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Best
Sellers
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Updated March 1, 2010
Fiction or Non-Fiction
FICTION
BEST
SELLERS
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THE
HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s
Mississippi.
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WORST
CASE, by James Patterson and Michael
Ledwidge.
A
New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates
a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers
by a villain with unusual motives.
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THE
LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown.
Robert
Langdon among the Masons.
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POOR
LITTLE BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins.
Hollywood murder, three beautiful 20-something
high school friends, a hot New York club owner.
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WINTER
GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah.
After their father's death, two sisters must cooperate
to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult
mother.
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THE
MAN FROM BEIJING, by Henning Mankell.
A
massacre in a tiny Swedish village has roots in
the past and on other continents.
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THE
THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT, by Cathleen
Schine.
Two
sisters — one logical, one emotional — move in
with their mother when her ex-husband kicks her
out of the family apartment; a tribute to Austen's
“Sense and Sensibility.”
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THE
POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake.
Ordinary
life in a Massachusetts small town and an American
radio reporter in England in the 1940s.
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FLIRT,
by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, and the males in
her life.
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HORNS,
by Joe Hill.
After
the rape and murder of his girlfriend, a distraught
young man discovers that he has grown horns.
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| 11. |
THE
GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,
by Stieg Larsson.
A
Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
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| 12. |
THE
MIDNIGHT HOUSE, by Alex Berenson.
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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BRAVA,
VALENTINE, by Adriana Trigiani.
An
Italian-American shoemaker faces challenges at
work, in her family and in love; the second book
in a trilogy.
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KISSER,
by Stuart Woods.
Stone
Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues
a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.
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THE
LAST SURGEON, by Michael Palmer.
A
surgeon and a nurse track a killer whose specialty
is murders that don't look like murder.
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NONFICTION
BEST SELLERS
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1. |
GAME
CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack
Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth
Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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THE
POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young.
A
tell-all by John Edwards's closest aide.
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THE
IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by
Rebecca Skloot.
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.
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4. |
I
AM OZZY,
by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres.
Recollections
of heavy metal's “Prince of Darkness.”
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WILLIE
MAYS, by James S. Hirsch.
The
life and career of a baseball legend.
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ON
THE BRINK, by Henry M. Paulson Jr..
The
Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown
describes the decisions that were made.
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HAVE
A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom.
A
suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons
about the comfort of belief.
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STONES
INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson.
Building
schools, many of them for girls, in northeast
Afghanistan; takes
up
where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
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STAYING
TRUE, by Jenny Sanford.
The
ups and downs of life with South Carolina's Gov.
Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.
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COMMITTED,
by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The
author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and
overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
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OUTLIERS,
by Malcolm Gladwell.
Why
some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
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DRIVE,
by Daniel H. Pink.
What
really motivates people is the quest for autonomy,
mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
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THE
CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande.
Following
checklists makes surgery safer and other activities
more efficient, a doctor argues.
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MAKING
ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa.
A
nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death
is near.
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THE
QUANTS, by Scott Patterson.
How
a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street
and nearly destroyed it.
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