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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of November 19, 1972

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SEMI-TOUGH
Dan Jenkins
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SEMI-TOUGH

by Dan Jenkins · Atheneum

6 wks on list

Commissioned to write a book, a leading player of the New York Giants records the events surrounding the impending Super Bowl game with the New York Jets.

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CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
Taylor Caldwell
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CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

30 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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TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS
R.F. Delderfield
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TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS

by R.F. Delderfield · Simon & Schuster

7 wks on list

Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school, controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent, begins to find peace, and is able to adjust to the changes which are overwhelming society. But soon he will have to face up to the prospect of another terrible war...

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THE PERSIAN BOY
Mary Renault
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THE PERSIAN BOY

by Mary Renault · Pantheon

"It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior."-"The Atlantic Monthly"The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander's mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.

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