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Best Seller List for March 12, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
Titles highlighted in yellow are
owned by our library
| This Week |
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Last Week |
Weeks on List |
| 1 |
HOUSE RULES,
by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $28.) A teenage boy with Asperger’s syndrome is
accused of murder. |
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| 2 |
THE HELP, by Kathryn
Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black
maids in 1960s Mississippi. |
2 |
49 |
| 3 |
FANTASY IN
DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $26.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates
the murder of a fantasy-game entrepreneur; by Nora Roberts, writing
pseudonymously. |
1 |
2 |
| 4 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith.
(Grand Central, $21.99.) Lincoln fights the undead; by the author of “Pride
and Prejudice and Zombies. |
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| 5 |
WORST CASE,
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York
detective raising 10 children alone investigates a string of kidnappings and
killings of teenagers by a villain with unusual motives. |
6 |
5 |
| 6 |
BIG GIRL,
by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A woman with weight issues learns to
accept herself. |
5 |
2 |
| 7* |
BLACK MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison.
(Eos/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A witch who is also a bounty hunter is shunned
by her kind; the eighth Rachel Morgan book. |
3 |
2 |
| 8 |
SPLIT IMAGE,
by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of
Paradise, Mass., copes with divorce, the bottle and the murder of a mob
soldier. |
4 |
2 |
| 9 |
THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan
Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon among the Masons. |
8 |
25 |
| 10 |
THE
POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95.) Ordinary
life in a Massachusetts small town and an American radio reporter in England
in the 1940s. |
10 |
4 |
| 11* |
WINTER
GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) After their
father’s death, two sisters must cooperate to run his apple orchard and care
for their difficult mother. |
9 |
5 |
| 12 |
THE MAN
FROM BEIJING, by Henning Mankell. (Knopf, $25.95.) A massacre in a tiny
Swedish village has roots in the past and on other continents. Excerpt |
7 |
3 |
| 13 |
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,
by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder
suspect. Excerpt |
13 |
21 |
| 14* |
THE
THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT, by Cathleen Schine. (Sarah
Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Two sisters — one logical, one
emotional — move in with their mother when her ex-husband kicks her out of
the family apartment; a tribute to Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility.” |
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2 |
| 15 |
POOR LITTLE
BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) Hollywood
murder, three beautiful 20-something high school friends, a hot New York
club owner. |
12 |
4 |
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Best Seller List for March 12, 2010
Hardcover Non-Fiction
Titles highlighted in yellow are
owned by our library
| This Week |
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Last Week |
Weeks on List |
| 1 |
NO APOLOGY, by Mitt Romney. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.)
The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate
calls for economic and civic revitalization. (†) (†) |
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| 2 |
LIFT, by Kelly Corrigan. (Voice/Hyperion, $16.99.)
Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters. |
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| 3 |
GAME CHANGE, by John
Heilemann and Mark Halperin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Behind the
scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton,
John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin. |
1 |
8 |
| 4 |
NOT WITHOUT HOPE, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman.
(Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone
terribly wrong. |
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| 5 |
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS,
by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown, $26.) 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. Excerpt |
2 |
5 |
| 6 |
NO ONE WOULD LISTEN, by Harry Markopolos with
others. (Wiley, $27.95.) The man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and
was ignored. |
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1 |
| 7 |
THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose. (NAL Caliber, $26.95.)
Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume
for an HBO mini-series. |
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1 |
| 8 |
WILLIE MAYS, by James S. Hirsch. (Scribner, $30.) The life and career of
a baseball legend. |
8 |
4 |
| 9* |
THE POLITICIAN,
by Andrew Young. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.99.) A tell-all by John
Edwards’s closest aide. Excerpt |
4 |
6 |
| 10 |
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm
Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author
of “Blink.” Excerpt |
7 |
68 |
| 11 |
SON OF HAMAS, by Mosab Hassan Yousef with Ron
Brackin. (SaltRiver/Tyndale House, $26.99.) The son of a Hamas founder
converts to Christianity and emigrates to the United States. |
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1 |
| 12 |
I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. (Grand
Central, $26.99.) Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.” |
3 |
6 |
| 13* |
THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO,
by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.) Following checklists makes
surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues. Excerpt |
6 |
9 |
| 14 |
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A
nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near. |
11 |
5 |
| 15 |
STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by
Greg Mortenson. (Viking, $26.95.) Building schools, many of them for girls,
in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off. Excerpt |
10 |
14 |
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