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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of July 9, 1972

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CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
Taylor Caldwell
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CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

11 wks on list

Joseph Armagh is a poor Irish immigrant who is determined to create a better life for his family. He arrives in America in the mid-19th century. Through personal struggle, heartache and perseverance, he becomes one the the wealthest and most powerful men in the country.

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THE TERMINAL MAN
Michael Crichton
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THE TERMINAL MAN

by Michael Crichton · Alfred A. Knopf

8 wks on list

Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient's brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. Though the operation is a success, there is an unforeseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda.

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A HAPPY DEATH
Albert Camus

A HAPPY DEATH

by Albert Camus · Alfred A. Knopf

1 wks on list

A Happy Death, Albert Camus's previously unpublished first novel, written when he was in his early twenties, foreshadows his brilliant work, The Stranger. But in it Camus reveals much more of himself than he did in his later, more mythic fiction.

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THE EXORCIST
William Peter Blatty
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THE EXORCIST

by William Peter Blatty · Harper & Row

Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan'Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us'.The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.