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New York Times® Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction
Week of August 28

1.
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown

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3.5 out of 5 stars
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Doubleday
Hardcover - 454 pages
1st ed edition (March 18, 2003)

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With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history. A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum... Read more

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Lifeguard
by James Patterson, Andrew Gross

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Little, Brown
Hardcover - 400 pages
(July 11, 2005)

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Beach bum Ned Kelly, a part-time lifeguard, pool guy and errand runner in Palm Beach, Fla., has just scored with beautiful, rich Tess McAuliffe. Life sure is looking up, especially from his days back in chilly South Boston. He's looking forward to another round with Tess, but first he has to help... Read more

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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova

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Little, Brown
Hardcover - 656 pages
(June 14, 2005)

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If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a... Read more

4.
The Mermaid Chair: A Novel
by Sue Monk Kidd

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Viking Adult
Hardcover - 352 pages
(April 5, 2005)

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Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly... Read more

5.
The Interruption of Everything
by Terry McMillan

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Viking Adult
Hardcover - 384 pages
(July 19, 2005)

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Terry McMillan's sixth novel, The Interruption of Everything, is every bit as enthralling and empowering as her earlier hits Waiting to Exhale and A Day Late and a Dollar Short. However, as McMillan matures as an author, her characters follow suit, which leads her to a wiser, more introspective lead... Read more

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Sweetwater Creek
by Anne Rivers Siddons

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HarperCollins
Hardcover - 368 pages
(August 9, 2005)

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Veteran novelist Siddons (Islands; Nora, Nora) returns to South Carolina's low country for her latest, a capable but uninspired story of a young girl's coming-of-age on the family plantation. Emily Parmenter is a lonely 12-year-old whose life revolves around the Boykin spaniels her family raises as... Read more

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Match Me If You Can : A Novel
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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William Morrow
Hardcover - 400 pages
(August 9, 2005)

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Phillips's latest captivating romance (Ain't She Sweet; Breathing Room) follows a pair of reluctant lovers from their combative first acquaintance to a happily ever after. Perpetually discombobulated but adorable Annabelle Granger inherits her grandmother's matchmaking business, renames it Perfect... Read more

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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac Mccarthy

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Knopf
Hardcover - 320 pages
(July 19, 2005)

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Starred Review. Seven years after Cities of the Plain brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4... Read more

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The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella

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The Dial Press
Hardcover - 384 pages
(July 19, 2005)

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Samantha Sweeting, the 29-year-old heroine of Kinsella's latest confection (after Shopaholic Sister), is on the verge of partnership at the prestigious London law firm Carter Spink—the Holy Grail of her entire workaholic life. But when she finds she has made a terrible, costly mistake just... Read more

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Until I Find You : A Novel
by John Irving

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Random House
Hardcover - 848 pages
(July 12, 2005)

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At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime... Read more

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Double Tap
by Steve Martini

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Putnam Adult
Hardcover - 432 pages
(July 26, 2005)

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In veteran Martini's exciting eighth legal thriller starring Paul Madriani (after 2003's The Arraignment), the San Diego defense attorney takes on yet another especially difficult case. When Madelyn Chapman, the owner of a computer software company that sells a controversial security program to the... Read more

12.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom

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Hyperion
Hardcover - 198 pages
(September 23, 2003)

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Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes... Read more

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Miracle
by Danielle Steel

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Delacorte Press
Hardcover - 192 pages
(June 28, 2005)

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Miraculous? Indeed. Miraculous that Steel ekes 200 pages of book out of 50 pages of recycled plot. Quinn Thompson, a 61-year-old recent widower, has just bought the boat of his dreams—an 80-meter beauty capable of sailing around the world. Because that's all Quinn wants to do besides read his... Read more

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True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks

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Warner Books
Hardcover - 336 pages
(April 12, 2005)

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Charming, divorced Jeremy Marsh is a rising star. As a dashing, successful 37-year-old Manhattan science journalist, his skeptical scrutiny of ineffective antidepressants, cults and television clairvoyants has caught the eye of North Carolina restaurant owner Doris McClellan, who invites Jeremy to... Read more

15.
Chill of Fear
by Kay Hooper

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Bantam
Hardcover - 336 pages
(July 26, 2005)

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Something old, and dark, and cold. Something evil" is on the loose at a remote, exclusive resort in the Tennessee mountains in the easy-reading second installment of the Hooper's Fear trilogy (after Hunting Fear). When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously goes missing—at least the sixth... Read more



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