Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 12, 2007

Rank			Last Position	Times on List
1		Janet Evanovich. Plum Lovin' Love is in the air in Trenton, New Jersey, in the latest Stephanie Plum novel by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Evanovich. It's a new year for Stephanie, Lula, and the gang--and Connie Rosolli has a secret admirer. Or does she? Connie is receiving both love and hate letters. Could they be from the same person, or does she have two stalkers? Stephanie is determined to find out.	1	4
2		Mitch Albom. For One More Day Charley, a child of divorce was always forced to choose between his mother and his father. When he is grown, with a family of his own, he secretly visits his father one weekend and his mother dies. This event haunts him and his own family starts to unravel.  When he decides to take his own life he ends up somewhere between this world and the next, where he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he missed and always wished he'd had.	2	18
3		Thomas Harris. Hannibal Rising Chronicles serial killer Hannibal Lecter's childhood and early adulthood after being taken from a Soviet orphanage to live with his uncle and aunt in France. He becomes the youngest person ever to attend medical school in France.	5	8
4		Steve Berry. The Alexandria Link Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.	-	1
5		James Patterson. Cross Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Now, years later, his former partner asks for assistance on a serial rapist case that has connections to Maria's death.	4	11
6		Lincoln Child. Deep Storm In his major new suspense story, Lincoln Child takes readers to a top-secret laboratory 12,000 feet beneath the icy Atlantic and into the search for the greatest--and most deadly--archeological find in history.	-	1
7		Timothy Zahn. Star Wars: Allegiance Following the events in Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa face the harsh realities of the conflict they have entered.	-	1
8		Lisa Gardner. Hide Ex-sniper Bobby Dodge, from Gardner's "New York Times" bestseller "Alone," returns in this thriller about a woman who is thrust into the center of a 20-year-old crime with terrifying repercussions.	-	1
9		Jayne Ann Krentz. White Lies Clare Lancaster is a level 10 para-sensitive and "human lie detector."  She met her half-sister and a family she didn't know seven months ago and is now not sure that was the best idea.  When her father summons her to California to be part of his business empire, she meets Jake Salter, his "financial consultant."  They must overcome their mutual distrust to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.	3	2
10		Christopher Moore. You Suck Waking up after a fantastic night unlike any he's ever had, C. Thomas Flood discovers the woman of his dreams is a vampire, and surprise, he's one now, too. Making their relationship work is the least of their problems. A dangerous faction of old longteeth is bent on wiping out new vampires.	6	3
11		Michael Crichton. Next Blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.	8	9
12		Norman Mailer. The Castle in the Forest Using an SS man as narrator, Mailer explores the life of Adolf Hitler.	9	2
13		W.E.B. Griffin. The Hunters Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third adventure in Griffin's #1 "New York Times" bestselling Presidential Agent series. The growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal leads Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. The murderers leave just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent.	7	5
14		Bernard Cornwell. Lords of the North The third volume of the Saxon Chronicles: the story of the birth of England as the Saxons struggle to repel Danish invaders.	13	2
15		John Lescroart. The Suspect When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found dead, her husband becomes the prime suspect.  Attorney Gina Roake takes on the high profile case and must confront mixed feelings toward her client.	10	3