Best Seller List for February 19, 2012
Hardcover Fiction
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owned by our library
New York Times Best Seller List - Fiction
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| 1 | HOME FRONT, by Kristin Hannah. A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq. | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder. | 5 | |
| 3 | 1 | TAKEN, by Robert Crais. It’s Joe Pike to the rescue when Elvis Cole is seized by human traffickers. | 2 | |
| 4 | DEFENDING JACOB, by William Landay. An assistant district attorney’s ife is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder. | 1 | ||
| 5 | 3 | DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P. D. James. Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," must deal with a murder. | 9 | |
| 6 | 5 | 11/22/63, by Stephen King. An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. | 13 | |
| 7 | 4 | THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. | 77 | |
| 8 | 6 | BELIEVING THE LIE, by Elizabeth George. Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan. | 4 | |
| 9 | 7 | RAYLAN, by Elmore Leonard. A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies. | 3 | |
| 10 | 8 | THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. Partners in a small law firm take on a big case. | 15 | |
| 11 | 12 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." | 27 | |
| 12 | THE FEAR INDEX, by Robert Harris. A billionaire hedge fund manager in Geneva who uses an algorithm to predict the movements of financial markets discovers that his computer program is misbehaving. | 1 | ||
| 13 | 14 | THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris. | 29 | |
| 14 | 15 | THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman return to their North Carolina town. | 17 | |
| 15 | THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON, by Adam Johnson. A young North Korean is both victim and perpetrator of countless crimes. | 1 | ||
| 16 | 11 | DEATH OF KINGS, by Bernard Cornwell. As King Alfred lies near death, the Saxon warrior Uhtred must decide whether to support a united England or reclaim his ancestral lands in the north. |
Best Seller List for February 19, 2012
Hardcover Non-Fiction
Titles highlighted in yellow are
owned by our library
New York Times Best Seller List - Non-Fiction
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| 1 | 2 | AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A member of the Navy Seals discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war. | 5 | |
| 2 | 1 | AMERITOPIA, by Mark R. Levin. A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the history of utopias and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty. | 3 | |
| 3 | 3 | STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur. | 15 | |
| 4 | 5 | KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. | 19 | |
| 5 | 4 | QUIET, by Susan Cain. Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society. | 2 | |
| 6 | 6 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | 64 | |
| 7 | 7 | THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course. | 22 | |
| 8 | 9 | THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions. | 15 | |
| 9 | COMING APART, by Charles Murray. The author of "The Bell Curve" explores the state of white America, 1960-2010. | 1 | ||
| 10 | 8 | FAIRY TALE INTERRUPTED, by RoseMarie Terenzio. Recollections of John F. Kennedy Jr. from his former personal assistant and confidante. | 2 | |
| 11 | 11 | ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, by Sally Bedell Smith. The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee. | 4 | |
| 12 | 15 | IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin. | 35 | |
| 13 | 10 | STRATEGIC VISION, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. President Carter’s national security adviser offers advice on how American foreign policy should respond to the shift in gravity from West to East. | 2 | |
| 14 | 16 | GREEDY BASTARDS, by Dylan Ratigan. The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to political and economic problems. | 4 | |
| 15 | 12 | CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie. The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias. | 12 |
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