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 FIFTH HORSEMAN
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre · Simon & Schuster
The threat of Libya's Colonel Quaddafi to explode a three-megaton nuclear bomb hidden in New York, unless an autonomous Palestinian state is immediately established, affects the lives of ordinary citizens, politicians, secret agents, and terrorists from Washington to Jerusalem.
LOON LAKE
by E.L. Doctorow · Random House
During the Great Depression of the '30s, a passionate, young New Jersey man leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds is a life so different from his own that it changes his destiny. A haunting story of dreams and desires, repackaged to match Doctorow's other bestsellers. Reprint from Bantam. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
THE ORIGIN
by Irving Stone · Doubleday
Details the life of Charles Darwin from his notable trip as a naturalist on the Beagle through his mature career as a widely respected but still controversial scientist.
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.
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.