Hardcover Fiction

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

Walter of Gurnie, bastard son of an English peer, is forced to flee from Oxford for his part in the university riots of 1273. Inspired by Friar Bacon, he determines to travel to China. With his friend Tristam, he fights his way to the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire, and returns famous, to find that he must choose between the first love he thought lost and the exotic flower that he found in the East.

by Sinclair Lewis · Random House

Marriage of a judge and his unstable young wife in a small Minnesota town.

by James Ramsey Ullman · J. B. Lippincott Company

by James Hilton · Little, Brown

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Bobbs-Merrill

by Josephine Pinckney · Viking Press

Strife between Charleston families fails to prevent intermarriage.

by Adria Locke Langley · McGraw-Hill

by Samuel Shellaburger · Little, Brown

by Kathleen Winsor · Macmillan

by Bruce Marshall · Houghton Mifflin

This is the story of Father Smith, priest in a Scottish city.

by James H. Street · Doubleday, Doran

London Wingo, an ordained minister and a fourth-year student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is struggling to reconcile his desires for further education with his financial worries that accompany many young couples awaiting the birth of their first child. When he applies for a church in Linden, Missouri, and, accepted by the deacons there, he feels that he has found security for his family. He does not realize that in return for this security the people of Linden expect him to defer to their practices and ideas and will use church law as well as social pressure to ensure conformity. The struggles of London and his wife Kathie to keep both their church and their spiritual integrity, rise to a powerful climax when Kathie becomes seriously ill. London realizes he must choose between Linden and the people who contributed to their unhappiness and a rich metropolitan parish where he might escape to a contented and more profitable life. James Street went to a Baptist seminary and had his own church for a few years before devoting himself to writing full-time. It is from his experiences as a young pastor that he can speak so well about the challenges facing London and Kathie Wingo ― discord, feuds, rigid mores, lack of privacy, balancing selfless service and a personal life, as well as the maturity and deepening that evolves as one hurls through life's obstacles

by Ayn Rand · Bobbs Merrill

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Knopf

by Nancy Bruff · E.P. Dutton

by Elswyth Thane · Peoples Book Club

Bracken Murray visits London and falls in love with an English girl during the Jubilee summer of 1897 after his wife deserts him while back his cousin Fitz rescues a music-hall singer who falls in love with him in the United States.

by Lau Shaw · Reynal & Hitchcock