Saturday, July 10, 2010

NY TIMES BEST SELLERS

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers for this week.

Fiction:
*1 SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich.

The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.
*2 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson.
The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
*3 THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck.
A public relations executive and the woman he loves fight to expose a conspiracy to transform America.
*4 FAMILY TIES, by Danielle Steel.
A woman who raised her deceased sister’s three children must juggle their needs, her business and the new man in her life.
*5 THE LION, by Nelson DeMille.
John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge.
*6 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
*7 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.
*8 WHIPLASH, by Catherine Coulter.
The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock help investigate misdeeds at a pharmaceutical company.
*9 FRANKENSTEIN: LOST SOULS, by Dean Koontz.
Book 4 in the reimagining of the classic tale.
*10 DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris.
Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.
*11 LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER, by Dorothea Benton Frank.
In this sequel to “Plantation,” a woman returns home after her mother’s death to encounter old secrets and lies.
*12 THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.
In 1908, a detective investigates spies who are trying to keep America from developing dreadnought battleships.
*13 BROKEN, by Karin Slaughter.
There is friction between the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Grant County Police Department when Dr. Sara Linton calls in Special Agent Will Trent from Atlanta.
*14 61 HOURS, by Lee Child.
Jack Reacher helps the police in a small South Dakota town protect a witness in a drug trial.

Nonfiction:
*1 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis.
( 330.973 Lewis )
The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. *2 CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. ( 814 Han )
More humorous personal essays from the comedian.814 Han
*3 SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. ( B BUSH )
A memoir from the former first lady.
*4 EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne. ( B PARKER )
The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
*5 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.”
*6 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. ( 302 Gla )
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
*7 UNCHARTED TERRITORI, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. ( B SPELLING )
Humorous stories about juggling Hollywood work, marriage and motherhood.
*8 THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. ( 973.82 Philbrick )
Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
*9 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (B LACKS)
The story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have since supported a mountain of research.
*10 FURIOUS LOVE, by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger. ( 927.914 Kashner )
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: the affair, the marriage, the divorce, the remarriage.
*11 HITCH-22, by Christopher Hitchens. ( B HITCHENS )
The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir.

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