TIME LIFE BOOK DIGEST &ndash FOUR BOOKS IN ONE (Catlett, VA)

TIME LIFE BOOK DIGEST &ndash FOUR BOOKS IN ONE

Local pick-up preferred but will sip at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 15 IMG_6534Contents by ChapterTHE FORTUNE by Michael Korda Summit BooksThe world of the Bannerman Family was one of fabulous New York City apartments sprawling country estates. The best tables in the finest restaurants and privileged positions on the boards of banks corporations and innumerable private foundations. Then patriarch Arthur Bannerman died in the bed of Alexa Walden an unknown young woman whom he had secretly married. Suddenly there was a chance that control of the Bannerman fortune might pass into the hands of an outsider. While the family plots against Alexa she plays out her own hand seeking help and finding it from the one person she feared the most.A SEASON IN HELL by Jack Higins Simon and SchusterSean Egan is a trained killer who worked for Britain s antiterrorist forces. Sarah Talbot is an American investment broker seeking vengeance for the drug death of her late husband s son. They team up and soon find themselves trapped in a hellish underworld where drugs finance terrorism and violent death disciplines those who step out of lineNOT THAT YOU ASKED by Andrew A. Rooney Random HouseIn this latest down-to-earth collection of columns the veteran 60 Minutes commentator again lets us know what he thinks about us (and himself). For a quick chuckle check his list of a hundred opinions I m stuck with. Number 100 After thinking something through as well as I am able to be sure I m right it often turns out that I m wrong Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge VikingWith the upheaval of the Vietnam war in the background two young women struggle unknowingly with the consequences of being deliberately switched as babies during a hospital fire. Rachel is raised in a wealthy family and becomes a doctor. Rose grows up in poverty and must work hard for every penny to pay her way through law school. Fate brings them together in a medical malpractice suit in which the larger verdict rests not with the jury but in what the two women will do to each other and their loved ones when they find out the truth about their real identities Hardcover with jacket 480 pages ISSN 1044 212X