


THE YOUNG LIONS
by Irwin Shaw · Random House
Traces three young men, two Americans and one German, from 1938 to 1945 after they meet as soldiers in a Bavarian forest in World War II.


ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
by R.C. Hutchinson · Rinehart & Company
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.



THE GRAND DESIGN
by John Dos Passos · Houghton Mifflin
Portrait of the period when the New Deal was at the cocktail party stage in Washington. The novel critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people.

I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
by Dodie Smith · Little, Brown
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas, and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time. 'I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers' Joanna Trollope **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

THE FIRES OF SPRING
by James A. Michener · Random House
David Harper discovers love and beauty with the help of fine teachers.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.


