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FICTION

1. CHANGE OF HEART

by Jodi Picoult

Atria

Questions about redemption and faith arise when a prisoner on death row begins performing miracles.

2. THE APPEAL

by John Grisham

Doubleday

In Grisham's first legal thriller since the Broker, intrigue ensues when a Mississippi court rules against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.

3. REMEMBER ME?

by Sophie Kinsella

Dial

A woman wakes up in a London hospital after an auto accident with no memory of the previous life-changing three years.

4. 7TH HEAVEN

by James Patterson

and Maxine Paetro

Little, Brown

In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club hunt for an arsonist and a missing teenager.

5. HONOR THYSELF

by Danielle Steel

Delacorte

A 50-year-old actress injured in a terrorist attack in Paris must rebuild her life.

6. LUSH LIFE

by Richard Price

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

An aspiring writer becomes a suspect in a friend's murder on the Lower East Side.

7. A PRISONER OF BIRTH

by Jeffrey Archer

St Martin's

A poor Londoner, framed for murder by four Cambridge friends, escapes from prison and exacts revenge.

8. STRANGERS IN DEATH

by J.D. Robb

Putnam

Lieutenant Eve Dallas probes a businessman's scandalous death; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

9. CHRIST THE LORD: THE ROAD TO CANA

by Anne Rice

Knopf

In the second book of Rice's life of Christ, Jesus embraces his prophetic destiny.

10. THE OUTLAW DEMON WAILS

by Kim Harrison

Eos

A witch who is also a bounty hunter must enter the demonic realm; the sixth book in the Hollows series.

11. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

NONFICTION

1. LOSING IT

by Valerie Bertinelli

Free Press

A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie van Halen focuses on depression and her effort to lose weight.

2. BEAUTIFUL BOY

by David Sheff

Hoghton Miffli

A father struggles with his son's meth addiction.

3. LIBERAL FASCISM

by Jonah Goldberg

Doubleday

This "alternative history of American liberalism reveals its roots in, and commonalities with, classical fascism."

4. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

by Michael Pollan

Penguin Press

A manifesto urges us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

5. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL

by Dan Ariely

Harper

An MIT behavioral economist shows how emotions and social norms systematically shape our behavior.

6. I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)

by Stephen Colbert et al

Grand Central

The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central's Colbert Report.

7. THE REASON FOR GOD

by Timothy Keller

Dutton

A minister addresses common doubts and defends faith in a Christian God.

8. REAL CHANGE

by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler

Regnery

How to build a better America, from the former speaker of the House.

9. THE AGE OF AMERICAN

UNREASON

by Susan Jacoby

Pantheon

Are Americans hostile to

knowledge?

10. AN INCONVENIENT BOOK

by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

Threshold Editions

Beck's solutions to problems including global warming and political correctness.

11. RECONCILIATION

by Benazir Bhutto

Harper/HarperCollins

A posthumous look at Islam, democracy and the West, by Pakistan's former prime minister and assassinated opposition leader.

12. MANIC

by Terri Cheney

Morrow

A memoir of life with bipolar disorder.
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