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. JUDGE & JURY
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Warner
An aspiring actress and an FBI agent join forces against a powerful mobster.
3. SHIVER
by Lisa Jackson
Zebra
A New Orleans detective tracks a serial killer.
4. PRIOR BAD ACTS
by Tami Hoag
Bantam
Two Minneapolis detectives search for a kidnapped judge who has been trying a murder case.
5. LOVER REVEALED
by J.R. Ward
Onyx
A human ex-cop who fights alongside members of the Black Dagger Brotherhood falls for one of their own, a vampire named Marissa.
6. DEADLY GAME
by Christine Feehan
Jove
Two Ghostwalkers, one a warrior and assassin, join forces to save victims of a wicked breeding program.
7. TRUE BELIEVER
by Nicholas Sparks
Warner
A hip young New Yorker finds love with a beautiful librarian who lives in a North Carolina town.
8. MORNING COMES SOFTLY
by Debbie Macomber
Avon
A reprint of a romance involving a librarian from Louisiana and a Montana rancher.
9. EXILE
by Aaron Allston
Del Ray
The Solos and Skywalkers suspect the Dark Lady of the Sith is manipulating the war against the Corellian rebels. A Star Wars novel.
10. MCKETTRICK'S PRIDE
by Linda Lael Miller
HQN
A fiery Chicagoan stirs long-buried feelings of romance in Rance McKettrick.
11. HEY, GOOD LOOKING
by Fern Michaels
Pocket
Family feuds and forgiveness in Baton Rouge.
12. LABYRINTH
by Kate Mosse
Berkley
A woman on an archaeological dig in France stumbles on the 13th-century secret of the true Grail.
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 from house too house.
3. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin Books
A writer's yearlong journey in search of herself 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. ZODIAC
by Robert Graysmith
Berkley
An account of the hunt for a serial killer in California; the basis for the movie of the same title.
6. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN
by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
Revell
A minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.
7. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
by Barack O bama
Three Rivers
The Democratic senator from Illinois reflects on life as the son of a black African father and white American mother.
8. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
by Augusten Burroughs.
Picador
In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid household.
9. 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.
10. THREE CUPS OF TEA
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books
A former mountain climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
11. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
12. 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.
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