17 weeks a New York Times bestseller. A young Baptist pastor and his wife struggle to keep their church and their spiritual integrity in a small Southern town in the 1920s.
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17 weeks a New York Times bestseller. The trials, defeats, and triumphs of a Baptist minister who returns to the small town of his first pastorate to preach at a new church where he will face the greatest challenge of his ministerial and parental career.
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Historical fiction about the advancement of Northern industry in the South thirty years after the Civil War. The Dabney family finds their rights challenged and gathers again to prevent the encroachment of a merciless and unethical Yankee Goliath.
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Classic American drama about an Iowa farm family's trip to the State Fair during the 1920s. It was an instant success in 1932, a best seller, made into films 1933-45-62, and a Rogers and Hammerstein hit musical.
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After hopeless jobs and pawnshop suits, Anchylus Saxe finds work at a San Francisco newspaper. Rung by rung he succeeds in building an empire. A family secret, a daughter's malice, threaten it all.
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With his brilliant managerial practices and insights into the new consumer economy, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. led the General Motors Corporation to become the world’s largest industrial organization. This biography was an instant bestseller in 1964 and is still considered indispensable reading by modern business giants.
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Historical fiction about the first voyage of Christopher Columbus told through the eyes of a sailor on the Pinta. A masterful account complete with some little known secrets about Columbus taken from the posthumous papers of Lepe, born Juan Rodrigo Bermejo of Triana, who was cunningly misused by the Great Explorer.
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Humorous novel of 1940s America starring Rhubarb, a scraggly, somewhat deranged and bad tempered alley cat and a cast of zany human characters. When Rhubarb inherits a fortune ― including ownership of a baseball team ― bedlam ensues and gags unfold.
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This ebook collects zany stories about the author's misadventures writing for Paramount Pictures in the 1940's. During his stay in Hollywood, H. Allen Smith rubbed elbows with some of the most famous movieland names of the day, but his stories do not end there. A funny man to the bone, he wrote about whoever or whatever captured his attention.
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Humorous (make that hilarious and side-splitting) collection of stories from the desk of a New York journalist who met and interviewed more major and minor celebrities, human oddities, and ordinary mortals than any other living man. Low Man On a Totem Pole was a best-seller during WW 2 and sold a million copies.
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