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February 14, 2005

New Bestsellers 2/14/05

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

Christine Feehan. Dark Secret
In her latest Carpathian novel, the "New York Times" bestselling author reveals the enthralling story of Rafael, a savage hunter from the darkest jungles, and the beautiful prey he will never let escape. (USA #3)

JD Robb. Survivor in Death
In her newest novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series, Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb returns to the New York city of 2059, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas will struggle to solve murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor. (NYT #3, PW #4, USA #7, WSJ #2)

THE BEST-KEPT SECRET, by Kimberla Lawson Roby. (Morrow, $23.95.) The further romantic adventures of the Rev. Curtis Black, who, after two failed marriages, tries hard to be faithful to his latest wife. (NYT #16)

Curtis Sittenfeld. Prep
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves behind her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. (NYT #11, PW #15)

Nonfiction

BIG BANG , by Simon Singh. (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, $27.95.) A science writer and former particle physicist explains the history of cosmology and the widely accepted theory of the origin of the universe. (NYT #15)

DEAR SENATOR, by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem. (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95.) A memoir by the mixed-race daughter of Strom Thurmond. (NYT #8)