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New York Times Best Sellers -- Hardcover Fiction

Note: The searches of the Dallas Public Library catalog on these pages use the ISBN number to search for the exact item listed. If the item is not found in the catalog, please search the catalog using the title to see if we have other versions than the one specified in this list.


Title: FANTASY IN DEATH.
Author: J D Robb
Publisher: Putnam
Description: Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a fantasy-game entrepreneur; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780399156243 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE HELP.
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn/Putnam
Description: A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 48 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/books/19masl.html
ISBN: 9780399155345 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: BLACK MAGIC SANCTION.
Author: Kim Harrison
Publisher: Eos/HarperCollins
Description: A witch who is also a bounty hunter is shunned by her kind; the eighth Rachel Morgan book.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780061138034 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: SPLIT IMAGE.
Author: Robert B Parker
Publisher: Putnam
Description: Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., copes with divorce, the bottle and the murder of a mob soldier.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780399156236 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: BIG GIRL.
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Delacorte
Description: A woman with weight issues learns to accept herself.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780385343183 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: WORST CASE.
Author: James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: A New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers by a villain with unusual motives.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316036221 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE MAN FROM BEIJING.
Author: Henning Mankell
Publisher: Knopf
Description: A massacre in a tiny Swedish village has roots in the past and on other continents.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307271860 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE LOST SYMBOL.
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday
Description: Robert Langdon among the Masons.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 24 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14maslin.html
ISBN: 9780375434525 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: WINTER GARDEN.
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Description: After their father’s death, two sisters must cooperate to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult mother.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312364120 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE POSTMISTRESS.
Author: Sarah Blake
Publisher: Amy Einhorn/Putnam
Description: Ordinary life in a Massachusetts small town and an American radio reporter in England in the 1940s.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780399156199 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: APPLE TURNOVER MURDER.
Author: Joanne Fluke
Publisher: Kensington
Description: Hannah Swensen searches for the killer of an amorous professor; recipes included.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780758234896 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL.
Author: Jackie Collins
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Description: Hollywood murder, three beautiful 20-something high school friends, a hot New York club owner.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312567453 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE.
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Knopf
Description: A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 20 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/books/17book.html
ISBN: 9780307269980 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: FLIRT.
Author: Laurell K Hamilton
Publisher: Berkley
Description: Anita Blake, vampire hunter, and the males in her life.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780425235676 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: HORNS.
Author: Joe Hill
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Description: A distraught young man discovers that he has grown horns.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/books/25book.html
ISBN: 9780061147951 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: BRAVA, VALENTINE.
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: An Italian-American shoemaker faces challenges at work, in her family and in love; the second book in a trilogy.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061257070 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: KISSER.
Author: Stuart Woods
Publisher: Putnam
Description: Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East Side.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780399156113 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT.
Author: Cathleen Schine
Publisher: Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Description: Two sisters — one logical, one emotional — move in with their mother when her ex-husband kicks her out of the family apartment; a tribute to Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780374299040 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE.
Author: Alex Berenson
Publisher: Putnam
Description: Who is killing members of a secret unit that interrogated terrorists? The C.I.A. agent John Wells is on the case.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780399156205 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



Title: THE LAST SURGEON.
Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Description: A surgeon and a nurse track a killer whose specialty is murders that don’t look like murder.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312587499 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)



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