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.
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.
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.
STORMING INTREPID
by Payne Harrison · Crown
Desperate to acquire the latest American technology relating to the SDI program, the Soviets hijack the U.S. space shuttle Intrepid, triggering a costly and dangerous battle.
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