Hardcover Fiction

by A.J. Cronin · Little, Brown

Robert Shannon was a devoted scientist on the brink of a medical discovery of great importance. He had no time or inclination for women . . . or for any of the world outside his laboratory. But Jean Law had other plans for him. Strictly brought up by narrow-minded parents, confined by her hospital lectures and her dingy boarding-house, she hardly knew the fires that burned beneath her calm exterior . . . except that they burned for Robert Shannon. She knew she had to have him for herself, and, despite her family’s religious beliefs , their shocked disapproval, and all she had been taught was her destiny, she was determined to fight for him. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin’s other classic novels, Shannon’s Way is a great book by a much-loved author.

by Norman Mailer · Random House

by Evelyn Waugh · Little, Brown

by Graham Greene · Viking Press

by Taylor Caldwell · Amereon Ltd

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's "magnificent" tale of romantic intrigue in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre ( The New York Times). In the eyes of his daughter Melissa, Charles Upjohn can do no wrong. Where others see a minor novelist whose ego far outweighs his talent, Melissa sees a brilliant artist deserving of a wider audience. Where her sister and brother see a cold and inattentive parent who can't provide for his family, Melissa sees a doting father whose intentions are beyond reproach. On his deathbed, Charles puts his eldest daughter in charge of her mother and siblings. Melissa will do anything she can to please him—even if it means marrying a man she hates. As Charles Upjohn's publisher, Geoffrey Dunham holds the keys to the writer's legacy. Dunham also has the means to provide for Melissa and her family, and the desire to do so. Melissa knows her life with Dunham will be grim and passionless, but she's willing to sacrifice her own happiness in order to fulfill her father's wishes. Dunham, however, refuses accept a wife in name only. To win Melissa's heart, he must destroy everything she believes about her father—and herself. A darkly riveting portrait of the thin line between love and hate, Melissa confirms author Taylor Caldwell's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers.

by Betty Smith · Harper

by Ellin Berlin · Doubleday

"A distinct advance in professional skill over her first novel, Land I Have Chosen -- and once again a story of marriage, in this case, between Veronica, raised in a family to whom the Catholic Church was inspiration and refuge, and a Protestant, Jamie to whose aristocratic blue-blood background, Catholicism in the United States was outside the pale of social acceptance. Ellin Berlin has achieved a rare balance -- while never decrying the faith which was everything to Veronica, while integrating its traditions, its deals, its observances into the very fibre of her story, she yet leaves one with that in Veronica, the balance of values was weighted against her loyalty to a marriage at times she thought she put first. As a family study -- there again conflicting loyalties inject elements of disunity, and make this quite an extraordinarily penetrating book. The Reardons- "lace curtain Irish"--Are a warm-hearted clan; one likes them despite their intolerances, likes even their prejudices better than those of the Stairs, to whom the Social Register is the ultimate objective of all right-minded Episcopalians. At times the story interest lags; the book is overlong; the tale is told too soon. But it has a holding quality that keeps one reading, never quite losing hope that Veronica will grow just enough beyond the confines of the protection the Church means to her to admit Jamie into the charmed circle of her ultimate faith. The setting- New York and Long Island; the time spans two wars."--Kirkus

by Elizabeth Goudge · Coward McCann

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown

The dramatic story of an African king whose reign coincides with the incursion of Arab raiders and the destruction of his world by slave traders. This unusual tale gives the reader a feel for the strangeness of an earlier time and the vastness of a mysterious land. A timeless novel told with stunning and often brutal authenticity.

by Hervey Allen · Rinehart and Company

by Pearl S. Buck · Harper

by Albert Camus · Hamish Hamilton

Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran.

by Hollister Noble · Doubleday

A novel about Lincoln advisor, pamphleteer, and lobbyist, Anna Ella Carroll, promoter of the Union cause.

by Rumer Godden · Viking Press

by Aldous Huxley · Harper