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July 11, 2005

New Bestsellers 7/11/05

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.

The Publisher's Weekly Audio Fiction and Nonfiction best seller lists have been updated for July.

E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
WSJ = Wall Street Journal

Fiction

72 HOUR HOLD, by Bebe Moore Campbell. (Knopf, $24.95.) Trying to help her bipolar 18-year-old daughter, a woman enlists the aid of a radical group of psychiatrists that models itself on the Underground Railroad. (NYT #11)

John Twelve Hawks. The Traveler
In this stunningly suspenseful first novel, reminiscent of George Orwell and Philip Pullman, John Twelve Hawks has created a vividly imagined world that runs parallel to our own. Moving at lightning speed from the back alleys of Prague to the underworld of Los Angeles to a guarded research facility in New York, "The Traveler" goes beneath the surface to give us new insights on history and our own lives. (NYT #13, PW #10, WSJ #11)

Sherrilyn Kenyon. Sins of the Night
In the realm of the Dark-Hunters there is a code of honor that even immortal bad boys must follow: Harm no human. Drink no blood. Never fall in love. But every now and again a Dark-Hunter thinks himself above the Code. That's when I'm summoned. Who am I? I'm the one thing the fearless fear. Step over the line and it's my wrath you will face. Nothing can touch me. Nothing can sway me. I am relentless and unfeeling. (USA #12)

Sara Paretsky. Fire Sale
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. (NYT #10, PW #13, WSJ #12)

Julia Quinn. It's In His Kiss
"Too intelligent for her own good and best friends with Lady Danbury, one of society's most outspoken grande dames, Hyacinth is in her fourth season on London's Marriage Mart and again unimpressed by the male selection. Only Lady Danbury's handsome, pockets-to-let grandson Gareth St. Clair can hold his own in a conversation with her and sometimes even leaves her in a speechless, stomach-flipping state. When Hyacinth offers to translate the diary of Gareth's deceased Italian grandmother, the pair find themselves comparing notes, then exchanging kisses and finally burglarizing his estranged father's house at midnight. But the diary also holds secrets that could jeopardize their new love." - Publisher's Weekly (USA #6)

Kathy Reichs. Cross Bones
When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history. (NYT #9, PW #8, WSJ #6)

Danielle Steel. Miracle
It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn's and Maggie's homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. (NYT #3, PW #9, USA #13, WSJ #5)

PW Religion

John Eldredge. Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
Why do little girls love to dress up in twirling skirts? Why do they dream of a day their prince will come and together they will live in a great adventure? Because that is the heart God set within every woman. That is the role she was created to play-to be a valiant and beautiful woman whose life changes the world.Why do most women abandon those desires when they grow up? (#5)

Pope John Paul II. Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium
In this volume, Pope John Paul II speaks for the first time on global politics. He discusses his views on freedom and democracy and speaks about the twentieth-century totalitarian ideologies of communism and nazism. Making an emphatic appeal for mankind to regard freedom "not only as a gift but a task" to be used for the common good, he calls for a dialogue between all the world's civilizations and religions. This work is a unique reflection on human life, and will be admired by thinkers of all religions and nationalities. (#9)

Joyce Meyer. Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone
Author tackles a lack of self-esteem and the need to please others as a major problem in relationships and offers guidance via Christian belief and values. (#6)

Frank E. Peretti. Monster
Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They're surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. But something-or someone-begins closing in on them. Something no human has ever seen. And it's killing everyone in its path without remorse. (#7)