"To ask her to marry him and to be sure she said yes, Don Chambers took Jenny Staley for a ride in a hot air balloon. How was Don to know that: One, Max the pilot talked all the time. Two, the basket was small...and crammed with propane gas tanks and instruments and Max. Three, when Max pulled a handle overhead and ignited the dual burners, Don and Jenny couldn't hear themselves think, much less converse... Don put his arm around Jenny's waist and spoke in her ear. 'Jenny, I love you.' She couldn't hear. Max burned. Don shouted." Anyone with less persistence would have seen an omen in the disastrous ending of this $250-an-hour proposal. But Don is dogged and in love. When Jenny says she can't leave her ninety-one-year-old rifle-toting granny and her twentysomething daughter, Don invites them all to move into his condo. But Grandma Windy won't budge. Both the lovers are middle-aged, modern divorced adults; there is no reason they cannot consummate their passion. They are on the verge of just that when the phone call comes from Don's octogenarian father. He has broken his hip and Don must transport him from Michigan to Don's Arizona home. When eventually the stingy old codger moves out and Don and Jenny are once more alone, who should arrive but Don's son Ron, a recent college dropout with a pet rabbit and a tank of oxygen to which he turns when life becomes too stressful, as it so often does. Complications multiply, and through it all the hapless pair of lovers stumble along, their eyes on a simple goal - marriage and release from the demands of being the filling in a generational sandwich of older parents and younger children. Whatever transpires in the true-to-life drama spiced with the author's dry wit, the journey is a wonderfully enjoyable one for the reader.

Pinch Me I Must Be Dreaming

Humor & Entertainment

Swarthout,Glendon

Humor

St Martins Pr

A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other

A Christmas Gift

Literature & Fiction

Six boys run away from a summer camp in Arizona seeking a way to prove that they are not failures and misfits by saving a penned buffalo herd from slaughter in a state-sponsored annual buffalo hunt.  Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction by its publisher, Doubleday, back in 1970 and filmed by Stanley Kramer in 1972 with a famous theme song by the Carpenters and a much re-used film score ("Nadia's Theme" from the 1972 Olympics and the opening theme from the CBS TV soap opera, The Young and the Restless).

Bless the Beasts and Children (Topliners)

Genre Fiction

Macmillan

The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities.

The Tin Lizzie Troop

DOUBLEDAY

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A group of misfit boys on a summer camp in Arizona, appalled by the bestiality of one of the local tourist attractions, determine to do something about it.

New Windmills: Bless the Beasts and Children (New Windmills)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division

A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other.

The Melodeon

Not a Reader's Digest pub.

Contemporary

The Old Colts

Donald I. Fine

The basis for the 1976 film that provided the late John Wayne with his last starring role, the outstanding western classic is reissued in a commemorative edition featuring an introduction by the author's son about the making of the movie. Original.

Shootist

Signet

Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety

The Homesman

The Shootist

Bantam]

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