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FICTION

1. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER
by Kim Edwards
Penguin
A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.

2. THE HOUSE
by Danielle Steel
Dell
A workaholic lawyer's life changes when she buys a
crumbling mansion.

3. IRISH DREAMS
by Nora Roberts
Silhouette
Two previously published stories about Irish immigrants in America.

4. THE DIVIDE
by Nicholas Evans
Signet
How did a fugitive eco-terrorist end up dead in a frozen Montana creek?

5. THE TEMPLAR LEGACY
by Steve Berry
Ballantine
A former Justice Department operative becomes involved in a search for the long-lost treasures and secrets of the Knights Templar.

6. MOST LIKELY TO DIE
by Lisa Jackson, Wendy Corsi Staub and Beverly Barton
Zebra
A high school reunion touches off a series of murders.

7. THE DREAM-HUNTER
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Martin's
A woman searching for Atlantis is pursued by a predator from the world of dreams.

8. DIRTY BLONDE
by Lisa Scottoline
Harper
When the plaintiff murders the defendant in a case she has just tried, a judge's secret life becomes public.

9. HONEYMOON
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Warner
An FBI agent who is investigating a beautiful and mysterious woman finds himself becoming obsessed with her.

10. CAUSING HAVOC
by Lori Foster
Berkley
An extreme fighter returns home to Kentucky to help his sisters and finds both trouble and romance.

11. MCKETTRICK'S LUCK
by Linda Lael Miller
HQN
Jesse McKettrick's old high school flame tries to persuade him to sell some of his land.

12. TONGUE IN CHIC
by Christina Dodd
Signet
When Meadow Szarvas is caught trying to steal a painting, she claims she has amnesia, a lie that ultimately puts her life in danger.

NONFICTION

1. THE MEASURE OF A MAN
by Sidney Poitier
Harper SanFrancisco
The movie actor's spiritual autobiography.

2. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.

3. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin Books
A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India, and Indonesia.

4. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
Vintage
The author's attempt to come to terms with the death of her husband and the grave illness of their only daughter.

5. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
by Barack Obama
Three Rivers
The Democratic senator from Illinois reflects on life as the son of a black African father and white American mother.

6. THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY
by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
Broadway
High school students considered "unteachable" write about their lives, the basis for the movie Freedom Writers.

7. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN
by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
Revell
A minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.

8. NIGHT
by Elie Wiesel
Hill & Wang
A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.

9. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
by Augusten Burroughs
Picador
In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid household.

10. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fate.

11. DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARRINGS
by Tyler Perry
Riverhead
The man behind Diary of a Mad Black Woman muses on life.

12. WE ARE THEIR HEAVEN
by Allison DuBois
Fireside/Simon & Schuster
How the dead communicate with us.
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