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Best Seller List for February 19, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
Titles highlighted in yellow are
owned by our library
| This Week |
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Last Week |
Weeks on List |
| 1 |
WORST CASE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.
(Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective raising 10 children alone
investigates a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers by a villain
with unusual motives. |
1 |
2 |
| 2 |
THE HELP, by Kathryn
Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black
maids in 1960s Mississippi. |
2 |
46 |
| 3 |
THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan
Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon among the Masons. |
5 |
22 |
| 4 |
WINTER GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s,
$26.99.) After their father’s death, two sisters must cooperate to run his
apple orchard and care for their difficult mother. |
4 |
2 |
| 5 |
FLIRT, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $23.95.)
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, and the males in her life. |
3 |
2 |
| 6 |
POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins. (St.
Martin’s, $26.99.) Hollywood murder, three beautiful 20-something high
school friends, a hot New York club owner. |
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1 |
| 7 |
BRAVA,
VALENTINE, by Adriana Trigiani. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) An
Italian-American shoemaker faces challenges at work, in her family and in
love; the second book in a trilogy. |
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1 |
| 8 |
THE
POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95.) Ordinary
life in a Massachusetts small town and an American radio reporter in England
in the 1940s. |
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1 |
| 9 |
THE MIDNIGHT
HOUSE, by Alex Berenson. (Putnam, $25.95.) Who is killing members of
a secret unit that interrogated terrorists? The C.I.A. agent John Wells is
on the case. |
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1 |
| 10* |
KISSER, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone
Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial
fraud on the Upper East Side. |
7 |
4 |
| 11 |
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,
by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder
suspect. Excerpt |
10 |
18 |
| 12* |
SECRETS OF
EDEN, by Chris Bohjalian. (Shaye Areheart, $25.) Murder, domestic
abuse, spirituality and secrets in a small Vermont town. |
6 |
2 |
| 13 |
ROSES,
by Leila Meacham. (Grand Central, $24.99.) Three generations in a small East
Texas town. |
8 |
5 |
| 14* |
THE SWAN THIEVES, by Elizabeth Kostova. (Little,
Brown, $26.99.) A psychiatrist treats a man who tried to slash a canvas in
the National Gallery . |
9 |
5 |
| 15 |
I, ALEX
CROSS, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Tracking the
murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with
explosive secrets. |
11 |
13 |
Best Seller List for February 19, 2010
Hardcover Non-Fiction
Titles highlighted in yellow are
owned by our library
| This Week |
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Last Week |
Weeks on List |
| 1 |
GAME CHANGE, by John
Heilemann and Mark Halperin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Behind the
scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton,
John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin. |
1 |
5 |
| 2 |
THE POLITICIAN,
by Andrew Young. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.99.) A tell-all by John
Edwards’s closest aide. Excerpt |
2 |
3 |
| 3 |
STAYING TRUE,
by Jenny Sanford. (Ballantine, $25.) The ups and downs of life with South
Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife. |
8 |
2 |
| 4 |
I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. (Grand
Central, $26.99.) Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.” |
4 |
3 |
| 5 |
ON THE BRINK, by Henry M. Paulson Jr.. (Grand
Central, $28.99.) The Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown
describes the decisions that were made. |
3 |
2 |
| 6 |
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown, $26.)
Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer
cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a
mountain of research undertaken since then. Excerpt |
5 |
2 |
| 7 |
STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by
Greg Mortenson. (Viking, $26.95.) Building schools, many of them for girls,
in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off. Excerpt |
11 |
11 |
| 8 |
WILLIE MAYS, by James S. Hirsch. (Scribner, $30.)
The life and career of a baseball legend. |
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1 |
| 9 |
COMMITTED, by Elizabeth
Gilbert. (Viking, $26.95.) The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with,
and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage. |
6 |
6 |
| 10 |
HAVE A
LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A suburban rabbi
and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief. |
7 |
20 |
| 11 |
GOING ROGUE, by Sarah
Palin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) A memoir by the former Alaska
governor and vice-presidential candidate. |
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12 |
| 12 |
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm
Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author
of “Blink.” Excerpt |
9 |
65 |
| 13 |
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa. (Hyperion,
$23.99.) A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near. |
12 |
2 |
| 14 |
JUST
KIDS, by Patti Smith. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.) The godmother of punk
recalls her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a
life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and ’70s. |
10 |
4 |
| 15 |
THE CHECKLIST
MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.) Following
checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor
argues. Excerpt |
14 |
6 |
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