eBranch Blog

March 08, 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

IRELAND, by Frank Delaney. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) Inspired by an itinerant storyteller, a boy immerses himself in the history and mythology of his country. (NYT #15)

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ME & EMMA, by Elizabeth Flock. (Mira, $17.95.) Living with a drunken stepfather in an impoverished home in North Carolina, an 8-year-old girl tries to create a new life for herself and her younger sister. (NYT #14)

Greg Iles. Blood Memory
Forensic expert Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a 31-year-old woman at the peak of her professional career when she begins to have panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes. As she pieces together horrifying childhood events she has been shielded from all her life, both she and the FBI realize that current murders in New Orleans are intimately tied to Cat's family and her past. (WSJ #12)

Nora Roberts. The Calhouns: Suzanna and Megan
The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author continues the saga of the Calhoun sisters, who are determined to save their magnificent family mansion in Maine against all odds. This two-in-one volume contains "Suzanna's Surrender" and "Megan's Mate." Reissue. (USA #2)

Daniel Silva. Prince of Fire
A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet. Gabriel Allon is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood. (NYT #5, WSJ #5)

Nonfiction

T. Harv Eker. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
For the first time, the secrets, principles, and techniques of Eker's popular personal success seminars are captured on the page for readers across North America. Eker teaches people how to play the inner game of money so that they not only achieve financial success, but keep it once they have it. (USA #4, WSJ #1)

NYT Children's Chapter

Gary D. Schmidt. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot. (#8)