Books

HARDCOVER BOOKS

FICTION

1. DEVIL BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $25.95.) In the 11th Temperance Brennan mystery, the forensic anthropologist must identify two victims of voodoo and devil worship.

2. THE GYPSY MORPH, by Terry Brooks. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $27.) In the third volume of the Genesis of Shannara series, champions of the Word and the Void clash.

3. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) After World War II, a journalist travels to the island of Guernsey to meet residents who resisted the Nazi occupation.

4. SILKS, by Dick Francis and Felix Francis. (Putnam, $25.95.) A British defense lawyer and amateur jockey reluctantly represents another jockey who seems to be guilty of murder.

5. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won't surrender.

6.(x) THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father's murder.

7. THE BOURNE SANCTION, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne pursues the leader of a Muslim terrorist group.

8.(x) SMOKE SCREEN, by Sandra Brown. (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) Scandalous deaths thwart the investigation of a fatal fire at police headquarters in Charleston, S.C.

9. THE FORCE UNLEASHED, by Sean Williams. (Del Rey, $26.) An apprentice to Darth Vader is dispatched to kill the last of his master's enemies; a "Star Wars" novel.

10. MOSCOW RULES, by Daniel Silva. (Putnam, $26.95.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and an occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, uncovers a Russian arms sales plot.

11. ACHERON, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martins, $24.95.) Book 12 of the Dark-Hunter paranormal series.

12. OFF SEASON, by Anne Rivers Siddons. (Grand Central, $24.95.) A widow returns to her hometown in Maine.

13. THE LACE READER, by Brunonia Barry. (Morrow, $24.95.) Secrets of a family of Salem women who foresee the future.

14.(x) ROUGH JUSTICE, by Jack Higgins. (Putnam, $25.95.) Violence and intrigue await an American agent in Kosovo.

15. THE MERCEDES COFFIN, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow, $25.95.) Decker and Lazarus investigate cases of murder victims found in Mercedes-Benz trunks.

16.(x) THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD KINGS, by Elizabeth Peters. (Morrow, $25.95.) The art historian and sleuth Vicky Bliss must discover who stole an Egyptian relic.

NONFICTION

1. STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) A memoir. (b)

2. THE OBAMA NATION, by Jerome R. Corsi. (Threshold, $28.) The Democratic candidate as an extreme leftist, from a co-author of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." (b)

3. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous essays from the stand-up comedian.

4. WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist's latest essays.

5. THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA, by David Freddoso. (Regnery, $27.95.) The Democratic candidate as a calculating extreme leftist. (b)

6. THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by Ron Suskind. (Harper, 27.95.) How the Bush administration manipulated evidence about Iraq in its rush to war and other post-9/11 issues.

7. FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (b)

8. THE LIMITS OF POWER, by Andrew Bacevich. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.) A retired Army colonel argues that Americans are responsible for the country's woes. (b)

9. THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.) The rise of China and India.

10. THE WRECKING CREW, by Thomas Frank. (Metropolitan/Holt, $25.) The deliberate mismanagement of Republican rule.

11.(x) TRAFFIC, by Tom Vanderbilt. (Knopf, $24.95.) Why we drive the way we do.

12. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

13. WAITER RANT, by the Waiter. (Ecco, $24.95.) An anonymous waiter on customer's outrageous behavior.

14. THE NIGHT OF THE GUN, by David Carr. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A New York Times columnist and reporter recounts his past as a crack addict, and how he got his life back.

15. AFTER THE FIRE, by Robin Gaby Fisher. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The search for the arsonists who set the Seton Hall dormitory fire in 2000 and the struggles of the survivors.

16.(x) WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL, by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. (Harper, $24.95.) The authors of "We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young" revisit 10 veterans of a battle in Vietnam in 1965 whom they interviewed for the earlier book.

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on "seizing every moment" from Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.

2. THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.

3. YOU: STAYING YOUNG, by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al. (Free Press, $26.) The principle of longevity and how to combat the effects of aging.

4. THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $19.95.) Reconstructing your life so that it's not all about work.

5. THE ONE HUNDRED, by Nina Garcia (Collins Living, $21.95.) A judge from the TV show "Project Runway" names the 100 fashion items she believes will never go out of style.

6. SIX DISCIPLINES EXECUTION REVOLUTION, by Gary Harpst. (Six Disciples Publishing, $12.95.) Strategies for small and midsize businesses. (b)

7. THE SOUTH BEACH DIET SUPERCHARGED, by Arthur Agatston with Joseph Signorile. (Rodale, $25.95.) A guide to faster weight loss.

8.(x) GOODNIGHT BUSH, by Erich Origen and Gan Golan. (Little, Brown, $14.99.) A requiem for the Bush administration, based on the children's book "Goodnight Moon."

9. DECEPTIVELY DELICIOUS, by Jessica Seinfeld. (Collins/HarperCollins, $24.95.) Tips and recipes to fool children into eating right, from a mother of three (and the wife of Jerry Seinfeld).

10.(x) JUST WHO WILL YOU BE?, by Maria Shriver. (Hyperion, $14.95.) Shriver's message: "What you do in your life isn't what matters. It's who you are."

PAPERBACK BOOKS

TRADE FICTION

THE SHACK, by William P. Young. (Windblown Media, $14.99.) A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God. (b)

THE CHOICE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $13.99.) How a North Carolina man's choices play out in his life.

BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $13.99.) Three women with various problems (work, love, health) spend a transformative summer together on Nantucket.

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) A young man and an elephant save a Depression-era circus.

THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $13.95.) A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. (Vintage, $14.95.) A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

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.

BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by Richard Russo. (Vintage, $14.95.) The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their friend.

NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square, $15.) The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Penguin, $14.) In South Carolina in 1964, a teenage girl tries to discover the secret to her mother's past.

THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs. (Berkley, $14.) A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

SECOND CHANCE, by Jane Green. (Plume, $15.) A group of 30-something friends reconsider their lives after one of their number is killed in a terrorist attack.

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $13.99.) Romance ignites between a middle-aged man and woman at a North Carolina inn.

MY SISTER'S KEEPER, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square, $14.) A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.

IN THE WOODS, by Tana French. (Penguin, $14.) An Irish detective investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl returns to the woods where he experienced a terrible ordeal as a child.

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.

THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME), by Ann Brashares. (Riverhead, $14.) The bond between two sisters is tested by a romance with an old friend.

RUN, by Ann Patchett. (Harper Perennial, $14.95.) Two young black men, adopted in childhood by a Boston politician, encounter their birth mother and sister.

LOVING FRANK, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine, $14.) A story of the romance between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.

OUT STEALING HORSES, by Per Petterson. (Picador, $14.) In a remote cabin, a Norwegian man circles around his memories of the past.

MASS-MARKET FICTION

8 SANDPIPER WAY, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $7.99.) Romantic intrigue in Cedar Cove, Wash.

STONE COLD, by David Baldacci. (Vision, $9.99.) Members of Washington's Camel Club are being stalked to prevent them from uncovering government secrets.

PLAYING FOR PIZZA, by John Grisham. (Dell, $7.99.) An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.

THE EDGE OF DESIRE, by Stephanie Laurens. (Avon, $7.99.) Needing her ex-lover's help, Lady Letitia Randall seduces the man who left her to fight for king and country; a Bastion Club novel.

PROTECT AND DEFEND, by Vince Flynn. (Pocket, $9.99.) An American counterterrorism operative must avert catastrophe in nuclear Iran.

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Vision, $9.99.) An aspiring photographer working as a nanny has terrible visions.

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) Romance ignites between a middle-aged man and woman at a North Carolina inn.

COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $9.99.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.

DARK LIGHT, by Jayne Castle. (Jove, $7.99.) The boss of the Ghost Hunter Guild turns to a reporter in hopes of uncovering a conspiracy within his organization; by Jayne Ann Krentz, writing pseudonymously.

WILD CARD, by Lora Leigh. (St. Martins, $7.99.) A member of the Navy SEALs who is believed dead reunites with his wife under an assumed identity.

SWEET TROUBLE, by Susan Mallery. (HQN, $6.99.) When Jesse Keyes returns to Seattle, her sisters are less than warm, and an old lover is reluctant to see her.

SEDUCTION OF A PROPER GENTLEMAN, by Victoria Alexander. (Avon, $7.99.) A nobleman is seduced by a headstrong lady who has a touch of amnesia.

SWEET REVENGE, by Diane Mott Davidson. (Avon, $7.99.) While catering a holiday breakfast, Goldy Schulz thinks she spots a woman who killed Goldy's ex-husband — and who is supposed to be dead herself.

DARK EMBRACE, by Brenda Joyce. (HQN, $7.99.) A Highland warrior leaps across centuries to modern-day Manhattan to rescue a woman in distress.

TRUNK MUSIC, by Michael Connelly. (Grand Central, $7.99.) Harry Bosch's investigation of a Hollywood producer's murder leads to Las Vegas; a reprint of a 1997 book.

PLAY DIRTY, by Sandra Brown. (Pocket, $9.99.) A fallen football star agrees to secretly father a child for a woman and her wealthy paraplegic husband.

THE BOOK OF SCANDAL, by Julia London. (Pocket, $6.99.) A battle of wills in 19th-century England.

CRY WOLF, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace, $7.99.) A werewolf enforcer and the woman he insists is his mate go in search of a rogue werewolf bound in dark magic.

NOAH, by Jacquelyn Frank. (Zebra/Kensington, $6.99.) The Demon King reaches out to the woman who has been tormenting him in vivid dreams; Book 5 of the Nightwalkers paranormal romance series.

THE BURNT HOUSE, by Faye Kellerman. (Harper/HarperCollins, $7.99.) After a plane crash, Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, investigate the fate of a flight attendant who remains unaccounted for.

NONFICTION

THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer's yearlong journey in search of self.

MIKE'S ELECTION GUIDE, by Michael Moore. (Grand Central, $13.99.) The documentary filmmaker's take on the 2008 election.

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95; Vintage, $7.99.) The Illinois senator proposes that Americans move beyond political divisions.

A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95.) The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel, $12.95.) Life as a drunken womanizer.

THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.) The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings moved constantly.

MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands.

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $14.95.) The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food.

MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Harper, $13.95.) Lessons learned from a neurotic dog.

THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

GENERATION KILL, by Evan Wright. (Berkley Caliber, $15.) The story of the marines of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, an early combat unit in Iraq.

STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE, by Christian Lander. (Random House, $14.) A list of 150 things.

THE DUCHESS, by Amanda Foreman. (Random House, $15.95.) A biography of Lady Georgiana Spencer, the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.

THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.) Tracking food from soil to plate.

THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Picador, $16.) The New York Times columnist's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

THE GIFT OF FEAR, by Gavin de Becker. (Delta, $15; Dell, $7.99.) Intuitive signals that can protect us from becoming the victims of violence.

THE INNOCENT MAN, by John Grisham. (Delta, $16; Dell, $7.99.) Grisham's first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

A NEW EARTH, by Eckhart Tolle. (Plume, $14.) A spiritual teacher prescribes letting go of the ego to help end conflict and suffering.

SKINNY BITCH, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. (Running Press, $13.95.) Vegan diet advice from the world of modeling.

THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart Tolle. (New World Library, $14.) A guide to personal growth and spiritual enlightenment.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. (Workman, $14.95.) Advice for parents-to-be. (b)

MONEY, AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. (Hay House, $16.95.) Improving your physical and financial well-being. (b)

THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan, $14.99.) Finding meaning in one's life through God.

1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE, by Tom Moon. (Workman, $19.95.) Operas, rock albums, blues, classical music, world music and other essentials, from a musician and music journalist.

THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield, $13.99.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.

HUNGRY GIRL, by Lisa Lillien. (St. Martin's Griffin, $17.95.) Recipes for burgers, nachos, pizza, fudge, onion rings and other guilty foods without the guilt.

SOUL WISDOM, by Zhi Gang Sha. (Atria, $16.) A doctor of Western and traditional Chinese medicine explains how to harness the power of the soul for healing and personal transformation. (b)