Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume M 1982 ( Fever; the Walk West a Walk Across America 2; Gilded Splendour; Twice Shy)

Fever Author: Robin Cook Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it. The walk west A walk across America 2 Author: Peter Jenkins, Peter Jenkins Beginning in New Orleans, Peter Jenkins continues his walk across America--with his bride Barbara. Lavishly illustrated with 48 pages of full-color and black-and-white photos, here is the story of the journey that captured a nation's heart. Twice Shy Author: Dick Francis A thriller set in the world of horse racing, in which a retired jockey's quiet life is disturbed by a terrifying problem from the past. Physics teacher Jonathan Derry inherits trouble when his friend Peter gives him three innocuous-looking musical tapes that contain the computer language version of the betting system of a professional gambler named Liam O'Rourke. Unfortunately, Angelo and Harry Gilbert also know about O'Rourke's system and nothing will stop them from getting it. Gilded Splendour by Rosalind Laker ONLY TWO THINGS COULD HAVE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. HIS STRENGTH. AND HER WEAKNESS Thomas Chippendale was a man of the people, determined to rise in the 18th-century world through the raw power of his ambition and the polished artistry of his furniture-making genius. Isabella Woodleigh was a proper daughter of the upper class, protected from knowledge of her own deepest hungers. To give herself to a man like Thomas Chippendale was unthinkable to her---especially when he seduced her won sister, as if to prove how ruthless his desires were. But when Isabella was forced into marriage to a man who made love an unnatural nightmare, Isabella turned from a girl who fought against what she wanted...to a woman who surrendered to her need for fulfillment at any cost