Hardcover Fiction

by Jackie Collins · Simon & Schuster

by Garrison Keillor · Viking Press

“Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” —The New York Times “A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” —Chicago Tribune “Keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength….His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears…to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist.” —San Francisco Chronicle

by Stephen King · Putnam

by Lawrence Sanders · Putnam

The First Deadly Sin set the standard by which thrillers are measured--and The Fourth Deadly Sin surpassed it. In Lawrence Sanders's most compelling novel ever, ex-cop Ed Delaney must crack the high-profile case of a brutally murdered psychiatrist by investigating six suspects--the doctor's own patients... * A Literary Guild? Selection

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

by Dominick Dunne · Crown

by John Irving · Morrow

Dr. Wilbur Larch does the "Lord's work" at his isolated orphanage and prepares Homer Wells to take his place.

by Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster

by Jacqueline Briskin · Putnam

Tells the story of the three Sylvander sisters from 1949 to 1985, each sister's romantic obsession with Curt Ivory, and how it shapes each one's life.

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

by Marguerite Duras · Pantheon

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

by Eric Van Lustbader · Villard

"Brilliant...Perhaps no other piece of fiction since SHOGUN illuminates the mind, machinations, and mores of Eastern peoles with the style and intensity of JIAN." THE MIAMI HERALD Jake Maroc is the top agent for the Quarry, the secretive government agency. Nichiren, Jake's sworn enemy, is a cold killer with a deadly secret. Shi Zilin is a wily Communist minister, a survivor of eras in turmoil. Which one of them will emerge the true Jian--the consummate warrior, the man who excels, the supreme master of the arts of love and combat, strength and wisdom? Four ancient pieces of jade are the key to unlocking the grand scheme of the Jian. The price is Hong Kong--glittering jewel that sets the KGB, the Communist Chinese, and the Americans in a deadly battle.

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.

by Barbara Taylor Bradford · Doubleday

Traces the struggle of Paula McGill Fairley, Emma Harte's granddaughter and heir, to hold on the the empire.

by Larry Collins · Simon & Schuster