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Publisher; Reader’s Digest

ALASKA by James A. Michener. Originally published by Random House

No one makes history come alive quite like James Michener. In his latest masterwork, a dazzling blend of fact and imagination, he brings the reader face to face, with the beautiful, vast, and challenging land called Alaska. And with the men and women across the ages who have dared to accept her challenge: Indians and Eskimos who arrived from Asia thousands of years ago. Russian fur traders, colonists, and priests in the eighteenth century. Yankee whalers, missionaries and an uncontrollable stampede of sourdoughs chasing after gold in the nineteenth. And in our own century, salmon canners, bush pilots, teachers, oil riggers, amateur dogsled racers, and a host of others – the new American pioneers. From the author of Centennial and Texas, a giant tapestry of a novel, chronicling the rugged heritage of our legendary forty- ninth state.

THORNYHOLD by Mary Stewart Morrow

Gilly Ramsey is a lonely young woman with an uncertain future. Then, from her godmother, comes an unexpected legacy. It is Thornyhold, an old house set deep in the English wood. Gilly is enchanted by the house, by the resident cat, Hodge, and by a ten-year-old neighbor, named William. But it is William’s widowed father, Christopher John, who quickens her heart. Soon after she moves in, however, questions arise abouy Thornyhold. How to explain the eerie chanting that pierces Gilly’s sleep, the strange side effects of eating a delicious meat pie, the messages that begin to arrive, from the dear dead grandmother? Does some of the witchcraft once practiced at Thornyhold linger there still? From Mary Stewart, the best-selling mistress of romantic suspense, a delightful twentieth century love story set amid ancient traditions.

THE EDGE by Dick Francis. Originally published by Putnam

Nothing is as it seems on the Great Transcontinental Mstery Race Train. Yes, there are eleven champion thorobreds traveling with their VIP owners to racetracks across Canada. but some of the other passengers on this luxury train are actually actors, staging a make-believe murder. And one passenger is a real murderer, with a grudge against the whole international racing establishment. Moving secretly among them all is undercover security agent Tor Kelsey. His mission: to thwart the killer's plans before disaster strikes. High-velocity action by the author of Break In and Hot Money.

Hard Cover with jacket 574 pages Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 50-12721