LOVE IS ETERNAL
by Irving Stone · Doubleday
A sympathetic portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. The author pictures her marriage to Abraham Lincoln as a great love story.
THE ROYAL BOX
by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc
Romance, murder, and intrigue in London.
THE DOLLMAKER
by Harriette Arnow · Macmillan
Gertie Nevels and her husband Clovis are untouched by city life until the outbreak of World War II. They are forced to abandon their Kentucky mountain home and travel to Detroit so that Clovis can participate in the war effort by repairing heavy machinery. Gertie's survival techniques are useless in an urban milieu. In spite of the debasing effect of city life, Gertie maintains her faith in her fellow beings.
BLESS THIS HOUSE
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...
MR. HOBBS' VACATION
by Edward Streeter · Harper and Brothers
Humorous description of a family's vacation on a New England island.
A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
by Erich Maria Remarque · Harcourt, Brace and Company
Novel of World War II in which the hero fights the Russians, returns home and is married, goes back to the battlefield and is killed.
AWAY ALL BOATS
by Kenneth Dodson · Little, Brown and Company
Novelized history of World War 2 island-hopping aboard an attack transport.
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