by Agatha Christie · Dodd, Mead
Soon after Gwenda moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeds in dredging up its past. Worse, she feels an irrational sense of terror every time she climbs the stairs. Terrified, Gwenda turns to Jane Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they try to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before ...
Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.
by Jack Higgins · Holt, Rinehart & Winston
During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland--and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power.
by Jacqueline Susann · Morrow
The tragic story of Dolores Ryan, the beautiful and fashionable young widow of an assassinated American President. After his death, Dolores finds herself too poor to sustain her extravagant tastes and too lonely to be fulfilled as a woman. The novel details her quest for money and for men.
by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday
Influence upon an industrial town of a sincere clergyman with five adopted refugee children.
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