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Books

  • Portrait of simple life is richly textured
    Inspired by the lives of her own grandparents, who came to America from northern Italy in the early 20th century, Adriana Trigiani’s “The Shoemaker’s Wife” might be considered the ur-story behind her string of heartwarming family sagas.
  • Library’s most popular
    FICTION1. “ Explosive Eighteen” by Janet Evanovich 2. “ Kill Alex Cross ” by James Patterson 3. “ Private: #1 Suspect ” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 4.
  • New library books
    The following new cookbooks to address medical conditions are available at the Hessen Cassel Branch.•“Crazy Sexy Diet:
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Best-sellers

Last week’s best-selling books, according to the Publishers Weekly:

FICTION

1

77 Shadow Street

by Dean Koontz

2

Death Comes to Pemberley

by P.D. James

3

11/22/63

by Stephen King

4

Locked On

by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

5

Kill Alex Cross

by James Patterson

6

The Litigators

by John Grisham

7

The Best of Me

by Nicholas Sparks

8

Red Mist

by Patricia Cornwell

9

Explosive Eighteen

by Janet Evanovich

10

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

by Stieg Larsson

NON-FICTION

1

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

2

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

by Bill O’Reilly,

Martin Dugard

3

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

4

The 17 Day Diet

by Dr. Mike Moreno

5

Guinness World Records 2012

6

Go the F--k to Sleep

by Adam Mansbach

7

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

8

Through My Eyes

by Tim Tebow

with Nathan Whitaker

9

The Petite Advantage Diet

by Jim Karas

10

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie