South Pacific.
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The Secret of the Priory
Sofi O'Bryan
- Sep-1975
- / Gothic
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The Priory stood isolated, overlooking the sea. From the moment Julie Morrow saw it, she felt a shiver of apprehension. Mark, her fiance, had brought her here to recover from a serious illness, but it was clear from the first that there was much he h...
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The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
Scott O'Dell
- Sep-1975
- / Historical
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As smugglers, Tom Barton and his uncle Jack are used to breaking the law. With quick wits and secret cargo holds, they manage to avoid discovery and to make a comfortable living until William Tyndale asks them to carry precious English Bibles along w...
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The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese
Joyce Carol Oates
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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In the Beginning
Chaim Potok
- Sep-1975
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“Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.” -- The New York TimesAll beginnings are hard -- that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bron...
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The Bride of Belvale
Harriet Rich
- Sep-1975
- / Gothic
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At first sight, the great manor at Belvale, with its ornate towers and great stone walls, seemed like an enchanting dream from a bygone age. But for lovely young Aurelia Warefield, that dream became a living nightmare. Aurelia had lost her way whi...
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The Human Figure
David K. Rubins
- Sep-1975
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This anatomy book for artists is an invaluable quick reference guide on both the construction and the outward appearance of the male and female figures. It contains more than 250 illustrations of the human body.
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Nightwork
Irwin Shaw
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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An American in Europe with a hot $100,000 and a burning desire for the best of everything...An elegant rogue who guides him through a world of high-priced pleasures and high-risk gambles...A beautiful titled Englishwoman who cavorts with him along th...
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The Fire and the Fury
Rebecca Stratton
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Dorcas already resented the imperious Don Julio Valdares for what he was doing to her half-brother Ramon, whom she so dearly loved. So it was more than she could bear when Valdares also started interfering with her promising friendship with Rafael Mo...
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Anna of Strathallan
Essie Summers
- Sep-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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Anna Drummond was delighted to be reunited with her long-lost grandparents in New Zealand. But how was she to cope with the suspicion and hostility of Calum Doig? And how, as time went on, was she to fight her growing love for him? Hero: Calum ...
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Eye of the Zodiac
E.C. Tubb
- Sep-1975
- / Science Fiction
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Working for his next passage in his desperate quest, Earl Dumarest befriended a young man who said his home world was called Nerth. Nerth? Earth? New Earth, perhaps? Or even the old and original world, the one Dumarest sought. In any case, a...
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Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds
Wade Wellman
- Sep-1975
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The War of the Worlds... so terrifying, it rocked the world when H. G. Wells reported it in 1897--and again, in 1938, when Orson Welles broadcast it. But there was far more to the story than ever was told. Two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most fam...
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Beyond the Bedroom Wall
Larry Woiwode
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Nominated for several major awards and said by many to be one of the greatest novels of the century, Woiwode's epic is the story of four generations of the Neumiller family. "Nothing more beautiful and moving has been written in years". -- New York T...
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Disturbing the Peace
Richard Yates
- Sep-1975
- / General Fiction
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Hailed as “America’s finest realistic novelist” by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life. Disturbing the Peace is no ...
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The Best American Short Stories 1975
Martha Foley
- Oct-1975
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Publishers original hardcover bound in green cloth with cover and spine stamped in red and black. Normal shelfweaf to cover. Includes stories by Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Andre Dubus, Jesse Hill Ford, Reynolds Price, and more....
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Castafiore Emerald
Herge
- Oct-1975
- / General Fiction
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The classic graphic novel. When Tintin and Captain Haddock happen across a community of gypsies they invite them home . . . just as Bianca Castafiore, the famous opera singer, decides to visit Tintin. It's chaos at Marlinspike Hall, and then a precio...
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Legacy of Al Capone
George Murray
- Oct-1975
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Buy with confidence! Fulfilled by Amazon! Ships fast and direct from Amazon's fulfillment center! FREE 2-Day shipping for Amazon Prime members! Includes Amazon Customer Service 24/7! 100% Satisfaction guaranteed! This book is a former library copy in...
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Olson and Pound
Charles Olson
- Oct-1975
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Large 8vo. xxvi, 147 pp, preface, A Lustrum for You, E.P.; Your Witness; Fragments; This Is Ywats Speaking; Cantos; GrandPa, GoodBye; Appendix: Olson's Notes on Pound; notes, index. Edited by Catherine Seelye: First Edition, 1975. Black cloth with gi...
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