Last updated: 5/19/2012
# 1 - 11th Hour - by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
First week on the list
Your best friend
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer--even her closest friends.
Or a vicious killer?
Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever seen: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. Another head is unearthed in the garden, and Lindsay realizes that the ground could hide hundreds of victims.
You won't know until the 11th hour
A reporter launches a series of vicious articles about the cases and Lindsay's personal life is laid bare. But this time she has no one to turn to--especially not Joe. 11TH HOUR is the most shocking, most emotional, and most thrilling Women's Murder Club novel ever.
# 2 - Deadlocked - by Charlaine Harris
2 weeks on the list
It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart…
Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on there were things she’d rather not know. And now that she’s an adult, she also realizes that some things she knows about, she’d rather not see—like Eric Northman feeding off another woman. A younger one.
There’s a thing or two she’d like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet—Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric’s front yard—especially the body of the woman whose blood he just drank.
Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
# 3 - Bring Up the Bodies - by Hilary Mantel
First week on the list
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.
At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?
# 4 - The Road to Grace - by Richard Paul Evans
First week on the list
Join one of America’s beloved storytellers on a walk like no other: one man’s unrelenting search for hope.
Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, has left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack, he is walking from Seattle to Key West, the farthest destination on his map.
Now almost halfway through his trek, Alan sets out to walk the nearly 1,000 miles between South Dakota and St. Louis, but it’s the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning: a mysterious woman who follows Alan’s walk for close to a hundred miles, the ghost hunter searching graveyards for his wife, and the elderly Polish man who gives Alan a ride and shares a story that Alan will never forget.
Full of hard-won wisdom and truth, The Road to Grace is a compelling and inspiring novel about hope, healing, grace, and the meaning of life.
# 5 - In One Person - by John Irving
First week on the list
compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp.
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers—a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”
Last updated: 5/19/2012
# 1 - The Passage of Power - by Robert A. Caro
2 weeks on the list
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.”
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.
In its exploration of this pivotal period in Johnson’s life—and in the life of the nation—The Passage of Power is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. It is an epic story told with a depth of detail possible only through the peerless research that forms the foundation of Robert Caro’s work, confirming Nicholas von Hoffman’s verdict that “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”
# 2 - Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - by Anna Quindlen
3 weeks on the list
In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.
As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. Using her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages, Quindlen talks about marriage, girlfriends, stuff, our bodies, parenting and more.
From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen uses the events of her own life to illuminate our own. Along with the downsides of age, she says, can come wisdom, a perspective on life that makes it satisfying and even joyful. Candid, funny, moving, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake is filled with the sharp insights and revealing observations that have long confirmed Quindlen’s status as America’s laureate of real life.
# 3 - Screwed! - by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
FIrst week on the list
The bestselling authors return with a blistering exposÉ of how America is being ripped off by friends and enemies alike—with the help of our own ruling elites.
Our jobs go to China. Foreign aid goes to our enemies. Pakistan uses our money to fund terrorists who attack us. Saudi Arabia, which our soldiers have defended with their lives, funds 90 percent of the world's Islamic fundamentalism. The UN is awash in corruption; its bureaucrats steal the money we give it with total impunity. Fifteen hundred brave American soldiers have died defending the regime in Afghanistan—rated the second-most corrupt in the world! Meanwhile, European bankers and bureaucrats are taking over our economy and preempting our sovereignty.
How do they get away with it? By hiring our own political leaders, as soon as they leave office, to lobby for them to rip us off. Former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, for example, sits on the board of an American affiliate of a Chinese company that has been denied the right to operate in the United States because it steals our technology. Former House Republican Appropriations Committee chairman Bob Livingstone represented Libya until just before Gaddafi fell. And we have a president who willingly obliges countries that poach on our sovereignty, refusing to stand up for our interests and our jobs as they confiscate half the royalties from our offshore energy, subject our elected leaders to criminal prosecution if they go to war without UN approval, and tell us what kind of land-use policies we should pursue.
In Screwed!, bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann lay bare the unvarnished facts as never before and suggest real, immediate, and specific steps to stop those who undermine our interests and take away our jobs. In the same vein as their previous crusading books—Catastrophe, Fleeced, and Outrage—Morris and McGann have documented, in great depth and detail, exactly how the United States is getting screwed, and how to stop it. They dig up the facts, name names, point fingers, and suggest concrete solutions—independent of partisan politics.
# 4 - Most Talkative - by Andy Cohen
First week on the list
The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television show
From a young age, Andy Cohen knew one thing: He loved television. Not in the way that most kids do, but in an irrepressible, all-consuming, I-want-to-climb-inside-the-tube kind of way. And climb inside he did. Now presiding over Bravo's reality TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie's Angels and All My Children and to his mother, who received daily letters from Andy at summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that everyone didn't know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television.
The journey begins with Andy interviewing his all-time idol Susan Lucci for his college newspaper and ends with him in a job where he has a hand in creating today's celebrity icons. In the witty, no-holds-barred style of his show Watch What Happens Live, Andy tells tales of absurd mishaps during his ten years at CBS News, hilarious encounters with the heroes and heroines of his youth, and the real stories behind The Real Housewives. Dishy, funny, and full of heart, Most Talkative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of television, from a fan who grew up watching the screen and is now inside it, both making shows and hosting his own.
# 5 - Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War - by Madeline Albright
3 weeks on the list
Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history. Drawing on her memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly available documents, Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. Prague Winter is an exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind and, simultaneously, a journey with universal lessons that is intensely personal.
"No one who lived through the years of 1937 to 1948," Albright writes, "was a stranger to profound sadness. Millions of innocents did not survive, and their deaths must never be forgotten. Today we lack the power to reclaim lost lives, but we have a duty to learn all that we can about what happened and why." At once a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history, Prague Winter serves as a guide to the future through the lessons of the past—as seen through the eyes of one of the international community's most respected and fascinating figures.
Last updated: 5/19/2012
# 1 - Steve Jobs - by Walter Isaacson
From Amazon's Books of the Month Review: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of the read--mirroring the intensity of Jobs’s focus and vision for his products. Few in history have transformed their time like Steve Jobs, and one could argue that he stands with the Fords, Edisons, and Gutenbergs of the world. This is a timely and complete portrait that pulls no punches and gives insight into a man whose contradictions were in many ways his greatest strength.
# 2 - Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
From the Amazon book review:
Drawing on decades of research in psychology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on an exploration of what influences thought example by example, sometimes with unlikely word pairs like "vomit and banana."
System 1 and System 2, the fast and slow types of thinking, become characters that illustrate the psychology behind things we think we understand but really don't, such as intuition. Kahneman's transparent and careful treatment of his subject has the potential to change how we think, not just about thinking, but about how we live our lives. Thinking, Fast and Slow gives deep--and sometimes frightening--insight about what goes on inside our heads: the psychological basis for reactions, judgments, recognition, choices, conclusions, and much more. --JoVon Sotak
# 3 - The Start-Up of You - by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs.
The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.
Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today's competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.
Why? Start-ups - and the entrepreneurs who run them - are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.
These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.
This book isn't about cover letters or resumes. Instead, you will learn the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career.
# 4 - Take the Stairs - by Rory Vaden
Do you ride the escalator-or take the stairs?
No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world"-one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end-and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go.
How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? This lively and insightful guide presents a simple program for taking the stairs-that is, for overcoming the temptations of quick fixes and procrastination, conquering creative avoidance, and transcending personal setbacks in order to tackle the work that leads to real success.
Whatever your goals are, Rory Vaden's proven approach will get you there-one stair at a time.
# 5 - Great by Choice - by Jim Collins
The new question
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.
The new study
Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.
With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness—beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years—in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these “10X companies” to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.
Last updated: 5/19/2012
# 1 - I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) - by Stephen Colbert
First week on the list
"The sad thing is, I like it" - Maurice Sendak
"The perfect gift to give a child or grandchild for their high school or college graduation.
Also Father's Day.
Also, other times."
# 2 - Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier - by Ree Drummond
9 weeks on the list
I'm Pioneer Woman.
And I love to cook.
Once upon a time, I fell in love with a cowboy. A strapping, rugged, chaps-wearing cowboy. Then I married him, moved to his ranch, had his babies . . . and wound up loving it. Except the manure. Living in the country for more than fifteen years has taught me a handful of eternal truths: every new day is a blessing, every drop of rain is a gift . . . and nothing tastes more delicious than food you cook yourself.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier is a mouthwatering collection of the simple-but-scrumptious recipes that rotate through my kitchen on a regular basis, including Perfect Pancakes, Cowgirl Quiche, Sloppy Joes, Italian Meatball Soup, White Chicken Enchiladas, and a spicy Carnitas Pizza that'll win you over for life. There are also some elegant offerings for more special occasions at your house: Osso Buco, Honey-Plum-Soy Chicken, and Rib-Eye Steak with an irresistible Onion-Blue Cheese Sauce. And the decadent assortment of desserts, including Blackberry Chip Ice Cream, Apple Dumplings, and Coffee Cream Cake, will make your heart go pitter-pat in the most wonderful way.
In addition to detailed step-by-step photographs, all the recipes in this book have one other important quality in common: They're guaranteed to make your kids, sweetheart, dinner guests, in-laws, friends, cousins, or resident cowboys smile, sigh, and beg for seconds. (And hug you and kiss you and be devoted to you for life.)
I hope you enjoy, devour, and love this book.
I sure did love making it for you.
# 3 - Bombshell - by Suzanne Somers
First week on the list
Are you ready to rethink and redefine your approach to aging? This powerhouse book tells you how to go from dreading it to making it the greatest passage of your life!
Dubbed a health pioneer by the Wall Street Journal and called “crazy smart” by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Suzanne Somers has repeatedly opened up new terrain to health seekers worldwide. And now, with Bombshell, she does it again. Acting like your personal medical detective, she has found the most advanced scientists, doctors, and health professionals and gotten them to share jaw-dropping advances that will stop deterioration and set you on the path to restoration and healthy longevity.
By taking advantage of these new bombshell advancements, you can live longer than ever with great quality of life, and experience a different way to age: with great health, strong bones, vitality, a working brain, and sizzling sexuality. All of it is yours for the taking if you are willing to make some simple, effective changes.
One after another, she shares the breakthroughs that you can use today to keep you in top shape so you can embrace the near future and all it will have to offer.
# 4 - This is How - by Augusten Burroughs
First week on the list
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books
To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual life is an understatement. From having no formal education past third grade and being raised by his mother’s psychiatrist in the seventies to enjoying one of the most successful advertising careers of the eighties to experiencing a spectacular downfall and rehab stint in the nineties to having a number one bestselling writing career in the new millennium, Burroughs has faced humiliation, transformation and everything in between. This Is How is his no-holds-barred book of advice on topics as varied as:
· How to feel like crap
· How to ride an elevator
· How to be thin
· How to be fat
· How to find love
· How to feel sorry for yourself
· How to get the job
· How to end your life
· How to remain unhealed
· How to finish your drink
· How to regret as little as possible
· And much more
Told with Burroughs's unique voice, black humor, and in-your-face advice, This is How is Running With Scissors—with recipes.
# 5 - The Loyalty Leap - by Bryan Pearson
First week on the list
Collecting data is easy for marketers. Figuring out what to do with it is hard.
Technology has made it almost routine for companies to know exactly when, where, and how their customers shop, both online and off. As soon as someone pulls out a credit card—or even better, a membership rewards card—the data floodgates open. United Airlines knows if you think it’s worth $25 to check a suitcase. Verizon knows how often you call your mom. Hilton knows if you prefer a higher floor and a room away from the elevator.
But after gathering and crunching all this customer data most companies have little or no idea how to use it. They either let it go to waste or abuse it with ill-considered, irrelevant, or even creepy marketing pitches. There’s a much better option, as Bryan Pearson has discovered after twenty years of studying the hidden patterns of consumer behavior. It really is possible to turn customer information into customer intimacy— systematically, efficiently, and without invading anyone’s privacy. And intimacy is the key to long-term loyalty, growth, and profits. As Pearson writes:
Customers can only be acquired, churned, and reactivated so many times before they tire of your brand. There is a proven marketing equation in which customers willingly share information with you in the expectation of being better served and valued during future transactions. Capitalizing on that equation is our business responsibility.
Pearson believes this is one of the most exciting times in the history of marketing, and that loyalty marketing will be increasingly essential for years to come. His book will take you behind the curtain to show how the best companies are doing it.
Last updated: 5/19/2012
# 1 - Insurgent - by Veronica Roth
2 weeks on the list
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.
# 2 - Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! - by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts
First week on the list
James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--which the LA Times called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large.
After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone.Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it, from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down. (Includes over 100 illustrations.)
# 3 - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - by Ransom Riggs
49 weeks on the list
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
# 4 - The Invaders - by John Flanagan
2 weeks on the list
The adventure continues in the Ranger's Apprentice companion trilogy!
Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competition. But their celebration comes to an abrupt end when the Skandians' most sacred artifact, the Andomal, is stolen--and the Herons are to blame.
To find redemption they must track down the thief Zavac and recover the Andomal. But that means traversing stormy seas, surviving a bitter winter, and battling a group of deadly pirates willing to protect their prize at all costs. Even Brotherband training and the help of Skandia's greatest warrior may not be enough to ensure that Hal and his friends return home with the Andomal--or their lives.
# 5 - The Fault in Our Stars - by John Green
18 weeks on the list
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Last updated: 5/19/2012
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10th Anniversary, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
11/22/63, Stephen King
11th Hour, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
1225 Christmas Tree Lane, Debbie Macomber
44 Charles Street, Danielle Street
77 Shadow Street, Dean Koontz
A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin
A Discovery of Witches, Deborah E. Harkness
A Perfect Blood, Kim Harrison
A Rising Thunder, David Weber
A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
A Turn in the Road, Debbie Macomber
Abuse of Power, Michael Savage
Against All Enemies, Tom Clancy
American Assassin, Vince Flynn
Bad Blood, John Sandford
Bearers of the Black Staff, Terry Brooks
Bel Air Dead, Stuart Woods
Believing the Lie, Elizabeth George
Betrayal, Danielle Steel
Bonnie, Iris Johansen
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Buried Prey, John Sandford
Calico Joe, John Grisham
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Catch Me, Lisa Gardner
Celebrity in Death, J. D. Robb
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Dreams of Joy, Lisa See
Elegy for Eddie, Jacqueline Winspear
Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich
Fair Game, Patricia Briggs
Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
Feast Day of Fools, James Lee
Flash and Bones, Kathy Reichs
Folly Beach, Dorothea Benton Frank
Force of Nature, C. J. Box
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Full Black, Brad Thor
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
Getting to Happy, Terry McMillan
Ghost Story, Jim Butcher
Gideon's Corpse, Douglas Preston
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Heat Rises, Richard Castle
Hell's Corner, David Baldacci
Hit List, Laurell K. Hamilton
Home Front, Kristin Hannah
Hotel Vendome, Danielle Steel
I'll Walk Alone, Mary Higgins Clark
In One Person, John Irving
In the Company of Others, Jan Karon
Indulgence in Death, J.D. Robb
IQ84, Haruki Murakami
I've Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella
Kill Alex Cross, James Patterson
Kill Me If You Can, James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Kill Shot, Vince Flynn
Lethal, Sandra Brown
Live Wire, Harlen Coben
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Love in a Nutshell, Janet Evanovich
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Lover Reborn, J. R. Ward
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One Summer, David Baldacci
Pale Demon, Kim Harrison
Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell
Portrait of a Spy, Daniel Silva
Prey, Linda Howard
Private Games, James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Private: #1 Suspect, James Patterson with Maxine Paetro
Quinn, Iris Johansen
Reamde, Neal Stephenson
Red Mist, Patricia Cornwell
Retribution, Sherrilyn Kenyon
River Marked, Patricia Briggs
Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues, Michael Brandman
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Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks
Shadowfever, Karen Marie Moning
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Side Jobs, Jim Butcher
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Smokin' Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
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The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer
The Innocent, David Baldacci
The Jefferson Key, Steve Berry
The Jungle, Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
The Kingdom, Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood
The Land of Painted Caves, Jean Auel
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Alexander McCall Smith
The Litigators, John Grisham
The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Measure of the Magic, Terry Brooks
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Omen Machine, Terry Goodkind
The Outlaws, W.E.B. Griffin
The Postcard Killers, James Patterson & Liza Marklund
The Race, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
The Reversal, Michael Connelly
The Road to Grace, Richard Paul Evans
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Alexander McCall Smith
The Sentry, Robert Crais
The Shoemakers Wife, Adriana Trigiani
The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
The Sixth Man, David Baldacci
The Snow Angel, Glenn Beck
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Charlaine Harris
The Thief, Clive Cussler
The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King
The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
The Witness, Nora Robert
The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice
Then Came You, Jennifer Weiner
Tick Tock, James Patterson
Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Toys, James Patterson and Neil McMahon
Treachery in Death, J. D. Robb
Unnatural Acts, Stuart Woods
V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel, Johnathan Kellerman
Victory and Honor, W.E.B. Griffin
What the Night Knows, Dean Koontz
Wicked Appetite, Janet Evanovich
Worth Dying For, Lee Child
Zero Day, David Baldacci
Hardcover NonFiction
****** Finish First, Tucker Max
1493, Charles C. Mann
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
A Journey, Tony Blair
A Simple Government, Mike Huckabee
A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard
Abundance, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
After America, Mark Steyn
Against All Odds, Scott Brown
All That is Bitter and Sweet, Ashley Judd with Maryanne Vollers
America by Heart, Sarah Palin
American Sniper, Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Ameritopia, Mark Levin
At Home, Bill Bryson
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
Back to Work, Bill Clinton
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
Becoming China's Bitch, Peter D. Kiernan
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Being George Washington, Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Better Than Normal, Dale Archer
Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
Confidence Men, Ron Suskind
Crimes Against Liberty, David Limbaugh
Decision Points, George W. Bush
Decoded, Jay-Z
Demonic, Ann Coulter
Destiny of the Republic, Candace Millard
Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?, Steven Tyler
Drift, Rachel Maddow
Earth (The Book), Jon Stewart and others
Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynne
Heaven is For Real, Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
Hilarity Ensues, Tucker Max
I Beat the Odds, Michael Oher
I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron
If You Ask me, Betty White
I'm All Over That, Shirley MacLaine
Imagine, Jonah Lehrer
In My Time, Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney
In the Blink of an Eye, Michael Waltrip and Ellis Henican
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
Indivisible, James Robison and Jay W. Richards
Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,
Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI
Kaboom!, Darell Hammond
Killing Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld
Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
Liberty Defined, Ron Paul
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me, Chelsea's Family
Life, Keith Richards with James Fox
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Anna Quindlen
Malcolm X, Manning Marable
Me, Ricky Martin
Miracle of Freedom, Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart
Moonwalking With Einstein, Joshua Foer
Most Talkative, Andy Cohen
Mrs. Kennedy and Me, Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin