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Dear and Glorious Physician
64 weeks a New York Times bestseller. Two thousand years ago St. Luke was known as Lucanus, one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world. Taylor Caldwell brings him to life in this portrait of a complex and brilliant man and the colorful Roman society in which he lived.
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The Listener
24 weeks a New York Times bestseller. Anguished souls are drawn to a sanctuary inscribed with the words 'The Man Who Listens.' All those who come to unburden their cares in his presence find peace, hope, and happiness from the unknown one who sits and listens.
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A Prologue to Love
30 weeks a New York Times bestseller. Caroline was detested by the father she worshipped who instilled in her a horror of poverty and a faith in money, but not in love. Caroline amassed millions until life challenged her to overcome the oppressive hardship of her father's legacy.
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Grandmother and the Priests
49 weeks as a New York Times bestseller. Eleven different Catholic priests, eleven different stories, recounted around the dining table of a glamorous, wicked old lady who finds in her priests a reflection of all that is human.
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Volume One of the enormously popular Horatio Hornblower Saga. Seventeen year old Horatio joins the British Navy as a midshipmen to fight against Napoleon and his tyranny of Europe. Duels, imprisonment, shipwrecked sailors, naval battles – this is where it all begins.
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Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower has advanced from a midshipmen to the rank of a junior lieutenant in Volume 2 of the Hornblower saga. Hornblower and other junior officers must take command of the ship when their disturbed captain falls through a hatch and is seriously injured. Shore invasions of the West Indies, an escaped Spanish crew, and Hornblower's court martial make this another exciting Hornblower read.
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
In Volume 3, Hornblower gets married and takes his first command as Master and Commander of the HMS Hotspur to further thwart the ambitions of Napoleon. The exploits that have brought him praise and notice contrast with his concerns about his new wife and mother-in-law.
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Hornblower and the Atropos
In Volume 5, Hornblower is called upon to act as a bargeman while traveling with his wife and baby son to London where he is to take command of the Atropos. Soon he is recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and challenging a Spanish frigate.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
8 weeks a New York Times bestseller. The first three novels written about the shy, self-doubting, but outwardly implacable Hornblower who is a Captain in the British navy and is swept up in a whirlwind of naval action, a secret mission to support a revolution, capture, imprisonment, romance thwarted and romance discovered.
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Commodore Hornblower
In Volume 9, Captain Hornblower is promoted to Commodore and is off on a new adventure to the Baltic. Raids, assignations, a siege, an attempted assassination by a member of his crew, and typhus make this another great Hornblower adventure.
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Lord Hornblower
In Volume 10 Hornblower is sent to quell a mutiny in France and later launches a daring guerrilla campaign against Napoleon with an old lover at his side. Treachery, betrayal and heartbreak await Hornblower in both his personal and professional life.
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
A New York Times bestseller. Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate piracy.
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