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 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 Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

by Barnaby Conrad · Houghton Mifflin

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin

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

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

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 Pamela Hansford Johnson · Alfred A. Knopf

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 Frank Yerby · Dial Press

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 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 Paul Hyde Bonner · Scribner

by Lael Tucker · Random House

There are four of them--the darling daughters of the best families in town--all young, all restless, all dying for a big romance. They sip their Cokes hopefully, they pump each other carefully, they whip their cars ostentatiously through the streets of Andalusia, Ga ... The first part of Lament for Four Virgins is a tongue-in-cheek report of what happens when one defenseless minister [Barbee] is besieged by four determined virgins, backed up by four determined mothers ... Serious Turn. Alas, Rector Barbee is by no means equal to the chase. He flees to a parish in Montana, and with Barbee gone, Lament for Four Virgins turns pretty serious. Author Tucker traces the careers of her four girls into middle age--Angela into a late, dreary marriage, Ellen Terra into sloppy promiscuity, Hope into money and dipsomania, and crippled Carrie into a solid romance with her doctor. The post-Barbee era is readable enough, but it lacks the spirit of the old days. --Time 7/14/1952.