eBranch Blog

August 30, 2005

New Bestsellers 8/29/05

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.

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

Fiction

Ted Bell. Pirate
In Ted Bell's scorching follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Assassin, intrepid intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everything and everyone in their headlong rush toward world domination. (NYT #15, PW #15, WSJ #14)

Connie Briscoe. Can't Get Enough
Briscoe's much anticipated follow-up to P.G. County. As the characters slip in and out of their Pratesi sheets and stride into mayhem and misdeeds in their Jimmy Choo shoes, Can't Get Enough will hold readers spellbound. A delectable and scrumptious page-turner, it ushers in spring with the fabulous force of a Gucci-clad lion. (E #3)

Sandra Brown. Chill Factor
A successful magazine editor is trapped in her remote cabin with a man believed to be a serial killer. (NYT #1, PW #2, USA #7, WSJ #3)

Eric Jerome Dickey. Genevieve
Eric Jerome Dickey's boldly sensual new novel centers on what his fans love best - steamy romance and shocking betrayal. This is an edge-of-your-seat novel about a good man who loves his wife, Genevieve, but finds himself drawn against his best intentions into an affair - with his wife's sister. Both women have a mysterious and tragic past that raises the stakes in this fast-paced novel. (E #2)

Bret Easton Ellis. Lunar Park
Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing "resolution about love and loss, fathers and sons?in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career. (NYT #13, PW #11, WSJ #13)

Carl Weber. The Preacher's Son
A revelatory chronicle of an esteemed church family that has a whole lot of repenting to do. (E #6)

Nonfiction

Michael Eric Dyson. Is Bill Cosby Right?
"In May 2004 Cosby delivered a speech at the NAACP Awards in which he said he blamed what he termed the "knuckleheads" of the African American community for poor parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity and criminal behavior. The audience laughed and applauded. Here, Dyson (humanities, U. of Pennsylvania) comments on both the speech and the reaction, finding a growing cultural divide between the "Afristocracy" (the African American elite and professional classes) and the "Ghettocracy" (the African American poor, working class and incarcerated). He finds evidence of abandonment of the aims of the civil rights movement among the elite, and a growing perception that the poor have no one to blame but themselves, despite obvious, ongoing and vicious racial discrimination in America." - Book News (E #1)