Thursday, February 18, 2010

NY TIMES BEST SELLERS

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers for this week. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.

Fiction:
1 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.
2 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.
A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
3 FLIRT, by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, and the males in her life; the 18th book in the series.
4 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.
5 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown.
Robert Langdon among the Masons.
6 SECRETS OF EDEN, by Chris Bohjalian.
Murder, domestic abuse, spirituality and secrets in a small Vermont town.
7 KISSER, by Stuart Woods.
Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.
8 THE SWAN THIEVES, by Elizabeth Kostova.
A psychiatrist treating a man who tried to slash a canvas in the National Gallery is drawn into the world of French Impressionism; from the author of “The Historian.”
9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson.
A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
10 I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson.
Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
11 THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais.
Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered.
12 THE WOLF AT THE DOOR, by Jack Higgins.
Someone is targeting the members of an elite British intelligence team, and Sean Dillon believes it is an old nemesis.
13 I, SNIPER, by Stephen Hunter.
Bob Lee Swagger discovers that the murder of four ’60s radicals is more complicated than it seems.
14 THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks.
A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.

Nonfiction:
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.
2 THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young.
A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
3 ON THE BRINK, by Henry M. Paulson Jr..
The Treasury secretary during the autumn of 2008 describes the decisions that were made during the financial meltdown.
4 I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres.
Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
5 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.
6 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
7 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom.
A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
8 STAYING TRUE, by Jenny Sanford.
The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.
9 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell.
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
10 JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith.
The godmother of punk recalls her life with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and ’70s.
11 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.