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July 24, 2006

New Bestsellers 6/24/06

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.

The Criticas Fiction and Nonfiction lists have been updated for July.

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

Paulo Coelho. The Devil and Miss Prym
Coelho's parable of good versus evil relates the story of a stranger who enters a remote village and proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he%'ll give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy. (PW #15)

DRAGON'S FIRE, by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $24.95.) Inhabitants of Pern race against time to find the deadly mineral that will save them. (NYT #16)

Kathy Reichs. Break No Bones
Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan lands in the middle of a gruesome international scheme--a lucrative trade that deals in body parts and leaves its donors dead. (NYT #5, PW #5)

Nora Roberts. Angels Fall
A woman witnesses a murder on a remote mountain, but only one man, and killer, believe her. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #1)

Nonfiction

Chris Anderson. The Long Tail
In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn't in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve. (NYT #13, PW #15)

John W. Dean. Conservatives Without Conscience
Charges the Bush administration with using religious morality and propaganda-like tactics to promote big business interests and silence alternate perspectives at the expense of the nation's constitutional foundations. (NYT #2, PW #2)

Seth Mnookin. Feeding the Monster
The acclaimed author of "Hard News" presents the in-depth, inside story of the new Boston Red Sox, told with the full cooperation of the owners, management, and players who brought a World Series championship to Boston after 86 years. (NYT #8, PW #9)