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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 3, 1985

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IF TOMORROW COMES
Sidney Sheldon
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IF TOMORROW COMES

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

9 wks at #1 · 2 on list
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SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Douglas Adams
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SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

by Douglas Adams · Harmony

8 wks on list

There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchruch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she's forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation, they go in search of it. And, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. . .

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ILLUSIONS OF LOVE
Cynthia Freeman
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ILLUSIONS OF LOVE

by Cynthia Freeman · Putnam

10 wks on list

Twenty-five years after their parting and Martin's arranged marriage to Sylvia, Jenny walks back into Martin's life and their undiminished passion threatens his marriage, his family, and his heritage

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JITTERBUG PERFUME
Tom Robbins
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STILLWATCH
Mary Higgins Clark
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STILLWATCH

by Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster

11 wks on list

With a new foreword by Riley Sager, a thrilling mystery from the Queen of Suspense about a journalist who uncovers political schemes and revisits hidden secrets from the past. I told you not to come… Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore’s past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States. With the help of an old flame, Pat delves into Abigail’s life, only to turn up horrifying facts that threaten to destroy the senator’s reputation and her career. Worse still, sinister connections to Pat’s own childhood and the nightmare secrets hidden within are surfacing—secrets waiting to destroy her. The past and present collide in a battle for truth and survival with every revelation in this suspenseful, thrilling tale from the inimitable Mary Higgins Clark.

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DREAM OF ORCHIDS
Phyllis A. Whitney
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DREAM OF ORCHIDS

by Phyllis A. Whitney · Doubleday

1 wks on list

Laurel York has dreamed of this reunion with her father, the famous writer Clifton York, for years. And when she follows him down to the exotic Florida Keys, both love and evil meet her in the form of handsome Marcus O'Neill, who welcomes her, but her two suspicious stepsisters do not. Then there is Clifton York himself, the strange man they all love, and the secret buried treasure that has lain undetected for years. Only the prize orchids waiting in the greenhouse hold the key to a life that Laurel has only dreamed about--or a nightmare that can only end in murder...

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