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August 02, 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.
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
WSJ = Wall Street Journal

Fiction
Jeffery Deaver. Garden of Beasts
Introduces anti-hero Paul Schumann, a notorious rubout man for the New York Mafia known for his cold and professional approach to his job. But the jig is up when he is duped by high-ranking feds who give him a choice--prison or one more impossible job: assassinate the man who's running Hitler's plan for rearming Germany. (NYT #10, PW #11, WSJ #11)

Karen Robards. Bait
It's a business trip that takes attorney Maddie Fitzgerald down to New Orleans, but it's hardly business as usual when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to kill her. Barely escaping with her life, the sexy, stylish thirty-two-year-old brunette calls the police and finds herself face-to-face with FBI agent Sam McCabe. Unnerved by his questions-and his good looks-Maddie is told she's been targeted by a hired killer, one who has eluded McCabe for years. (WSJ #15)

Nonfiction
9/11 Commission Report
The independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.This volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report. (USA #1)

Robert C. Byrd. LOSING AMERICA (Norton, $23.95.) The senior senator from West Virginia assails what he considers the "reckless and arrogant presidency" of George W. Bush. (NYT #9)

Business
David Brooks. On Paradise Drive
The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. (NYT #10)

Erica Kennedy. Bling
Cinderella remixed: an uninhibited, unputdownable novel about a small-town girl and the music mogul determined to turn her into a megastar. (NYT #5)

Tonya Lews Lee & Crystal McCrary Anthony. Gotham Diaries
In this compelling first novel, authors Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal McCrary Anthony give us a rare glimpse inside the fashionable and urbane world of New York's chic African-American society and its incumbent scandals, foibles, and skeletons. Gotham Diaries is a gripping novel, filled with fascinating characters and a plot that won't let go. (NYT #9)

PW Audio Fiction
Stephen Coonts. Liars & Thieves
Liars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret. (Unabridged CD) (#14)

Catherine Coulter. Blowout
Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock work and play hard: devoted to their jobs, their son, and each other, they approach each new case with gusto, and appreciate every moment of downtime they can grab. But a long weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the Pennsylvania woods is cut short when the agents are summoned back to Washington, where a nightmare awaits them. (Unabridged Cassette & CD) (#6)

Sue Grafton. R is for Ricochet
... And R is for romance: love gone right, love gone wrong, and matters somewhere in between. (Unabridged Cassette) (#4)

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. (Unabridged Cassette & CD) (#10)

Kathy Reichs. Monday Mourning
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor, investigating the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there? When did they die? (Unabridged Cassette) (#7)

PW Audio Nonfiction
Bill Clinton. My Life
Former president Bill Clinton's highly anticipated memoirs will be published in June. My Life, an account of Clinton's life through the White House years, is one of the most eagerly awaited books of recent years. (Unabridged CD) (#1)

Tolle Eckhart. The Power of Now
In The Power of Now he shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now." (Unabridged CD) (#7)