Hardcover Fiction
Published June 26, 2009
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KNOCKOUT, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $26.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — try to protect a 7-year-old with psychic powers from her exploitive criminal uncle. |
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THE BOURNE DECEPTION, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne helps to avert a possible world war. |
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THE ANGEL'S GAME, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. (Doubleday, $26.95.) A Barcelona writer accepts a sinister commission. |
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RELENTLESS, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic. |
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THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, by Katherine Howe. (Voice, $25.99.) A graduate student is caught up in her research on a healer accused of witchcraft in Salem. |
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THE SCARECROW, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A Los Angeles Times reporter tracks a devious killer. |
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MEDUSA, by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. (Putnam, $27.95.) In the eighth NUMA Files novel, Kurt Austin and his team confront a Chinese crime syndicate and a deadly virus. |
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SHANGHAI GIRLS, by Lisa See. (Random House, $25.) Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California, and leave their war-torn country to join them. |
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THE NEIGHBOR, by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam, $25.) There are many suspects when a pretty teacher disappears. |
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GONE TOMORROW, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $27.) Jack Reacher discovers a conspiracy dating back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. |
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SKIN TRADE, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $26.95.) Investigating some killings in Las Vegas, the vampire hunter Anita Blake must contend with the power of the weretigers. |
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FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.’s, search for a child abducted after a party at Camp David. |
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DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther. |
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DUNE ROAD, by Jane Green. (Viking, $25.95.) In a wealthy Connecticut town, a divorced woman takes a job as an assistant to a famous reclusive novelist with a secret. |
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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 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings. |
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Hardcover Non-Fiction
Published June 26, 2009
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LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. |
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HORSE SOLDIERS, by Doug Stanton. (Scribner, $28.) A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11. |
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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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A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career. |
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RENEGADE, by Richard Wolffe. (Crown, $26.) The rise of Barack Obama, based on the author’s coverage of the campaign and on a dozen interviews. |
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HOME GAME, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $23.95.) A reluctant father cottons to his offspring. |
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THE LAST BEST HOPE, by Joe Scarborough. (Crown Forum, $26.) Advice for the Republicans and for America, from the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” a former congressman. |
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, by Rocco Mediate and John Feinstein. (Little, Brown, $26.99.) Mediate’s lively competition with Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open. |
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THE YANKEE YEARS, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci. (Doubleday, $26.95.) The former Yankee manager (1996-2007) on his years with the team. |
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CRAZY FOR THE STORM, by Norman Ollestad. (Ecco, $25.99.) An 11-year-old survives the plane crash that killed his father and hikes down a mountain alone in a blizzard. |
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PRAIRIE TALE, by Melissa Gilbert. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $26.) Overcoming substance abuse and bad relationships, by the star of "Little House on the Prairie." |
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THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.) How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence. |
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SATCHEL, by Larry Tye. (Random House, $26.) A biography of the great Negro League pitcher. |
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ALWAYS LOOKING UP, by Michael J. Fox. (Hyperion, $25.99.) Fox’s last 10 years; his struggles with Parkinson’s disease and his work as an activist through his foundation. |
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BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf, $24.95.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe. |
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TEARS IN THE DARKNESS, by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The Bataan death march and its aftermath. |
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