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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of September 5, 1982

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THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
Jeffrey Archer
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THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER

by Jeffrey Archer · Linden Press

14 wks on list

Florentyna Kane inherited a vast hotel empire from her father, but his greatest gift to her was a love of America. She knew from childhood that it was a debt she would someday try to repay by running for the highest political office in the country. Along the path to power Florentyna finds fulfillment in love and family, but still she struggles with the burden of her duty and responsibility. Then, only a heartbeat away from her ultimate goal, she may lose everything in a mire of betrayal. Is the price of power higher than even Florentyna Kane can pay?

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THE CASE OF LUCY BENDING
Lawrence Sanders

THE CASE OF LUCY BENDING

by Lawrence Sanders · Putnam's

7 wks on list

In the sun-and-rum-drenched inner circles of Florida's Gold Coast, evil disguises itself as a precocious eight-year-old with unnatural desires--and murderous intentions...

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LACE
Shirley Conran
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LACE

by Shirley Conran · Simon & Schuster

2 wks on list

"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -- a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret and who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever, however, when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her, Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich and famous, seeking to answer the question that has obsessed and almost destroyed her. From Paris to London, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Lace takes the reader into the rarified world of five unforgettable women who are as beautiful, as complex and as strong as...lace.

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EDEN BURNING
Belva Plain
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EDEN BURNING

by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

13 wks on list

Violence, political upheaval and clandestine love all occur in the Eden that is the Caribbean island of St. Felice.

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THE VALLEY OF HORSES
Jean M. Auel
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THE VALLEY OF HORSES

by Jean M. Auel · Crown

1 wks on list

Forced to leave the Clan, and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But far to the west, two young Cro Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's. Jean Auel's imaginative reconstruction of pre-historic life, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual, has become a set text in schools and colleges around the world.

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THE ONE TREE
Stephen R. Donaldson
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THE ONE TREE

by Stephen R. Donaldson · Ballantine/Del Rey

Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law--but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure.... Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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