New Releases by MacKinlay Kantor

An orphan boy, fugitive from a Spanish reformatory run by monks, is brought back to grace through a "natural miracle".

A scoutmaster''s forty years of service in a small Iowa town.

"The men who flew the planes knew it was a war. behind the lines in Japan, the women know it too- flier'' wives and civilians, always waiting, always greedily and hungrily waiting for the men. And in the teeming Tokyo suburbs, the sing-song girls in the exotic gardens of Kumbawa- they knew it too. Here is a powerful and eye-opening story of American soldiers, their wives- and their women, a novel of conflict and passion by the author of Signal Thirty-two" -- Back cover.

Father recalls events in life of his son, a sailor killed in action in the Pacific.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville The Twenty-Third Precinct of the New York City Police Department includes within its boundaries exalted penthouses and reeking slums. The story concerns three men in blue, their loves, their ambitions, their contentions—the cruelty they encounter, the courage they offer, the pity and aid they are able to give. It speeds through the reader''s consciousness like a patrol car wailing in midnight traffic. In 1948 the Acting Commissioner of Police, the late Tom Mulligan, authorized MacKinlay Kantor to proceed on all police activities, accompanying the patrolmen in their work. Kantor learned the life of a policeman through first-hand experience. Such privu00adilege had never been granted to a civilian before. But this civilian happened to be the author of Long Reu00admember, The Voice of Bugle Ann, and many other famous books, as well as the original story of the great motion picture, "The Best Years of Our Lives." Thunder of feet on sagging stairways; a yell from behind a locked door; tears and oaths and—worse— the stony agony of women who stare in silence... The radio voice of CB declares flatly: "Two-Three Precinct. The address...on the roof...proceed with caution..." Is it rape, suicide, assault? Or merely a kitten cryu00ading from its trap in a drainpipe? Or do we meet the glare of a razor, the stab of gunfire in a hall? Our fingers squeeze the siren button. This is a Signal Thirty-two... A novel by MacKinlay Kantor Author of Arouse and Beware and Glory for Me

An old school janitor reviews his past in relation to the many pupils he has known.