by Salman Rushdie · Viking Press
' Two men miraculously survive an explosion in a hijacked jumbo jet, only to discover they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal battle between God and the Devil.
by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
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.
by E. L. Doctorow · Random House
Billy Bathgate is an urban Huck Finn who comes of age in New York City in the 1930s as the protege of Dutch Schultz, one of the most abominable gangsters of his time, but one of life's great teachers as well. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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 Dick Francis · Putnam
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;
by Douglas Adams · Simon & Schuster
When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion-it was simply designated an act of God. But, think Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 to Oslo? Funnier than Psycho... more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge... shorter than War and Peace... the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
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 LaVyrle Spencer · Putnam
Two lost souls find love in this heartfelt historical romance from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer. In town, they called her “Crazy Widow Dinsmore.” But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule—she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way. Will Parker drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home he’d never had. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance. Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED—A husband. When he stepped across Elly Dinsmore’s cluttered yard, Will knew he had come home at last… “Spencer is a master storyteller, and this is one of her best.”—Rendezvous
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
