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New York Monthly Herald. June 2006 Issue P. 41                                                                                     

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Hardcover Fiction  (Last week of May-First week of June)

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1 BEACH ROAD, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich. 1 2
2 TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin. 2 6
3 MOTHER: A CRADLE TO HOLD ME, by Maya Angelou. (Random House, $9.95.) Poems in praise of mothers. 13 2
4 DIGGING TO AMERICA, by Anne Tyler. (Knopf, $24.95.) Two families, one of them Iranian-American, become involved with each other when both adopt baby girls from Korea. First Chapter 4 2
5 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER, by E. Lynn Harris. (Doubleday, $21.95.) As a gay singer struggles with homophobia in the black church, he must come to terms with his past. 3 2
6 BLUE SHOES & HAPPINESS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $21.95.) The seventh novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, featuring Mma Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi. 6 4
7 PROMISE ME, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) Myron Bolitar becomes a suspect when a high school girl disappears after he drives her to a friend's house. 5 3
8 EVERYMAN, by Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A man grapples with aging, physical decline and impending death. First Chapter 14 3
9 THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95; special illustrated edition, $35.) A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.   163
10 SUSANNAH'S GARDEN, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $23.95.) A woman returns to her hometown and re-examines troubling events of her past. 10 3
11 DARK HARBOR, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, investigates the death of his cousin, a C.I.A. agent. 7 5
12 DEFINITELY DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $23.95.) A New Orleans vampire queen tries to stop a cocktail waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, from looking into the past of her consort, who is Sookie's cousin. 8 2
13 SUITE FRANÇAISE, by Irène Némirovsky. (Knopf, $25.) Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis. First Chapter   2
14 BAD TWIN, by Gary Troup. (Hyperion, $21.95.) A private investigator faces danger as he helps a man search for his irresponsible missing brother.   1
15 FULL OF GRACE, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) A woman who has moved from New Jersey to South Carolina with her Italian-American parents encounters romantic and cultural complications. 9 2
16 *SECOND SIGHT, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam, $24.95.) A Victorian photographer with psychic powers who poses as a widow faces a terrible threat.   1

Also Selling

17 THE HOUSE, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27.)
18 OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL, by Anonymous (Pocket)
19 GONE, by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
20 DARK TORT, by Diane Mott Davidson (Morrow)
21 THE 5TH HORSEMAN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
22 CHASING DESTINY, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
23 THE DEBUTANTE DIVORCÉE, by Plum Sykes (Miramax/Hyperion)
24 THE TENTH CIRCLE, by Jodi Picoult (Atria)
25 PROVEN GUILTY, by Jim Butcher (Roc)
26 ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by Wendy Wasserstein (Knopf) First Chapter
27 THE SECRET SUPPER, by Javier Sierra (Atria)
28 VANISHED, by Karen Robards (Putnam)
29 THE TEMPLAR LEGACY, by Steve Berry (Ballantine)
30 ANGELS AND DEMONS, by Dan Brown (Atria)
31 SAVANNAH BREEZE, by Mary Kay Andrews (HarperCollins)
32 THE FAITHFUL SPY, by Alex Berenson (Random House) First Chapter
33 EDGE OF BATTLE, by Dale Brown (Morrow)
34 THE STOLEN CHILD, by Keith Donohue (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
35 SHANKS FOR NOTHING, by Rick Reilly (Doubleday)

 

 

Hardcover Nonfiction

 
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MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Morrow, $21.95.) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.

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2 DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARRINGS, by Tyler Perry. (Riverhead, $23.95.) Musings on life from the man behind "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." 2 5
3 MAYFLOWER, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $29.95.) How America began, from the author of "In the Heart of the Sea."   1
4 BURNT TOAST, by Teri Hatcher. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The actress urges women to pursue their own satisfaction rather than continually sacrificing for others. 4 2
5 THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50; updated and expanded edition, $30.) A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy. 3 58
6 MYTHS, LIES, AND DOWNRIGHT STUPIDITY, by John Stossel. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The "20/20" anchor questions conventional wisdom.   1
7 MY LIFE IN & OUT OF THE ROUGH, by John Daly with Glen Waggoner. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) A memoir by the bad-boy golf champion.   1
8 FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.) A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate. First Chapter 5 57
9 THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY, by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) The former secretary of state reflects on America, God and world affairs. 7 2
10 MIRACLE IN THE ANDES, by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause. (Crown, $25.) How the author survived 72 days in the Andes after a plane crash in 1972.   1
11 THE GREAT DELUGE, by Douglas Brinkley. (Morrow, $29.95.) A historian describes the human toll during the week after Hurricane Katrina, and indicts FEMA, the Red Cross, the New Orleans Police Department and federal, state and local authorities.   1
12 *MY LIFE IN FRANCE, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. (Knopf, $25.95.) How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking. 10 6
13 POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, by Augusten Burroughs. (St. Martin’s, $23.95.) Autobiographical essays from the author of "Running With Scissors." 6 2
14 YOU'RE WEARING THAT?, by Deborah Tannen (Random House, $24.95.) How mothers and daughters communicate.   10
15 THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS, edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst. (National Geographic, $22.) An early Christian manuscript lost for 1,700 years portrays Judas Iscariot not as Jesus' betrayer but as his favored disciple and willing collaborator. 8 6

Also Selling

16 CLEMENTE, by David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster) First Chapter
17 THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
18 CRIME BEAT, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) First Chapter
19 AMERICAN THEOCRACY, by Kevin Phillips (Viking)
20 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME: VOLUME 2, edited by Marlo Thomas (Atria)
21 A DEATH IN BELMONT, by Sebastian Junger (Norton)
22 BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) First Chapter
23 STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS, by Daniel Gilbert (Knopf)
24 GAME OF SHADOWS, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (Gotham) First Chapter
25 THE POLITICAL ZOO, by Michael Savage (Nelson Current/Thomas Nelson)
26 MANHUNT, by James L. Swanson (Morrow)
27 THE BIG BAM, by Leigh Montville (Doubleday)
28 LAURA BUSH, by Ronald Kessler (Doubleday)
29 THE RIDE OF OUR LIVES, by Mike Leonard (Ballantine)
30 THE JESUS PAPERS, by Michael Baigent (HarperSanFrancisco)
31 STAND FOR SOMETHING, by John Kasich (Warner)
32 WE ARE THEIR HEAVEN, by Allison DuBois (Fireside)
33 GOOD TO GREAT, by Jim Collins (HarperBusiness)
34 CONFESSIONS OF A VIDEO VIXEN, by Karrine Steffans (Amistad/HarperCollins)
35 THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, by Joan Didion (Knopf)