Hardcover Fiction

by Richard Bach · Macmillan Publishing Company

by Frederick Forsyth · Viking Press

by Anya Seton · Houghton Mifflin

by Dan Jenkins · Atheneum

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.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

by John Gardner · Random House

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.

by Robert Crichton · Alfred a Knopf

Story of Maggie Drum, a woman from a bleak mining town in Scotland who wants to better her lot in life. She finds Gillon Cameron, poverty stricken but of noble lineage, and they plan to work and starve for 20 years, saving all their money, then buy a business and live like gentry. When Gillon is hurt in a mining accident and the owner refuses to compensate him, a rebellion breaks out among the miners.

by Agatha Christie · Dodd, Mead and Company

by Phyllis A. Whitney · Doubleday