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HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Toronto Star list dating from October 18, 2009
Book Sense list dating from October 29, 2009
USA Today list dating from October 29, 2009
Globe and Mail list dating from October 31, 2009
Toronto Star list dating from November 1, 2009
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 4, 2009
Maclean's list dating from November 5, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 8, 2009
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The Book of Basketball Written by Bill Simmons Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell
There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball... Read More
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Last Night in Twisted River Written by John Irving
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable... Read More
#8 on the Barnes & Noble Hardcover Fiction bestseller list
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Letter to My Daughter Written by Maya Angelou
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was... Read More
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Star Wars 501st Written by Karen Traviss
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... Read More
#2 on the Barnes & Noble Mass Market Paperback bestseller list
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The Wicked Duke Takes a Wife Written by Jillian Hunter
From London’s ballrooms to its sizzling bedrooms, award-winning author Jillian Hunter spins a seductive dance of desire and breathtaking romance.
Lord Griffin Boscastle has no intention of ending his glorious career as a rakehell now that he has inherited a dukedom. Still, there are responsibilities he must discharge before his pleasures resume... Read More
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Star Wars: Death Troopers Written by Joe Schreiber
When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the... Read More
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Evidence Written by Jonathan Kellerman
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath... Read More
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Written by Jamie Ford
"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... Read More
#9 on the Book Sense Trade Paperback Fiction bestseller list
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The Last Dickens Written by Matthew Pearl
Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to... Read More
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True Detectives Written by Jonathan Kellerman
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... Read More
#5 on the Globe and Mail Fiction In Paper bestseller list
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Mercy Thompson Homecoming Written by Patricia Briggs Illustrated by Francis Tsai and Amelia Woo
Mercy Thompson is a walker, a magical being with the power to transform into a coyote. She lives on the fine line dividing the everyday world from a darker dimension, observing the supernatural community while standing apart.
When Mercy travels to the Tri-Cities of Washington for a job interview, she quickly finds... Read More
#10 on the New York Times Graphic Books Hardcover bestseller list
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Strength in What Remains Written by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of... Read More
#11 on the Book Sense Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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.
#8 on the Barnes & Noble Trade Paperback bestseller list #2 on the Book Sense Trade Paperback Fiction bestseller list #5 on the Toronto Star Reprint Fiction bestseller list
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Olive Kitteridge Written by Elizabeth Strout
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
#4 on the Barnes & Noble Trade Paperback bestseller list #1 on the Book Sense Trade Paperback Fiction bestseller list #48 on the USA Today Top 50 bestseller list
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