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Hardcover Fiction

Week of September 27, 1992

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THE PELICAN BRIEF
John Grisham
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THE PELICAN BRIEF

by John Grisham · Doubleday

12 wks at #1 · 29 on list
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THE SECRET HISTORY
Donna Tartt
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THE SECRET HISTORY

by Donna Tartt · Knopf

2 wks on list

No es fácil ir haciendo amigos en una universidad de Nueva Inglaterra si eres un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California, y Richard Papen lo sabe; por eso agradece que lo admitan en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura clásica con mucho carisma y pocos escrúpulos. Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se ríen de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los demás, pero bien mirado se pasan el día bebiendo y engullendo pastillas, hasta que un mal día las que parecían chiquilladas se convierten en palabras mayores. Solo entonces Richard y su pandilla descubren qué difícil es vivir sin máscaras y qué fácil es matar sin remordimientos. En El secreto, la primera novela de Donna Tartt, se unen la tensión de la novela psicológica, el ritmo de un thriller y la crónica de una juventud que pide demasiado a la vida sin saber bien qué entregar a cambio. El resultado es una obra que se cuenta entre las mejores del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

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THE VOLCANO LOVER
Susan Sontag
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THE VOLCANO LOVER

by Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

5 wks on list

After the death of his wife in Naples, his adopted city, an 18th century English nobleman takes up with the remarkable if uneducated mistress of his nephew and eventually marries her.

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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Robert James Waller
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

by Robert James Waller · Warner

7 wks on list

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

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TANGLED VINES
Janet Dailey
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TANGLED VINES

by Janet Dailey · Little, Brown

3 wks on list

A successful television news anchor who pulled herself through an ugly childhood is haunted by her past when she discovers that her father is linked to a murder on the famous Rutledge Estate Winery. (Romance).

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SWEET LIAR
Jude Deveraux
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SWEET LIAR

by Jude Deveraux · Pocket

5 wks on list

Samantha's landlord, Michael Taggart, is the most attractive man she has ever met, yet their relationship fails to develop. But as they probe her grandmother's past, Mike slowly uncovers the affection Sam has long since buried - leading the pair to the dangerous truth about a bloody night in 1928.

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NIGHT OF THE HAWK
Dale Brown
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NIGHT OF THE HAWK

by Dale Brown · Fine/ Putnam

The crew of the "Old Dog" is back! After the fall of the USSR -the rise of a terrifying new power Bestselling author Dale Brown reunites the crew of the Old Dog -in a riveting fusion of fact, fiction, and tense human drama. Five years ago, the Old Dog crossed the skies of the Soviet Union on a daring mission. One brave airman sacrificed his life to save his fellow crew members. His body was left in the Siberian wastes, while the Old Dog soared off to victory. Now, it has been discovered, David Luger never died. Captured and brainwashed by the KGB, Luger revealed U.S. military secrets of stealth technology. Secrets that could reunite the shattered factions of the Soviet Union -and forge the most dangerous military alliance in the world

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