Hardcover Fiction

by Morton Thompson · Charles Scribner's Sons

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Samuel Shellabarger · Little, Brown and Co

by Kenneth Dodson · Little, Brown and Company

Novelized history of World War 2 island-hopping aboard an attack transport.

by Davis Grubb · Harper and Brothers

by Ernest K. Gann · William Sloane Associates

by Philip Wylie · Rinehart and Company

by Norah Lofts · Doubleday

The house was built in the Old Queen's time - built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras, many reigns - it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century innkeeper. It was wars, and lovers, and death. Children were born there, both heirs and bastards. It had ghosts and legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. The house was Merravay - and its story stretched over four hundred years...

by Paul Wellman · Doubleday

Novel of 6th-century Constantinople, with the Empress Theodora as the scheming heroine.

by Harnett T. Kane · Doubleday

A biography of the wife of General Robert E. Lee who lived near Washington, D.C., and was considered one of the best hostesses of her day.

by Esther Forbes · Houghton Mifflin

A few months in New England in the 1830's through the eyes of an itinerant portrait painter.

by Charles Bracelen Flood · Houghton Mifflin

by Joseph Hayes · Random House

Harrowing story about an escaped convict who breaks into a suburban home and takes a family hostage.

by Charles Wertenbaker · Random House

by Leon Uris · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Jessamyn West · Harcourt Brace

Correspondence, notes, and clippings pertaining to the life and works of Jessamyn West, poet, novelist, and short story writer. Copies of many of West's works are included. The materials were collected by Shivers in preparation for writing his critical biography, Jessamyn West (1972).