Bestsellers

April 10, 2011

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Hardcover Fiction

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A sports agent turned sleuth searches for a missing rock star and his own estranged brother.
(Dutton: $27.95)
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A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, set in 1920s Paris.
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Hunger Games winners face the consequences of their victory.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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The final book of the "Millennium Trilogy" has Lisbeth Salander in peril.
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No one is safe in the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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The breakdown of a Midwestern family.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $28)
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Three sisters, named after Shakespeare characters, return home to care for their sick mother.
(Putnam: $24.95)
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
The plotting for rebellion continues on a dangerous frontier planet.
(Tor: $25.99)
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Revenge and twists of fate are underlying themes in King's most recent collection of eerie tales.
(Scribner: $27.99)
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Investigator and former World War I nurse Maisie Dobbs goes undercover at a Cambridge college.
(Harper: $25.99)
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No good deed goes unpunished in this fourth Jackson Brodie book.
(Reagan Arthur: $24.99)
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The final novel in the Alex Rider series has him going against the world's most dangerous terrorist organization once again.
(Philomel: $17.99)
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Vampires, daemons and witches plot to steal a magical book from an American professor.
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Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood
Jack Ryan Jr. and his colleagues are on the trail of the world's most dangerous terrorist.
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James Patterson and Neil McMahon
A top government superhero operative fights to save humans from extinction.
(Little, Brown: $27.99)
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Detective Kurt Wallander returns to solve another mystery while tying up personal loose ends.
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Hardcover Nonfiction

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The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.
(Random House: $27)
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A look at brain science told through social behaviors of a fictional couple.
(Random House: $27)
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Why Chinese mothers raise superior children to their Western counterparts.
(Penguin Press: $25.95)
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The annexation and moral upending of Hawaii.
(Riverhead: $25.95)
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The infamous queen of Egypt as a political power player.
(Little, Brown: $29.99)
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Wackiness before, during and after the Van Halen years.
(It Books: $26.99)
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The art and science of memory and how to improve it.
(Penguin: $26.95)
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Keith Richards with James Fox
The seemingly eternal musician shares his life as a Rolling Stone.
(Little, Brown: $29.99)
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Tips and insight for women as to what motivates men.
(Amistad: $24.99)
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A journalist's love affair with the country of Bhutan.
(Crown: $25)
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Navigating new financial realities.
(Spiegel & Grau: $26)
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A vision of science in the next century based on interviews with the world’s top researchers.
(Doubleday: $28.95)
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The teachings of one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era.
(Schocken: $24)
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Paperback Fiction

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Paperback Nonfiction

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Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
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