LITTLE ROCK — Fiction
1. CALICO JOE,
by John Grisham. A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.
2. GUILTY WIVES,
by James Patterson and David Ellis. Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls’ vacation find themselves in prison, accused of a crime.
3. THE LOST YEARS,
by Mary Higgins Clark. When a biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered, his daughter hunts for the killer (and a missing document).
4. COME HOME,
by Lisa Scottoline. A woman joins with her estranged former stepdaughter to investigate the possible murder of her ex-husband.
5. THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE,
by Adriana Trigiani. Childhood sweethearts in turn-of-the-20th-Century Italy meet again in America.
6. SACRE BLEU,
by Christopher Moore. Did Vincent van Gogh really kill himself? His friends in the 19th-Century Parisian art world set out to discover the truth.
7. BETRAYAL,
by Danielle Steel. A happy and successful Hollywood director discovers that someone is embezzling large sums of her money.
8. STAY CLOSE,
by Harlan Coben. A disappearance in Atlantic City, N.J., brings together three frustrated people whose lives were once connected.
9. THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION,
by Alexander McCall Smith. The 13th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
10. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS,
by George R.R. Martin. After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
Nonfiction
1. DRIFT,
by Rachel Maddow. America’s path to war has become too easy, with excessive power ceded to the executive branch, the MSNBC host argues.
2. MRS. KENNEDY AND ME,
by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin. Recollections of the Secret Service agent assigned to guard Jacqueline Kennedy.
3. THE BIG MISS,
by Hank Haney. The golf coach’s memoir describes his six eventful years with Tiger Woods.
4. IMAGINE,
by Jonah Lehrer. An account of the science of creativity argues that it is not a gift but a thought process that can be learned.
5. TRICKLE DOWN TYRANNY,
by Michael Savage. The radio host denounces President Barack Obama’s domestic and foreign policies as tyranny.
6. A NATURAL WOMAN,
by Carole King. A memoir by the songwriter, singer and activist.
7. THE POWER OF HABIT,
by Charles Duhigg. A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.
8. WILD,
by Cheryl Strayed. A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
9. AMERICAN SNIPER,
by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A member of the Navy SEALs, who has the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history, discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
10. STEVE JOBS,
by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.
Paperback fiction
1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY,
by E.L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in an erotic trilogy.
2. THE LUCKY ONE,
by Nicholas Sparks. A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.
3. ZERO DAY,
by David Baldacci. An Army veteran and military investigator teams up with a local homicide detective to uncover a conspiracy in West Virginia coal country.
4. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST,
by Stieg Larsson. In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government.
5. NOW YOU SEE HER,
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Nina Bloom, a successful lawyer and loving mother who years ago changed her identity to save her life, is forced to confront the past and the killer she thought she had escaped.
Paperback nonfiction
1. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL,
by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.
2. BOSSYPANTS,
by Tina Fey. A memoir from the former “Saturday Night Live” star and creator of “30 Rock.”
3. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS,
by Rebecca Skloot. The story of an African-American woman whose cancerous cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.
4. THE VOW,
by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson. After a horrific car crash, a couple embark on a journey to fall in love all over again. The true events that inspired the movie.
5. THE NEW JIM CROW,
by Michelle Alexander. Taking aim at the war on drugs and its impact on black men.
Perspective, Pages 73 on 04/29/2012