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Books

Last week’s best-selling books at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Jefferson Pointe:

FICTION

1.

Private: #1 Suspect

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

2.

Believing the Lie

by Elizabeth George

3.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

by Stieg Larsson

4.

Death Comes to Pemberley

by P.D. James

5.

Gideon’s Corpse

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

6. “

11/22/1963” by Stephen King

7

.

Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

by James Luceno

8.

The Litigators

by John Grisham

9. “

Love in a Nutshell

by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly

10.

Locked On

by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

NON-FICTION

1. “

Through My Eyes

by Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker

2.

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination

that Changed America Forever

by Bill O’Reilly,

Martin Dugard

3.

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

4.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,

Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

5. “

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

6.

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

7.

The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor’s Plan Designed

for Rapid Results

by Mike Moren

8.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie

9.

StrengthsFinder 2.0

by Tom Rath

10.

I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

by Jennifer Hudson

PAPERBACKS

1.

The G

irl With the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

2.

Bossypants

by Tina Fey

3. “

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Foer

4.

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

5.

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

6.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

by John Le Carré

7. “

The Tiger’s Wife

by Téa Obreht

8. “

The Girl Who Played

With Fire

Stieg Larsson

9.

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah E. Harkness

10.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot