September 07, 2004
New Bestsellers 9/6
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
Martha Grimes. The Winds of Change
From "one of the established masters of the genre" ("Newsweek") comes the latest in the critically acclaimed Richard Jury Series. As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl, shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. (NYT #11, PW #7, WSJ #8)
Jack Higgins. Dark Justice
A failed attempt on the President's life is just the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. White House operative Blake Johnson and his British counterpart set out to trace the source of the havoc. (NYT #8, PW #9, WSJ #9)
Nonfiction
NAMATH , by Mark Kriegel. (Viking, $27.95.) A biography of the renowned New York Jets quarterback, advertising icon and man about town. (NYT #13)
HIPPIE, by Barry Miles. (Sterling, $24.95.) A lavishly illustrated coffee-table book celebrates the period from 1965 to 1971, the era of unparalleled tuning in, turning on and dropping out. (NYT#12)
Jane Pauley. Skywriting: a Life Out of the Blue
In this inspiring memoir, the beloved broadcaster and host of a brand-new daytime talk show writes about growing up in the Midwest, her three decades on NBC's "Today" show and "Dateline NBC," and what happened when, at mid-life, things began to change. (NYT #8, PW #8, WSJ #9)
Children's Chapter
Barbara Park. Junie B., First Grader: Boo!...and I Mean It!
With Halloween approaching, Junie B. needs to find a costume that will scare off the real witches and ghosts that she believes will be out on the holiday. (NYT #2)
Jonathan Stroud. The Golem's Eye
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London. (NYT #7)
Children's Picture
Judy Sierra. Wild About Books
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake. (NYT #1)
Business
James Surowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds
A revolutionary look at the way the world works by the "New Yorker's" "Financial Page" columnist. "The Wisdom of Crowds" is the biography of an idea with profound implications for how people run their businesses, organize society, structure their political system, fight terrorism, and think about the future. (NYT #10)
Audio Fiction
Dan Brown. Deception Point
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. (Abridged Cassette) (PW #6)
Clive Cussler. Lost City
An enzyme that prolongs life has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in an area known as Lost City . But why are all those connected with it getting killed? including the people attempting to harvest it, the scientists stationed in a remote Greek laboratory who have been disappearing one by one and what does the body found frozen in the Alps have to do with this? To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it will become very clear they have their work cut out for them. In fact, it may be their greatest challenge ever. (Unabridged CD) (PW #3)
JD Robb. Visions in Death
On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent into Central Park--and into a hellish new investigation where each new victim is posed in a prayerful position with her eyes removed. (Unabridged CD) (PW #10)
Posted by Grace at September 7, 2004 12:48 PM
