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January 19, 2005

New Bestsellers 1/17/2005

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford. Unexpected Blessings
The continuing saga of the descendents of Emma Hart, first begun in A Woman of Substance, more than 20 years ago. (NYT #6, PW #12)

Lillian Jackson Braun. The Cat Who Went Bananas
The good people of Pickax are agog with anticipation: Not only is the new bookstore, The Pirate's Chest, about to open, but the Theatre Club is set to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The play does not continue past opening night, however, for a member of the cast is killed in a car accident . . . or was it an accident? Koko seems to suspect otherwise, and Qwill and his clever cats have their work cut out for them. (PW #14, WSJ #11)

Linda Fairstein. Entombed
Alexandra Cooper is back facing two crimes that may be related. (NYT #9, PW #11, WSJ #13)

Terry Goodkind. Chainfire
With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. (NYT #3, PW #3, USA #8, WSJ #2)

AFTERBURN, by Zane. (Atria, $24.95.) A chiropractor becomes enamored of a beautiful woman who works at a bank in Washington. (NYT #11)

Nonfiction

David Bach. Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
In Start Late, Finish Rich, David Bach takes the ?Finish Rich? wisdom that has already helped millions of people and tailors it specifically to all of us who forgot to save, procrastinated, or got sidetracked by life?s unexpected challenges. (PW #7, WSJ #4)

DO-GOODERS, by Mona Charen. (Sentinel, $25.95.) The syndicated columnist indicts liberals for failing "to help those they set out to help."

Chris Crowley. Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond
Draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. (PW #15, WSJ #15)

Mireille. Guiliano. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny?and just in time: the ultimate non -diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. (PW #11, WSJ #10)

A BROTHER'S JOURNEY, by Richard B. Pelzer. (Warner, $21.95.) The brother of Dave Pelzer, author of "A Child Called 'It,' " details the abuse he himself suffered at the hands of their alcoholic mother. (NYT #12)

PW Religion

David Aikman. A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush
David Aikman, skilled journalist and former senior correspondent for TIME magazine, pens this dramatic and gripping account of Bush?s journey to faith. Based on interviews and behind-the-scenes stories. (#6)

Chuck Norris. Against All Odds: My Story
Against All Odds is an inspirational story of how Norris overcame abject poverty from childhood, the effects of his father?s alcoholism and desertion of the family, and his own shyness and lack of strength and ability early in his life. Norris writes candidly about how he was able to overcome such obstacles in his life?giving full credit to God. (#9)