eBranch Blog

July 12, 2004

New Bestsellers

The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.

Fiction

Catherine Coulter. Blindside
Coulter's fast-paced FBI novels featuring married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich have rocketed up the "New York Times" bestseller lists and garnered millions of fans. Coulter's heady blend of action and intrigue grows more intoxicating with each book and reaches new heights in "Blindside." (USA Today #7)

Kay Hooper. Sense of Evil
The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful and blonde. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen. (USA Today #14)

Billie Letts. Shoot the Moon
From the author of the bestselling "Where the Heart Is" comes an eagerly anticipated tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years. (Wall Street Journal #13)

James Patterson. Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Laced with mystery, this new work by the mega-bestselling author combines two amazing love stories in a novel that's impossible to put down. (New York Times #1, Publisher's Weekly #2, USA Today #5, Wall Street Journal #2)

Julia Quinn. When He Was Wicked
The sixth book in Quinn's immensely popular Bridgerton family saga, set during the Regency era, in which the widowed Francesca Bridgerton gets a second chance at love. (USA Today #9)

Nicholas Sparks. The Wedding
From America's favorite chronicler of love stories comes the long-awaited follow-up to his classic, "The Notebook," as Wilson Lewis struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores. (USA Today #15)

Danielle Steel. Second Chance
In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Steel captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change--and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again. (New York Times #4, Publisher's Weekly #10, Wall Street Journal #8)

Nonfiction

David Hardy. Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to present his own version of the truth. (New York Times #9, Publisher's Weekly #13, Wall Street Journal #12)

Robert Kurson. Shadow Divers
" Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater." - Booklist (New York Times #4, Publisher's Weekly #5, Wall Street Journal #5)

Calvin Trillin. Obliviously on He Sails
The Bush Administration in rhyme. (New York Times #7, Publisher's Weekly #14)

Business

Thomas J. Stanley. Millionaire Women Next Door
Eight years ago, Dr. Stanley swept aside the mythical magic curtain of wealth to reveal "The Millionaire Next Door." Now the author focuses on one of the least understood but increasingly rich demographics. (New York Times #8)