Hardcover Fiction

by Henry Morton Robinson · Simon & Schuster

An "absorbing . . . magnificent" novel about an ordinary Irish Catholic man who ascends the church hierarchy to become Cardinal in the early twentieth century. ( Boston Herald) A selection of the Literary Guild, The Cardinal was published in more than a dozen languages and sold over two million copies. Later made into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Huston, the book tells a story that captured the nation's attention: a working-class American's rise to become a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The daily trials and triumphs of Stephen Fermoyle, from the working-class suburbs of Boston, drive him to become first a parish priest, then secretary to a cardinal, later a bishop, and finally a wearer of the Red Hat. An essential work of American fiction that remains even more relevant today. "Extraordinary . . . controversial . . . first rate storytelling and characterization that has enormous appeal." – Kirkus Reviews

by Robert Penn Warren · Random House

by Gwen Bristow · Ty Crowell Co

Sheltered girl from the East makes the dangerous journey from Santa Fe to Los Angeles in pre-Gold Rush days and learns value of loyal friends.

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by John Hersey · Alfred A. Knopf

A novel describing the life of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during Poland's German occupation.

by Alberto Moravia · Farrar, Straus and Company

by Louise A. Stinetorf · Wesminster Press

by Ruth Chatterton · Simon & Schuster

by Kathleen Winsor · Appleton-Century-Crofts

by Robert Henriques · Viking Press

by Mika Waltari · Putnam

Set in Egypt, more than a thousand years before Christ, it encompasses all of the then-known world. It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton, and is the story of his life. Through his eyes are seen innumerable characters, fully drawn and covering the whole panorama of the ancient world.

by Charmian Clift And George Johnston · Bobbs-Merrill

"High Valley is the story of Salom, a young man seeking a place where he can be at home and fully accepted. He was orphaned as a baby and adopted and raised by Tibetans. He knows he is not Tibetan. His father was Chinese, a soldier killed marching northward years before with the Chinese Red Army. When Salom is a man grown, he rides down into China to claim his birthright there. His own people reject him. The Chinese jeer at him because of his outlandish Tibetan clothes and his halting tongue. He is not Chinese. Where can he belong?"--Dust jacket.

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday

Confederate surgeon turns plantation house into hospital.

by Helen Huntington Howe · Simon & Schuster

by Aubrey Menen · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press