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The New York Times Bestsellers - February 05, 2012

Hardcover Fiction

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1.Title: Private: #1 Suspect
Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Description: Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.
 
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2.Title: Death Of Kings
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Description: As King Alfred lies near death, the Saxon warrior Uhtred must decide whether to support a united England or reclaim his ancestral lands in the north.
 
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3.Title: Believing The Lie
Author: Elizabeth George
Description: Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.
 
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4.Title: Death Comes To Pemberley
Author: P. D. James
Description: Elizabeth Bennet and her husband, Darcy, of "Pride and Prejudice," must deal with a murder.
 
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5.Title: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
Author: Stieg Larsson
Description: The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
 
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6.Title: 11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Description: An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.
 
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7.Title: Raylan
Author: Elmore Leonard
Description: A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining, gambling and bank robberies.
 
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8.Title: Shadows In Flight
Author: Orson Scott Card
Description: The latest entry in the “Ender” science fiction series; a sequel to “Shadow of the Giant.”
 
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9.Title: The Rope
Author: Nevada Barr
Description: In the 17th Anna Pigeon mystery, Barr returns to 1995 to explore the dramatic circumstances that explain why this National Park Service ranger decided to go into law enforcement.
 
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10.Title: The Litigators
Author: John Grisham
Description: Partners in a small law firm take on a big case.
 
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11.Title: Locked On
Author: Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
Description: Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.
 
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12.Title: Gideon's Corpse
Author: Douglas Preston
Description: Gideon Crew works to avoid a threatened terrorist attack on an American city.
 
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13.Title: Darth Plagueis
Author: James Luceno
Description: The Sith legend of Darth Plagueis, the most powerful Dark Lord of the Sith, who could keep the ones he cared about from dying; a “Star Wars” novel.
 
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14.Title: The Best Of Me
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Description: Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman return to their North Carolina town.
 
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15.Title: Love In A Nutshell
Author: Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly
Description: A former magazine editor attempts to turn her parents’ summer house into a bed-and-breakfast.
 
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16.Title: 77 Shadow Street
Author: Dean Koontz
Description: A 19th-century tycoon’s mansion has been turned into luxury apartments, but it remains in the grip of evil forces.
 
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17.Title: A Dance With Dragons
Author: George R. R. Martin
Description: After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
 
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18.Title: The Paris Wife
Author: Paula McLain
Description: Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel, set in Paris and chronicling her five-year marriage to the novelist.
 
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19.Title: Explosive Eighteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Description: After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.
 
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20.Title: Kill Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson
Description: Alex Cross investigates when the president’s children are kidnapped, but the F.BI. and C.I.A. interfere.
 

Hardcover Nonfiction

Ameritopia
 
1.Title: Ameritopia
Author: Mark R. Levin
Description: A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.
 
American Sniper
 
2.Title: American Sniper
Author: Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Description: A member of the Navy Seals discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
 
Steve Jobs
 
3.Title: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Description: A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.
 
Killing Lincoln
 
4.Title: Killing Lincoln
Author: Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Description: The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
 
Through My Eyes
 
5.Title: Through My Eyes
Author: Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker
Description: The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.
 
Unbroken
 
6.Title: Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Description: An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
 
Thinking, Fast And Slow
 
7.Title: Thinking, Fast And Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Description: The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
 
The Obamas
 
8.Title: The Obamas
Author: Jodi Kantor
Description: The ups and downs of building a life in the White House
 
Elizabeth The Queen
 
9.Title: Elizabeth The Queen
Author: Sally Bedell Smith
Description: The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.
 
Catherine The Great
 
10.Title: Catherine The Great
Author: Robert K. Massie
Description: The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias.
 
Heaven Is For Real
 
11.Title: Heaven Is For Real
Author: Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
Description: A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
 
A Universe From Nothing
 
12.Title: A Universe From Nothing
Author: Lawrence Krauss
Description: A cosmologist’s account of how our universe evolved.
 
In The Garden Of Beasts
 
13.Title: In The Garden Of Beasts
Author: Erik Larson
Description: William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.
 
Greedy Bastards
 
14.Title: Greedy Bastards
Author: Dylan Ratigan
Description: The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to political and economic problems.
 
Seriously ... I
 
15.Title: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
Description: A collection of humor pieces from the stand-up comedian and talk-show host.
 
Jack Kennedy
 
16.Title: Jack Kennedy
Author: Chris Matthews
Description: An admiring portrait.
 
Secret Weapon
 
17.Title: Secret Weapon
Author: Kevin D. Freeman
Being George Washington
 
18.Title: Being George Washington
Author: Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Description: How Washington turned himself into the indispensable (if imperfect) man.
 
Boomerang
 
19.Title: Boomerang
Author: Michael Lewis
Description: A look at some of the places hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008 and at how it happened.
 
The Operators
 
20.Title: The Operators
Author: Michael Hastings