New York Times Bestsellers 1990s
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Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark After their young son’s tragic death, Menley and Tony Richardson, a couple living on Cape Cod, try to begin life anew with a baby daughter, though an evil fate still seems to stalk them. Catalog Link |
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Beach Music by Pat Conroy Living in Rome with his daughter, Jack McCall finds his grief following his wife’s suicide interrupted by the arrival of his sister-in-law and two friends seeking his help in tracking down a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protestor. Catalog Link |
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The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers. Catalog Link |
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Disclosure by Michael Crichton An accusation of sexual harassment threatens a man’s career in the cutthroat computer industry, and when he attempts to defend himself, he uncovers some damaging company secrets. Catalog Link |
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel At the beginning of the 20th century, Tita, the youngest of three daughters, is expected to serve her mother for the rest of her life, but in order to show her love to Pedro, who is engaged to her sister, Tita cooks for him. Catalog Link |
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The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans After a terrible accident, Grace retreats into silence and her horse, Pilgrim, is driven mad by pain. Her mother gambles that The Whisperer can heal both Pilgrim and her daughter. The Whisperer could calm wild horses with softly whispered secrets uttered into troubled ears. Catalog Link |
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Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier After Inman escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain, Ada struggles to save her mountain farm with the help of Ruby, an illiterate but efficient farmer. Catalog Link |
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The Firm by John Grisham Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations. Catalog Link |
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The Partner by John Grisham Thought killed in a car accident four years earlier, Patrick Lanigan is discovered living in Brazil under the name of Danilo Silva and presumably in possession of millions of dollars missing from his former firm’s offshore account. Catalog Link |
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Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz Two secretive, lonely people desperately flee a clandestine, illegal agency with a hidden fascist agenda, pursued by a vicious, insidiously evil operative with full access to the vast resources of the government. Catalog Link |
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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Catalog Link |
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The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Nine years after three-year-old Ben Cappadora’s kidnapping, a twelve-year-old boy knocks at the door of the Cappadora house, looking for yardwork. Catalog Link |
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Paradise by Toni Morrison Tells the story of Ruby, Oklahoma, an all-black town settled by a dozen families in the 1890s when they were turned away from other communities. But now it’s the 1970s and the men of the town blame the women and the women’s shelter for the change in their community’s character. Catalog Link |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Catalog Link |
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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks A nostalgic look back at the 1950s in a story of first love set in a small North Carolina town. Catalog Link |
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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody’s hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings. Catalog Link |
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The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with Iowa native Francesca Johnson during four days of love, magic, and beauty. Catalog Link |