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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
James Jones
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THE CAINE MUTINY
Herman Wouk
THE CAINE MUTINY
by Herman Wouk · Doubleday
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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.
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RETURN TO PARADISE
James A. Michener
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A WOMAN CALLED FANCY
Frank Yerby
A WOMAN CALLED FANCY
by Frank Yerby · Dial Press
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The golden hawk is a pulsating novel of adventure, revenge and exotic love in the West Indies of the seventeenth century, when the might of imperial Spain was making its last great stand to retain its conquests in the New World. A woman called Fancy is the author's first novel to have a female protagonist. Set in Augusta, Georgia, the novel covers the period from 1880 to 1894 and shows the rise of the heroine, a beautiful South Carolina woman, from poverty to prominence among Augusta's aristocrats.
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THE TROUBLED AIR
Irwin Shaw
THE TROUBLED AIR
by Irwin Shaw · Random House
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Director of radio program is asked to fire five characters because Fascists suspect them of Communism.
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THE FOUNDLING
Francis Cardinal Spellman
THE FOUNDLING
by Francis Cardinal Spellman · Charles Scribner's Sons
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A baby, left in a cathedral, is befriended by a veteran and becomes a musician.
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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
J.D. Salinger
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
by J.D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company,
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'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.' The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker
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THIS IS THE HOUR
Lion Feuchtwanger
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SCANDALOUS MRS.BLACKFORD
Harnett T. Kane and Victor Leclerc
SCANDALOUS MRS.BLACKFORD
by Harnett T. Kane and Victor Leclerc · Julian Messner Inc
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Scandalous love affair of an American minister's daughter and the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia in the 1870's and 1880's.
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OLD HERBACEOUS
Reginald Arkell
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NIGHT AT THE VULCAN
Ngaio Marsh
NIGHT AT THE VULCAN
by Ngaio Marsh · Little, Brown and Company
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"The theatre plays backdrop to romance and murder . . . Good reading." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Newly arrived from New Zealand and in need of funds, Martyn Tarne takes a job as a dresser to the Vulcan Theater's leading lady. Along with a paycheck, this also provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus—and the eventual murder that occurs on opening night. Inspector Alleyn is soon called to solve the case and put a stop to all the drama . . . "To my thinking, no other writer evokes 'the incense of the playhouse' or describes the technical details of stage production with the degree of authenticity that Dame Ngaio achieved in novels like Enter a Murderer, Killer Dolphin, Night at the Vulcan and Light Thickens." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers." — Times Literary Supplement Also published under the title Opening Night
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.