Hardcover Nonfiction

by James F. Fixx · Random House

by H.R. Halderman with Joseph DiMona · Times Books

by Nancy Friday · Delacorte Press

by Rien Poortvliet · Harry N. Abrams

Featuring candid photographs of garden gnomes, this charming follow-up to the "The Secret Lives of Gnomes" offers detailed information about the various customs that gnomes hold during Christmastime. Full color.

by James Herriot · St. Martin's Press

James Herriot is probably the most beloved living writer. When All Things Bright and Beautiful was published three years ago, it became the number one best seller in the world, winning still new friends for the Yorkshire veterinarian whose first book All Creatures Great and Small had already been enjoyed by millions of readers. In this, his third book, he takes up where he left off-- both in terms of the warmth, humor, and skill with which he writes, and in the story itself. It is World War Two and James has just been inducted into the RAF. We see him at training camp and we go back to Yorkshire-- on real trips as he breaks away to see Helen who is about to have a baby, and on trips of reverie as he recalls the Dales, the animals, and the Yorkshire people who have so enriched his life. We meet old friends again-- his partner Siegfried, the zany Tristan, the bon vivant Granville Bennett-- and scores of new folk, each with a story to tell. James Herriot is back, and, as one reviewer said of his work, "If ever you have loved a friend, human or otherwise, this is the book for you."

by Jay Anson · Prentice-Hall

“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).

by Carlos Castaneda · Simon & Schuster

ENTER THE SORCERESS! Back from the abyss, Castaneda encounter his greatest test on the journey towards impeccability and freedom: to outwit and overpower the sorcery of Doñ a Soledad, herself transformed from a defeated and meaningless life to a warrior, a hunter and a "stalker of power." Now the combat will begin. Now the journey will continue. Till the last danger is faced...the final paradox embraced.

by Robert Ringer · Cromwell

by John McPhee · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

by Way Bandy · Random House

by John Malloy · Follett Publishing Co

by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Douglas Kent Hall · Simon & Schuster

The winner of the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia titles explains how he trained his body and provides a step-by-step program of boydbuilding exercises and diet.

by Edith Holden · Holt

by Adrien Arpel · Antheneum

by Malachi Martin · Stein and Day

This book reveals how influential members of that church are now ready to make their accomodation with a furure under communism. The price of the church's survival, they believe,must be a radical departure from western institutions and the way of life we have all known.