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February 14, 2007

New Bestsellers 2/12/07

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.

Publisher's Weekly Audio Fiction & Nonfiction lists have been updated for January 29, 2007.

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

Steve Berry. The Alexandria Link
Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped. (NYT #3, PW #4)

Lincoln Child. Deep Storm
In his major new suspense story, Lincoln Child takes readers to a top-secret laboratory 12,000 feet beneath the icy Atlantic and into the search for the greatest--and most deadly--archeological find in history. (NYT #7, PW #6)

Lisa Gardner. Hide
Ex-sniper Bobby Dodge, from Gardner's "New York Times" bestseller "Alone," returns in this thriller about a woman who is thrust into the center of a 20-year-old crime with terrifying repercussions. (NYT #9, PW #8)

Stephanie Laurens. What Price Love?
The internationally bestselling author continues her extraordinary success with this lushly romantic new tale featuring the wildly poplar Cynsters. (USA #15)

Timothy Zahn. Star Wars: Allegiance
Following the events in Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa face the harsh realities of the conflict they have entered. (PW #7)

Nonfiction

LL Cool J. LL Cool J's Platinum Workout
The multitalented, ultrafit hip-hop star LL Cool J shares his personal workout regimen in a revolutionary new program that promises to help anyone build muscle and burn fat en route to six-pack abs. (PW #12)

Michael Oren. Power, Faith, and Fantasy
The history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. (PW #15)

DEATH BY BLACK HOLE, by Neil deGrasse Tyson. (Norton, $24.95.) A collection of essays about the evolution of the universe, many of which first appeared in Natural History magazine, by an astrophysicist who directs the Hayden Planetarium. (NYT #14)