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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of January 27, 1991

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THE SECRET PILGRIM
John le Carré
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THE SECRET PILGRIM

by John le Carré · Knopf

2 wks at #1 · 3 on list
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THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE
Jean M. Auel
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THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE

by Jean M. Auel · Crown

15 wks on list

In the fourth installment of the Earth's Children series, Ayla and Jodular face prejudice and fear on their long journey to Jondular's home.

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DAZZLE
Judith Krantz
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DAZZLE

by Judith Krantz · Crown

9 wks on list

"Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world. But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything." -back cover.

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THE WITCHING HOUR
Anne Rice
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THE WITCHING HOUR

by Anne Rice · Knopf

12 wks on list
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JURASSIC PARK
Michael Crichton
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JURASSIC PARK

by Michael Crichton · Knopf

9 wks on list

En esta espectacular novela los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra... En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambición de comercializar la ingeniería genética. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultarán vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas... Parque Jurásico, la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine con enorme éxito por Steven Spielberg. La crítica ha dicho: «Una joya de la fantasía científica.» El País

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POSSESSION
A. S. Byatt
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BATTLEGROUND
W. E. B. Griffin
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VITAL SIGNS
Robin Cook
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VITAL SIGNS

by Robin Cook · Putnam

2 wks on list

A medical thriller set in the thrilling and dangerous brave new world of reproductive technologies. Dr Marissa Blumenthal has suspicions about what is really going on behind the walls of the clinic where she is receiving fertilization treatment. By the author of Coma and Fever .

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MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT
Sidney Sheldon
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MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

23 wks on list

A beautiful American widow flees to a remote convent in Greece after an attempt on her life and becomes involved with a ruthless tycoon

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THE FOURTH K
Mario Puzo
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THE FOURTH K

by Mario Puzo · Random House

3 wks on list

"A classic . . . the novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage."--"The New York Times Book Review."

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Maeve Binchy
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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

by Maeve Binchy · Delacorte Press

1 wks on list

“[An] irresistible invitation to share the lives of people who believe in enduring values.”—Detroit Free Press It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents. . . . Eve—the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny—they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains . . . except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a. . . Circle Of Friends. Praise for Circle of Friends “A rare pleasure . . . at terrific tale, told by a master storyteller.”—Susan Isaacs, The New York Times Book Review “Circle of Friends welcomes you in.”—The Washington Post

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