SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
by Douglas Adams · Harmony
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. . .
THINNER
by Richard Bachman · New American Library
For use in schools and libraries only. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.
SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR
by William F. Buckley Jr · Doubleday
The year is 1961, the setting Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is sent there on a mission only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane.
THE TITAN
by Fred Mustard Stewart · Simon & Schuster
Traces a story of insatiable love and power as Nick Fleming and Diana Ramschild battle one another--and their own emotions--across the years, from London to Hollywood and from Czarist Russia to a Nazi concentration camp.
ILLUSIONS OF LOVE
by Cynthia Freeman · Putnam
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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