Grosset and Dunlap publishers were founded in 1898. Their creative approach to publishing included rebinding cheap paperbacks, putting their own dust jackets on surplus books from other publishers, binding...
The Cherry Ames Nurse Stories were published by Grosset and Dunlap from 1943 to 1968. The series was written by Helen Wells and Julie Campbell Tatham. Both Wells and Tatham also wrote the Vicki Barr Flight...
The Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess Series, also known as the Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series, was published by Grosset and Dunlap from 1947 through 1964. The books were written by Helen Wells and Julie Campbell...
With the war still ongoing, Cherry Ames works as a flight nurse, flying into battle zones to pick up wounded soldiers and take them to base hospitals for treatment.
Looking forward to a working vacation as nurse on a cruise ship to the Caribbean, Cherry Ames soon finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery involving a sickly child and greedy men anxious to find a secret stockpile of precious ambergris.
Now chief of her unit in the Army Nurse Corps, Cherry Ames has the support of her Spencer Hospital friends as she strives to meet the challenge of organizing an evacuation hospital on a Pacific island.