Hardcover Fiction

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

by Robert Ruark · Doubleday

by John Phillips Marquand · Little, Brown and Company

by Mac Hyman · Random House, Inc

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 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 Hamilton Basso · Doubleday and Co., Inc

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by Inglis Clark Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

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

by Theodore Bonnet · Doubleday

by Gretchen Finletter · Harper and Brothers

by Elizabeth Gray Vining · J. B. Lippincott and Co

A fictionalized version of an event which actually occurred in Philadelphia as the British army was about to seize the city in the fall of 1777. Approximately 20 prominent citizens (mostly Quakers) who, for religious reasons, refused to support either side, were arrested on the presumption that "if you're not for us, you're against us." After a month in which they were imprisoned at Philadelphia's Masonic Hall, they were exiled for five months to Winchester, VA where two died. The author has added a fictional character to the group -- a 24-year-old Quaker, Caleb Middleton, who, ironically, had longed to enlist in the Continental Army, but did not in deference to his father's religious feelings.

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday and Co. Inc

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

A sympathetic portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. The author pictures her marriage to Abraham Lincoln as a great love story.

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.