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 Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

by John D. MacDonald · Lippincott

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 Ken Follett · Arbor House

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

by Richard Bach · Delacorte/Eleanor Friede

by Judy Blume · Putnam's

by John Irving · Dutton/Henry Robbins

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with lunacy and sorrow, yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

by Judith Krantz · Crown

by Helen Van Slyke · Doubleday

Sisters Frances. Alice. Barbara. Three sisters who were raised together yet took such different paths. One into the glittering world of international society and sophisticated passion. One into a nightmare marriage that was destroying her body and soul. One into an independent career and an affair with a man whom she could not hope to marry. And strangers. Now they had come together again, to discover how far they had drifted apart, yet how closely intertwined were their intimate feelings and perilous fates.