LITTLE ROCK — Fiction
PRIVATE BERLIN, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. A superstar agent at the German headquarters of an investigation firm disappears.
A MEMORY OF LIGHT, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The 14th and final novel in the Wheel of Time fantasy series.
SUSPECT, by Robert Crais. A Los Angeles policeman and a German shepherd, both suffering from PTSD, search for the killers of the cop’s partner.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
EVER AFTER, by Kim Harrison. The witch Rachel Morgan and an unlikely ally battle a demon in order to prevent an apocalypse.
TENTH OF DECEMBER, by George Saunders. Stories that take on the big questions.
THE FIFTH ASSASSIN, by Brad Meltzer. Tracking an assassin who is re-creating the crimes of the four men who murdered presidents, Beecher White discovers that they all were working together.
THE THIRD BULLET, by Stephen Hunter. Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom.
THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis. Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family whose matriarch arrives in Philadelphia in 1923.
Nonfiction
MY BELOVED WORLD, by Sonia Sotomayor. The Supreme Court justice recalls growing up in the Bronx, attending Princeton, working for the Manhattan district attorney’s office and becoming a federal judge.
FRANCONA, by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy. The manager’s Red Sox years.
GOING CLEAR, by Lawrence Wright. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the world of Scientology.
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 biographer 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.
TO SELL IS HUMAN, by Daniel H. Pink. Insights from social science about how to move others.
A HIGHER CALL, by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander. An encounter between two pilots in the skies over Germany in December 1943.
THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY, by Jared Diamond. The author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” examines what we can learn from traditional societies.
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 an erotic trilogy.
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 an erotic trilogy.
FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E.L. James. Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities, and unexpected challenges; the final volume in an erotic trilogy.
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.
THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. Hadley Richardson comes into her own as Ernest Hemingway’s long-suffering first wife in this novel, which chronicles their five-year marriage, much of it spent among aspiring writers in Paris.
Paperback nonfiction
PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma.
LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY, by the Countess of Carnarvon. Inspiration and setting for the show on PBS.
TEAM OF RIVALS, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lincoln’s political genius.
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.
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.
Perspective, Pages 75 on 02/10/2013