The Aviator/The Covenant/Hope/Bullet Train

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THE COVENANT by James A. Michener Random House, $15.95 With the storytelling skill that has captivated millions, James Michener unfolds the fascinating drama of South Africa, land of contradictions. Starting at the dawn of civilization with an intrepid clan of small brown hunters, Michener's novel follows several generations of a pioneering Dutch family as they move across a wilderness of dazzling beauty and come into violent conflict with Zulu and Matabele tribes. From the author of Hawaii, Centennial and Chesapeake, here is a monumental tale of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal. Page 775
HOPE: A Loss Survived by Richard Meryman Little, Brown, $11.95 The diagnosis was malignant melanoma, a particularly virulent form of cancer. Yet the author's lovely wife, Hope, a gifted artist and the mother of two young girls, faced the doctor's fateful verdict with unflinching gallantry. This is a true story—of tender love, of shared calamity, of laughter amid... Tovább

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THE COVENANT by James A. Michener Random House, $15.95 With the storytelling skill that has captivated millions, James Michener unfolds the fascinating drama of South Africa, land of contradictions. Starting at the dawn of civilization with an intrepid clan of small brown hunters, Michener's novel follows several generations of a pioneering Dutch family as they move across a wilderness of dazzling beauty and come into violent conflict with Zulu and Matabele tribes. From the author of Hawaii, Centennial and Chesapeake, here is a monumental tale of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal. Page 775
HOPE: A Loss Survived by Richard Meryman Little, Brown, $11.95 The diagnosis was malignant melanoma, a particularly virulent form of cancer. Yet the author's lovely wife, Hope, a gifted artist and the mother of two young girls, faced the doctor's fateful verdict with unflinching gallantry. This is a true story—of tender love, of shared calamity, of laughter amid heartbreak. Honestly and movingly, Richard Meryman recounts how in the end he and his daughters survived the ordeal and emerged into the light of a new beginning. Page 377
THE AVIATOR by Ernest K. Cann Arbor House, $10.95 High above the forbidding Nevada mountains, a small open-cockpit plane carries the U.S. mail and two special human beings: a thirty-one-vear-old flier who has already lived a lifetime, and a girl of eleven, wise jeyond her years. When man and .:hild are suddenly plunged into a terrifying world of snowy isolation, each must give the other the courage to survive.
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The author of Fate Is the Hunter and The High and the Mighty combines an exciting adventure story with touching insights into human vulnerability. Page 7
BULLET TRAIN by Joseph Ranee and Arei Kato William Morrow, $10.95 As the Japanese superex-press speeds from Tokyo to Hakata, fifteen hundred passengers revel in its smooth luxury, unaware that a terrorist bomb is wired to its underside. The bomb is set to explode if the speedometer falls below fifty miles an hour, so the train must stay in motion until ransom demands are met. A drama of knife-edge suspense unfolds as the gleaming bullet train moves ever closer to a rendezvous with disaster. Page 459
Coming in future volumes BANNERS OF SILK by Rosalind Laker It was her magical skill with needle and thread that took Louise Vernet from a shabby garret to the elegant Paris salon of Charles Frederick Worth, the first great master of haute couture. But it was her beauty that attracted the eye of cavalry officer Pierre de Gand, plunging Louise into a romantic passion that was to rule her life. This beguiling romance unfolds in the glittering world of Napoleon III and his empress, Eugénie.
REFLEX by Dick Francis
Suspense and murder in the colorful world of British horse racing. Jockey Philip Nore finds himself in possession of a dangerous legacy: a set of photographs that could destroy the lives of more than one regular on the racing circuit—or destroy Philip himself. Against his will, Philip ends up playing a game more perilous than any steeplechase—and along the way discovers a love he never expected. Vissza