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Week of October 10, 1993

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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

38 wks at #1 · 61 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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LASHER
Anne Rice
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LASHER

by Anne Rice · Knopf

2 wks on list

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series! “[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,” Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjured up the spirit she named Lasher—a creation that spelled her own destruction and torments each of her descendants. Now, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from this darkly brutal yet irresistible demon. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS

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SACRED CLOWNS
Tony Hillerman
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SACRED CLOWNS

by Tony Hillerman · HarperCollins

2 wks on list

Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn solve a crime that involves the murder of a Pueblo tribal official, the death of a schoolteacher, and the disappearance of a tribal memento

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WITHOUT REMORSE
Tom Clancy
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WITHOUT REMORSE

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

7 wks on list

I Pentagon planlægges en aktion for at redde en gruppe amerikanere ud af en nordvietnamesisk krigsfangelejr, og Jack Kelly, vietnamveteran og specialuddannet flådeofficer, udses til opgaven. Han er imidlertid dybt involveret i en mere personlig redningsaktion

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THE CLIENT
John Grisham
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THE CLIENT

by John Grisham · Doubleday

30 wks on list

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle legal thriller that begins in a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, when two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb. . . . “The desire to find out what happens next keeps the reader turning the pages. Grisham is an absolute master of the chase story.”—The Washington Post Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client—even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom . . . or cost them both their lives.

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STRIP TEASE
Carl Hiaasen
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STRIP TEASE

by Carl Hiaasen · Knopf

5 wks on list

Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to big money and big government.

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STREETS OF LAREDO
Larry McMurtry
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STREETS OF LAREDO

by Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster

10 wks on list

Not since Terms of Endearment has the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Anything for Billy touched the heart so deeply as he does in this story of a father learning to love a daughter he's never met.

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PIGS IN HEAVEN
Barbara Kingsolver
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PIGS IN HEAVEN

by Barbara Kingsolver · HarperCollins

16 wks on list

Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, leading to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a crisis of historical proportions that will envelop not only her and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touched their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. With this wise, compelling novel, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and Animal Dreams vividly renders a world of heartbreak and redeeming love as she defines and defies the boundaries of family, and illuminates the many separate truths about the ties that bind us and tear us apart.

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POT OF GOLD
Judith Michael
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POT OF GOLD

by Judith Michael · Poseidon Press

2 wks on list

Claire Goddard and her daughter Emma learn to deal with the glittering world of wealth when Claire wins sixty million dollars in a lottery.

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THE NIGHT MANAGER
John le Carré
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SUPERMAN
Roger Stern
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SUPERMAN

by Roger Stern · Spectra/Bantam

"Superman-dead "--"The Daily Planet," On November 18, 1992, news of Superman's death shocked the world as the legendary Man of steel was killed defending Metropolis from the monster called Doomsday. Here at last is the dramatic story behind the best-selling comic book of all time: the fates of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Ma and Pa Kent, the Justice League, and the reign of the four super-beings who mysteriously appeared after Superman's funeral, each claiming to be the real Last Son of Krypton. And finally, here is the complete incredible story of Superman's triumphant retum In this thrilling novel, Roger Stern, a veteran writer of "Action Comics," chronicles the most amazing comeback in comic book history--told with more gripping detail and background than ever before.

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