The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers for this week.Fiction:
*1 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson.
The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
*2 THE LION, by Nelson DeMille.
John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge.
*3 THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin.
More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America.
*4 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
*5 THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.
In 1908, a detective investigates spies who are trying to keep America from developing dreadnought battleships.
*6 DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris.
Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.
*7 61 HOURS, by Lee Child.
Jack Reacher helps the police in a small South Dakota town protect a witness in a drug trial.
*8 BULLET, by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is menaced by the Mother of All Darkness, who wants to take over her body.
*9 STORM PREY, by John Sandford.
Lucas Davenport’s wife is a witness to a botched robbery and murder in the 20th novel in the “Prey” series.
*10 INNOCENT, by Scott Turow.
Turow revisits the characters from “Presumed Innocent.”
*11 HEART OF THE MATTER, by Emily Giffin.
The lives of two women converge after an accident.
*12 THE BURNING WIRE, by Jeffery Deaver.
The forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme investigates a series of murderous electrical explosions.
*13 THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
Detective Lindsay Boxer pursues a killer who’s preying on women and children.
*14 THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, by Eric Van Lustbader.
Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne matches wits with a vicious Russian mercenary.
*15 DEATH ECHO, by Elizabeth Lowell.
A former C.I.A. operative tracks a yacht with a deadly cargo.
Nonfiction:
*1 SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. ( B BUSH )
A memoir from the former first lady.
*2 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. ( 330.973 Lewis )
The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
*3 WAR, by Sebastian Junger. ( 958.104 Junger )
The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of “The Perfect Storm.”
*4 CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. ( 814 Han )
More humorous personal essays from the comedian.
*5 THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. ( 973.82 Philbrick )
Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
*6 HITCH-22, by Christopher Hitchens. ( B Hitchens )
The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir.
*7 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. ( 302 Gla )
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
*8 THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose. ( 940.54 Amb )
Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.
*9 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. ( B LACKS ) 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.
