Random Winds-Belva Plain; Thursday's Child-Victoria Poole; Control Tower-Robert P. Davis; A Very Private War-Jon Cleary (Very good, HC, 575 pgs, Reader's Digest Vol 3 1980)

Dust jacket, cover and pages have light wear; pages are unmarked; pages are lightly age-toned. 

Random Winds-Belva Plain: A tragedy on a cold Adirondack day robbed country doctor Enoch Farrell of his three oldest children. Then all his hopes rested with his son, Martin, who dreamed of becoming a doctor too. Intelligent, gifted Martin could have a brilliant future. All that stood in his way was his family's poverty—until he met wealthy, beautiful Mary Fern Meig and her sister, Jessie, and everything changed forever.

Thursday's Child-Victoria Poole: In a moving account of one family's response to an extraordinary medical crisis, Poole describes how her large yet close-knit family supported her teenage son during his heart transplant operation and recovery

Control Tower-Robert P. Davis: set in a Miami Airport control tower. The plot centers on Jess Sutton, an air traffic controller who resigns on his final day to find himself embroiled in a crisis involving a deranged colleague holding the tower hostage with a pistol and grenade.

A Very Private War-Jon Cleary: Two planters on the South Pacific island of New Britain are joined in their perilous mission against the Japanese by natives both loyal and treacherous, a beautiful mixed-blood medic, an expatriate German priest, and an openly hostile, wounded Japanese general