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Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 28, 1983

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RETURN OF THE JEDI
Joan D. Vinge

RETURN OF THE JEDI

by Joan D. Vinge · Random House

In a sequel to "The Star Wars Storybook" and "The Empire Strikes Back Storybook", Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth Vader and the Emperor.

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AUGUST
Judith Rossner
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AUGUST

by Judith Rossner · Houghton Mifflin

3 wks on list

Dawn Henley, in analysis with Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, recalls the earlier episodes of her troubled life, as both doctor and patient - the recently divorced psychiatrist and mother and the troubled Barnard freshman - engage in an exploration of their secret needs and desires.

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HOLLYWOOD WIVES
Jackie Collins
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HOLLYWOOD WIVES

by Jackie Collins · Simon & Schuster

4 wks on list

They're rich, powerful, and ambitious--and whatever the new generation of Hollywood wives want, they get. They will stop at nothing for their chance in the spotlight. There are no limits to their passions--or their excesses--and there are new rules to the power game. Megastar Lissa Roman is about to discover that the game itself can exact a deadly price. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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GODPLAYER
Robin Cook
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GODPLAYER

by Robin Cook · Putnam

8 wks on list

The marriage of two doctors begins to crumble as the husband's rages and bizarre behavior increase. If that isn't enough, the wife is convinced someone is killing her terminal patients. Don't worry, it all comes to a chilling conclusion.

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HEARTBURN
Nora Ephron
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HEARTBURN

by Nora Ephron · Knopf

18 wks on list

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes.

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THE SUMMER OF KATYA
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VOICE OF THE HEART
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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VOICE OF THE HEART

by Barbara Taylor Bradford · Doubleday

22 wks on list

With her stunning beauty, brilliant talent, and almost magical allure, the irresistible Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, yet undeniably ruthless, determination to succeed. Katherine irrevocably changes the lives of her closest friends: the two men who love her, the woman who trusts her implicitly. She never looks back until she needs the one thing they alone can give her- forgiveness. As she did so masterfully in her magnificent trilogy of A Woman of Substance, Hold the Dream, and To Be the Best, Barbara Taylor Bradford draws us into a world of a strong and powerful woman who made her choices...then was left to live with them. Moving from the stages of London to the bright lights of Hollywood, this is a richly detailed and deeply emotional novel that comes straight from Barbara Taylor Bradford's heart to yours.

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