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Books Highlighted In
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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.” |
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THE
HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young
white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. |
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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." |
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HOMER & LANGLEY, by E. L.
Doctorow. (Random House, $26.) The lives of the reclusive Collyer
brothers; by the author of “Ragtime.” |
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206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs.
(Scribner, $26.99.) Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an
autopsy. |
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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf,
$25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. Excerpt |
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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. |
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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. |
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DEAD
AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse
searches for the killer of a werepanther. Excerpt |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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. |
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Books Highlighted In Yellow
Are Owned By The Library
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Last Week |
Weeks on List |
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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. |
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IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET
SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown, $26.) Agents and the
presidents they protect. (AUDIO) |
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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 |
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BORN TO RUN, by
Christopher McDougall. (Knopf, $24.95.) Secrets of distance running from
a Mexican Indian tribe. |
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LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A
conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark
Legal Foundation. |
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ZEITOUN, by Dave
Eggers. (McSweeney’s, $24.) The travails of a Syrian-American man and
his family after Hurricane Katrina. Excerpt
(AUDIO) |
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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. (†) |
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A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY,
by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his
upbringing and career. |
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THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR,
by Douglas Brinkley. (Harper/HarperCollins, $34.99.) Theodore
Roosevelt’s crusade for conservation. Excerpt |
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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, by Carl A.
Anderson and Eduardo Chávez. (Doubleday, $22.99.) The history and
message of Our Lady of Guadalupe. (†) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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