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Books published by publisher Arbor House Pub Co

  • Portraits: A Novel

    Cynthia Freeman

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, Nov. 1, 1979)
    A saga of four generations of the Sansonitsky family from their arrival on New York's East Side in the early 1900s, through the quickening pace and complexity of the 1920s and 1930s, to the upheaval of the Second World War
  • A World Full of Strangers: A Novel

    Cynthia Freeman

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, Nov. 1, 1981)
    David Reid, born Rezinetsky, advances from New York's Lower East Side to San Francisco, where his success and power are countered by his wife's memoirs of ancient faith and modern suffering and his son's need for his true legacy
  • Murder on Embassy Row

    Margaret Truman

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, June 1, 1984)
    The British Ambassador to the United States is found dead after a gala party at the British Embassy, and government agents set out on an international chase to find the murderer
  • Portraits

    Cynthia Freeman

    Hardcover (Arbor House, March 15, 1979)
    Portraits
  • Mousetraps and Muffling Cups: One Hundred Brilliant and Bizarre United States Patents

    Kenneth Lasson

    Paperback (Arbor House Pub Co, Aug. 1, 1986)
    Offers diagrams and descriptions for useful, as well as unusual, inventions, including escape suspenders, a short-range parachute, a horse taillight, the light bulb, burglar alarm, telephone, zipper, and sewing machine
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  • Standard Dreaming

    Hortense Calisher

    Paperback (Arbor House Pub Co, Sept. 15, 1983)
    A unique novel of parents and children - and the spaces between them Dr. Niels Berners - a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New York - is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son's abandonment of him. He joins a group of four other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, to discuss their feelings and seek a sense of community, comfort, and closure. Hortense Calisher artfully strings together tales of healing, brilliantly tracing the shadow of the generational gap. With compassion and precision, she paints the bruised egos of concerned parents confronting very empty nests.
  • The Summer Tree

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    Hardcover (Arbor House, Sept. 1, 1985)
    Chronicles the adventures of five young men and women who become caught up in an epochal battle between the forces of good and evil
  • The Blackboard Jungle

    Evan Hunter

    Paperback (Arbor House Pub Co, April 1, 1984)
    Rick Dadier encounters insolence and violence as a new teacher at a New York City vocational school
  • Extraordinary Means

    Donna Levin

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, July 1, 1987)
    In a coma for two months after her accident, Melissa Silverstein discovers she has the ability to observe and follow the lives of her family
  • The Berenstains' Baby Book

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, Aug. 1, 1983)
    The creators of the popular Berenstain Bears and the cartoon serial "It's All in the Family" provide humorous loving advice--in cartoon drawings and text--for new and potential parents
  • Trumps of Doom

    Roger Zelazny

    Hardcover (Arbor House, May 1, 1985)
    In the continuation of the Amber chronicles, Corwin, Prince of Amber, exiled to Earth because of an ancient feud with his brothers, must battle his way back to the perfect world of Amber, the center of reality
  • Handbook for Latchkey Children and Their Parents: A Complete Guide for Latchkey Kids and Their Working Parents

    Lynette Long, Thomas Long

    Hardcover (Arbor House Pub Co, Aug. 1, 1983)
    A guide for parents who work and their latchkey children explains how youngsters can overcome the problems of being left alone and develop independence, maturity, and self-sufficiency