Hardcover Fiction

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick · W.W. Norton and Company

The multi-million-copy bestseller that blends truth and fiction in a “devastating indictment of American policy” (New York Times Book Review). A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors who ignore his empathetic and commonsense advice. In linked stories and vignettes set in the fictional nation of Sarkhan, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick draw an incisive portrait of American foreign policy gone dangerously wrong—and how it might be fixed. Eerily relevant sixty years after its initial publication, The Ugly American reminds us that “today, as the battle for hearts and minds has shifted to the Middle East, we still can’t speak Sarkhanese” (New York Times).

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

by John Hersey · Alfred A. Knopf

by Morris L. West · William Morrow and Company

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

by Robert Penn Warren · Random House

by Robert Ruark · Henry Holt and Company

by Eugene Vale · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Farrar, Straus and Company

by William Kelley · Doubleday

William Kelley resided in Centre County, Pennsylvania.

by Gerald Green · Charles Scribner's Sons

Tom, hero to his Italian family and friends of New York's Bronx, Marty, his wife, and her eccentric genius of a father, a famous anthropologist, Prof. Maitland, who cannot resist championing lost causes; Ballard, a Negro whose scientific background is at odds with the pull back to the war his people are waging; an ex-Communist, haunted by his personal tragedy. Set against them are the millionaire couple who have granted the right to "the dig", and who show a shallow concern for the findings. a possible lost site of a lost tribe of Glade Indians. And Ira deKay, an utterly surrealist character, whose one aim becomes the acquisition of Tom's remote, beautiful, arrogant wife.

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday and Company, Inc

Short stories dealing with the conflict of reason and emotion in time of human strife.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Norah Lofts · Doubleday

Three-generation story of a family's rise from serfdom to great wealth in 15th-century England.