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1 DARK SLAYER, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley, $25.95.) A slayer who travels with a wolf pack frees a Dragon­seeker from prison and falls in love with him; a Carpathian novel.   1
2 ALEX CROSS’S ‘TRIAL’, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) The detective Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle, who fought the Klan. 1 2
3 SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $29.95.) An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The Prince of Tides." 2 4
4 SPARTAN GOLD, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. (Putnam, $26.96.) Husband-and-wife treasure hunters search for bottles of wine from Napoleon’s “lost cellar.”   1
5 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 3 23
6 THE WHITE QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) Palace intrigue during the War of the Roses, by the author of "The Other Boleyn Girl." 5 3
7 HOMER & LANGLEY, by E. L. Doctorow. (Random House, $26.) The lives of the reclusive Collyer brothers; by the author of “Ragtime.”   1
8 206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $26.99.) Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy. 4 2
9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. Excerpt 6 6
10 A GATE AT THE STAIRS, by Lorrie Moore. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Midwestern college student takes a job as a nanny with a couple on the eve of adoption.   1
11* THE ELEVENTH VICTIM, by Nancy Grace. (Hyperion, $25.99.) A prosecutor turned therapist is drawn back to crime-fighting when her clients start getting murdered one by one. 8 4
12 DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther. Excerpt 10 18
13 THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC, by Richard Russo. (Knopf, $25.95.) A long-married couple wrestle with dissatisfactions during a Cape Cod weekend; by the author of “Empire Falls.” 7 5
14 THE SPIRE, by Richard North Patterson. (Holt, $26.) A new college president opens an inquiry into a murder that occurred when he was a student.   1
15 SMASH CUT, by Sandra Brown. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99.) A publicity-seeking lawyer tries to get to the bottom of who murdered a wealthy executive. 11 4
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
 

 

 
   
 

 

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

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 Books Highlighted In Yellow Are Owned By The Library

 

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1 CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin. (Regnery, $27.95.) President Obama and his team as tax cheats, petty crooks, influence peddlers and Wall Street cronies. 1 4
2 IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown, $26.) Agents and the presidents they protect. (AUDIO) 4 3
3 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity as well as talent — from the author of “Blink.” Excerpt 2 40
4 BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf, $24.95.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe. 12 10
5 LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. 3 22
6* ZEITOUN, by Dave Eggers. (McSweeney’s, $24.) The travails of a Syrian-American man and his family after Hurricane Katrina. Excerpt    (AUDIO) 13 2
7 CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Stopping President Obama before he transforms America into a socialist state and destroys the health care system. (†) 5 9
8 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career. 7 43
9 THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR, by Douglas Brinkley. (Harper/HarperCollins, $34.99.) Theodore Roosevelt’s crusade for conservation. Excerpt 6 4
10* OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, by Carl A. Anderson and Eduardo Chávez. (Doubleday, $22.99.) The history and message of Our Lady of Guadalupe. (†)   2
11 THE LONG SNAPPER, by Jeffrey Marx. (HarperOne/HarperCollins, $24.99.) At 38, after three years outside professional football, center Brian Kinchen was tapped by the surging New England Patriots.   1
12 THE EVOLUTION OF GOD, by Robert Wright. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) How Western religions have become more tolerant over time, creating a worldview that has room for both science and the divine.   4
13* IN FED WE TRUST, by David Wessel. (Crown Business, $26.99.) An account of how Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve colleagues worked to prevent another Great Depression. 10 3
14 THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.) How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.   15
15 MY JOURNEY WITH FARRAH, by Alana Stewart. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Stewart’s 30-year friendship with Farrah Fawcett, through marriage, motherhood, faith and illness. 9 2

 

 

                                                                                                                       

 

                   

 

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