Latest Books

WeeksOn List
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.
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RICOCHET, by Sandra Brown. (Pocket, $9.99.) A detective is attracted to a judge’s wife who he suspects is not telling the truth about a fatal shooting.
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THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $15.95 and $14.) An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared under the Taliban.
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DOCKSIDE, by Susan Wiggs. (Mira, $7.99.) With her daughter finally out of the house, a woman determined to fly solo falls for the owner of a lakeside inn.
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* ECHO PARK, by Michael Connelly. (Grand Central, $7.99.) The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch returns to an old unsolved case, with unexpected results.
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THE MACGREGOR BRIDES, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.99.) A family patriarch finds three young men to marry his granddaughters in this reissue of a 1997 book.
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DAKOTA BORN, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $7.99.) A woman returns to the North Dakota town where she spent her childhood vacations in this reissue of a 1999 novel.
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THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards. (Penguin, $14.) A doctor’s decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.
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THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95 and $13.) A tale about the lessons a Spanish shepherd boy learns during his travels to Egypt in search of treasure.
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* NEVER DECEIVE A DUKE, by Liz Carlyle. (Pocket, $7.50.) A man inherits a title and an estate and upon visiting his new dominion becomes attracted to his predecessor’s widow.
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THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, by Robert Ludlum. (Bantam, $7.99.) A reissue of the action-packed thriller.
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MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides. (Picador, $15.) The narrator — who, at 14, discovered she was a hermaphrodite — tells an epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans.
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THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. (Vintage, $14.95.) A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.
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THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN, by Claire Messud. (Vintage, $14.95.) Privileged 30-somethings try to make their way in literary New York just before 9/11.
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BEACH ROAD, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Warner Vision, $9.99.) A lawyer defends a high school basketball star suspected of murder.
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