OF MICE AND MEN
by John Steinbeck · Covici, Friede
THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the fat of the land, have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerousl
WE ARE NOT ALONE
by James Hilton · Little, Brown
The life of a skillful English doctor is shattered because of a German girl he befriends.
BEAT TO QUARTERS
by C. S. Forrester · Little, Brown
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.
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