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  • Mary Higgins Clark Omnibus: Let Me Call You Sweetheart; I'll Be Seeing You; Remember Me

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Hardcover (Wings, June 19, 2001)
    The fourth RHVP collection of bestsellers from the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense." RHVP has sold three-quarters of a million copies of the other omnibus editions. This new one contains three of her most popular novels, each netting over 500,000 copies in hardcover and over 1.5 million in paperback. Let Me Call You Sweetheart is about a plastic surgeon who is more dangerous with a scalpel than he should be! I'll Be Seeing You is about a TV reporter who gets involved with an unethical fertility clinic, and Remember Me is a modern-day ghost tale.
  • Clan of the Cave Bear

    Jean M. Auel

    Hardcover (Wings, Aug. 11, 1998)
    An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this makes for total involvement and believability in the light of today. A novel for all time.
  • Cheri ; And, the Last of Cheri

    Colette

    Hardcover (Wings, Dec. 12, 1994)
    Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as Chéri, and the courtesan Léa de Lonval tenderly depicts the devotion that stems from desire, and is an honest account of the most human preoccupations of youth and middle age. With compassionate insight Colette paints a full-length double portrait using an impressionistic style all her own.
  • A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    Hardcover (Wings, Jan. 1, 1996)
    Reprint Edition. WINGS BOOKS, NY 1996. THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL FEATURING IGNATIUS REILLY AND HIS MARVELOUS, MADCAP ADVENTURES IN NEW ORLEANS. Foreword by Walker Percy.
  • Tarzan of the Apes : Three Complete Novels

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Hardcover (Wings, May 19, 1998)
    When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the time he is eighteen, he has the strength of a lion and rules the apes as their king. But Tarzan knows he's different. Will he ever discover his true identity? From the Trade Paperback edition.
  • Mark Twain's Library of Humor

    Samuel Clemens

    Hardcover (Wings, May 20, 1995)
    This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Timon Croesus come up and stand about so gentlemanly and say, " Well, Mrs. Potiphar, are we to have no more charming parties this season?" And Boosey says, in his droll way, "Let's keep the ball a-rolling!" That young man is always ready with a witticism. Then I step out, and James throws open the door, and the young men raise their hats, and the new crowd says: "I wonder who that is!" and the plush and purple and calves spring up behind, and I drive home to dinner. Now, Carrie, dear, isn't that nice? CARRIE'S COMEDY. BY WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE ALDEN. LLIAM LIVINGSTONE ALDEN made his reputation as the humorous editor of the New York Times. He was born at Williamstown, Mass., in 1837, received a collegiate education, and then studied law. He has published some eight volumes, mostly of a humorous character. Dr. Bartholomew, of Towanda Falls, Penn., is the proud possessor of an extremely precocious child. Miss Carrie Bartholomew is only ten years old, but, nevertheless, she is a young person of extraordinary acquirements and conspicuous culture. At the age of six she could read with great ease, and before reaching her eighth birthday she had developed a marked taste for novel-reading. About the same period she made her first attempt at authorship, and soon achieved an enviable reputation in several local nurseries, where her fairy tales were recited with immense applause. In her ninth year she wrote a novel--of which, unfortunately, no copies are now in existence--and begun an epic in six books upon "St. Bartholomew's Day"--which sanguinary event she classed among the ancestors of her family. The epic was discontinued after the completion of the second book, owing to the premature extermination of the Huguenots, but the young author lashed the Catholic party w...
  • Bloodline

    Sidney Sheldon

    Misc. Supplies (Wings, March 15, 1992)
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  • Agatha Christie's Detectives: five complete novels

    Agatha Christie

    Hardcover (Wings, March 15, 1982)
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  • Roots: The Saga of an American Family

    Alex Haley

    Hardcover (Wings, Jan. 1, 1686)
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