Last updated: 3/7/2010
# 1 - Fantasy in Death - by J. D. Robb
First week on the list
Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest top-secret project, Fantastical.
The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. . . .
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U- Play's competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.
Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death. . .
# 2 - The Help - by Kathryn Stockett
48 weeks on the list
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
# 3 - Black Magic Sanction - by Kim Harrison
First week on the list
Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonment—at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery. Only her enemies are strong enough to help her win her freedom, but trust comes hard when it hinges on the unscrupulous tycoon Trent Kalamack, the demon Algaliarept, and an ex-boyfriend turned thief.
It takes a witch to catch a witch, but survival bears a heavy price.
# 4 - Split Image - by Robert B. Parker
First week on the list
Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.
The body in the trunk was just the beginning.
Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca's twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach.
Stressed by the case, his failed relationship with his ex-wife, and his ongoing battle with the bottle, Jesse needs something to keep him from spinning out of control. When private investigator Sunny Randall comes into town on a case, she asks for Jesse's help. As their professional and personal relationships become intertwined, both Jesse and Sunny realize that they have much in common with both their victims and their suspects-and with each other.
# 5 - Big Girl - by Danielle Steel
First week on the list
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter’s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoria’s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as “our tester cake.” With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.
While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoria’s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her father’s “big girl,” and her mother’s constant disapproval is equally unkind.
When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.
Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.
Last updated: 3/7/2010
# 1 - Game Change - by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
7 weeks on the list
In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.
Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it’s an intimate portrait of some of the most powerful and fascinating figures in American life—the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.
# 2 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot
4 weeks on the list
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
# 3 - I Am Ozzy - by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
5 weeks on the list
People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn't have put money on me, no way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."
# 4 - The Politician - by Andrew Young
5 weeks on the list
The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.
Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate’s right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young’s responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politician’s confidant and he was assured he was ‘like family.” In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the Senator’s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator’s mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama administration.
Young had been the senator’s closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aide’s career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving personal account of Andrew Young’s political education, THE POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.
# 5 - Have a Little Faith - by Mitch Albom
22 weeks on the list
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.
Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.
Last updated: 3/7/2010
# 1 - On the Brink - by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was without doubt at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression will make for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the pivotal meetings with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Paulson's personal recollections of and conversations with President Bush, President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. As well as detailing the major decisions taken during the height of the crisis, Paulson will also put forth the policies he believes need to be implemented to take us securely into the future.
# 2 - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
# 3 - The Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
# 4 - Drive - by Daniel H. Pink
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:
*Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.
# 5 - Too Big To Fail - by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
Last updated: 3/7/2010
# 1 - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
2 weeks on the list
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
# 2 - The Kind Diet - by Alicia Silverstone
9 weeks on the list
In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the culprits behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology.
Whether your goal is to drop a few pounds, boost your energy and metabolism, or simply save the world, Alicia provides the encouragement, the information, and the tools you need to make the transition to a plant-based diet deliciously empowering.
# 3 - The Happiness Project - by Gretchen Rubin
9 weeks on the list
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.
Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.
# 4 - So Long, Insecurity - by Beth Moore
4 weeks on the list
Perhaps one of the biggest issues all women face is their own insecurity. Beth Moore, one of today’s most admired and trusted Christian writers, wants women to be free from the insecurity trap. So Long, Insecurity will strike a chord with women everywhere, as Beth speaks truth into the lives of readers, showing them how to deal with their innermost fears, rediscover their God-given dignity, and develop a whole new perspective—a stronger sense of self. Women of all ages and backgrounds will resonate with this message of security and discover truths that will free them emotionally and spiritually and lead them to a better life as they walk with God.
# 5 - Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man - by Steve Harvey
54 weeks on the list
Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years, whether it's through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. These are women who can run a small business, keep a household with three kids in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. Yet when it comes to relationships, they can't figure out what makes men tick. Why? According to Steve it's because they're asking other women for advice when no one but another man can tell them how to find and keep a man.
Last updated: 3/7/2010
# 1 - The Hunger Games - by Suzanne Collins
77 weeks on the list...
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
# 2 - Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Ultimate Guide - by Mary-Jane Knight
6 weeks on the list
It's the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, "manual-size" POB with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.
# 3 - Catching Fire - by Suzanne Collins
26 weeks on the list
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
# 4 - Sweet Little Lies - by Lauren Conrad
4 weeks on the list
How Sweet it is?
Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping. . . .
When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She turns to her co-star Madison Parker for help, unaware that Madison is scheming behind the scenes. She might be Jane's shoulder to cry on, but does Madison really have Jane's back?
Scarlett's working on a scandal of her own. She's fallen for someone who's strictly off-limits—which means Scarlett has a big secret to keep . . . from the L.A. Candy cameras, the paparazzi staking out her apartment, even from her best friend.
Of course, nothing stays secret for long for the stars of the newest hit TV series, and all this drama couldn't be better for ratings. But can Jane survive another season in the spotlight?
In television star Lauren Conrad's dishy, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people tell-ing them.
# 5 - Fallen - by Lauren Kate
12 weeks on the list
There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.
Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce--and goes out of his way to make that very clear--she can't let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.
Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a page turning thriller and the ultimate love story.
Last updated: 3/7/2010
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206 Bones, Kathy Reichs
A Touch of Dead, Charlaine Harris
Agincourt, Bernard Cornwell
Alex Cross's Trial, James Patterson
An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
Best Friends Forever, Jennifer Weiner
Big Girl, Danielle Steel
Black Hills, Nora Roberts
Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
Black Ops, W.E.B. Griffin
Blood Ties, Kay Hooper
Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs
Breathless, Dean Koontz
Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston
Corsair, Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul
Dark Slayer, Christine Feehan
Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris
Dreamfever, Karen Marie Moning
Fantasy in Death, J. D. Robb
Fatally Flaky, Diane Mott Davidson
Finger Lickin Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
Fired Up: Book One of the Dreamlight Trilogy, Jayne Ann Krentz
First Family, David Baldacci
Flirt, Laurell K. Hamilton
Fool, Christopher Moore
Ford County, John Grisham
Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy
Hothouse Orchid, Stuart Wood
I, Alex Cross, James Patterson
Impact, Douglas Preston
Just Take My Heart, Mary Higgins Clark
Kisser, Stuart Woods
Knock Out, Catherine Coulter
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
Loitering With Intent, Stuart Woods
Long Lost, Harlan Coben
Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
Lover Avenged, J.R. Ward
Matters of the Heart, Danielle Steel
Medusa, Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Mounting Fears, Stuart Woods
Nine Dragons, Michael Connelly
Noah's Compass, Anne Tyler
Omen (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 2), Christie Golden
One Day at a Time, Danielle Steele
Outcast, Aaron Allston
Peaks and Valleys, Spencer Johnson
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton
Plum Spooky (A Between-the-Numbers Novel), Janet Evanovich
Poor Little Bitch Girl, Jackie Collins
Promises in Death, J. D. Robb
Pursuit of Honor, Vince Flynn
Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
Relentless, Dean Koontz
Rough Country, John Sandford
Run For Your Life, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Sizzle, Julie Garwood
Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton
Smash Cut, Sandra Brown
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
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Split Image, Robert B. Parker
Summer on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber
Swimsuit, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
The 8th Confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Apostle, Brad Thor
The Associate, John Grisham
The Bourne Deception, Eric Van Lustbader
The Burning Land, Bernard Cornwell
The Defector, Daniel Silva
The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles
The Doomsday Key: A Novel, James Rollins
The First Rule, Robert Crais
The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Host, Stephenie Meyer
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
The Perfect Poison, Amanda Quick
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe
The Professional, Robert B. Parker
The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel, David Wroblewski
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
The White Queen, Philippa Gregory
True Blue, David Baldacci
True Colors, Kristin Hannah
True Detectives, Johnathan Kellerman
Turn Coat, Jim Butcher
Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella
U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
Under the Dome, Stephen King
What I Did for Love, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
White Witch, Black Curse, Kim Harrison
Wicked Prey, John Sandford
Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly
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A Simple Christmas, Mike Huckabee
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Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
American Lion, Jon Meacham
American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson
Arguing With Idiots, Glenn Beck
Bobby and Jackie, C. David Heymann
Born to Run, Christopher McDougal
Catastrophe, Dick Morris & Eileen Mcgann
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert
Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin
Dewey, Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Going Rogue, Sarah Palin
Guilty, Ann Coulter
Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom
High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips, with Hilary Liftin
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Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton
House of Cards, William D. Cohan
I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
In the President's Secret Service, Ronald Kessler
Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
Mommywood, Tori Spelling
Moonwalk, Michael Jackson
Multiple Blessings, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, and Beth Carson
Obama: The Historic Journey, Bill Keller and Jill Abramson
Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin
Open, Andre Agassi
Out of Captivity, Marc Gonsalves
Prairie Tale, Melissa Gilbert
Renegade, Richard Wolffe
Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards
Stones into Schools, Greg Mortenson
Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler
The Gamble, Thomas E. Ricks
The Girls From Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow
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The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson and Martin Dugard
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, George Friedman
The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Politician, Andrew Young
The Time of My Life, Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
The Yankee Years, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin
Too Fat To Fish, Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy
Unmasked, Ian Halperin
What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
Why We Suck, Denis Leary
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, James Hirsch
Children's Books
Barack, Jonah Winter
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, Nikki Grimes
Change Has Come, word by Barack Obama
Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
Listen to the Wind, Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Rogh
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Mo Willems
Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox
Wabi Sabi, Mark Reibstein
Children's Chapter Books
3 Willows, Ann Brashares
Airhead: Being Nikki, Meg Cabot
Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Bloodhound, Tamora Pierce
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Daniel X: Watch the Skies, James Patterson and Ned Rust
Fallen, Lauren Kate
Fire, Kristin Cashore
How To Talk to Girls, Alec Greven
Hush, Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick
L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad
Leviathan, Scott Westerfield
Miles to Go, Miley Cyrus
Million Dollar Throw, Mike Lupica
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
Once Dead, Twice Shy, Kim Harrison
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, Mary-Jane Knight
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, David Benedictus
Scat, Carl Hiaasen
Seekers-Great Bear Lake, Erin Hunter
Sent, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
Stargazer, Claudia Gray
Sweet Little Lies, Lauren Conrad
The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan
The Awakening, Kelley Armstrong
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DeCamillo and Yoko Tanaka
The Secret to Teen Power, Paul Harrington
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Tricks, Ellen Hopkins
Twilight: Directors Notebook, Stephenie Meyer
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Wings, Aprilynne Pike
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
Witch and Wizard, James Patterson
Business
10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea , Suzy Welch
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson
Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk
Drive, Daniel H. Pink
Getting Back to Even, James Cramer
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America , Thomas L. Friedman
House of Cards, William D. Cohan
How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
In Fed We Trust, David Wessel
On the Brink, Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Peaks and Valleys, Spencer Johnson
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
The 50th Law, Robert Greene
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich
THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Niall Ferguson
The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough
The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent
The Healing of America, T.R. Reid
The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman
The Sellout, Charles Gasparino
The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, Dave Ramsey
The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide, Martin D. Weiss