Hardcover Fiction

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, must rescue Colonel Filitov, America's highest agent in the Kremlin, from the KGB as the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system continues.

by Richard Bach · Silver Arrow/Morrow

by Anne Tyler · Knopf

Meet Maggie Moran. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends and grown children, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested... **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce 'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

by Anne Rice · Knopf

“With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

by Chris Van Allsburg · Houghton Mifflin

by Len Deighton · Knopf

by Wilhelm Grimm · di Capua/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A newly discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm about a little girl who is sent into the forest by her mother to escape the war. While there, she is cared for by Saint Joseph and her guardian angel.

by James A. Michener · Random House

Set in the Alaska of the explorers and of the fabled golden Klondike.

by Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster

The adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw.

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Knopf

by Robertson Davies · Viking Press

The Cornish Foundation, set up by the late Francis Cornish, decides to fund the doctoral work of Hulda Schnakenburg, a grumpy musical genius who is completing an unfinished Hoffman opera. Bestseller 1988.

by Rosamunde Pilcher · St. Martin's

by Stephen Coonts · Doubleday

The most daring -- and deadly -- terrorist plot of all time is about to unfold aboard the supercarrier USS United States. If it succeeds, the balance of nuclear power will tilt in favor of a remorseless Arab leader. And it looks as if no one can stop it - except navy "jet jock" Jake Grafton. "Cag " Grafton is one helluva pilot. His F-14 Tomcat is one helluva plane. But some of Jake's crewmates have already vanished. A woman reporter who boarded the ship in Tangiers may not be who she claims to be. And Jake may have to disobey a direct order from the President himself for one spine-tingling, hair-raising Final Flight.

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

Writer Gideon Zadok leaves the glitter of Hollywood for the newly created State of Israel, where he learns much about himself and love on a dangerous military operation he covers as a war correspondent.