Belva Plain, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-21681-0
A Southern couple struggles with the impending death of their son. (Apr.)
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-31692-7
Plain adroitly crafts bestsellers (Homecoming, Secrecy, Promises, etc.), lacing modern morality tales with current issues and old-fashioned melodrama, often creating emotionally resilient, believable characters, and sometimes generating clich s just
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-31686-6
The characters in this labyrinthine 14th novel from perennial bestseller Plain (Promises) live undercover lives, each hiding a secret from the others. At the center of this web of reticence, which stretches from the mid-1980s to the present, stands...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-31110-6
Family values and feminism make an uneasy marriage in this undisguised morality play about adultery. Fifteen years ago, Margaret Crane gave up the dream of medical school to devote herself to her husband, Adam, an engineer. Beautiful, loyal, savvy...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-385-29926-8
With the rich threads of Evergreen , The Golden Cup and Tapestry , skillful storyteller Plain continues to weave her eventful saga of the Werners and their extended clan as they reaffirm their Jewish heritage during the stormy 1960s. Dark, sensitive
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $17.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-385-29508-6
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, Plain's latest is a stirring novel that focuses on irrepressible Hennie De Riveraaunt of Evergreen's Paul Wernerand her family. Hennie's stagnant existence ends when she begins dating Dan Roth, an impoverished...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-31980-5
When the matriarch of the Byrne clan individually summons each member of her family to her country home, the estranged invitees have no idea that they will attend a reunion of sorts. Plain's 15th novel, which reads more like an outline than one of...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-385-29754-7
Dependable Plain ( Evergreen ) again deftly explores enduring themes: the various social strata of Jewish life; the complexities of family relationships; the consequences of following a deeply felt social conscience. At 36, Jennie Rakowsky is a...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-29630-4
Readers who have not previously met the Werners and Roths in The Golden Cup and Evergreen will sense something missing when they begin this continuing saga about these tightly knit, aristocratic German-Jewish families. This book contains multiple...
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Belva Plain, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-21684-1
Plain's latest mystery concerns business machinations, child molestation and murder within a powerful family. (May)
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What begins as an engaging story about three college roommates—brainy Norma, lovely Amanda, preppy Cecile—and their differing futures takes a bewildering turn in Plain's latest domestic saga. When the three women graduate, Amanda,
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Belva Plain, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-440-21674-2
Plain's accomplished portrayal of a seemingly perfect Connecticut homemaker and her abusive husband was a PW bestseller. (Apr.)
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-385-31107-6
Plain's latest family saga (after Daybreak) is an animated but less-than-profound story of child abuse, adultery and business dealings. Dismayed to discover that their five-year-old daughter, Tina, has been sexually abused, photojournalist Sally...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $22.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-385-31104-5
Writing with her customary fervor but with uneven results, Plain ( Whispers ) again investigates the familiar territory of complex family relationships. This time she examines a situation right out of recent headlines: the switching of babies at...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $22.95 (331p) ISBN 978-0-385-29928-2
Giving a contemporary twist to this bittersweet tale, accomplished storyteller Plain ( Tapestry ) revisits familiar terrain: the intricate landscape of an extended family. The Fergusons seem to have it all. Lynn runs their comfortable home in an...
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Belva Plain, Author Delacorte Press $21 (418p) ISBN 978-0-385-29927-5
Bestseller Plain's ( Harvest ) fast, absorbing family saga makes hay with the scandals and excesses that have prompted the latest backlash against Wall Street. As it opens, the three Osborne siblings are burying their poor but decent mother in their
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Belva Plain, Author . Delacorte $26 (322p) ISBN 978-0-385-33684-0
Plain's tepid latest focuses on two women—privileged but plain Gwen Wright and beautiful but poor Jewel Fairchild. Their lives occasionally intersect, and eventually Jewel marries a wealthy man and discovers that money can't buy...
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Belva Plain, Author . Delacorte $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-33683-3
In bestseller Plain's 21st novel, the son of a Jewish shopkeeper and an Irish farm girl seeks, and finds, his fortune in Texas. The saga begins in 1900, when 13-year-old Adam Arnring learns his parents had never married. His father and...
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Belva Plain, Author . Delacorte $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33472-3
Usually a crowd-pleaser, Plain (Looking Back, etc.) sleepwalks through her latest novel, in which old-fashioned style clashes uncomfortably with contemporary content. Donald Wolfe, a 25-year-old North Dakota native, comes to New York City in 1968 to
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