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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 19 Oct 1984, p. 81

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ro'AIU 3SSS& " " '-Mm: Paperbacks A potpourri of paperbacks-- from Pocket Books The Piscopo Tapes by Joe Piscopo. "Saturday Night Live" 's favorite sportscaster and hilarious man-of-a-thousand-faces Joe Piscopo interviews himself as his many famous characters-Joan Rivers, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Andy Rooney, David Letterman, Phil Donahue, and more. Illus­ trated with photographs. ' Paper $5.95 Mandarin by Robert Elegant. Flailed by the N.Y. Times as "vast and passionate," this sweeping saga of 19th-century China by the best-selling author of Dynasty and Manchu intertwines the compelling love stories of two extraordinary women-the Emperor's concubine Yenehala, and Fronah, daughter of a rich Jewish-Chinese merchant. Paper $4.50 Counterfeit Lady by Jude Deveraux. Set in Virginia during the late 18th century, this captivating tale (the first volume in Jude Deveraux's James River Trilogy) follows the adventures of Nicole Courtalain, a passionate French beauty married by proxy-and by mistake-to hand­ some plantation owner Clayton Armstrong. Paper $3.95 The Kingdom By the Sea by Paul Theroux. "Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations, and laments" IN. Y. Times), The Kingdom By the Sea takes us on a marvelous three-month journey around the coast of Great Britain, from the white cliffs of Dover to Cornwall, Wales, Ulster, and Scotland. Paper $4.95 Seeds of Greatness: The Ten Best Kept Secrets of Total Success by Denis Waitley. What is success? How do people achieve it? Now available in paperback, Seeds of Greatness presents one of America's leading motiva­ tional expert's ten simple but profound secrets for living a fruitful, happy, and successful life. Paper $3.95 ABRACADABRA! Dynasty: The Authorized Biography of the Carringtons intro. by Esther Shapiro. Discover the real story about Americas most popular TV family, their empire, the actors, and more in this fact packed biography featuring nearly 250 photo­ graphs-40 i,n full color - of Such superstars as Joan Collins and Linda Evans. (DD) Paper $10.95 Total Television: A C omprehensive Guide to Program­ ming from 1948 to the Present, Revised Edition by Alex McNeil. TV fans and trivia buffs will love this guide to the en­ tire cavalcade of shows and stars- Howdy Doody," "The $64,000 Question," "Dallas," Jack Paar, Edward R. Murrow . .andmore. (Pen/Vik) Paper $14.95 Treasure by Sheldon Renan/puzzle by Dr. Crypton/illus. by Jean-Francois Podevin. A $500,000 treasure is hidden somewhere in America-and it could be yours! Just read the story, find the hidden clues, study the 40 full-color illustrations, and you could solve the puzzle and win the prize. |WB) Paper $12.95 Abracadabra! Magic and Other Tricks by Shari Lewis. Emmy Award winner Shari Lewis, TV sidekick to the beloved, wise-cracking puppet Lamb Chop, shows kids of all ages how to do magic tricks, read minds, solve mysteries, tell riddles, and lots more in this fully illustrated, fun-filled book. (Wor/Bal) Paper $5.95 Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Containing the original Warne texts, this volume brings together for the first time the four stories that feature Peter Rabbit - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny,. "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies," "The Tale of Mr. Tod." lllus. (Pen/Vik) Paper $4.95 35

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