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The New York Times Paperback best-sellers (Feb 9, 2014)

FICTION

1. SILENCING EVE, by Iris Johansen. (St Martin’s)

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and her brutal captor, Jim Doane, appear to have been killed.

2. NYPD RED, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Vision)

Detective Zach Jordan and his partner (and ex-girlfriend) must stop a deranged killer who has targeted a glittering New York film festival.

3. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George RR Martin. (Bantam)

The Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

4. ENDER’S GAME, by Orson Scott Card. (Tor)

To develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race, government breeds child geniuses.

5. GUILT, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine)

Alex Delaware traces a case back 60 years, to a beautiful nurse and a notorious hospital.

6. BIG SKY SECRETS, by Linda Lael Miller. (Harlequin)

Landry Sutton, a self-made tycoon, is intent on selling his land. But he didn’t count on falling for country life, or Ria Manning.

7. A GAME OF THRONES, by George RR Martin. (Bantam)

In the frozen wastes north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

8. THE KING’S DECEPTION, by Steve Berry. (Ballantine)

Cotton Malone stumbles upon a CIA plan to call into question the legitimacy of Elizabeth I’s reign and her conquest of Ireland.

9. BLINDSIDED, by Fern Michaels. (Zebra/Kensington)

The Sisterhood plans a campaign against two judges running a moneymaking scheme that sends young offenders to brutal boot camps.

10. THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. (Dell)

An imprisoned ex-lawyer exchanges information about a murdered federal judge.

NONFICTION

1. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Back Bay/Little, Brown)

Survivor of a Navy SEALs operation in Afghanistan describes the battle and his escape.

2. THE MONUMENTS MEN, by Robert M Edsel with Bret Witter. (Little, Brown)

Following an Allied group who recovered stolen artworks from the Nazis.

3. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, by Jordan Belfort. (Bantam)

The rise and fall of a financial insider; the basis for the recent film.

4. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. (Simon & Schuster)

A neurosurgeon recounts his near-death experience during a coma.

5. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown)

Why some people succeed.

6. WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Vintage)

A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.

7. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson)

A father recounts his three-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels.

8. THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House)

A New York Times reporter shows the science behind how we form, and break, habits.

9. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. (Spiegel & Grau)

A memoir by a Brooklyn woman whose relationship with a drug runner sends her to prison. The basis for the Netflix series.

10. QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Broadway)

Introverts, a third of the population, are undervalued in American society.




 

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