by Mary McCarthy · Harcourt, Brace and World
Eight Vassar girls, determined not to be like Mother, decide to move with the times and put into action the ideas they have learned about in college.
by John le Carré · Coward-McCann
Originally published: London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.
by John O'Hara · Random House
A collection of 24 hitherto uncollected stories.
by James Michener · Random House
To the mountain fastness of Afghanistan comes Mark Miller, an American diplomat attached to the Embassy in Kabul. He is investigating the disappearance of Ellen Jasper, an independent young woman in search of the freedom offered by the wildest and weirdest land on earth.
by Ian Fleming · New American Library
James Bond 007 is back! Bond is approached by a crime boss to marry his daughter and in return both father and daughter help 007 hunt for his archenemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.
by John Cheever · Harper & Row
Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity.
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