eBranch Blog

August 16, 2005

New Bestsellers 8/15/05

The following books are appearing on the best seller lists for the first time this week. New bestsellers for last week are also included. For a complete listing see our collection of Best Seller Lists.

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

Fiction

Kay Hooper. Chill of Fear
Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine... (NYT #13, PW #11, WSJ #11)

Lisa Jackson. Final Scream
The haunting story of an inferno that sears the night, snuffing out lives and dreams, and of a killer who goes unpunished.... (USA #6)

J.A. Jance. Long Time Gone
After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as it's more commonly called, the SHIT squad. But the more things change, the more they stay the same. (NYT #12, PW #12)

Steve Martini. Double Tap
Paul Madriani's defense of a soldier on trial for murder-and the explosive government secrets it could reveal-propel Steve Martini's latest thriller. (NYT #8, PW #9, WSJ #10)

Nonfiction

Bill Maher. New Rules
Bill Maher's popular new HBO television show, Real Time, has put Maher more front and center than ever before. Particularly one regular segment on the show, entitled "New Rules," has been a hit with his ever-growing legion of fans. It is the part of the show during which Maher takes serious aim, bringing all of his intelligence, incisiveness, wit, and his signature exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell phones to fast food to the conservative agenda. (NYT #8, PW #12, WSJ #11)

Business

Ted C. Fishman. China Inc.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all. (NYT #15)