Books Published in September 1978

New Books List: 129 titles

  • Final Encore

    Martha Albrand

  • Caterina

    Eveline Amstutz

  • Cannon's Law

    Dennis Archer

  • Back in the Saddle Again

    Gene Autry

  • Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus

    Jerome Beatty

  • Anna of the Five Towns

    Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer and journalist.  Bennett is perhaps best known for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.  This edition of Anna of the Five Towns includes a table of co...

  • Taos

    Irwin blacker

    Tumultuous human drama unfolds across a province as vast as old Spain itself - a land rich with the heritage of two civilizations and drenched in the blood of both - as a fiercely courageous man leads his people against those who destroy their gods a...

  • Lady Tara

    Leonora Blythe

    The slender young highwayman who held up Lord Raven's coach was shocked to discover he had made a terrible mistake. He turned and fled, but not before Lord Raven had put a bullet in his shoulder. It was then Raven's turn to be shocked. For...

  • The French Consul

    Lucien Bodard

  • Where's Jim now?

    Bianca Bradbury

  • Blinded by the Light

    Robin F. Brancato

  • To the Tune of a Hickory Stick

    Robbie Branscum

  • Evie's Fortune

    Joanna Bristol

  • The Hills Beyond

    Katrina Britt

    "I think you'll make a terrible husband!" Serena informed Bren Robart loftily. "I'm glad I'm not marrying you for real!" Serena had come to Australia with her friend Dee to seek adventure and romance. Then family illness called Dee home and Ser...

  • Coven Creative Murders

    Carter Brown

  • He Saw a Hummingbird

    Norma Lee Browning

    A successful photographer, partially blind from progressive diabetic retinopathy, experiments with new methods of photographing hummingbirds, succeeding where scientists had failed, while his vision gradually improves...

  • Blood & Burning

    Algis Budrys

    Berkley Books, 1978. Paperback original. Collection of science fiction stories. Introduction by the author, and these tales: Be Merry (1966); Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night (1961); All for Love (1962); A Scraping at the Bones (1975); The Price (1960);...

  • Sunbelt

    James Wakefield Burke

  • Bright Flows the River

    Taylor Caldwell

    He was a man who had everything -- money, power, status. He had built an empire out of a worthless scrap of farmland, rising from the wrong side of the tracks to move gracefully within the inner circles of the very rich: the American dream came t...

  • Race of Death

    Nick Carter

    Q: When should Killmaster N-3 accept a routine assignment as body-guard to a V.I.P.? A: When the Very Important Person is the President of the United States -- a charismatic diplomat embarked on a world-wide peace mission...and when a highly organ...

  • Star Rigger's Way

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    In order to survive the turbulent currents of the Flux, Gev Carlyle, sailing on the mental sea in his starship, must meld his mind and memory with a suspicious castaway alien star rigger--the sole surviving member of his crew. Reprint....

  • Exiles at the Well of Souls

    Jack L. Chalker

    WAR ON THE WELL WORLD Antor Trelig, archvillain and head of the Sponge Syndicate, had captured Obie, a supercomputer that could control all matter and all worlds. With Obie's help--willing or unwilling --Trelig would become omnipotent...and he was...

  • A Streak of Gold

    Daphne Clair

    "Now will you get out of my life! How can I convince you that I don't want you?" Alaric's hard, implacable words came out of the past to haunt her. Glenna had fallen in love with Alaric Burnett eight years ago. But he had made i...

  • A Silent Voice

    Susan Claudia

    The beautiful American discovered the chateau's cleverly hidden secret and now she must pay -- perhaps with her life A Riddle -- a stolen book, an enigmatic, and inscription, and an opportunistic employer lead Janet Wagner to an ancient French...

  • Get-away Car

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer

  • Creatures Great and Small

    Colette


    Creatures Great and Small consists of three books that were originally published separately and contain the imagined conversations that go on between Colette's bulldog and Angora cat. Whether Colette is describing a goldfish, snake, or bear, she ...

  • Happy All the Time

    Laurie Colwin

    A modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants."A funny, loving,...

  • Foolish Giant

    Bruce Coville

  • Come to the Edge

    Julia Cunningham

  • Tidewater Lover

    Janet Dailey

    "To hell with the rules!" Cole said. His smile was mocking. "We've been here together for only one day and we're already on the verge of breaking rule number one--no sex." Crimson flamed through Lacey's cheeks. Why h...

  • Motherland

    Gwen Davis

    The Motherland is a searing saga of two American families, with unforgettable, unique characters; Evelyn, the audacious, sassy, beautiful daughter of warm-hearted, simple, funny, loving people,who doesn't want to have their kind of life. She runs aw...

  • The Boss's Daughter

    Joyce Dingwell

    Could she cope with the changes in her life? Zenith loved the isolated Australian mining community; it was her father's world and, therefore, hers. But now that world seemed to be in jeopardy. Try as she might, Zenith couldn't understan...

  • Love Royal

    Vivian Donald
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    Mary Rose Mills was going to have a quiet, peaceful vacation away from her London job. Or so she thought as she headed for Kataringia, a small principality in Central Europe. But what awaited her was more adventure than she had ever experienced. For ...

  • The Diabolist

    Mary A. Drew

    An Evil Within Pretty young Aimee Parris loved her new job as Assistant Director of the Fairfield Residence Hall, a home for working girls. But the dark old house held many secrets, and Aimee slowly felt a disquieting evil presence entering her li...

  • Beware My Heart

    Glenna Finley

    Romance and dangerous betrayal await a beautiful young woman in a luxurious mountain resort… A Romantic Retreat Was what lovely Cristina Kelly’s private chalet should have been. But as part-owner and assistant manager of the most beautiful ...

  • Death Shipment

    C.J. Floyd

  • Foozles

    Pat Fortunato

  • Daniel Martin

    John Fowles

    A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review).The eponymous hero of Joh...

  • Single

    Harriet Frank

  • The Look of Innocence

    Anna Gilbert

    AN ANGELIC FACE AND A CLOUD OF GOLDEN HAIR Ella's helpless fragility and haunting beauty took silent possession of everything Cassie loved. Her disturbing sensibility filled every corner of the quiet English village where their lives were inex...

  • An Edwardian Christmas

    John S. Goodall

  • Return to Silver Creek

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    "He must not know Robbie is his son!" Jan's voice shook with fear. She knew Kyle very well, knew he would take the boy away from her -- and that she couldn't bear! Kyle had thrown her out of his life three years ago, not knowing...

  • In 1 era out Other

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

  • To Tame a Vixen

    Anne Hampson

    Beth couldn't forget or forgive the humiliation. Ten years before, Chad Barret had put Beth across his knee and spanked her with her own leather sandal! The fact that she deserved it didn't alter her feelings. Beth had been a child then...

  • See You in Yasukuni

    Gerald Hanley

  • Eddie's Menagerie

    Carolyn Haywood

  • Houdini: His Legend and His Magic

    Doug Henning

  • Prisoner of the Harem

    Julia Herbert

    The Woman screamed in helpless terror... Men leaped out of the bushes. steel glinted in the darkness. Scimitars clashed. A cruel face, topped by a turban, loomed before Felicity. She struggled helplessly against the grip of powerful hands. ...

  • Dispatches

    Michael Herr

    "The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in un...

  • The Dark Side of Marriage

    Margery Hilton

    Could she bear to live a lie...? Karen hadn't seen Nick since their painful and bitter separation two years before, but he was still her husband. Now he had come back with an impossible request "You are coming to Dellersbeck to play the...

  • Alien Perspective

    David Houston

  • The Tragic Muse

    Henry James

    'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by hi...

  • Tara's Song

    Barbara Ferry Johnson

    HE WAS THE STRONGEST MAN OF HIS TIME -- UNTIL SHE BECAME HIS WEAKNESS... Beautiful, devout, young Tara, a novice in a country abbey, finds her cloistered life suddenly destroyed when Viking invaders burn the convent and take her prisoner. Wedded a...

  • Mistress of Oakhurst

    Walter Reed Johnson

    THE BEAUFORTS OF OAKHURST MANOR - A DYNASTY WHOSE FATE WAS INTERTWINED WITH AN AMERICA FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE ON LAND AND ON SEA Although the beautiful Sarah Beaufort was forced to rule like a man over the great plantation while her husband, Jeremy...

  • Cast Down the Stars

    McClure Jones

  • Scaffold

    Adam Kennedy

  • The Cruel Flame

    Charlotte Lamb

    His sex appeal wouldn't sway her... Lisa Baynard's life had been relatively peaceful until famous TV star Matt Wolfe bought the neighboring mansion, Storm Dance. Not only did he plan to renovate the old house, but he wanted to intrude into...

  • Battlestar Galactica

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • Double, Double, Oil and Trouble

    Mary J. Latsis

    ePub version. A fierce competition between a Houston and German company to build out a huge North Sea project. The usual wit, intelligence, and Emma Lathen cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher figures it all out by following the money. Great fun....

  • The Skating Rink

    Mildred Lee

  • The Savage Aristocrat

    Roberta Leigh

    "YOU GIVE YOURSELF THE AIRS OF AN ARISTOCRAT. BUT YOU'VE GOT THE MANNERS OF A SAVAGE!" When beautiful Vanessa Wayne arrived in Peru to buy native clothing for the fashionable London boutique where she worked, none of the Indian women ...

  • In the Shadow of Rai

    Robert Franklin Leslie

  • Starrs of Texas

    Warren leslie

    People who've never been to Starrs of Texas know it's legend: the most fashionable, opulent, expensive store in the world. built by arnold starr, his wife, and three sons, it drew it's clientele from the wealthy glamor-seekers of three continens - an...

  • The Lady Rothschild

    Samantha Lester

    Penelope Rothschild, daughter of the Earl of Donley, had lived her eighteen years in peaceful luxury. But suddenly the cozy calm to which she'd been accustomed turned into devastating turmoil. Her aristocratic father faced ruin after a night o...

  • The Great Divorce

    C.S. Lewis

    C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that...

  • T'ai CHI Ch'uan and I Ching

    Da Liu

  • The House at Sunset

    Norah Lofts

    The House at Sunset is the third in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Covering the period from 1740 to 1956, it traces the lives of ...

  • The Barstow Legend

    Mary Loos

    This is the third and final book of the Barstow trilogy by Mary Loos. Belinda Barstow is Hollywood's gift to the world, the sex symbol of her time, a beautiful, talented young star adored and envied by women, loved and lusted after by millions of men...

  • Passion's Thief

    Louise MacKendrick

  • Deathwork

    James McLendon

  • Lady of Darkness

    Lisa Montague

    The dreaded hoofbeats thundered on the moor His name was Darkness, and like the darkness he descended swiftly, furtively, instilling terror into the hearts of unsuspecting young women. What did this villain want from the beautiful Serena? He...

  • Rituals of Infinity

    Michael Moorcock

  • It Ain't All for Nothin'

    Walter Dean Myers

    Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely...

  • Yurth Burden

    Andre Norton

  • New Heaven, New Earth

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Poe Must Die

    Marc Olden

    A half-mad, alcoholic Edgar Allan Poe aims to defeat an occultist's terrifying plot in this intelligent, suspenseful thriller set in 1840s New York ( Booklist ). It is said that beneath Solomon's glorious throne, booksthat gave the fabled king con...

  • Father Figure

    Richard Peck

    Running scared and talking glib, seventeen-year-old Jim Atwater has played father to his kid brother, Byron, since his parents' divorce eight years ago. But their ordered world falls apart when Jim's mother dies -- and his father turns up out of nowh...

  • The House of Belgrade

    Borislav Pekic

    "The Houses of Belgrade, " first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at two earlier points in the history of Yugoslavia: the riots which preceded Germany's 1941 attack on B...

  • Destiny's Lady

    Maureen Peters

  • Dangerous Obsession

    Natasha Peters

    From a starving gypsy in Russia to an exotic demi-mondaine in Paris; from a countess in Bavaria to a sensation in New York; from a survivor in the western wilderness to a card shark in San Francisco -- such were the heights and depths of existence fo...

  • Anise

    Patricia Phillips

    LOVE THE CONQUEROR Proud, strong-willed and beautiful, no man could force Anise into submission or break her spirit. The invaders had seized her home, torn the man she loved from her arms. Now their leader had come to claim the richest prize--Anis...

  • Sandifer Equation

    Richard pickens

  • Twilight of the City

    Charles Platt

  • The Thousand Fires

    Anne Powers

  • Unoriginal Sinner Ice Crm God

    John R. Powers

    All religions have worked hard to give you the impression that I’m a stiff; the kind of guy you’d never invite to a party. . . . I like laughter and the people who do it; from the twitterers to the chucklers to those whose laughter roars out in a...

  • A Peaceable Kingdom

    Alice Provensen

  • Quartet in Autumn

    Barbara Pym

    1983 Perennial Library MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, 5th printing. Barbara Pym (No Fond Return of Love: A Novel). This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the s...

  • Summer of '42

    Herman Raucher

    “A chronicle of one summer in a boy’s coming of age†-- the international bestselling classic that became the basis for the Oscar-winning film (Medium).   Captivating and evocative, Herman Raucher’s semi-autobiographical tale has been ma...

  • Rich Man's Range Gun

    John Reese

  • A Sleeping Life

    Ruth Rendell

    Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's ha...

  • The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories

    Conrad Richter

    The powerful story-telling voice that has carried so many readers back into the world of the American frontier is heard again in these eight tales of pioneers and pioneer days by the author of The Sea of Grass, The Light in the Forest, The Waters of ...

  • The Searching Heart

    Suzanne Roberts

    She was alone, jobless, and beached, thousands of miles from Montana, victim of the cruelest hoax of all. Perhaps it was Nancy Abbott's fault for falling in love with a picture of Henri Dutrec and offering to catalog his entire collection of pric...

  • Son of Adam

    Margaret Rome

    "You must not fall in love with me!" Marc Blais's warning annoyed Dove, especially as he added, "However much you are tempted." Of all the vain, conceited men, she thought indignantly. She was in the Middle East to look afte...

  • Evil of Dark Harbor

    Clarissa Ross

    DARK CURSE OF DOOM When Sabrina arrived to take her place as governess at the brooding mansion, she knew nothing of the sinister curse a vengeful monk had placed upon the wealthy family for whom she worked. Yet from her first moment in the ma...

  • Of David and Eva

    Gertrude Samuels

  • The Last of the Whitcombes

    Rosemary Schafer

    Vanessa had been the last of the Whitcombes ever since the age of twelve when her famous actress mother had committed suicide. Finally overcoming her dread of returning to Cliffe's End, where the tragedy occurred, Vanessa's new-found courage is brut...

  • Just This Once

    Alke and Joel Schick

  • Parables of Peanuts

    Robert L. Short

    First published in 1968, this contemporary case for vigorous Christian faith â€"â€" profusely illustrated by Charles Schulz‘s delightful peanuts cartoon strips â€"â€" sheds more light on the Christian faith and how it is to be lived than many m...

  • All Flesh Is Grass

    Clifford D. Simak

    Long before Under the Dome, this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station. Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community -- until the ...

  • Sunbird

    Dennis Smith

    'I scrambled onto my knees, pushing the automatic rifle forward to cover one flank. In that instant they opened on us. The air around me was torn by the sound of a thousand bull whips, while the gunfire sounded like a stick dragged swiftly across a c...

  • Imprudent Lady

    Joan Smith

    PRUDENCE HAD SEEMED SUCH A PROPER NAME FOR HER... UNTIL SHE STARTED WRITING NOVELS AND BEGAN DREAMING ABOUT A LOVE AFFAIR WITH A WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHOR. Prudence had fallen in love with the celebrated and dashing Lord Dammler from the moment she read...

  • Elizabeth Gail and the Mystery at the Johnson Farm

    Hildaann Stahl

    Elizabeth Gail Dobbs is a “welfare†kid. She's the stereotypical foster child, determined never to love anybody again. But her resolve weakens as the Johnson family responds to Libby's anger with genuine Christian love. Ultimately, Libby ...

  • Green Money

    D.E. Stevenson

    Green Money finds the well-loved author at her most irresistible. Romantic, energetic, at times wickedly funny, it is the humorous tale of the complications of a young Englishman who is made trustee of the late Mr. Green's large estate and guardi...

  • The Lake of the Kingfisher

    Essie Summers

    Elissa could not believe things could go so wrong Elissa jumped at her Uncle Rupert Airlie's request to go to New Zealand and redo his home while he was away She expected to relive her happy childhood memories. Instead, her return to Airlie...

  • Tarifa

    Elizabeth Tebbetts Taylor

    Tarifa - beguiling child, bewitching temptress, swept from the bustling streets of Old Seville to the gilded splendor of the New World, there to live in shame among aristocratic Californios - scorned, seduced, betrayed... Tarifa - Her pagan heart cr...

  • Thunder Ridge

    Ben Thompson

  • Pendragon...the Montenegran Plot

    Robert Trevelyan

  • The Winds of Love

    Agnes Sligh Turnbull

    Absorbing story of a woman facing the crisis of a broken marriage. Katherine Davenport is a happy woman with a husband she loves, two delightful children, a wide circle of friends, and an assured position in the small suburban community. Her happines...

  • Journey Home

    Yoshiko Uchida

    After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence....

  • Star King

    Jack Vance

    Star Kings were a race of aliens who disguised themselves as human.They sought only power -- power over the real men and women they looked upon with both contempt and lust. Keith Gersen had been a peace-abiding man until the terrible moment when f...

  • Love's Broken Promises

    Sharon Wagner

    Before Jamie, Elena had lived only the dark side of desire, known only the betrayal of man's cruel lust. Never had she dreamed of the surging, pulsing star-reaching ecstasy she had found in Jamie's arms-only to lose again when ironic destiny and his ...

  • The Fires of Belthane

    Pamela Wallace

  • Has Winter Come?

    Wendy Watson

  • Now or Never

    Anne Weale

    Annabel Broderick lost her place in the affluent world when her father died. She learned he'd been an unscrupulous scoundrel. Rejecting the advice of her worldly friend, Suzette, to use her beauty and contact the millionaire tycoon, Nicolas Ca...

  • The River Room

    Anne Weale

    "You're too naive. Don't trust David." James's tawny eyes glinted in the light of the candle on the table between them. In spite of his warning, Marina knew that he was far more dangerous than her friend David. James Sebasti...

  • Rightful Possession

    Sally Wentworth

    She had been coerced into this marriage! To keep her younger brother out of serious trouble, Genista agreed to marry Marc Kiriakos, the hard and ruthless international tycoon for whom her brother had worked. She assumed their marriage would be ...

  • The Ambassador

    Morris West

    American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation's fate on the one hand, and of the life and deat...

  • Savage Love

    Mary Wibberley

    Kim thought the past wad dead and buried But she found she was wrong when she went to the wilds of Westmorland to help her cousin run her small hotel. If she had known Luke Savage was one of the guests--no matter how much she was needed there--...

  • Sunset at Blandings

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through rather than r...

  • Edith and Midnight

    Dare Wright

    It was summertime, and Edith and The Bears were on a farm in the country. Little Bear wanted Edith to go fishing with him. Edith had her heart set on owning a pony and she couldn’t think about anything else. Then late one night, Edith woke u...

  • Journey Into Fire

    Patricia Wright

    This passionate epic novel is a panorama of Russia in our century, of events which changed the world and of ordinary men and women who became involved with them. It conveys the rough sweetness of the Russian countryside and the bitterness of ideals b...

  • The Homestead Grays

    James Wylie

    The Homestead Grays is a novel based on the never-before-documented exploits of America's first black fighter squadron - a riveting epic of the roaring battles, forbidden loves, and devastating personal struggles of men singled out for annihilation b...

  • The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms

    Jane Yolen

  • Terrible Nung Gwam Gb

    Ed Young

  • The Courts of Chaos

    Roger Zelazny

    AMBER Here is the next breathtaking volume in Roger Zelazny's classic AMBER series. Amber, the one real world, of which all others, including our Earth, are but shadows... THE COURTS OF CHAOS For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained or...

  • Shyness

    Philip Zimbardo

    The author explains techniques developed at his Stanford University Clinic for overcoming the devastating problem of shyness and shows the ways in which parents, teachers, and society in general promote shyness...

  • Bennett's Fables from Aesop and Others

    Charles H. Bennett

  • The Best American Short Stories 1978

    Ted Solotaroff

    Short stories by Ian McEwan, Max Schott, Paul Bowles, Peter Marsh, James Kaplan, Joy Williams, Mark Helprin, Peter Taylor, Tim McCarthy, Stanley Elkin, Harold Brodkey, Leslie Epstein, Natalie Petesch, Robert Sorrells, Jonathan Baumbach, Joyce Carol O...

  • The Marquise of O and Other Stories

    Heinrich Von Kleist

    In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant o...