Hardcover Fiction

by James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

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by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

Joy Street is Frances Parkinson Keyes' sweeping novel of love, ambition, and social intrigue set against the elegant backdrop of Boston's historic Beacon Hill. With her characteristic attention to detail and flair for richly textured storytelling, Keyes introduces readers to a cast of characters whose lives intertwine in a world where old money, new aspirations, and deeply held traditions collide. At the heart of the story is a young couple navigating the shifting tides of postwar America, balancing personal dreams with the rigid expectations of Boston society. Joy Street itself becomes both a setting and a symbol—a place of refined beauty and social prestige, but also a stage for the quiet dramas of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. Through dinner parties, political maneuverings, and intimate domestic moments, Keyes explores themes of class, loyalty, and the price of belonging. Her prose is elegant yet accessible, capturing both the grace of the city's historic homes and the subtle tensions beneath their polished surfaces. As in her other works, Keyes' mastery lies in her ability to weave personal relationships into the fabric of a vividly rendered time and place. Joy Street is both a romance and a social study, offering a window into a rarefied world while reminding readers of the universal human desires that transcend class and custom.

by Budd Schulberg · Random House

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Arthur Koestler · Collins

by James Hilton · Little, Brown and Co

Morning Journey is a fictional romance by James Hilton. An actress and a director get intertwined in dramatic love. Excerpt: "He guessed she must have some other lawyer or lawyers somewhere, together with the usual outfit of agents, business managers, tax-consultants, and so on; he knew also how impulsively actors get themselves into a mess and how capriciously they can turn on those whom they pay to get them out. Maybe she was in a mood for such a change. He himself had tried to winnow down his clientele into those who were his personal friends and who, if they did get into trouble, would give him the pleasure as well as the task of extrication. He wondered if he would want Carey Arundel as such a client, even if she asked him. Possibly."

by Ilka Chase · Doubleday

by J.B. Priestley · Harper and Brothers

by Taylor Caldwell · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Reginald Arkell · Harcourt, Brace and Company

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

Novel about the sons of missionaries, which sweeps from China to America and England and from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the critical struggles of 1950.

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

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 William E. Barrett · Doubleday and Co. Inc

by Sinclair Lewis · Random House

by Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard · Macmillan

Group of men at Strawberry Hill tell how the War of Jenkins' Ear affected their lives. Written in the form of a letter by Horace Walpole.