Saturday, August 14, 2010

NY TIMES BEST SELLERS

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers

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 STAR ISLAND, by Carl Hiaasen.
A paparazzo attempting to kidnap a drug-addled pop star grabs her stunt double by mistake.
*3 THE REMBRANDT AFFAIR, by Daniel Silva.
The art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon discovers that there are deadly secrets behind a stolen painting.
*4 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
*5 FLY AWAY HOME, by Jennifer Weiner.
A senator’s extramarital affair affects his wife and daughters.
*6 PRIVATE, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend’s wife.
*7 THE SEARCH, by Nora Roberts.
The only survivor of a serial killer has found peace, but her life is shaken by a new man and a copycat murderer.
*8 SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich.
The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.
*9 THE GLASS RAINBOW, by James Lee Burke.
A man with ties to an evil ex-convict is dating the Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux’s daughter.
*10 THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck.
A public relations executive and the woman he loves expose a dangerous conspiracy.
*11 QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, by J. A. Jance.
A retired Arizona detective, his wife and their adopted Indian daughter attempt to solve murders.
*12 THE OLD REPUBLIC: FATAL ALLIANCE, by Sean Williams.
The Jedi and the Sith must join forces to stop a threat to the galaxy; a "Star Wars" novel.
*13 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.
*14 THE LION, by Nelson DeMille.
John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist.

Nonfiction:
*1 CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler.
( 814 Han )

More humorous personal essays.
*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 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. ( 302 Gla )
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
*4 MEDIUM RAW, by Anthony Bourdain. ( B Bourdain )
The author of "Kitchen Confidential" looks critically at changes in the food and restaurant cultures.
*5 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.
*6 EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne.
( B Parker )

The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
*7 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.”
*8 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. ( 306.81 Gilbert )
The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.