Morning Glory-LaVyrle Spencer; Toy Soldiers-William P. Kennedy; Trail-Louis Charbonneau; Prospect-Bill Littlefield (Very Good, HC, 575 pgs, Reader's Digest Vol 3 1989)

Dust jacket, cover and pages have light wear; pages are unmarked; pages are lightly age-toned. 

Morning Glory-LaVyrle Spencer: In town, they called her “Crazy Widow Dinsmore.” But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule—she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way.

Toy Soldiers-William P. Kennedy: suppose a terrorist, a cross between Abu Nidal and Yasser Arafat, took over an American boys school in Italy, forcing the politically and industrially powerful fathers to pressure the U.S. government into acceding to his demands. Hoping to achieve U.S. impotence in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the ambitious and charismatic Sharif wants, at the same time, to elevate himself to an exalted role among his fellow Arabs.

Trail-Louis Charbonneau: Lewis and Clark set on their famous trek across the unexplored American continent with Seaman, a remarkable black Newfoundland dog, who saves their lives several times along the way

Prospect-Bill Littlefield: Retired from baseball scouting and waiting for death in a rest home, Pete Estey becomes friends with Louise, an employee at the rest home. After a fire, Louise offers her home to Pete and tries to make him feel life is worth living. Her grandnephew, Jack Brown, is a born ball player; and Louise maneuvers to get the two together for the benefit of both.