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.
THE EGYPTIAN
by Mika Waltari · Putnam
Set in Egypt, more than a thousand years before Christ, it encompasses all of the then-known world. It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton, and is the story of his life. Through his eyes are seen innumerable characters, fully drawn and covering the whole panorama of the ancient world.
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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