Hardcover Fiction

by Robert Ludlum · Random House

by Tom Wolfe · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

by Clive Cussler · Simon & Schuster

by Dick Francis · Putnam

by Judith Michael · Poseidon Press

When Laura Fairchild goes to work for the wealthy Salingers of Boston, she finds love and luxury, only to lose everything when the secret of her past is revealed.

by Rosamunde Pilcher · St. Martin's

by Scott Turow · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, PRESUMED INNOCENT brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial--including his own life. It's a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you...long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.

by Stephen King · Putnam

Roberta Anderson, while searching for firewood in the forest, stumbles upon a buried ship and with the help of her onetime lover, Jim Gardener, excavates an artifact that changes the townspeople of Haven.

by David Eddings · Del Rey/Ballantine

by John Updike · Knopf

New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

by Cynthia Freeman · Putnam

by Ethan Canin · Houghton Mifflin

The award-winning, bestselling debut collection of "beautifully crafted stories" from the acclaimed author of The Doubter's Almanac ( Chicago Sun-Times). Highly acclaimed and wildly successful upon its debut, Ethan Canin's now classic collection of nine stories combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Full of life, rich with personal history, plot, and revelation, the stories in Emperor of the Air are the work of an extraordinarily gifted young writer. Capturing a wide range of vivid characters and their unforgettable moments of ache, epiphany, humor, and wisdom, Canin would go on to prove himself as "the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation" (NPR). "Dazzling . . . at times breathtaking, at other times heartbreaking." —Walker Percy "A glowing first book . . . An engrossing and unified collection." —Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press