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Top 25 Books This Week
Submitted by kristin on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:48
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The Lost Symbol
Brown, Dan
Random House Inc
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world laby...
#2 (--)
Have a Little Faith / A True Story
Albom, Mitch
Hyperion Books
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds—two men, two faiths, two communities—that wil...
#4 (--)
SuperFreakonomics / Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitiutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Levitt, Steven D./ Dubner, Stephen J.
Harpercollins
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#5 (--)
Pursuit of Honor
Flynn, Vince
Pocket Books
Deadly and charismatic hero Rapp wages a war against a new enemy in this devastatingly intense thriller by Flynn.
#6 (--)
What the Dog Saw / And Other Adventures
Gladwell, Malcolm
Little Brown & Co
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th c...
#7 (--)
Nine Dragons / A Novel
Connelly, Michael
Little Brown & Co
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly...
#8 (--)
Too Big to Fail / The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis---and Themselves
Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Penguin Group USA
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#9 (--)
The Help
Stockett, Kathryn
Penguin Group USA
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ri...
#10 (--)
Heat Wave
Castle, Richard
Hyperion Books
A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffoca...
#11 (--)
Highest Duty / My Search for What Really Matters
Sullenberger, Chesley/ Zaslow, Jeffrey
Harpercollins
In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so v...
#12 (--)
Arguing with Idiots / How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
Beck, Glenn/ Balfe, Kevin (EDT)/ Burguiere, Steve (CON)/ Andros, Dan (CON)/ Sack, Brian (CON)
Pocket Books
#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Beck's ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life's most important arguments.
#13 (--)
The Last Song
Sparks, Nicholas
Grand Central Pub
#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from N...
#15 (--)
Southern Lights
Steel, Danielle
Random House Inc
Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novelat once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the Sou...
#16 (--)
True Compass / A Memoir
Kennedy, Edward M.
Grand Central Pub
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented...
#17 (--)
Outliers / The Story of Success
Gladwell, Malcolm
Little Brown & Co
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 ...
#19 (--)
Half Broke Horses
Walls, Jeannette
Simon & Schuster
Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in the southwest and Welch, West Virginia. She graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York City for twenty years. Her previous book was the memoir The Glass Ca...
#20 (--)
Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even
Cramer, James J./ Mason, Cliff (CON)
Simon & Schuster
James J. Cramer is host of CNBC's Mad Money; cofounder of TheStreet.com, where he is also an online columnist; and "Bottom Line" columnist for New York magazine.
#21 (--)
The Murder of King Tut / The Plot to Kill the Child King
Patterson, James/ Dugard, Martin
Little Brown & Co
Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall.But what if his fate was actually much more sinister?Now, in THE M...
#22 (--)
The Greatest Show on Earth / The Evidence for Evolution
Dawkins, Richard
Simon & Schuster
In a brilliant follow-up to his blockbuster The God Delusion, Dawkins lays out the evidence for evolution.
#23 (--)
Where Men Win Glory / The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Krakauer, Jon
Random House Inc
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young mans haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsell...
#24 (--)
A Touch of Dead / Sookie Stackhouse: the Complete Stories
Harris, Charlaine
Penguin Group USA
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#25 (--)
Eating the Dinosaur
Klosterman, Chuck
Simon & Schuster
A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposa...









