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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of May 1, 1977

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OLIVER'S STORY
Erich Segal
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OLIVER'S STORY

by Erich Segal · Harper & Row

7 wks at #1 · 8 on list
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FALCONER
John Cheever

FALCONER

by John Cheever · Knopf

5 wks on list
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TRINITY
Leon Uris
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TRINITY

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

58 wks on list

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.

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THE VALHALLA EXCHANGE
Harry Patterson
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THE VALHALLA EXCHANGE

by Harry Patterson · Stein and Day

6 wks on list

A lone journalist unravels the mystery behind a Nazi war criminal's escape In 1945, as the Allies closed in on war-ravaged Berlin, Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann, made his escape. Since that fateful day, Bormann's story has been shrouded in mystery.Thirty-one years later, a journalist has begun to finally piece together Bormann's cunning getaway. His electrifying investigation exposes the unwitting role of five Allied POWs in Bormann's escape plot as the Nazi regime crumbled. Now, with help from a surviving POW, this journalist follows history's twists and turns to a final, shocking conclusion."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.

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CONDOMINIUM
John D. MacDonald
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CONDOMINIUM

by John D. MacDonald · J.B. Lippincott Company

2 wks on list

Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin Liss, a greedy, indifferent developer who victimizes the residents with continuing price increases.

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