Last updated: 3/14/2010
# 1 - House Rules - by Jodi Picoult
First week on the list
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know how.
Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he's usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger's -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it's a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it's another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder?
Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don't.
# 2 - The Help - by Kathryn Stockett
49 weeks on the list
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
# 3 - Fantasy in Death - by J. D. Robb
2 weeks on the list
Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest top-secret project, Fantastical.
The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. . . .
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U- Play's competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.
Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death. . .
# 4 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - by Seth Grahame-Smith
First week on th e list
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
# 5 - Worst Case - by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
5 weeks on the list
Best case: survival
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are fatal.
Worst case: death
Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation. With ten kids of his own, he can't begin to understand what could lead someone to target anyone's children. As another student disappears, one powerful family after another uses their leverage and connections to turn the heat up on the mayor, the press--anyone who will listen--to stop this killer. Their reach extends all the way to the FBI, who send their top Abduction Specialist, Agent Emily Parker. Bennett's life--and love life--suddenly get even more complicated.
This case: Detective Michael Bennett is on it
Before Bennett has a chance to protest the FBI's intrusion on his case, the mastermind changes his routine. His plan leads up to the most devastating demonstration yet--one that could bring cataclysmic devastation to every inch of New York. From the shocking first page to the last exhilarating scene, Worst Case is a non-stop thriller from "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes).
Last updated: 3/14/2010
# 1 - No Apology - by Mitt Romney
First week on the list
(From the Amazon.com product description...)
On his first presidential visit to address the European nations, President Obama felt it necessary to apologize for America’s international power. He repeated that apology when visiting Latin America, and again to Muslims worldwide in an interview broadcast on Al-Arabiya television.
In No Apology, Mitt Romney asserts that American strength is essential—not just for our own well-being, but for the world’s. Governments such as China and a newly-robust Russia threaten to overtake us on many fronts, and radical Islam continues its dangerous rise. Drawing on history for lessons on how great powers collapse, Romney shows how and why our national advantages have eroded. From the long-term decline of our manufacturing base, our laggard educational system that has left us without enough engineers, scientists, and other skilled professionals, our corrupted financial practices that led to the current crisis, and the crushing impact of entitlements on our future obligations, America is in debt, overtaxed, and unprepared for the challenges it must face.
We need renewal: fresh ideas to cut through complicated problems and restore our strength. Creative and bold, Romney proposes simple solutions to rebuild industry, create good jobs, reduce out of control spending on entitlements and healthcare, dramatically improve education, and restore a military battered by eight years of war. Most important, he calls for a new commitment to citizenship, a common cause we all share, rather than a laundry list of individual demands. Many of his solutions oppose President Obama’s policies, many also run counter to Republican thinking, but all have one strategic aim: to move America back to political and economic strength.
Personal and dynamically-argued, No Apology is a call to action by a man who cares deeply about America’s history, its promise, and its future.
# 2 - Lift - by Kelly Corrigan
First week on the list
Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters.
"Although we've never met, I love Kelly Corrigan like a friend. Her work gives me a rich sense of intimacy with someone who is full of life and hard-fought wisdom. She's hilarious, tender-hearted, tough, loyal, wild, and screwed-up--like all the coolest women I know." --Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies
# 3 - Game Change - by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
8 weeks on the list
In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.
Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it’s an intimate portrait of some of the most powerful and fascinating figures in American life—the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.
# 4 - Not Without Hope - by Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman
First week on the list
On February 28, 2009, Nick Schuyler, a twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, left for a deep-sea fishing trip with three friends: NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Will Bleakley, his best friend, who once played football for the University of South Florida.
It was supposed to be a day of fun and relaxation aboard Cooper's twenty-one-foot boat, which anchored seventy miles west of Tampa, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The friends were out to catch some amberjack and grouper and maybe a few sharks. They planned to drink a few beers, have some laughs, and get home before an approaching cold front hit.
As the seas began to swell and the winds picked up in the late afternoon, they packed their gear and decided to head to shore. One problem. The anchor was stuck.
Inexperienced boaters, they made what would become a fatal mistake, tying the anchor rope to the stern of the boat and hitting the throttle. The anchor did not yank free. Instead, the stern sank and filled with water, and the boat capsized.
And so the nightmare began. The men had to forage for life jackets beneath the boat. They had no emergency beacon to alert authorities, and their cell phones didn't work so far out in the Gulf. With no food or water, the men clung to the overturned hull through the night as the seas roughened and the cloudy sky became inky black. They were continuously tossed from the boat by brutal waves, and sometimes found each other only by swimming toward their friends' voices.
During the rare lull, they would pray and talk about the ones they loved, what they would've done differently with their lives, and what they would do once they returned home. As the hours passed, the four friends, who had grown up as athletes, worked as a team in their desperate bid to survive. They battled hypothermia, hallucinations, hunger, dehydration, and huge waves.
A witness to incredible heroism and unspeakable tragedy, Nick remained at sea for more than forty hours, holding on, hoping against hope and clinging to the thought that he couldn't bear to have his mother attend his funeral.
Not Without Hope is much more than a story of survival. It is an inspiring story of friendship, resolve, and courage.
# 5 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot
5 weeks on the list
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
Last updated: 3/14/2010
# 1 - On the Brink - by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was without doubt at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression will make for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the pivotal meetings with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Paulson's personal recollections of and conversations with President Bush, President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. As well as detailing the major decisions taken during the height of the crisis, Paulson will also put forth the policies he believes need to be implemented to take us securely into the future.
# 2 - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
# 3 - The Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
# 4 - Drive - by Daniel H. Pink
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:
*Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.
# 5 - Too Big To Fail - by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
Last updated: 3/14/2010
# 1 - Payback Time - by Phil Town
First week on the list
Don’t get mad, get even…
Phil Town’s first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade. But because many people aren’t ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding investing—for the long term – he created Payback Time.
Too often, people see long-term investing as “mutual fund contributing” – otherwise known as “long-term hoping.” But the sad truth is that mutual fund investors are, to a stunning degree, pinning their hopes on an institution that is hopeless. It turns out that only 4% of fund managers consistently beat the S&P 500 index over the long term, which means that 96% of fund investors see a smaller return on their nest egg than a chimpanzee who simply buys stocks in the 500 biggest companies in America and watches what happens.
But it’s worse than that. The net effect of hitching your wagon to mutual funds is that over a lifetime they’ll fritter away as much 60% of your nest egg in fees. Once you understand how funds engineer this, you’ll rush to invest on your own.
Payback Time’s risk-free approach is called “stockpiling” and it’s how billionaires get rich in bad markets. It’s a set of rules for investing (not trading but investing) in the right businesses at the right time -- rules that will ensure you make the big money.
# 2 - Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
3 weeks on the list
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
# 3 - The Happiness Project - by Gretchen Rubin
10 weeks on the list
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.
Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.
# 4 - Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door - by Harvey Mackay
First week on the list
"You can have the finest moves in the talent contest, you can boast a trophy speed-dial list on your iPhone, you can possess the single-mindedness of Paul Revere and be as self-assured as Muhammad Ali . . . and you still won't nail the job unless you know how to mold and merchandise your personal pitch. If this is true when times are booming-and it is-you can only imagine how true it is in times like these."
Harvey Mackay, Fortune magazine's "Mr. Make- Things-Happen," has written five New York Times bestsellers, including one of the most popular business books of all time-Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. Now he returns with the ultimate book on how to get, and keep, a job you truly love whether you're twenty-one, fifty-one, or seventy-one.
The average person will have at least three career changes and ten different jobs by age thirty-eight. In this era of downsizing and outsourcing, you can never be sure your job will still exist in five years- or five weeks. So you'd better think of your career as a perpetual job search. That demands a passion for lifetime learning and the skills for relentless and effective networking.
Uplifting, amusing, and jam-packed with proven tips, Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door will guide you through the toughest job market in decades. It's also the definitive A-to-Z career resource for the rest of your life.
# 5 - The 4-Hour Workweek - by Timothy Ferris
66 weeks on the list
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
"I race motorcycles in Europe."
"I ski in the Andes."
"I scuba dive in Panama."
"I dance tango in Buenos Aires."
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world.
Last updated: 3/14/2010
# 1 - The Hunger Games - by Suzanne Collins
78 weeks on the list...
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
# 2 - Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Ultimate Guide - by Mary-Jane Knight
7 weeks on the list
It's the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, "manual-size" POB with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.
# 3 - Catching Fire - by Suzanne Collins
27 weeks on the list
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
# 4 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia
5 weeks on the list
Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, inspiring children of all ages to suspend disbelief and follow Alice into her fantasy worlds. This new gift edition presents Carroll's tale fully unabridged with a unique visual interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia.
# 5 - Sweet Little Lies - by Lauren Conrad
5 weeks on the list
How Sweet it is?
Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping. . . .
When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She turns to her co-star Madison Parker for help, unaware that Madison is scheming behind the scenes. She might be Jane's shoulder to cry on, but does Madison really have Jane's back?
Scarlett's working on a scandal of her own. She's fallen for someone who's strictly off-limits—which means Scarlett has a big secret to keep . . . from the L.A. Candy cameras, the paparazzi staking out her apartment, even from her best friend.
Of course, nothing stays secret for long for the stars of the newest hit TV series, and all this drama couldn't be better for ratings. But can Jane survive another season in the spotlight?
In television star Lauren Conrad's dishy, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people tell-ing them.
Last updated: 3/14/2010
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Hardcover Fiction
206 Bones, Kathy Reichs
A Touch of Dead, Charlaine Harris
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith
Agincourt, Bernard Cornwell
Alex Cross's Trial, James Patterson
An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
Best Friends Forever, Jennifer Weiner
Big Girl, Danielle Steel
Black Hills, Nora Roberts
Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
Black Ops, W.E.B. Griffin
Blood Ties, Kay Hooper
Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs
Breathless, Dean Koontz
Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston
Corsair, Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul
Dark Slayer, Christine Feehan
Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris
Dreamfever, Karen Marie Moning
Fantasy in Death, J. D. Robb
Fatally Flaky, Diane Mott Davidson
Finger Lickin Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
Fired Up: Book One of the Dreamlight Trilogy, Jayne Ann Krentz
First Family, David Baldacci
Flirt, Laurell K. Hamilton
Fool, Christopher Moore
Ford County, John Grisham
Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy
Hothouse Orchid, Stuart Wood
House Rules, Jodi Picoult
I, Alex Cross, James Patterson
Impact, Douglas Preston
Just Take My Heart, Mary Higgins Clark
Kisser, Stuart Woods
Knock Out, Catherine Coulter
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
Loitering With Intent, Stuart Woods
Long Lost, Harlan Coben
Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
Lover Avenged, J.R. Ward
Matters of the Heart, Danielle Steel
Medusa, Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Mounting Fears, Stuart Woods
Nine Dragons, Michael Connelly
Noah's Compass, Anne Tyler
Omen (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 2), Christie Golden
One Day at a Time, Danielle Steele
Outcast, Aaron Allston
Peaks and Valleys, Spencer Johnson
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton
Plum Spooky (A Between-the-Numbers Novel), Janet Evanovich
Poor Little Bitch Girl, Jackie Collins
Promises in Death, J. D. Robb
Pursuit of Honor, Vince Flynn
Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
Relentless, Dean Koontz
Rough Country, John Sandford
Run For Your Life, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Sizzle, Julie Garwood
Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton
Smash Cut, Sandra Brown
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
Spartan Gold, Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood
Split Image, Robert B. Parker
Summer on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber
Swimsuit, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
The 8th Confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Apostle, Brad Thor
The Associate, John Grisham
The Bourne Deception, Eric Van Lustbader
The Burning Land, Bernard Cornwell
The Defector, Daniel Silva
The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles
The Doomsday Key: A Novel, James Rollins
The First Rule, Robert Crais
The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Host, Stephenie Meyer
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
The Perfect Poison, Amanda Quick
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe
The Professional, Robert B. Parker
The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel, David Wroblewski
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
The White Queen, Philippa Gregory
True Blue, David Baldacci
True Colors, Kristin Hannah
True Detectives, Johnathan Kellerman
Turn Coat, Jim Butcher
Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella
U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
Under the Dome, Stephen King
What I Did for Love, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
White Witch, Black Curse, Kim Harrison
Wicked Prey, John Sandford
Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
Worst Case, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly
A Lion Called Christian, Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
A Simple Christmas, Mike Huckabee
A Slobbering Love Affair, Bernard Goldberg
Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
American Lion, Jon Meacham
American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson
Arguing With Idiots, Glenn Beck
Bobby and Jackie, C. David Heymann
Born to Run, Christopher McDougal
Catastrophe, Dick Morris & Eileen Mcgann
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert
Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin
Dewey, Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Going Rogue, Sarah Palin
Guilty, Ann Coulter
Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom
High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips, with Hilary Liftin
Highest Duty, Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow
Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton
House of Cards, William D. Cohan
I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
In the President's Secret Service, Ronald Kessler
Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
Lift, Kelly Corrigan
Mommywood, Tori Spelling
Moonwalk, Michael Jackson
Multiple Blessings, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, and Beth Carson
No Apology, Mitt Romney
Not Without Hope, Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman
Obama: The Historic Journey, Bill Keller and Jill Abramson
Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin
Open, Andre Agassi
Out of Captivity, Marc Gonsalves
Prairie Tale, Melissa Gilbert
Renegade, Richard Wolffe
Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards
Stones into Schools, Greg Mortenson
Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler
The Gamble, Thomas E. Ricks
The Girls From Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow
The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Lost City of Z, David Grann
The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson and Martin Dugard
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, George Friedman
The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Politician, Andrew Young
The Time of My Life, Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
The Yankee Years, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin
Too Fat To Fish, Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy
Unmasked, Ian Halperin
What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
Why We Suck, Denis Leary
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, James Hirsch
Children's Books
Barack, Jonah Winter
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, Nikki Grimes
Change Has Come, word by Barack Obama
Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
Listen to the Wind, Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Rogh
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Mo Willems
Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox
Wabi Sabi, Mark Reibstein
Children's Chapter Books
3 Willows, Ann Brashares
Airhead: Being Nikki, Meg Cabot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia
Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Bloodhound, Tamora Pierce
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Daniel X: Watch the Skies, James Patterson and Ned Rust
Fallen, Lauren Kate
Fire, Kristin Cashore
How To Talk to Girls, Alec Greven
Hush, Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick
L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad
Leviathan, Scott Westerfield
Miles to Go, Miley Cyrus
Million Dollar Throw, Mike Lupica
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
Once Dead, Twice Shy, Kim Harrison
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, Mary-Jane Knight
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, David Benedictus
Scat, Carl Hiaasen
Seekers-Great Bear Lake, Erin Hunter
Sent, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
Stargazer, Claudia Gray
Sweet Little Lies, Lauren Conrad
The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan
The Awakening, Kelley Armstrong
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DeCamillo and Yoko Tanaka
The Secret to Teen Power, Paul Harrington
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Tricks, Ellen Hopkins
Twilight: Directors Notebook, Stephenie Meyer
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Wings, Aprilynne Pike
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
Witch and Wizard, James Patterson
Business
10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea , Suzy Welch
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson
Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk
Drive, Daniel H. Pink
Getting Back to Even, James Cramer
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America , Thomas L. Friedman
House of Cards, William D. Cohan
How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
In Fed We Trust, David Wessel
On the Brink, Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Peaks and Valleys, Spencer Johnson
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
The 50th Law, Robert Greene
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich
THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Niall Ferguson
The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough
The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent