Hardcover Fiction

by Herman Wouk · Little, Brown

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Mario Puzo · Putnam's

by M.M. Kaye · St. Martin's

Human sacrifice and love.

by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin

This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.

by Helen MacInnes · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

"Art may soothe the soul and stimulate the mind but it doesn't save one's life from terrorists' bombs or bullets." New York art expert Colin Grant takes on an easy commission: to travel to Vienna and bid on a priceless Old Master on behalf of a Texan millionaire. The painting has been smuggled out of Hungary by a defector, and Grant must get it at any cost, while keeping his employer's name a secret. But all is not as it seems. No sooner has Grant landed in Austria than his seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare, as he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy to unleash a wave of international terrorism. Grant must now navigate a hidden and terrifying world, as he and the woman he loves become pawns in a war between the secret armies of East and West.

by John D. MacDonald · Lippincott

by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

by Richard Bach · Delacorte/Eleanor Friede

by Ken Follett · Arbor House

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

by Harry Kemelman · Morrow

by J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.

by Judy Blume · Putnam's

by Judith Krantz · Crown