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 Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

by Barnaby Conrad · Houghton Mifflin

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 Pearl S. Buck · John Day

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 Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Edith Simon · Putnam

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

by Charles Mills · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Win Brooks · William Morrow and Company

Cape Cod and the striped bass, whose comings and goings have a lot to do with the lives of some of the inhabitants.

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 Bruce Lancaster · Little, Brown and Company

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday and Company, Inc

"This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the ... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper"--Fiction catalog.

by Horace McCoy · Appleton-Century-Crofts

Tom Owen, an ex-miner from Coalville, Pennsylvania, becomes a successful surgeon In Pittsburgh. He must choose between two women and consequently, two lifestyles.

by Ralph Ellison · Random House