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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 26, 1989

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STAR
Danielle Steel
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STAR

by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press

4 wks at #1 · 1 on list

Beginning just after World War II, Crystal Wyatt and Spencer Hill seem to kept apart by fate even as their stars are on the rise.

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MIDNIGHT
Dean R. Koontz
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MIDNIGHT

by Dean R. Koontz · Putnam

5 wks on list
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RIVALS
Janet Dailey
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THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN
Tom Clancy

THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

30 wks on list

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.

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CAT'S EYE
Margaret Atwood
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A SEASON IN HELL
Jack Higgins
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A SEASON IN HELL

by Jack Higgins · Simon & Schuster

6 wks on list

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.

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MUTATION
Robin Cook

MUTATION

by Robin Cook · Putnam

5 wks on list

Il fallait le prévoir. Le champion des "thrillers" médicaux rajeunit dans ce roman réussi le mythe de Frankenstein.

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THE EDGE
Dick Francis
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THE EDGE

by Dick Francis · Putnam

1 wks on list

Undercover operative Tor Kelsey just received his make-or-break assignment: masquerading as a waiter on The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train -a high-class horse-racing junket for the super-rich. He was told to look out for trouble, but he never could have guessed how much. Because one of the passengers on this elegant excursion is Julius Apollo Filmer -a sociopathic genius of blackmail and criminal corruption. His goal -take the train and its passengers for everything they have. And Tor is the only one with enough cunning and courage to take him onhellip;

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THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS
Robertson Davies
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THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS

by Robertson Davies · Viking Press

7 wks on list

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.

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BREATHING LESSONS
Anne Tyler
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BREATHING LESSONS

by Anne Tyler · Knopf

23 wks on list

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

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THE FORTUNE
Michael Korda
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THE FORTUNE

by Michael Korda · Summit

1 wks on list
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SPY HOOK
Len Deighton
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Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.