THE GABRIEL HOUNDS
by Mary Stewart · William Morrow and Company
Charles and Christy Mansel decide to enliven their tour of the Middle East by visiting Great-Aunt Harriet, an eccentric recluse.
A NIGHT OF WATCHING
by Elliott Arnold · Charles Scribner's Sons
A novel based on two weeks during World War II, when the Danish Underground smuggled nearly all of the 8000 Jews in Denmark to safety in Sweden.
NIGHT FALLS ON THE CITY
by Sarah Gainham · Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Vienna during the war, when Nazis arrive in Austria, a Viennese actress Julia Homburg, maneuvers to keep her husband, a Jewish Socialist politician, safe.
THE EIGHTH DAY
by Thornton Wilder · Harper & Row
Over the years the family of the escaped murderer finds itself drawn inexorably closer to the victim's family.
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