Edge of Glass-Catherine Gaskin; Great Elephant-Alan Scholefield; Color from a Light Within-Donald Braider; The Kitchen Madonna-Rumer Godden; Vanished-Fletcher Knebel (Good, 1968, HC, Reader's Digest)

No dust jacket; cover and pages have slight usage wear; pages appear to be unmarked. #50-12721

Edge of Glass-Catherine Gaskin: Set during the swinging sixties, this novel follows the story of Maura D'Arcy, a young woman who is torn between two very different men. Maura, a chain smoking model working in her mother's antique shop, receives news of opportunities that could lift her career, leading her to make decisions about her future as dark secrets are revealed. Her life takes a turn when a gorgeous Irish rogue steals a valuable artifact from the shop, inviting her to Ireland to uncover her convoluted heritage. As Maura navigates jealousy, tradition, love, and family ties, she finds herself in a dilemma that could change her life forever.

Great Elephant-Alan Scholefield: The story follows the Fraser Black family, white Christians fleeing justice in the Cape Colony, as they settle in the heart of Shaka’s kingdom.  Narrated by Robert Fraser Black, the novel details his coming-of-age from ages six to sixteen, blending hair-raising adventure with cultural insights into Zulu life, brutal executions, and the family's struggle to survive under the mercy of a tyrannical king.

Color from a Light Within-Donald Braider: A fictionalized biography based on the life of the Renaissance painter El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), tracing his artistic career and his distinctive, luminous style.

The Kitchen Madonna-Rumer Godden: Marta is unhappy. For quietly aloof Gregory and his sister Janet, Marta, with her thick Ukrainian accent, her good cooking, and her stories, is the anchor of the house. Mother and Father, both busy architects, are gone all day and sometimes at night. Marta is always there; and the children, sensing her unhappiness, do not want her to go away. When they find out that Marta desires a good place in the kitchen, nine-year-old Gregory, with precocious young Janet in tow, sets out to find her a Ukrainian icon in busy, modern London.

Vanished-Fletcher Knebel: The Greer case hit the front pages of the national press and stayed there, as rumors, speculations, accusations, and bizarre plots were paraded before a puzzled public. How could a man like Stephen Greer - extremely prominent Washington attorney and close friend of the President - simply vanish without a trace? And if it was by his own volition - why?