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February 07, 2006

New Bestsellers 2/6/06

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 Wall Street Journal lists are not available this week due to technical difficulties.

E = Essence Magazine
NYT = New York Times
PW = Publisher's Weekly
USA = USA Today
WSJ = Wall Street Journal
* = Titles that have previously appeared on the bestseller lists but are new to our catalog

Fiction

Stephen King. Cell
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #1)

John Lescroart. The Hunt Club
Wyatt Hunt is a self-employed P.I., working low-profile surveillance and insurance fraud cases. When a federal judge is found murdered in Pacific Heights, Hunt enlists his confederation of friends, stringers, and associates--the Hunt Club--to help bring the murderer to justice. (NYT #9, PW #9)

J.D. Robb. Memory in Death
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She can deal with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." She can take on purse snatchers, drug dealers, and worse. But when Trudy Lombard - a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady - shows up at the station, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she is plunged back to the days when she was a vulnerable traumatized young girl - and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her. (NYT #2, PW #2, USA #5)

Nonfiction

Deborah Tannen. You're Wearing That?
In her most commercial book to date, Tannen does for the mother-daughter relationship what she did for women and men in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller "You Just Don't Understand" by showing mothers and daughters how to improve communication by understanding the other's point of view. (NYT #9, PW #14)

Norah Vincent. Self-Made Man
Narrated with exquisite insight, humor, and empathy, the author uses her firsthand experience--the 18 months she masqueraded as a man--to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity. (NYT #12, PW #15)