Hardcover Fiction

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 Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin

Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

by Edith Simon · Putnam

A Cathedral is built in 14th-century England, in honor of a miracle.

by Mary O'Hara · David McKay

A clergyman deals with the public and private sides of being a preacher.

by Taylor Caldwell · Crown Publishers. Inc

Novel of America in 1970 when an enslaved and oppressed people finally rise against their masters, the ruling powers of a totalitarian state, whose origin is traced back to the New Deal of the 1930's.

by Paul Hyde Bonner · Scribner

by Ralph Ellison · Random House

by Mary Roberts Rinehart · Rinehart & Company

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

by Pat Frank · J.B. Lippincott Company

From the author of the classic Alas Babylon comes this riveting story of a Marine captain and his soldiers and their arduous, difficult retreat from Changjin Reservoir to Hungnam during the Korean War—a stirring portrait of courage and sacrifice, now back in print. “These are not stragglers, sir. This is Dog Company…” In Pat Frank’s classic 1951 war novel, one-hundred-twenty-six soldiers commence their long, harrowing journey at Changjin Reservoir during the height of the Korean War, but few will survive the grueling fight and eventually reach Hungnam. Vividly bringing to life the bravery, daring, and turmoil a unit of soldiers endures, Hold Back the Night reveals their gripping stories… Captain Mackenzie, commander of Dog Company, not only bears the responsibility for victory or defeat, but also feels the full weight of the emotional toll that the war inevitably takes on him and his troops. His one consolation to inspire his band of soldiers to keep on going is an unopened bottle of Scotch that holds bittersweet memories of his wife who gave it to him as a gift. Sergeant Ekland, a cocky, determined communications sergeant, is due for a battlefield promotion and longs for the day his tour is over so he can be reunited with his fiancée—that is if he makes it out of Korea alive. Private Couzens, finds himself in a precarious situation with the enemy due to circumstances out of his control—a situation that causes his loyalties to come into question with his superiors. As readers follow the lives of these men and the other unforgettable soldiers, Pat Frank’s epic novel of war, loss, and survival recounts a crucial chapter in American history.

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday