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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 20, 1989

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THE RUSSIA HOUSE
John le Carré
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THE RUSSIA HOUSE

by John le Carré · Knopf

10 wks at #1 · 11 on list
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB
Amy Tan
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB

by Amy Tan · Putnam

20 wks on list
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BLESSINGS
Belva Plain
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BLESSINGS

by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

3 wks on list

A successful lawyer's idyllic life is turned upside down when the daughter she gave up for adoption nineteen years earlier appears at her door and wants to become a part of her life.

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RED PHOENIX
Larry Bond
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RED PHOENIX

by Larry Bond · Warner

12 wks on list

Fans of the original will be delighted to see their favorite characters return with new heroes too.

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KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR
Jude Deveraux
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KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR

by Jude Deveraux · Pocket

2 wks on list

While at an old English church, Dougless Montgomery meets a strange young man who claims he is from the sixteenth century, and when the two of them begin searching for a way to send him back in time, they find a love that survives for all time.

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JOURNEY
James Michener
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THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR
Alice Walker
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THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR

by Alice Walker · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

16 wks on list

'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.

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THE NEGOTIATOR
Frederick Forsyth
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THE NEGOTIATOR

by Frederick Forsyth · Bantam

17 wks on list

Oliereserverne i øst og vest er ved at slippe op, afspænding er en nødvendighed, dét truer våbenfabrikanterne, og én prøver at redde sig ved at få taget den amerikanske præsidents søn som gidsel

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TALKING GOD
Tony Hillerman
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TALKING GOD

by Tony Hillerman · Harper & Row

12 wks on list

A grave robber and a corpse force Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to enter the dangerous land of superstition and ancient ceremony.

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DAY OF THE CHEETAH
Dale Brown
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DAY OF THE CHEETAH

by Dale Brown · Fine

7 wks on list

In this explosive New York Times bestseller, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology... America’s most advanced fighter plane, DreamStar, has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most perilous assignment since The Flight of the Old Dog. The odds are against him. His aircraft, the Cheetah, hasn’t the speed, the power, or the technology of the DreamStar—his skills behind the stick are the only advantage he’s got. And so begins the greatest high-flying chase of all time...

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PRINCE OF THE BLOOD
Raymond E. Feist
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PRINCE OF THE BLOOD

by Raymond E. Feist · Foundation/Doubleday

1 wks on list

Updated and revised with new material for its 15th anniversary, this special edition presents the novel--with its sweeping imagination, wonderfully drawn characters, and dark intrigue--as Feist always meant for it to be written.

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THE SATANIC VERSES
Salman Rushdie
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THE SATANIC VERSES

by Salman Rushdie · Viking Press

24 wks on list

' 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.

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JOSHUA AND THE CHILDREN
Joseph F. Girzone
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JOSHUA AND THE CHILDREN

by Joseph F. Girzone · Macmillan

A stranger, Joshua, arrives in an ordinary village only to witness the activities of unscrupulous people. The children are the first to recognize that something is different about Joshua, and it is through the villagers' children that Joshua is able to restore a sense of peacefulness and honesty.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.