RANDOM WINDS
by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a New York hospital, comes a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one family. The Farrell family are dedicated, brilliant... and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no force can suppress.
FIRESTARTER
by Stephen King · Viking Press
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture! Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...
THE SECOND COMING
by Walker Percy · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Will Barrett's unusual capacity for forgetting and imagining features of his own life involves him in the affairs of a Southern family
INNOCENT BLOOD
by P.D. James · Scribner's
Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa embarks on a thrilling investigation, enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts. From the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders, Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity, blood ties, guilt and revenge. P.D. James has been influential as a crime writer for many years and her writing is often compared to the work of authors such as Val Mcdermid, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson. 'A fascinating psychological study of blood ties, guilt and revenge' Sunday Telegraph
BELLEFLEUR
by Joyce Carol Oates · Dutton
La historia de un particular clan familiar compone esta obra maestra de la aclamada Joyce Carol Oates. El rico y notable clan de los Bellefleur vive en una enorme mansión en medio de una montañosa región a orillas del mítico lago Noir. Poseen vastos terrenos, negocios rentables, dan empleo a sus vecinos e influyen en el gobierno. Un prolífico y excéntrico grupo que congrega varios millonarios, un asesino en serie, un buscador espiritual que sube a las montañas para encontrar a Dios, un noctámbulo adinerado que muere por el rasguño de un pollo, una bebé, Germaine -la heroína de la novela-, y sus padres, Leah y Gideon son algunos de los personajes que pueblan esta historia, una de las obras maestras de la aclamada autora. ** Premio Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro» de su obra. La crítica ha dicho... «Una lectura maravillosa... Una proeza de la imaginación y el intelecto... Una asombrosa construcción... El trabajo de un genio». The New York Times Book Review «Personajes tan ingeniosamente caracterizados que parecen salirse de las páginas, mejores aun que de carne y hueso». Los Ángeles Times Review
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.