A Murder is Announced

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

CHRISTIE,AGATHA

Mystery

Pocket Books, Inc.

It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.) It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving. Norman Paperman suddenly finds his glittering Manhattan life and his job as a Broadway publicity agent boring and unbearable. He chucks it all to buy a hotel on the island of Amerigo, in the Caribbean Sea. His efforts to cope with the bizarre characters and strange ways of the tropic island lead to explosive comic situations, and his desperate attempt to recapture his youth, in a sunset love affair with a film actress he once idolized.

Don't Stop the Carnival

Literature & Fiction

WOUK, HERMAN

Genre Fiction

Sahara

CUSSLER,CLIVE

Thrillers & Suspense

The Russia House

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries...In his first post-glasnost spy novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them.

Le Carre', John

A book of this grade is generally well kept and is in good shape to read and store. Sturdy spine, all pages intact physically. Solid cover. Might have acceptable shelve wear. Might (rare) have very limited notes.

The Progress of Julius

Du. Maurier, Daphne

Contemporary

While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.

Lost Horizon (Macmillan ELT Stories to Remember Series)

HILTON, JAMES

Upchuck and the Rotten Willy: The Great Escape

Wallace, Bill

Big Time

MONTECINO, Marcel

Dark fictional story of the Longchamp family

Dawn

ANDREWS, V.C.

Seventh book ever published in the long, long history of Pocket Books. There were several printings of this edition, all with the same cover.

Wuthering Heights (Pocket Books, No. 7)

emily-bronte

Classics

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