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Book Synopsis:
JOURNEY TO BOSTON by Mary Ellen Chase
The autumn brightness of the Connecticut River valley is reflected in this brief but deeply moving novel about the sturdy Polish-American farmers who live there. In her warm-hearted way, Miss Chase has recorded the colorful customs of their proud homeland, the hard work and patriotism they have brought to their new country, and the spirit that illuminated their lives even in moments of grave personal crisis.
HOTEL ST. GREGORY by Arthur Hailey
Life-and-death dramas were hidden behind the luxurious facade of a famous old New Orleans hotel; and Pete McDermott, its young assistant manager, was deeply involved in all of the, -- and in personal problems of his own. Peter has a black mark in his past. His chance to redeem himself in the work he loved came as, in four days, he coped with two dishonest employes, a thief, a growing suspicions about two famous guests, a racial crisis, a dangerously erratic elevator -- and the rival attractions of two charming women.
PILLAR OF IRON by Taylor Caldwell
Never did a great human being live a more tumultuous life than Cicero, the great statesman and orator. Miss Caldwell here sets his dramatic private life against a vivid background of the sights and sounds, the politics and passions of ancient Rome. Here was a man who, in a pantheistic society, dared to believe in the One God; a man who had as friends -- or enemies -- such famous figures as Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony. A highly readable, informative book, remarkable in the parallels it draws between Roman times and our own.
EIGHTH MOON by Sansan, as told to Bette Lord
Sansan, a spunky, real-life Cinderella, grew up in a loveless home amid the bleak realities of Red China. She was sixteen before she learned that her true parents were in America -- and might at last be able to get her out. When, after many a subterfuge and setback, the family was reunited, she dictated her story to her sister with teen-age exuberance.
In Eighth Moon, Sansan has given us the first revealing, intimate account of what it is to be a child in the forbidding atmosphere of mainland China today.
ASHES OF LODA by Andrew Garve
Soon after Lord Timothy Quainton, Moscow correspondent for a London paper, fell in love with a beautiful Polish refugee, Marya Raczinski, he was appalled to discover that a sinister secret might be hidden in her father's past. For both Marya's and his old sake he hunted Moscow and the Russian countryside for clues to the secret -- and discovered that curiosity can sometimes put a man in mortal danger. The Ashes of Loda is a thrill-packed adventure story which gives an intriguing picture of present-day Russia as well.
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