Hardcover Fiction

by Robert Traver · St. Martin's

by Edna Ferber · Doubleday

Alaska is the setting for a novel of conflict covering three generations of two families as they pioneer and settle the territory

by Anya Seton · Houghton Mifflin

by Sloan Wilson · Simon & Schuster

by Helen MacInnes · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

by Rumer Godden · Viking Press

by Robert Lewis Taylor · Doubleday

by A.J. Cronin · Little, Brown and Company

by Evan Hunter · Constable and Company Ltd

by Theodore H. White · William Sloane Associates

by Elick Moll · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Max Schulman · Doubleday

New York Times Bestseller : The US Army invades a small Connecticut town in this Cold War comedy classic. Harry Bannerman drinks his nightly bourbon on the train from New York City to Putnam's Landing, Connecticut. A typical commuter, he has a bald spot, a house, two mortgages, three children, and a wife who is a committed soccer mom and pillar of the community. Harry just wants to curl up on the couch with Grace when he gets home, but instead faces an endless round of PTA meetings, political rallies, little league games, and amateur theatricals. Second Lt. Guido di Maggio loves baseball less than his last name implies and his fiancée, Maggie Larkin, more than the army allows. College sweethearts, the couple has their future all mapped out: Guido will complete his military service in Maryland while Maggie starts her teaching career in Putnam's Landing, a five-hour train ride away. But when Guido is reassigned to Alaska and Maggie loses her job for giving a sex talk to second graders, their plans go up in smoke. To avoid Alaska and save his relationship with Maggie, Guido takes the thankless job directing public relations at a new anti-aircraft base in Putnam's Landing. What happens next in this national bestseller is a dark and funny story of the disaffected and disconnected in Cold War suburbia as tensions mount between the "invading" army ("invading" Connecticut, that is) and a bevy of local teenagers; between frustrated commuters and their frustrated wives; between social do-gooders and Yankee conservatives; and between romantic dreams of the artist's life in New York and the pedestrian reality of having to earn a living to house and feed a growing family.

by John Selby · G.P. Putnam's Sons

This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.

by Peter De Vries · Little, Brown and Company

Reverend Andrew Mackerel, a recent widower falls in love with Molly Calico, a clerk at City Hall, but must keep it a secret because of the plaza and shopping mall being planned to honor the late Mrs. Mackerel

by Alberto Moravia · Farrar Straus and Young

by James Agee · McDowell, Obolensky

Originally published: United States: McDowell, Obolensky, Inc., c1957.