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February 07, 2005

New Bestsellers 2/7/05

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

Ann Brashares. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves. (USA #3, WSJ #2)

Rita Mae Brown. Cat's Eyewitness
With Christmas around the corner, and the monastery overrun by the faithful, all Harry's meddling menagerie can do is stay on her trail as she jumps knee-deep into an unofficial investigation--one that becomes more dangerous when another Crozet citizen meets an untimely demise. In this case, it will be a miracle if Harry stays alive... (WSJ #13)

Bernard Cornwell. Last Kingdom
In this epic novel, bestselling author Cornwell follows King Alfred the Great and his desperate quest to keep England from falling into the hands of the Danish conquerors. (PW #15, WSJ #15)

Janet Evanovich. Love Overboard
The second novel by the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author--now reissued--is a charmingly funny tale of love and adventure set on the rocky coast of Maine, in which a strong-willed young woman becomes the first mate of a sinfully handsome schooner captain. (USA #13)

Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
A brilliant re-imagining and updating of the classic Frankenstein story that only Dean Koontz could conceive, PRODIGAL SON is the first volume in a four-book series that opens with the "monster"--Deucalion--coming to modern-day New Orleans, where he will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner on the trail of a macabre serial killer...a serial killer spawned, Deucalion will discover, by his own creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, now Victor Helios. (USA #5)

James Luceno. Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil
Based on information from Lucasfilm and written by bestselling "Star Wars" author James Luceno, this is a Jedi adventure that is a direct prequel to the upcoming movie, "Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. (PW #7, WSJ #8)

Todd J. McCaffrey. Dragonsblood
The dragons of Pern are dying . . . and the only person who can save them hasbeen dead for over 400 Turns. This new fantasy is written by Anne McCaffrey'sson, Todd, heir to the literary world of Pern. (PW #14)

Richard North Patterson. Conviction
From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes the harrowing story of a possibly innocent man, the labyrinthine politics of death row, and one lawyer's personal and professional crisis. (PW #6, WSJ #7)

Amanda Quick. Wait Until Midnight
Murdered psychics, mysterious sances, and a man with a dangerous past. Welcome to a world of shadows, fog and gaslights Victorian London. Adam Hardesty intends to do whatever it takes to protect his family's secrets, but his inconvenient attraction to Caroline Fordyce, a scandalous author of lurid "sensation" novels complicates his life in ways he never imagined. (USA #14)

Nonfiction

Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn. 102 Minutes
The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. (WSJ #15)

PW Audio Fiction

John Grisham. The Broker
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. (Unabridged CD & Cassette) (#2)