Reader&rsquos Digest Condensed Books &ndash Volume 2 1989&hellip (Catlett, VA)

Reader&rsquos Digest Condensed Books &ndash Volume 2 1989&hellip

..Three Books in OneLocal pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 15 IMG_6512The Edge by Dick Francis Originally published by G.P Putnam s SonsNothing is as it seems on the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. Yes there are 11 champion Thoroughbreds on board 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 MondayAlaska by James A. Michener Originally published by Random HouseNo 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 forty-ninth state. ThornyHold by Mary Stewart Originally published by William Morrow and CompanyGilly 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. Glly 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 about 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 traditionsHardcover with jacket 574 pages Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 50-12721