
THE CAINE MUTINY
by Herman Wouk · Doubleday
Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday
Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin
Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.


by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf
Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.
by Edith Simon · Putnam
A Cathedral is built in 14th-century England, in honor of a miracle.

by Taylor Caldwell · Crown Publishers. Inc
Novel of America in 1970 when an enslaved and oppressed people finally rise against their masters, the ruling powers of a totalitarian state, whose origin is traced back to the New Deal of the 1930's.


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