April 24, 2006
New Bestsellers 4/24/06
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.
New bestsellers were not posted for last week; last weeks new bestsellers are marked with **.
The Criticas Spanish Language fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists were updated for April 2006.
The Library Journal Lists of Most Borrowed Books in Public Libraries for Fiction and Nonfiction were updated for April 15, 2006.
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
Anonymous. Oakdale Confidential
Tying in to the 50th anniversary of one of America's most popular daytime dramas, "As the World Turns," this novel features three of the daytime drama's most popular female characters as they band together to solve the mystery of who murdered a local philanthropist. (NYT #3, PW #2, USA #15)
Mary Higgins Clark. Two Little Girls in Blue **
"Before leaving for a black-tie affair in New York City, Margaret and Steve Frawley celebrate the third birthday of their twin girls, Kathy and Kelly, with a party at their new home in Ridgefield, Conn. Later that night, when Margaret can't reach the babysitter, she contacts the Ridgefield police. The frantic couple return home to find the children missing and a ransom note demanding $8 million." - Publisher's Weekly (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #3)
Diane Mott Davidson. Dark Tort
Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it -- until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm's paralegal, dead. (NYT #4, PW #5)
Eric Jerome Dickey. Chasing Destiny
Billie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love threw an oil slick in the road and spun her life into chaos. (NYT #8, PW #6)
Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes. Full Scoop
The sixth original novel by Evanovich and Hughes transports readers to the wildest week yet in the town of Beaumont, South Carolina, as the authors dole out a full scoop of fun, adventure, and romance. (USA #8)
Lisa Jackson. Shiver **
Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya is back in New Orleans. Thanks to years of working with the dark side of society, his youthful swagger is gone, replaced by straightforward determination. He'll need it, because a serial killer is turning The Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs -- no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. Somebody's playing a sick game, and Montoya intends to beat him at it. (NYT #13, PW #11)
Irene Nemirovsky. Suite Francaise
By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Ir?ne N?mirovsky began working on what would become Suite Fran?aise?the first two parts of a planned five-part novel?she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France?where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis?she?d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read N?mirovsky?s literary masterpiece. (NYT #11, PW #14)
Stuart Woods. Dark Harbor
Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer's suicide in this next thriller in the bestselling series. (NYT #2, PW #3)
Nonfiction
Michael Baigent. The Jesus Papers *
Twenty years ago Michael Baigent and his colleagues stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. His bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (with co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh) became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus. (PW #10)
Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. My Life in France **
This is a book about some of the things I have loved most in life: my husband, Paul Child; la belle France; and the many pleasures of cooking and eating. It is also something new for me. Rather than a collection of recipes, I've put together a series of linked autobiographical stories, mostly focused on the years 1948 through 1954, when we lived in Paris and Marseille, and also a few of our later adventures in Provence. Those early years in France were among the best of my life. They marked a crucial period of transformation in which I found my true calling, experienced an awakening of the senses, and had such fun that I hardly stopped moving long enough to catch my breath. (NYT #10, PW #14)
Giada De Laurentis. Giada's Family Dinners **
New York Times best-selling cookbook author and Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis works her magic once again, providing over 100 simple, healthy and delicious recipes geared toward family and group meals ... Italian style. (PW #3, USA #5)
Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, & George Wurs. The Gospel of Judas **
Thought lost forever, the Gospel of Judas was recently found and translated and is presented here for the first time with commentary. (NYT #3, PW #6, USA #11)
Herbert Krosney. The Lost Gospel
In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries. (NYT #14, PW #15)
Kevin Phillips. American Theocracy *
In his two most recent books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule - and imperil - the United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority's rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the newest stage of the GOP majority: an inept and weakly led coalition, dominated by religious zealotry, that is losing America the world's respect - and endangering her future. (NYT #4, PW #8)
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $26.95.) Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience. (NYT #12)
Posted by Grace at April 24, 2006 01:48 PM
