FICTION
1. TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE
by Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.
2. DARK HARBOR
by Stuart Woods
Putnam
Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, investigates the death of his cousin, a CIA agent.
3. OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL
by Anonymous
Pocket
When a wealthy hospital donor is found dead on arrival at a gala in his honor, three women
suspect murder; a tie-in to As the World Turns.
4. DARK TORT
by Diane Mott Davidson
Morrow
The caterer Goldy Schulz is back in the amateur gumshoe business after a paralegal is killed.
5. GONE
by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine
Two acting students stage their own disappearance -- but then one of them is murdered. The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.
6. THE DA VINCI CODE
by Dan Brown
Doubleday
A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo Da Vinci and to the discovery of a secret society.
7. THE 5TH HORSEMAN
by James Patterson and
Maxine Paetro
Little, Brown
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.
8. CHASING DESTINY
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Dutton
When a Los Angeles biker beauty discovers she is pregnant, her married boyfriend is not happy.
9. THE TEMPLAR LEGACY
by Steve Berry
Ballantine
A former US Justice Department operative becomes involved in a desperate search for the long-lost treasure and secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.
10. THE SECRET SUPPER
by Javier Sierra
Atria
Clues in The Last Supper
reveal Leonardo Da Vinci's
heretical beliefs.
11. SUITE FRANCAISE
by Irene Nemirovsky
Knopf
Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis.
NONFICTION
1. DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER
EARRINGS
by Tyler Perry
Riverhead
Musings on life from the man behind Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
2. MARLEY & ME
by John Grogan
Morrow
A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
3. THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst.
National Geographic
An early Christian manuscript lost for 1,700 years portrays Judas Iscariot not as Jesus' betrayer but as his willing collaborator.
4. AMERICAN THEOCRACY
by Kevin Phillips
Viking
A former Republican strategist warns against the dangers of
religious zealotry, oil depen-dence and ballooning public and private debt.
5. FREAKONOMICS
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Morrow
A maverick scholar applies
economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.
6. THE WORLD IS FLAT
by Thomas Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of globalization trends.
7. THE JESUS PAPERS
by Michael Baigent
HarperSan-Francisco
The author argues that Jesus survived his crucifixion and had a child with Mary Magdalene.
8. GAME OF SHADOWS
by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
Gotham
How a San Francisco laboratory supplied steroids to many elite baseball players.
9. COBRA II
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
Pantheon
A definitive account of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq.
10. MY LIFE IN FRANCE
by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
Knopf
How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking.
11. MANHUNT
by James Swanson
Morrow
The 12-day pursuit Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
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