Saturday, July 24, 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 THE SEARCH, by Nora Roberts.
The only survivor of a serial killer has found peace in the Pacific Northwest, but her life is shaken by the appearance of a new man and a copycat murderer.
*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 PRIVATE, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend’s wife.
*4 SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich.
The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.
*5 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
*6 THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck.
A public relations executive and the woman he loves expose a dangerous conspiracy.
*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 THE LION, by Nelson DeMille.
John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist.
*9 THE ISLAND, by Elin Hilderbrand.
A woman, her daughters and her sister take refuge from life’s complications on a tiny island near Nantucket, but their time there is far from quiet.
*10 THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, by David Mitchell.
Forbidden love in Edo-era Japan.
*11 ICE COLD, by Tess Gerritsen.
A group of friends are murdered when they take refuge in a remote abandoned village in Wyoming.
*12 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.
*13 DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris.
Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.

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.
*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 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 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. ( 302 Gla )
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
*6 SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. ( B BUSH )
A memoir from the former first lady.
*7 THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. ( 973.82 Philbrick )
Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
*8 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. ( B LACKS )
The the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.

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