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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 “Believing the Lie” by Elizabeth George

2 “Private: #1 Suspect” by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

3“Gideon’s Corpse” by Douglas Preston,

Lincoln Child

4“Death Comes to

Pemberley” by P.D. James

5“Kill Alex Cross”

by James Patterson

6“Star Wars: Darth Plagueis” by James Luceno

7“11/22/63” by Stephen King

8 “The Litigators” by John Grisham

9“Lothaire” by Kresley Cole

10 “Copper Beach”

by Jayne Ann Krentz

NON-FICTION

1“American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History” by Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice and Scott McEwen

2“Through My Eyes” by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker

3 “Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen”

by David Novak

4“Steve Jobs”

by Walter Isaacson

5“Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution” by Chris Powell

6“Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever” by Bill O’Reilly,

Martin Dugard

7“The Obamas”

by Jodi Kantor

8“The 17 Day Diet”

by Dr. Mike Moreno

9“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman

10 “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” by Sally Bedell Smith