Kathleen Thompson Norris

A classic novel that takes place in San Francisco in the early part of the 20th century. Susan Brown must work for a living, first as a bookkeeper in a downtown office, later as a companion to a rich, spoiled semi-invalid girl.

Anecdotes drawn from her life.

Only with her family's lost sapphire can aristocrat Gabrielle Marie de St. Germain hope to buy freedom for her mother who has been imprisoned with Marie Antoinette. But when she is discovered searching for it in the bedchamber of the handsome new American ambassador, Jason Trace, she resorts to her disguise as a serving maid to bluff him with a brazen invitation.

Corner of Heaven is a novel of wartime America which tells the tender story of a young girl faced with the problem of being loved by both a handsome army doctor and his younger brother who was forced by circumstances to remain at home.

Girl of Quaker ancestry has problem of choosing between two men.

Twelve short crime novels: Leslie Charteris - The Lawless Lady Mignon Eberhart - Introducing Susan Dare Cornell Woolrich - Nightmare John D. MacDonald - Death's Eye View Hugh Pentecost - The Murder Machine Erle Stanley Gardner - Death Rides a Boxcar Ross Macdonald - The Bearded Lady Fredric Brown - Murder Set to Music Rex Stout - The Zero Clue Ed McBain - Storm Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now Bill Pronzini - Booktaker

Mother is the fictional tale of a young lady who leaves home and repudiates family life in the hope of finding personal fulfillment through independence and a career. She decides that home life is a poor choice in the face of life in the big city. But God dramatically changes her heart as she realizes that wealth and position are illusory and that independence can enslave a young lady. She discovers that the greatest woman she has ever known is her mother and now she longs for home and motherhood.

LOVE BRAND As a successful New York interior designer, Jennifer King led a hectic, fast-paced life. So when a sudden illness cost her her job, she jumped at the chance of a working vacation at a Texas ranch. But life with Everett Culhane, the brooding, dark-eyed owner of the Circle C Ranch, was not easy. According to him, their lives were two worlds apart. But when he took her in his arms and branded her lips with his, Jennifer knew that she must make this headstrong cowboy her own.

The People in the Story— Paula Hazeltine, socially popular, lovely wife of Stephen Hazeltine, successful and respected member of his community, is blissfully happy in the security of her beautiful home, beloved family and wide circle of adoring friends. Stephen, Jr., and “Trez” two big, handsome sons, Marlys, lovely, vivacious debutante daughter and Pansie, the baby who came much later—“for dessert”—round out the Hazeltine family, which also includes Paula’s slightly younger sister, Deborah Trezavant, unmarried but still beautiful, although saddened because of an unhappy girlhood romance with a college professor, Prentiss Talbot, in love with Marlys, gives way to Condy Cheeseborough, handsome young law student, returned for a visit between studies, who completely captivates young, impressionable Marlys. Added excitement is introduced when Stephen learns he has been proposed for senatorship by Senator Saintsbury, who is planning to retire. A forbidding cloud of disaster looms suddenly in the persons of Mae Singer, a former charity case of Paula’s, and Jay Porcher, an unscrupulous lawyer, who threaten to ruin Stephen socially and politically with a trumped-up scandal. Joseph Fenelli, Stephen’s opposition, is suspiciously involved in the vicious scheme. How Stephen and Paula fight these ruinous accusations—how Deborah finds love after years of patient waiting—how little Marlys copes with the pain of first love, makes a delightfully human and heartwarming story.

This is the story of a girl who looked on marriage as a release—an insurance against boredom and loneliness. Hounded by a stern, old-fashioned father, chafing at the monotony of life around Treehaven, the small California ranch where she lived, Cynthia Trezavant longed to escape and have a life of her own. Guy Waring, an artist staying near by, was the man she loved, and when he suggested that they run away together, she was happy to agree. Then it happened—the terrible thing that made it impossible for them to be married. Heartsick and desperate, Cynthia turned to Jim Fowler, a guide from the mountains. She could not love him as she had Guy, but he was strong and handsome, and she thought that she could make him a good wife. It was not long before she discovered that marriage was not always the free, happy relationship she had fancied, and she began to think that perhaps she was still in love with Guy. Things drifted from bad to worse until a near tragedy revealed her husband's true devotion to her and showed her where her heart really belonged.

Romance surrounding wealthy girl and her poor cousin who has come to live with her. Most interesting character studies of this cursed family, and how peace is arrived at.

ten short dramatic stories