Tuesday, January 10, 2012

NY TIMES BEST SELLERS



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

Fiction
1. 77 SHADOW STREET, by Dean Koontz.
A 19th-century tycoon’s mansion has been turned into luxury apartments, but it remains in the grip of evil forces.

2. 11/22/63, by Stephen King.
An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.

3. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P. D. James.
Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," marry, must deal with a murder.

4. LOCKED ON, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney.
Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.

5. KILL ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson.
Alex Cross investigates when the president’s children are kidnapped, but the F.BI. and C.I.A. stand in his way.

6. THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham.
Partners in a small law firm take on a big case.

7. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks.
Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman return to their North Carolina town.

8. RED MIST, by Patricia Cornwell.
The chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates a string of killings linked to the murder of her former deputy.

9. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson.
The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

10. EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich.
After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.

11. DOWN THE DARKEST ROAD, by Tami Hoag.
The residents of a California town in the mid-’80s continue to grapple with a killer; the third book in a series.

12. THE DROP, by Michael Connelly.
Harry Bosch of the L.A.P.D. uncovers both the operations of a sadistic killer and a political conspiracy.

13. MICRO, by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston.
Graduate students miniaturized by an evil entrepreneur do battle in the Hawaiian rain forest.

14. COVERT WARRIORS, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
Charley Castillo and his men investigate when the Russians and Chinese become involved in a Caribbean nation.

15. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin.
After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

16. D. C. DEAD, by Stuart Woods.
The president calls Stone Barrington to Washington to undertake a special investigation with his old partner Holly Barker.

Nonfiction
1. STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson.
A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.

2. KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 14

3. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand.
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 59

4. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman.
The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

5. THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker.
The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course. 17

6. CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie.
The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias.

7. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.
A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.

8. BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe.
How Washington turned himself into the indispensable (if imperfect) man. 6

9. JACK KENNEDY, by Chris Matthews.
An admiring portrait.

10. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson.
William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.

11. SERIOUSLY ... I'M KIDDING, by Ellen DeGeneres.
A collection of humor pieces from the stand-up comedian and talk-show host.

12. IMPERFECT JUSTICE, by Jeff Ashton with Lisa Pulitzer.
A prosecutor’s account of the Casey Anthony trial.

13. BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis.
A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the recent financial collapse of 2008.

14. IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?, by Mindy Kaling.
Observations from the comedy writer and actress.

15. ARGUABLY, by Christopher Hitchens.
From Hitchens, who died last year, a collection of essays bearing “the full consciousness that they might be my very last.”

16. THEN AGAIN, by Diane Keaton.
The actress uses her mother’s diaries as a springboard for the examination of her own life.

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