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Follows four members of the British Parliament from the beginning of their careers through the next twenty years of their lives, with each man seeking to become Prime Minister.

Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.

Set in Yorkshire, London, Paris, and New York from 1926 to the present, tells the story of three generations of ambitious women—Audra Kenton, her daughter Christina, and her granddaughter Kyle.

Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects—using the USSR’s most valuable nuclear submarine as his escape vehicle.

While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men.

Ethel Lambston, a gossip writer whose forthcoming book threatens to expose leading figures in the fashion world, is murdered, and boutique-owner Neeve Kearny becomes intimately involved in the investigation.

The practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch—obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist—are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells.

A young narrator chronicles his coming-of-age in Minnesota’s Lake Wobegon, a fictitious small town where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

A scarlet-and-white, 1958 Plymouth fury—salvaged over every rational dissent and objection, from decay—possesses its new owner and brings hellish terror to him, his friends, and his classmates.

It began—and ended—in 1958 when seven desperate children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror.

When a little boy’s pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.

A shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos.

Rusty Sabich, a prosecuting attorney investigating the murder of Carolyn Polhemus, his former lover and a prominent member of his boss’s staff, finds himself accused of the crime.