eBranch Blog

August 23, 2006

New Bestsellers 8/23/06

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

Robin Cook. Crisis
Dr. Robin Cook, the inventor of the medical thriller--and bestselling author of "Coma, Abduction, Invasion, Marker," and many other chilling novels--now shows readers a healer's dark side, in the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies. (NYT #3, PW #9)

Dennis Lehane. Coronado: Stories
From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a striking collection of five short stories and a play. (PW #15)

THE NIGHT GARDENER, by George Pelecanos. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) Three Washington cops reunite to solve a murder that resembles a 20-year-old cold case. (NYT #12)

Lolly Winston. Happiness Sold Separately
The marriage of a seemingly perfect couple dissolves into a complicated dance of affairs, lovers, and admirers. (NYT #8, PW #7)

Nonfiction

STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS, by Daniel Gilbert. (Knopf, $24.95.) A Harvard professor explores why people can't predict what will make them happy. (NYT #16)

The Guiness Book of World Records, 2007 (PW #9)

Lawrence Wright. The Looming Tower
This sweeping narrative history of 9/11 includes important new information about the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks, told for the first time from both the American and Arab sides of the story. (NYT #5, PW #7)