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February 22, 2006

New Bestsellers 2/20/06

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 Library Journal Lists of Most Borrowed Books in Public Libraries for Fiction and Nonfiction were updated for February 15, 2006.

The Criticas Spanish Language fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists were updated for February 2006.

The Wall Street Journal Lists are no longer being updated due to technical difficulties.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
** = Titles which appeared last week for the first time.

Fiction

Jackie Collins. Lovers & Players
Dazzling, internationally renowned, bestselling author Jackie Collins pulls out all the stops with this highly charged love story about family relationships, deadly choices, mysterious murder, and dangerous sex. (NYT #6, PW #6)

Lisa Gardner. Gone **
When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate. (NYT #7, PW #7)

Yolanda Joe. Video Cowboys
In her latest comic mystery, savvy Chicago reporter Georgia Barnett is caught between a trigger-happy police force and a frazzled, bomb-wielding father who is distraught that the police aren't working to find his missing daughter. (E #4)

Jay McInerney. The Good Life
What happens, or should happen, when life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if both secrets and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are finally revealed? What is the good life? (NYT #16, PW #15)

Robert Parker. Sea Change
When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a treacherous and emotionally charged investigation. (NYT #4, PW #4)

Kimberla Lawson Roby. Changing Faces **
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Best-Kept Secret" pens an outstanding tale that probes the true meaning of friendship as three women face a wave of unexpected troubles.

Timothy Zahn. Star Wars: Outbound Flight **
It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery - only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend ... and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole story of the remarkable - and doomed - Outbound Flight Project. (NYT #9, PW #8)

Nonfiction

James Swanson. Manhunt
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters. (NYT #6, PW #6)