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Week of September 4, 1983

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POLAND
James A. Michener
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POLAND

by James A. Michener · Random House

1 wks on list

A novel which follows three families from different stations in life from the horrendous battles in 13th century Poland through the glory of the Austrian Empire to the struggles in Poland today.

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AUGUST
Judith Rossner
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AUGUST

by Judith Rossner · Houghton Mifflin

4 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

5 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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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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GODPLAYER
Robin Cook
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GODPLAYER

by Robin Cook · Putnam

9 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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THE SUMMER OF KATYA
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HEARTBURN
Nora Ephron
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HEARTBURN

by Nora Ephron · Knopf

19 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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VOICE OF THE HEART
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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VOICE OF THE HEART

by Barbara Taylor Bradford · Doubleday

23 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.

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LEGION
William Peter Blatty
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LEGION

by William Peter Blatty · Simon &Schuster

From a master of the genre, William Peter Blatty, comes Legion, the harrowing sequel to The Exorcist and the inspiration to the movie The Exorcist III. A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious patient, locked in silent isolation in the psychiatric ward? Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface, with each victim suffering the same dreadful mutilations. Kinderman must confront the creeping suspicion that there’s a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place more than a decade ago―and supposedly ended with the death of the Gemini Killer. Legion is a classic novel of breathtaking terror, an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind, and has been hailed as being “infinitely more suspenseful than The Exorcist.” (Los Angeles Times) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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