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I Should've Read Top 25 from Last Year for 11.23.2009
Submitted by kristin on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:17
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The Gate House
DeMille, Nelson
Grand Central Pub
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast. When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year ...
#2 (--)
Dewey / The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Myron, Vicki/ Witter, Bret/ Witter, Bret (CON)
Grand Central Pub
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to an...
#3 (--)
Extreme Measures
Flynn, Vince
Pocket Books
Elite medical professionals think Dr. Eric Najarianhas has what it takes to join their secret club.
#4 (--)
Against Medical Advice / A True Story
Patterson, James/ Friedman, Hal
Grand Central Pub
Now available in trade paperback, this is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in confronting an agonizing medical condition, written by two master storytellers. Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he...
#5 (--)
The Brass Verdict
Connelly, Michael
Grand Central Pub
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a p...
#6 (--)
The Last Lecture
Pausch, Randy/ Zaslow, Jeffrey
Hyperion Books
Professor Randy Pausch's moving and inspirational book based on his extraordinary last lecture, a global phenomenon now seen by over 25 million people all over the world. On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in fron...
#7 (--)
The Lucky One
Sparks, Nicholas
Grand Central Pub
In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt durin...
#8 (--)
The Snowball / Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Schroeder, Alice
Random House Inc
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore d...
#9 (--)
A Good Woman
Steel, Danielle
Random House Inc
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours he...
#10 (--)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Wroblewski, David
Harpercollins
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for companionship ...
#11 (--)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded / Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Friedman, Thomas L.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
A fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
#12 (--)
My Stroke of Insight / A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Taylor, Jill Bolte, Ph.D.
Christian Large Print
A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery.
#13 (--)
Bones / An Alex Delaware Novel
Kellerman, Jonathan
Random House
Los Angeles is under siege to an insidious killer.
#14 (--)
Letter to My Daughter
Angelou, Maya
Random House Inc
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelous path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou l...
#15 (--)
Rough Weather
Parker, Robert B.
Berkley Pub Group
A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible.
#16 (--)
Testimony
Shreve, Anita
Little Brown & Co
A scandalous sex video emerges in a New England boarding school.
#17 (--)
Buyology / Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Lindstrom, Martin/ Underhill, Paco (FRW)
Random House Inc
Does sex sell? Are health warnings on cigarette packs effective? What do religion and ritual have in common with successful advertising? Do product placements work? Can subliminal advertising really influence our behavior? The fact is, nearly everyth...
#18 (--)
A Most Wanted Man
Le Carre, John
Simon & Schuster
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night.
#19 (--)
A Lion Among Men
Maguire, Gregory/ Smith, Douglas (ILT)
Harpercollins
Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire: a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion gets to tell his tale.
#20 (--)
One Fifth Avenue
Bushnell, Candace
Hyperion Books
The tough and tender women of New York City from Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City.
#21 (--)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann/ Barrows, Annie
Random House Inc
Humor and optimism under the noses of Nazi occupation.
#23 (--)
John Lennon / The Life
Norman, Philip
Harpercollins
The comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.
#24 (--)
Tried by War / Abraham Lincoln As Commander in Chief
McPherson, James M.
Penguin Group USA
How Lincoln worked with-- and often against-- his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy.
#25 (--)
The Host / A Novel
Meyer, Stephenie
Little Brown & Co
The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded ...
