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Fiction - New York Times Best Sellers List
(updated 8/30/2010)
The Postcard Killers
James Patterson & Liza Marklund
Paris is stunning in the summerNYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital.
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
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The Cobra
Frederick Forsyth
An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense.
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Star Island
Carl Hiaasen
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
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Tough Customer: A Novel
Sandra Brown
Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way—in his private life as well as his professional one.
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Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel
Martin Cruz Smith
A passenger train hurtling through the night.
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The Red Queen: A Novel (The Cousins' War)
Philippa Gregory
Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her.
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Last Night at Chateau Marmont: A Novel
LAUREN WEISBERGER
Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night.
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The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon)
Daniel Silva
Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for .
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Crossfire
Dick Francis & Felix Francis
An exhilarating new novel from the New York Times-bestselling authors.
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Private
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The police can't help youFormer CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe.
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The Vigilantes (Badge of Honor)
W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
The dramatic new novel in Griffin's New York Times- bestselling chronicle of the Philadelphia police force.
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Veil of Night: A Novel
Linda Howard
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually.
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Fly Away Home: A Novel
Jennifer Weiner
Sometimes all you can do is fly away home .
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2009 - Indie Best Buzz (Fiction)
(updated 4/22/2009)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
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City of Thieves: A Novel
David Benioff
From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival—and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
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The Given Day: A Novel
Dennis Lehane
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future.
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Netherland: A Novel
Joseph O'Neill
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
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People of the Book: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks
The “complex and moving”(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and warInspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author.
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
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Non-Fiction Book Feature

Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
By S. C. Gwynne

S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.

S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.

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Author Spotlight on Great Books everyone should read
The Lady Matador's Hotel
The Lady Matador's Hotel
By Cristina Garcia

6 lives intertwining at a hotel in a Central American in the midst of political turmoil. A Japanese-Mexican-American matadora, an ex-guerrilla now waitress, a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress, a German international adoption lawyer, a colonel who committed atrocities, & a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt.
Room
Room
By Emma Donoghue

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
The Good Daughters
The Good Daughters
By Joyce Maynard

They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women's lives parallel and intersect—from childhood, to marriage, to parenthood, to deaths of parents, to divorce, —until past secrets and forgotten memories unexpectedly come to light, forcing them to reevaluate themselves and each other.
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