Bestsellers

March 18, 2012

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Hardcover Fiction

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A middle-age retiree re-evaluates his mediocre existence.
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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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A year in the social life of three twentysomethings set in Jazz-Age New York City.
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No one is safe in the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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Hunger Games winners face the consequences of their victory.
(Scholastic: $17.99)
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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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A reimagining of the werewolf tale set on the Northern California coast.
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A love triangle among Ivy League graduates.
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A collection of short stories exploring Jewish identity and the importance of storytelling.
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A coming of age story centered around classmates at an elite East Coast boarding school.
(St. Martin's: $24.99)
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LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware hunt down a homicidal maniac.
(Ballantine: $28)
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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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The characters of Pride and Prejudice are drawn into a tale of murder.
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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 son questions his long awaited liberation from his aristocratic parents at his mother's funeral.
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $25)
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A woman fights the ordered destruction of her family home in 1860's France.
(St. Martin's: $25.99)
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A thriller about artificial intelligence that can predict movements in the financial markets.
(Knopf: $25.95)
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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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A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, set in 1920s Paris.
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Hardcover Nonfiction

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A portrait of the late Apple visionary as revealed by those in his inner circle.
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The global economy trickles down to the inhabitants of a slum in Mumbai.
(Random House: $27)
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New perspectives and ideas to transform the way we think about our health.
(Free Press: $26)
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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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A memoir of the former Marine's allegedly pimping to the stars during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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The French version of rearing les enfants.
(Penguin Press: $25.95)
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Successful introverts and their ideals.
(Crown: $26)
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Bibilical explanations to political issues.
(FaithWords : $21.99)
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American William Langhorne Bond's adventures in Chinese aviation before WWII.
(Bantam: $30)
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Understanding habits and how they transform our lives.
(Random House: $28)
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Graphics and observations celebrating the two cities from the author's travel journals.
(Penguin: $20)
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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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The inside story of the '60s West Coast recording studio scene.
(Thomas Dunne: $25.99)
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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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How Americans in 19th century Paris shaped ideals back home.
(Simon & Schuster: $37.50)
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The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.
(Random House: $27)
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Trusting our intuition in business and personal decisions from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $30)
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reissue of the poet's blending of the practical and mythic in 11 impressionistic pieces.
(New Directions: $18.95)
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Paperback Nonfiction

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Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
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Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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