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Bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from February 2, 2010 to February 9, 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle... Read more >
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle... Read more >
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... Read more >
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... Read more >
The Lost Symbol
Written by Dan Brown
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $29.95
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under... Read more >
Written by Dan Brown
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $29.95
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
Secrets of Eden
A Novel
Written by Chris Bohjalian
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chris Bohjalian
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
Shanghai Girls
A Novel
Written by Lisa See
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Lisa See
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician... Read more >
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician... Read more >
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Read more >
Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Read more >
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I
Written by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both... Read more >
Written by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both... Read more >
Staying True
Written by Jenny Sanford
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2010
Price: $25.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
Written by Jenny Sanford
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2010
Price: $25.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Written by Scott Patterson
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $27.00
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions.
... Read more >
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Written by Scott Patterson
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $27.00
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions.
... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
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