TRINITY
Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.
A STRANGER IN THE MIRROR
by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow
Roman over de meedogenloze strijd om roem te verkrijgen en te behouden in de Amerikaanse filmwereld en showbusiness.
THE GEMINI CONTENDERS
by Robert Ludlum · Dial Press
In Dec. 1939 in Greece trucks enter an encampment of monastic brothers to deliver an iron vault. What are the contents and why is there such urgency?
THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
by Ira Levin · Random House
It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.
THE CHOIRBOYS
by Joseph Wambaugh · Delacorte Press
The story of ten cops working the nightwatch out of Wiltshire Division in Los Angeles. Off duty they attend choir practice, a euphemism for the orgies of drink, food and sex that help them to escape the emotional torture of police work.
KINFLICKS
by Lisa Alther · Knopf
In Kinflicks, Lisa Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny Babcock's coming of age in Hullsport, Tennessee, during the '50s and '60s. Ginny bounces from one identity to another, adopting the values, politics, lifestyle, even the sexual orientation of each new partner. In her wise, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking story, Alther explores the limited roles offered to women in the '60s - from cheerleader to motorcycle moll, bulldyke to madonna - each embodying important truths about the aspirations of the culture that created them.
THE DEEP
by Peter Benchley · Doubleday
While scuba diving off the Bermuda coast, David and Gail Sanders locate a Spanish treasure ship, which unfortunately lies beneath the remains of another vessel that sank carrying a cargo of morphine.
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