LAKE WOBEGON DAYS
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
CONTACT
by Carl Sagan · Simon & Schuster
In the year 1999 a multinational team of astronauts sets out to discover the secrets of the universe.
THE SECRETS OF HARRY BRIGHT
by Joseph Wambaugh · Morrow
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death. Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man’s son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool as an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession. For the savage beauty of the wastelands holds many secrets. Secrets that stir up Blackpool’s long-suppressed nightmares of his own son’s death. Secrets that threaten to destroy an entire police department. Secrets that, by rights, should remain forever buried by the wind in the ageless desert sands. In this riveting novel, bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh jolts our emotions while entertaining us with his special brand of bawdy, beautiful, dark humor.
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST
by Anne Tyler · Knopf
Adult fiction; This title is also available as a film.
DEPTHS OF GLORY
by Irving Stone · Doubleday
Camille Pissarro was a brilliant, prolific painter and a father of the Impressionist movement. His struggle to be seen and survive the rejection of the art establishment is set against nineteenth-century Europe.
A MAGGOT
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
THE RED FOX
by Anthony Hyde · Knopf
Een Amerikaanse journalist gaat op verzoek van een vriendin op zoek naar haar verdwenen stiefvader en raakt daardoor verzeild in een gevaarlijk spionagecomplot.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.