Hardcover Fiction
Published: Febuary 5, 2010
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THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. |
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THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon among the Masons. |
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KISSER, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side. |
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BLOOD TIES, by Kay Hooper. (Bantam, $26.) The F.B.I. agent Noah Bishop and his special crimes unit pursue a brutal enemy. |
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THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais. (Putnam, $26.95.) Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered. |
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THE SWAN THIEVES, by Elizabeth Kostova. (Little, Brown, $26.99.) A psychiatrist who treats a man who slashed a canvas in the National Gallery is drawn into the world of French Impressionism; from the author of “The Historian.” |
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I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. |
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THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $24.99.) A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love. |
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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. |
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ROSES, by Leila Meacham. (Grand Central, $24.99.) Three generations in a small East Texas town. |
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THE WOLF AT THE DOOR, by Jack Higgins. (Putnam, $26.95.) Someone is targeting the members of an elite British intelligence team, and Sean Dillon believes it is an old nemesis. |
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THE BURNING LAND, by Bernard Cornwell. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) The ninth-century Saxon warrior Uhtred breaks with King Alfred but returns to fight the Danes. |
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IMPACT, by Douglas Preston. (Forge, $25.99.) Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars. |
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I, SNIPER, by Stephen Hunter. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) Bob Lee Swagger discovers that the murder of four ’60s radicals is more complicated than it seems. |
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NOAH’S COMPASS, by Anne Tyler. (Knopf, $25.95.) A retired teacher with a head injury struggles to regain his memory and his engagement in life. |
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Hardcover Non-Fiction
Published: Febuary 5, 2010
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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. |
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I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. (Grand Central, $26.99.) Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.” |
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THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.99.) A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide. |
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COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Viking, $26.95.) The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage. |
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HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief. |
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OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.” |
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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. |
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JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.) 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 s. |
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COURTING DISASTER, by Marc A. Thiessen. (Regnery, $29.95.) ̶Enhanced interrogation” saved American lives and Obama is risking them, a Bush speechwriter says. |
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THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.) Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues. |
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GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate. |
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SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99.) A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel. |
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WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A decade of New Yorker essays. |
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DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $26.95.) What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards. |
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OPEN, by Andre Agassi. (Knopf, $28.95.) The tennis champion’s autobiography. |
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