eBranch Blog

March 27, 2006

New Bestsellers 3/27/06

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.

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

Fiction

Stephanie Laurens. What Price Love?
The internationally bestselling author continues her extraordinary success with this lushly romantic new tale featuring the wildly poplar Cynsters. (NYT #14, PW #14)

Lisa Scottoline. Dirty Blonde
A riveting page-turner about love and murder that starts in the elite chambers of a sexy female judge and ends on the cold, gritty streets of Philadelphia. (NYT #5, PW #4, USA #10)

Omar Tyree. Boss Lady
"Tracy Ellison Grant is in charge again in Tyree's latest Flyy Girl novel (after For the Love of Money and Flyy Girl), this time as mentor to her go-getter younger cousin, Vanessa Tracy Smith, who narrates this glitzy urban story about the payoff of hard work. Tracy Grant rose to fame earlier with her autobiography Flyy Girl, which she parlayed into a booming career as a screenwriter, actress and producer. Now, an adoring and ambitious 16-year-old Vanessa moves from North Philly to L.A., and the novel tracks her three-year meteoric rise as Tracy's personal assistant and prot?g?e to Hollywood powerbroker." - Publisher's Weekly (E #5)

Carl Weber. So You Call Yourself a Man
A tale of three best friends who've grown up together--but the real test of manhood and friendship have only just begun. (E #7)

Valerie W. Wesley. Playing My Mother?s Blues
An emotionally rich and flavorful novel of past and present, loss and fulfillment is penned by the renowned author of "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do." (E #10)

Nonfiction

Bart D. Ehrman. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. (PW #8)

Michael R. Gordon. Cobra II
A revelatory work of investigative journalism, this comprehensive and unfiltered account of the war in Iraq is written by the only reporter who was embedded with the Allied land command. (PW #4)

Tom Joyner. I'm Just a DJ But...It Makes Sense to Me
Legendary radio personality Tom Joyner comes out from behind the microphone to share the wit and wisdom that made him a star. The "Tom Joyner Show" is broadcast five days a week on 110 stations and is heard by more than 10 million people. In 1998, Tom was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. (E #6)

Frances Mayes. A Year in the World
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself?and her readers?in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places including Turkey, the British isles, Portugal, Spain, and North Africa. (NYT #8, PW #15)

BRUTAL, by Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas. (Regan-Books/HarperCollins, $25.95.) Life inside Whitey Bulger's Irish mob in Boston, by a reformed thug. (NYT #15)

WHAT JESUS MEANT, by Garry Wills. (Viking, $24.95.) A fresh reading of the Gospels emphasizes the radicalism of Jesus. (NYT #12)