Hardcover Fiction

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 Jackie Collins · Simon & Schuster

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 Dominick Dunne · Crown

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 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 John Irving · Morrow

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

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 Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

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 Bret Easton Ellis · Simon & Schuster

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero – narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas – is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author’s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.

by Erich Segal · Bantam

They were Harvard '58, the class who thought they could change the world. Danny, the musical prodigy, risks all for Harvard, even a break with his domineering father. Yet his real problems are too much fame too soon - and too many women. Ted spends four years as an outsider. He is obsessed with climbing to the top of the academic ladder, whatever the cost. Jason, the golden boy - handsome, charismatic, athletic - learns at Harvard that he cannot ignore his Jewish background. Only in tragedy will he find his true identity. George, a Hungarian refugee, comes to Harvard with the barest knowledge of English. But with ruthless determination he masters not only the language but the power structure of his new country. Andrew is haunted by three centuries of Harvard ancestors who cast giant shadows on his confidence. It is not until their dramatic 25th reunion that the men must confront their classmates, and the value of their lives.

by Larry Collins · Simon & Schuster

by John Fowles · Little, Brown

I 1736 rejser et lille selskab gennem et øde landskab i Sydvestengland. I forhørsprotokoller, breve og avisartikler afdækkes lag for lag den gådefulde historie om rejsens formål

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.