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November 27, 2006

New Bestsellers 11/27/06

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.

Titles that were new last week are noted with **.

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

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

Isabel Allende. Ines of My Soul **
Born into a poor family in Spain, In?s, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. When her shiftless husband disappears to the New Workd, In?s follows only to find him dead. She then begins a love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.

Mary & Carol Higgins Clark. Santa Cruise
On the maiden voyage of the Royal Mermaid, a group of guests gets caught up in a mystery revolving around two stow-away criminals. (NYT #8, PW #10, USA #14)

Nelson DeMille. Wild Fire **
Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions. (NYT #5, PW #2)

Carl Hiaasen. Nature Girl
When a rude telemarketer calls while Honey Santana and her son are having dinner she decides to teach him a lesson in good behavior. She lures him and his mistress with a pitch for Florida real estate and includes her ex-husband and 12-year-old son in her plot. (NYT #4, PW #5, USA #8)

Karen E. Quinones Miller. Satin Nights
The sequel to 'Satin Doll,' continuing the story of Regina Harris and her three girlfriends, dealing with divorce, single parenthood, and romance in Harlem. (E #3)

Mary Monroe. God Don't Play
Annette Goode finally seems to have the perfect life. Out of the blue she starts to receive hostile letters, and vicious phone calls. Someone won't rest until the life Annette has worked so hard to build is torn down. (E #5)

Mary B. Morrison. When Somebody Loves You Back
In this follow-up to Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, NBA star Darius Jones juggles the women in his life. (E #2)

James Patterson. Cross
Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Now, years later, his former partner asks for assistance on a serial rapist case that has connections to Maria's death. (NYT #1, PW #1, USA #1)

J.D. Robb. Born in Death **
Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for. (NYT #6, PW #6)

Jeff Shaara. The Rising Tide **
The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation?s most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict. (NYT #12, PW #9)

Omar Tyree. What They Want
Male model Terrance Mitchell had no plans to settle down, until one day one of the beautiful women broke through his defenses. (E #4)

Nonfiction

Martha Stewart. Homekeeping Handbook **
Martha shares her tips on everything from setting a table to creating floor plans to polishing silver. (PW #12)

SEA OF THUNDER, by Evan Thomas. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) The naval war in the South Pacific, 1941-45. (NYT #16)

Posted by Grace at November 27, 2006 12:20 PM

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