Vermilion/Totaled/Ike and Mamie/The Dark Horse/Fortress

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The Same Person, Just Somewhat Trimmer
by Mary Higgins Clark
Author of The Cradle Will Fall and /\ Stranger Is Watching
I can still hear Mother calling from the staircase landing, "Mary, is your light out?" Yes, it was—but the streetlight in front of my window threw a very satisfactory beam on my pillow, and most evenings I would manage to sneak in a little extra reading. Then I would set the alarm so that in the morning I could get up early, fix a cup of hot cocoa and snuggle back in bed for a blissful hour with my current book. It was heaven!
During the day the thought of getting back to the book, the contemplation of what was going to happen to the characters whom I'd left in such dire trouble, helped me ignore the cold as I waited for the school bus or endured the inevitable misery of my math and science classes.
My need and love for reading grew along with me, but my time to read shrank proportionately. 1 had begun to write, and every spare minute I could find was spent... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Same Person, Just Somewhat Trimmer
by Mary Higgins Clark
Author of The Cradle Will Fall and /\ Stranger Is Watching
I can still hear Mother calling from the staircase landing, "Mary, is your light out?" Yes, it was—but the streetlight in front of my window threw a very satisfactory beam on my pillow, and most evenings I would manage to sneak in a little extra reading. Then I would set the alarm so that in the morning I could get up early, fix a cup of hot cocoa and snuggle back in bed for a blissful hour with my current book. It was heaven!
During the day the thought of getting back to the book, the contemplation of what was going to happen to the characters whom I'd left in such dire trouble, helped me ignore the cold as I waited for the school bus or endured the inevitable misery of my math and science classes.
My need and love for reading grew along with me, but my time to read shrank proportionately. 1 had begun to write, and every spare minute I could find was spent at the typewriter. Then I married, and produced five children in eight years. 1 soon learned that no matter how early I arose to catch up on a recent book, the new baby woke up a few minutes later. So much for my peaceful interludes!
It was thirty-one years ago that Reader's Digest began to publish its condensed volumes, and as soon as I found them they solved my problem. I could enjoy four Or fivs of the best new books in about the time it normally would take to read just one of them. I've been happily subscribing to Reader's Digest Condensed Books ever since.
As a writer, I'm constantly amazed and delighted at the honing process the editors employ in condensing my books. I like to think I write a tightly knit story, but the Condensed Books treatment can only be compared to the way I feel when I've gone to a health spa. I'm exactly the same person, just somewhat trimmer.
VERMILION by Phyllis A. Whitney Doubleday, $12.95
An anonymous letter promised Lindsay Phillips the truth about her father's death if she would come to Arizona. Lindsay was afraid of what else she might discover—about the mother she had never known, about her feelings for her handsome brother-in-law . . . But an inner voice she could not ignore compelled her to investigate. So she headed west into that beautiful rugged country, where danger lurked and romance beckoned. Page 7
TOTALED by Frances Rickett and Steven McCraw Morrow, $10.95
Christopher Reilly was an intelligent, attractive teenager who had everything going his way— until an accident totaled his car and almost totaled him. He lay in a coma, with no chance of recovery. Or so the doctors .
thought. Not his brother Frank. Dedicated and tenacious, Frank spent nearly two years trying to rehabilitate Chris—sacrificing everything in the attempt to bring him back to life. This is a moving account of one man's priceless gift to another. Page 747
IKE AND MAMIE The Story of the General and His Lady
by Lester David and Irene David Putnam, $12.95
All the world knows the public image of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War I! and thirty-fourth President of the United Stales. Here is a closeup look at life with his beloved Mamie, at their marriage of more than fifty years that weathered frequent separations, slanderous rumors and personal tragedy. The portrait that emerges is of two warm,
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unpretentious people-aware of their shortcomings, united in their devotion. It's like spending an evening at home with Ike and Mamie and getting to know them very well indeed. Page 265
THE DARK HORSE by Rumer Godden Viking, $11.95
Dark Invader was a beauty, but a washout as a racehorse, or so it seemed when he was shipped from England to Calcutta. In India the horse thrived and was fast becoming a legend until a brutal jockey caused him to bolt on the eve of his biggest race. He took refuge in the stables of a convent: a gift of God, the nuns felt sure, and it was up to his infuriated owner to prove otherwise. A vivid, heartwarming tale by the author of An Episode of Sparrows. Page 371
FORTRESS
by Cabr/elle Lord St. Martin's, $8.95
Without warning, terror strikes a small rural school when a gang of ruthless criminals kidnaps twelve children and their young teacher, Sally Jones. The leader of the gang is a homicidal psychopath, his ransom demand a staggering one million dollars. BLit who will pay it? For Sally and her pupils, held captive in a remote cave, there is only one hope. They must outwit their abductors or die. Page 485
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Coming in a future volume NOBLE HOUSE by James Clavell
Hong Kong-an empire built on pirate gold; where the reckless daring of the early freebooters seethes today in the blood of their descendants. Here Ian Dunross rules as tai-pan of the Noble House, the vast shipping empire founded by the legendary Dirk Struan. Challenged by brilliant industrialist Line Bartlett and his beautiful colleagLic Casoy Tcholok, Dunross fights a desperate battle to save the Noble House. Tension builds dramatically as the artful manipulations of modern-day piracy unfold against a complex tapestry of dope smuggling, gunrunning. Communist spy rings, and the ever seductive temptations of Hong Kong. Another blockbuster from the author of Shogun and Tai-Pan. Vissza