


THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
by Tom Clancy · Naval Institute Press
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear submarine as his escape vehicle

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
by John Irving · Morrow
Dr. Wilbur Larch does the "Lord's work" at his isolated orphanage and prepares Homer Wells to take his place.

JUBAL SACKETT
by Louis L'Amour · Bantam
Jubal Sackett explores the West and meets a Kickapoo brave who helps him save the Natchez princess Itchakomi from a Spanish soldier.

HOLD THE DREAM
by Barbara Taylor Bradford · Doubleday
Traces the struggle of Paula McGill Fairley, Emma Harte's granddaughter and heir, to hold on the the empire.

A CATSKILL EAGLE
by Robert B. Parker · Delacorte Press
It was nearly midnight and I was just getting home from detecting. I had followed an embezzler around on a warm day in early summer trying to observe him spending his ill-gotten gain. The best I'd been able to do was catch him eating a veal cutlet sandwich in a sub shop in Danvers Square across from Security National Bank.

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