THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN
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.
A SEASON IN HELL
by Jack Higgins · Simon & Schuster
Widowed American socialite Sarah Tolbert loses her son in a mysterious drug-related death. She travels abroad to investigate the matter and is plunged into a sinister European underworld of murderous organized crime. Reissue. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
BREATHING LESSONS
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
THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS
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.
THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
“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
ANYTHING FOR BILLY
by Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster
The adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw.
ALASKA
by James A. Michener · Random House
Set in the Alaska of the explorers and of the fabled golden Klondike.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.