Northeast Ottawa
District Library
Fiction Bestsellers
as published by the New York Times
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A PLAGUE OF DOVES by Louise Erdrich (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.95)
A lynching in a North Dakota town has repercussions over several generations.
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THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Díaz (Riverhead, $24.95)
A Dominican-American in New Jersey struggles to escape a family curse.
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Santa
Fe Dead (Putnam, $25.95)
A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife.
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The Appeal by John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95)
Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.
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QUICKSAND by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s, $26.95)
The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier.
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DAYS OF INFAMY by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $27.95)
An “alternative history” of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
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CERTAIN GIRLS by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26.95)
A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.
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CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central, $24.99)
A serial killer in Stalinist Russia can’t be caught because he doesn’t officially exist.
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THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $22.95)
The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW? by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)
A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.
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DEAD HEAT by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale, $24.99) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists
plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely |
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UNACCUSTOMED
EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf, $25) Stories about the anxiety and transformation
experienced by Bengali parents and |
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HOLD TIGHT by Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95) The aftermath of a New Jersey high school kid’s suicide. |
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TWENTY WISHES by Debbie Macomber (Mira, $24.95) A widow who owns a bookstore on Blossom Street compiles a list of things she always wanted to do. |
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THE WHOLE TRUTH by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $26.99) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor. |
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SUNDAYS AT
TIFFANY’S by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (Little, Brown, $24.99) A woman finds an unexpected love. |
