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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling fiction paperbacks across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 18, 2009
Book Sense list dating from November 19, 2009
USA Today list dating from November 19, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 29, 2009
The Associate
A Novel
Written by John Grisham
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $9.99
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to...
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Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Sapphire
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.00
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group GuidePrecious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a...
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Push
A Novel
Written by Sapphire
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $13.00
"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film FestivalRelentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and...
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Your Heart Belongs to Me
A Novel
Written by Dean Koontz
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . . One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever—his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles...
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While My Sister Sleeps
Written by Barbara Delinsky
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same...
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington PostThe searing...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
National BestsellerAn 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...
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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.
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True Detectives
A Novel
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $9.99
Moses Reed and Aaron Fox have the same mother; their respective fathers were cops, friends, and partners. And despite their shared calling, their turbulent family history has set them at odds. Moses is a no-frills LAPD detective; Aaron is a smooth-talking private eye. Usually they go their separate ways, but the...
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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...
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One Shot
A Reacher Novel
Written by Lee Child
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Written by Jamie Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices." -- Kirkus Reviews
“A tender...
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The Private Patient
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But...
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Bound to Shadows
A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel
Written by Keri Arthur
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
In the darkness, demons come out to play . . .
and someone must bring their sins to light.
Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Star Wars 501st
An Imperial Commando Novel
Written by Karen Traviss
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun. . . . The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos–the galaxy’s finest special forces troops...
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The Tomb of Hercules
A Novel
Written by Andy McDermott
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
AN ANCIENT WARRIOR. AN INCREDIBLE TREASURE. A LETHAL ENEMY. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime–the chance to prove that a tomb containing the remains of the legendary hero Hercules actually exists. If American archaeologist Nina Wilde can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever unearthed. But as Nina and her...
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Also available as an
eBook.
The Hunt for Atlantis
A Novel
Written by Andy McDermott
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $7.99
A LOST CIVILIZATION.
A DANGEROUS QUEST.
A DEADLY SECRET.
It’s one of history’s most enduring and controversial legends—the lost city of Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde is certain she’s solved the riddle of its whereabouts—and with the help of reclusive billionaire Kristian Frost, his beautiful daughter, Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, she’s about to...
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Also available as an
eBook.
World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
Written by Max Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that...
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Remember Me?
A Novel
Written by Sophie Kinsella
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $7.99
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and...
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Unaccustomed Earth
Stories
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $7.99
An International Bestselling Sensation A murder mystery, family saga, love story, and a tale of financial intrigue wrapped into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth...
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