Hardcover Fiction

by Francoise Sagan · E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc

by John Phillips Marquand · Little, Brown and Company

by Robert Ruark · Doubleday

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.

by Mac Hyman · Random House, Inc

by Hamilton Basso · Doubleday and Co., Inc

by Edward L. Beach · Henry Holt and Company

An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses o

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by Inglis Clark Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

Action, adventure, and romance, with Flora Macdonald as the central character.

by Theodore Bonnet · Doubleday

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Longman's, Green and Co

Aided by a family friend in Hong Kong, David Conway enters China illegally to rescue the successor in his job now being held prisoner by the Communists, only to have Mu San, son of his mentor, turn traitor, and betray not only David, the hated American, but his father and the intricate network of the underground. David manages to escape, is captured, escapes again, and undertakes a perilous journey with guerillas across China.

by Don M. Mankiewicz · Harper & Row

A novel about a Mexican youth tried for raping and killing a white girl and the ugly politicization of the case.

by Gretchen Finletter · Harper and Brothers

by Nelia Gardner White · Viking Press

The contrast of character and environment in a little Connecticut town.

by Morton Thompson · Charles Scribner's Sons