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Week of March 11, 1984

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THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION
Robert Ludlum
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THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION

by Robert Ludlum · Random House

13 wks at #1 · 1 on list

Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist--Parsifal.

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PET SEMATARY
Stephen King
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PET SEMATARY

by Stephen King · Doubleday

19 wks on list

Soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow, Jason Clarke, and Amy Seimetz! King's iconic, beloved classic is 'so beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' Guardian 'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER' The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat. But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding. 'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The Times 'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian 'The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly 'Wild, powerful, disturbing' - Washington Post Book Review

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SMART WOMEN
Judy Blume
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SMART WOMEN

by Judy Blume · Putnam

5 wks on list

B.B. and Margo, two forty-year-old divorcees, are unprepared for the frustrations, pain, and passion which arise when B.B.'s ex-husband hits town, in a story about a complex romantic triangle.

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POLAND
James A. Michener
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POLAND

by James A. Michener · Random House

28 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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NIGHT SKY
Clare Francis
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NIGHT SKY

by Clare Francis · Morrow

4 wks on list

In the brutal chaos of the Second World War, three people find their lives inextricably interwoven in a web of courage, betrayal and love. Julie Lescaux, the young Englishwoman caught up in one of the most dangerous operations of the French Resistance; Paul Vasson, vicious Paris pimp turned Nazi collaborator; David Freymann, German scientist caught up in unimaginable horror, destined to lose everything except his faith in his own discovery. Night Sky is Clare Francis' sweeping chronicle of Europe in peace and war, a tremendous floodtide of narrative that builds to a gripping and unforgettable finale. 'Magic that is hard to describe. Perhaps it is simply that Clare Francis really knows what she is writing about when she writes about the sea' Punch 'A thoroughly professional wartime adventure' Sunday Times 'A terrific thriller' Time Out

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BERLIN GAME
Len Deighton
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BERLIN GAME

by Len Deighton · Knopf

12 wks on list
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THE JOURNEYER
Gary Jennings
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THE JOURNEYER

by Gary Jennings · Atheneum

5 wks on list

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Aztec series comes a recreated epic account of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history: Marco Polo.

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NERVE ENDINGS
William Martin

NERVE ENDINGS

by William Martin · Crown

3 wks on list

When an organ transplant recipient sets out to thank the widow of his donor, he learns his good luck was the result of murder and a vicious conspiracy to control the political life of the nation. Nerve Endings was a New York Times bestseller when originally published and a BOMC Alternate. Don't miss William Martin's new June hardcover Annapolis.

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