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Hardcover Fiction

Week of July 23, 1995

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BEACH MUSIC
Pat Conroy
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BEACH MUSIC

by Pat Conroy · Talese/Doubleday

3 wks at #1 · 2 on list
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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

154 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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THE RAINMAKER
John Grisham
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THE RAINMAKER

by John Grisham · Doubleday

13 wks on list

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer--except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it. By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings. A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill, and outright violence--a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land.

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THE WITNESS
Sandra Brown
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THE WITNESS

by Sandra Brown · Warner

4 wks on list

From a New York Times bestselling author, a public defender must protect herself and her young son after stumbling upon a chilling secret. After narrowly escaping a deadly car crash, Kendall Deaton and her son find refuge in a small South Carolina town. But their relief is short-lived when Keaton makes a terrifying discovery. The town of Prosper isn't so innocent after all. Now, Kendall is a reluctant witness intent on escaping from an insidious evil–and a community that will stop at nothing to protect what is "theirs".

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THE APOCALYPSE WATCH
Robert Ludlum
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THE APOCALYPSE WATCH

by Robert Ludlum · Bantam

8 wks on list

Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway-- the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when he receives the sudden good news that Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry's cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the United States and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments--but is the list legitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother? To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother's identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for Harry Latham--and those who want Drew himself dead. From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, The Apocalypse Watch is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.

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LADDER OF YEARS
Anne Tyler
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LADDER OF YEARS

by Anne Tyler · Knopf

13 wks on list

This entrancing and deeply searching novel will touch a nerve in every reader. Celia Grinstead, 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, on a sudden impulse, walks away from her marriage, hitches a ride into the unknown, and settles in a strange new town. But soon after she begins her impersonal, unencumbered new life, fresh responsibilities inevitably accumulate.

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AFTER DARK
Phillip Margolin
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AFTER DARK

by Phillip Margolin · Doubleday

2 wks on list

A ROLLER COASTER RIDE OF LEGAL SUSPENSE THAT BEGINS WITH A PAIR OF SEEMINGLY UNRELATED MURDERS.

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REDEMPTION
Leon Uris
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REDEMPTION

by Leon Uris · HarperCollins

4 wks on list

With more than eight million copies sold, Trinity stands as one of the blockbuster novels of our time. Redemption continues Uris's mighty epic of love and loss, triumph and tragedy in the "terrible beauty" that is Ireland. Uris's novels, which have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide, are all still in print.

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