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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling fiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
USA Today list dating from February 2, 2012
Barnes & Noble list dating from February 8, 2012
Book Sense list dating from February 9, 2012
New York Times list dating from February 12, 2012
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $27.95
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when...
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Defending Jacob
A Novel
Written by William Landay
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $26.00
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is...
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The Litigators
Written by John Grisham
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $28.95
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in...
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Death Comes to Pemberley
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $25.95
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their...
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77 Shadow Street
A Novel
Written by Dean Koontz
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $28.00
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . . The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow...
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A Dance with Dragons
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Hardcover, 1040 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $35.00
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Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his landmark series—as both familiar faces and...
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Explosive Eighteen
A Stephanie Plum Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $28.00
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare...
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
Written by James Luceno
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $27.00
He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived.But could he be the only one who never died? “Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use...
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The Paris Wife
A Novel
Written by Paula McLain
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $25.00
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets...
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The Orphan Master's Son
A Novel
Written by Adam Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $26.00
"Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "RIch with a sense of discovery...The year is...
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $26.95
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind...
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The Sense of an Ending
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $23.95
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense new...
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Darker After Midnight
A Midnight Breed Novel
Written by Lara Adrian
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $24.00
The climactic novel in Lara Adrian’s New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series—and her hardcover debut—Darker After Midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire.
In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for...
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1Q84
Written by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
Format: Hardcover, 944 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $30.50
“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $26.95
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will...
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