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Best
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Updated April 8, 2013
Fiction or Non-Fiction
FICTION
BEST
SELLERS
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LOVER AT LAST, by J. R. Ward.
Book 11 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
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SIX YEARS, by Harlan Coben.
Six years after the woman he loved married another man, Jake
Fisher discovers that neither she nor their life together were what they
seemed, and he sets out to uncover the truth.
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THE BURGESS BOYS, by Elizabeth Strout.
Two brothers, both lawyers, come together in a
small Maine town to defend their good-for-nothing nephew; by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Olive Kitteridge.” |
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LEAVING EVERYTHING MOST LOVED, by
Jacqueline Winspear.
In 1933, the private investigator
Maisie Dobbs helps an Indian man whose sister’s murder has been ignored
by Scotland Yard.
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GONE
GIRL, by Gillian Flynn.
A
woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary;
is her husband a killer? |
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THE STORYTELLER, by Jodi Picoult.
A New Hampshire baker finds herself in the midst
of two Holocaust stories: her grandmother’s story of survival, and the
confessions of an elderly German man, an SS officer.
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THE GOLDEN EGG, by Donna Leon.
Venice’s Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into the
suspicious death of a deaf and mentally disabled man.
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ALEX CROSS, RUN, by James Patterson.
While Alex Cross pursues a Washington serial
killer (or killers?), someone is after him.
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A WEEK IN WINTER, by Maeve Binchy.
Guests at an inn by the sea on Ireland’s west coast; the final
book by Binchy, who died in 2012.
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Z, by Therese Anne Fowler.
A novel based on the lives of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin.
Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
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THE STRIKER, by Clive Cussler and Justin
Scott.
In 1902, the young detective Isaac Bell
discovers that provocateurs, not the union members he was hired to
investigate, are causing trouble in the coal mines.
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THE DINNER, by Herman Koch.
Two couples meet in an Amsterdam restaurant to discuss their sons’
criminal activities.
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BREAKING POINT, by C. J. Box.
The 13th novel featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden.
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A
MEMORY OF LIGHT, by Robert Jordan and
Brandon Sanderson.
The
14th and final novel in the Wheel of Time fantasy
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NONFICTION
BEST SELLERS
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LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell
Scovell.
The chief operating officer of Facebook urges
women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
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SALT SUGAR FAT, by Michael Moss.
A New York Times reporter reveals how food companies use
science to encourage us to consume more of their products.
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SUM IT UP, by Pat Summitt with Sally
Jenkins.
A memoir by the longtime coach of the
University of Tennessee Lady Vols.
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KILLING
KENNEDY, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin
Dugard.
The
host of “The O'Reilly Factor” recounts the events
surrounding the
assassination
of John F. Kennedy. |
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MY
BELOVED WORLD, by Sonia Sotomayor.
The
Supreme Court justice recalls growing up in the
Bronx, attending Princeton, working for the Manhattan
District Attorney's office and becoming a federal
judge. |
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NO
EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer.
An
account by a former member of the Navy SEALs,
written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed
bin Laden. |
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THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE, by Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis.
A memoir by the powerful music company executive.
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UNBROKEN,
by Laura Hillenbrand.
An
Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner
of the Japanese in
World
War II. |
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A
HIGHER CALL, by Adam Makos with Larry
Alexander.
An
encounter between two pilots, an American and
a German, in the skies over Germany in December
1943.
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THOSE ANGRY DAYS, by Lynne Olson.
The debate over American entry into World War II.
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KILLING
LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin
Dugard.
The
host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events
surrounding the
assassination
of Abraham Lincoln. |
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AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott
McEwen and Jim DeFelice.
A member of the
Navy SEALs, recently shot to death in Texas, discusses his childhood,
marriage and battlefield experiences.
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THE DUCK COMMANDER FAMILY, by Willie &
Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach.
Behind the
scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
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THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, by Denise
Kiernan.
Thousands of women took well-paid jobs in
Oak Ridge, Tenn., during World War II, not knowing that their project
was enriching uranium for the first atomic bomb.
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UNTIL I SAY GOOD-BYE, by Susan
Spencer-Wendel with Bret Witter.
A journalist’s
life-affirming response to a diagnosis of A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s
disease).
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