The actress’s career and lifelong rivalry with her Oscar-winning sister, Olivia de Havilland.

The intricately intersecting lives of an illegitimate son and his feminist mother.

Trouble starts when a married engineer re-discovers a former lover. Published in 1912, this was the author’s debut novel.

The vagaries of parenting six children. Later the book morphed into a Doris Day-David Niven movie, and a television show.

Dick and Sally were having a dull day, until the cat arrived.

A boy and two elderly women observe life–from a tree.

Robin Stone’s rise in the media world turns ruthless.

The journalist’s 1952 biography of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, resurrector of the Hebrew language.

An out-of-luck Cuban fisherman wrestles–mightily–with a huge marlin deep in the Gulf Stream; winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize.

An eloquent account of the actress’s variegated career in Vaudeville, film, Broadway, summer stock, and television.

A novel about how World War I affects an American family living in Paris.

In 1951, the unforgettable, on-the-edge, adolescent, Holden Caulfield is introduced.