by Annemarie Selinko · William Morrow and Company
Eugénie Désirée Clary records two love affairs in her diary, one with Napoleon, who jilted her for Josephine, and a second with General Bernadotte, who married her.
by Mika Waltari · Putnam
Historical novel about Constantinople at the time of its fall, in 1452-1453.
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 Rumer Godden · Viking Press
Roman om en ung engelsk enke, hvis livsmod og udholdenhed bærer hende frelst igennem genvordigheder i et afsides indisk bjerglandskab i Kashmir
by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday and Company, Inc
Eight short stories by DuMaurier.
by Paul Hyde Bonner · Charles Scribner's Sons
The characters around whom Mr. Bonner spins his sophisticated story are worldly and intelligent people of the diplomatic set-- American and French. Some of them are charming, but S. Livingston Locke, a coldly-ambitious diplomat, scarcely belongs in this category. Locke proves he is willing to sacrifice his best friends to get the ambassadorship he is seeking when his young assistant, Walter Haines, . becomes entangled -with a lovely Communist agent. Haines meets the girl in a plush Paris "house," and from this highly unconventional encounter stems a passionate love affair. For the girl, there is terrible choice -- renunciation of her Communist, role, which can end only in retribution, or the sacrifice of her love. That the choice is not finally hers marks the high point of suspense and drama in the unexpected climax.
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 Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc
Three generations of a southern family show customs and manners of plantation and river life.
by Jay Richard Kennedy · Farrar, Straus and Young
"Passionate and ruthless, film star Bart Blaine took what he wanted. One by one, the most desirable girls in Hollywood passed through his life. Until the day Bart was threatened with the loss of everything he'd won: his wife, the women who'd given him their love, even his fabulous career. Embarking on a sensational Personal Appearance tour, Bart found himself caught in a vicious trap of his own making--a trap that promised nothing but emotional and physical ruin"--Preliminary page
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