Best Selling Fiction Hardcover from the New York Times list for 8/31/2008

Holdings for the East Central Georgia Regional Library   (http://www.ecgrl.org)  and Georgia PINES Libraries    (http://pines.lib.ga.us)

(Click on the call  number to see holdings/availability)
  
1 SMOKE SCREEN, by Sandra Brown. (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) Scandalous deaths thwart the investigation of a fatal fire at police headquarters in Charleston, S.C. FIC BRO
2 THE BOURNE SANCTION, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne pursues the leader of a Muslim terrorist group. FIC LUS
3 ACHERON, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) Book 12 of the Dark-Hunter paranormal series. FIC KEN
4 THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) After World War II, a journalist travels to the island of Guernsey to meet residents who resisted the Nazi occupation. FIC SHA
5 MOSCOW RULES, by Daniel Silva. (Putnam, $26.95.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and an occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, uncovers a Russian arms sales plot. FIC SIL
6 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. FIC MEY
7 THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s murder. FIC WRO
8 THE MERCEDES COFFIN, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow, $25.95.) Decker and Lazarus investigate cases of murder victims found in Mercedes-Benz trunks. FIC KEL
9 OFF SEASON, by Anne Rivers Siddons. (Grand Central, $24.95.) A widow returns to her hometown in Maine to regather the strands of her life. FIC SID
10 THE LACE READER, by Brunonia Barry. (Morrow, $24.95.) Secrets of a family of Salem women who foresee the future. FIC BAR
11 TRIBUTE, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) A former child star returns to Virginia to rehabilitate the farm owned by her grandmother, an actress who died mysteriously. FIC ROB
12 THE 19TH WIFE, by David Ebershoff. (Random House, $26.) A tale of Mormon outcasts past and present: a wife of Brigham Young and a son of a murdered polygamist. FIC EDE
13 FOREIGN BODY, by Robin Cook. (Putnam, $25.95.) A medical student investigates a rising number of deaths among medical tourists at foreign hospitals. FIC COO
14 THE ASSASSIN, by Stephen Coonts. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) A top Qaeda terrorist pursues Western leaders. FIC COO
15 LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) A woman encounters an old boyfriend. FIC GIF
16 THE GARGOYLE, by Andrew Davidson. (Doubleday, $25.95.) A hideously burned man is cared for by a sculptress who claims they were lovers seven centuries ago. FIC DAV

If a title is owned by any library in the system, the call number is shown. Click on the link to see holdings and availability.   If 'PINES' is shown in place of a call number, then the title is owned somewhere in a PINES library in Georgia. New books may not be available immediately to request from other ECGRL libraries, or from other libraries in the PINES system, until it goes off the "new book" or "best seller" status.   "On order" signifies that the title is on order for one or more of the East Central Georgia Regional libraries.

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page last updated 08/25/2008