Bestsellers

March 4, 2012

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Hardcover Fiction

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A middle-age retiree re-evaluates his mediocre existence.
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A collection of short stories exploring Jewish identity and the importance of storytelling.
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Hunger Games winners face the consequences of their victory.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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The characters of Pride and Prejudice are drawn into a tale of murder.
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No one is safe in the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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When the bad guys are girls selling body parts and pot, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them.
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A reimagining of the werewolf tale set on the Northern California coast.
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An orphan in a Paris train station must retrieve a secret notebook left by his dead father.
(Scholastic: $24.99)
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CIA agent Mitch Rapp's early assignments involve tracking down the Lockerbie bombing suspects.
(Atria: $27.99)
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The nature of relationships revolve in the life of a gifted college baseball player.
(Little, Brown: $25.99)
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It's not all fun and games at the 2012 Olympics in London when a committee member is found dead, execution-style.
(Little, Brown: $27.99)
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A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, set in 1920s Paris.
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The final book of the "Millennium Trilogy" has Lisbeth Salander in peril.
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Elvis Cole goes undercover to try to buy back a wealthy industrialist's son from border kidnappers.
(Putnam: $26.95)
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Shocking revelations surface while a D.A. defends his teenaged son from murder charges.
(Delacorte: $26)
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Don’t let appearances fool you in this multilayered narrative about loyalty and loss.
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Two teenagers fighting cancer fall in love.
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A year in the social life of three twentysomethings set in Jazz-Age New York City.
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A love triangle among Ivy League graduates.
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An exploration of friendship and sexuality from the early days of gay liberation through the outbreak of AIDS.
(Bloomsbury: $26)
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Hardcover Nonfiction

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The global economy trickles down to the inhabitants of a slum in Mumbai.
(Random House: $27)
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The French version of rearing les enfants.
(Penguin Press: $25.95)
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A portrait of the late Apple visionary as revealed by those in his inner circle.
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Successful introverts and their ideals.
(Crown: $26)
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New perspectives and ideas to transform the way we think about our health.
(Free Press: $26)
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Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
The dramatic events in spring 1865 leading to President Lincoln's assassination.
(Holt: $28)
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A memoir of the former Marine's allegedly pimping to the stars during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Chris Kyle, et al.
The battlefield experiences from the Navy SEAL with the most kills in U.S. military history.
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Didion recounts the painful story of her daughter’s death.
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The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.
(Random House: $27)
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The Basketball legend explores lesser-known African American inventors.
(Candlewick: $17.99)
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Graphics and observations celebrating the two cities from the author's travel journals.
(Penguin: $20)
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The secret history of the private enclaves and mind-boggling estates of Los Angeles.
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New interviews with the Queen's relatives and friends uncover hidden layers of the monarch.
(Random House: $30)
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Glee's Jane Lynch tells of her childhood, struggles with alcohol, her sexuality and profession.
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Paperback Fiction

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Tom Clancy with Peter Telep
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Paperback Nonfiction

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Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
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