eBranch Blog

September 12, 2005

New Bestsellers 9/12/05

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

The Library Journal Lists of Most Borrowed Books in Public Libraries for Fiction and Nonfiction were updated for September 1.

The Publisher's Weekly Audio Fiction and Nonfiction Bestseller lists were updated for September 1.

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

Fiction

Catherine Coulter. Point Blank
FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most dangerous case of their careers in Catherine Coulter's explosive new thriller. (NYT #5, PW #5, USA #7)

Clive Cussler. Polar Shift
Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At the very least, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes, and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens-exit Earth. (NYT #1, PW #2, USA #14, WSJ #4)

Tess Gerritsen. Vanish
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. (NYT #11, PW #14, WSJ #15)

Robert Hicks. Widow of the South
In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman, an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...along with the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years ago, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug them up and buried them in her own personal cemetery. Now, as she walks the rows of the dead, an old soldier appears. It is the man she met that day of the battle that changed everything. The man who came to her house as a wounded soldier and left with her heart. He asks if the cemetery has room for one more. (NYT #10, PW #8, WSJ #11)

Jack Higgins. Without Mercy
As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, a dark shadow from her and Dillon's past, scarred deep by hatred, steals across the room and finishes the job. Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake, Ferguson, and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey upon which they are about to embark-nor of the war that will change them all. Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, Without Mercy once again proves that Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. (NYT #8, PW #9, WSJ #14)

Fern Michaels. Payback
The second in the exhilarating Sisterhood series From the outside, it looks like Julia Webster lives a normal, happy existence. She has long suspected her husband's past is not quite as innocent as he'd like the American public to believe. And when he starts cheating on her, with disastrous consequences for herself and her career, she decides the time has come to teach him a lesson. (USA #7)

Karen Marie Morning. Spell of the Highlander
Powerful. Sensual. Seductive. He is all that is shamelessly erotic in a man. In her sexiest Highlander novel yet, New York Times bestselling author Karen Moning stirs up a sizzling brew of ancient mystery and modern passion as she brings together a devilishly handsome Celtic warrior trapped in time . . . and the woman who’s about to pay the ultimate price for freeing him. Age-old secrets haunt them. Deadly danger and irresistible desire shadow their every move. It’s a relationship for the ages. And all that separates them is a mere thirteen hundred years. . . . (NYT #12, PW #12, WSJ #8)

Nonfiction

WILD DUCKS FLYING BACKWARD, by Tom Robbins. (Bantam, $25.) A collection of short writings by the author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues." (NYT #15)

NYT Business

Benjamin Stein and Phil Demuth. Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably
Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth grapple with the coming baby-boom retirement crisis and show you how to get back on track. (#14)

PW Religion

David Gregory. Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering
The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky?s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what it's about and so the normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick?s personal life. (#7)