eBranch Blog

January 16, 2007

New Bestsellers 1/15/2007

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

Lilian Jackson Braun. The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
In the 29th installment of Braun's beloved, bestselling Cat Who . . . series., all of Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar following vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only "Cool Koko" knows what's happening . . . and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting? (NYT #10, PW #8)

WHAT IS THE WHAT, by Dave Eggers. (McSweeney's, $26.) The fictionalized autobiography of one of Sudan's "Lost Boys," refugees from its civil war. (NYT #16)

W.E.B. Griffin. The Hunters
Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third adventure in Griffin's #1 "New York Times" bestselling Presidential Agent series. The growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal leads Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. The murderers leave just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent. (NYT #2, PW #2)

Nonfiction

Laura Schlessinger. The Proper Care & Feeding of Marriage
In the long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking bestseller "The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands," Dr. Laura shows how marriages can come back from the brink of disaster and divorce. (PW #3, USA #11)

ABOUT ALICE, by Calvin Trillin. (Random House, $14.95.) The New Yorker writer's recollections of his deceased wife. (NYT #11)