LITTLE ROCK — Fiction
THREAT VECTOR, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. As China threatens to invade Taiwan, the covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father’s administration—but his agency is no longer secret. 2. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary; is her husband a killer?
THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom.
NOTORIOUS NINETEEN, by Janet Evanovich. The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks down a con man who disappeared from a hospital.
THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of Zero Day, probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas.
THE BLACK BOX, by Michael Connelly. The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the killing of a young female photographer during the race riots in 1992.
AGENDA 21, by Glenn Beck with Harriet Parke. A girl begins to question the authorities who run the Republic, the totalitarian successor to the United States created by the UN.
WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett. Members of five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the historical events of the years 1939-49.
THE LAST MAN, by Vince Flynn. The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing CIA asset amid treachery in Afghanistan.
Nonfiction
KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician.
NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden.
AMERICA AGAIN, by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Tom Purcell et al. The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink.
BRUCE, by Peter Ames Carlin. A biography of Bruce Springsteen.
ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I DIE, by Willie Nelson. The musician muses on family, friends, Texas and life on the road.
THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver. An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t.
WAGING HEAVY PEACE, by Neil Young. The rocker’s memoir ranges over his personal life and his music, including his days with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
Paperback fiction
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 a trilogy. 2. LIFE OF PI, by Yann Martel. An allegory on the high seas, in which a teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E.L. James. Daunted by Christian’s dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship—but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy.
FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E.L. James. Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities, and unexpected challenges; the final volume in a trilogy.
PRIVATE LONDON, by James Patterson and Mark Pearson. Young women are being abducted in central London, and two investigators—the former Royal Military Police sergeant Dan Carter and his exwife, Kirsty Webb—are in a desperate race against the odds.
Paperback nonfiction
- PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma. 2. TEAM OF RIVALS, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The political genius of Abraham Lincoln. 3. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels. 4. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. William E. Dodd, the United States ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin. 5. THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks. The comedy writer offers a plan for safeguarding yourself from the living dead.
Perspective, Pages 77 on 12/23/2012