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BRENTWOOD Fiction Bestsellers
Here are the hot, the literary, the engaging fiction titles topping the reading lists at our Brentwood store.
Imperial Bedrooms (Hardcover)$24.95 ISBN-13: 9780307266101Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Knopf, 06/01/2010 Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780307454546Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 06/01/2009 An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)$25.95 ISBN-13: 9780307592835Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Knopf, 06/01/2010 Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. Innocent (Hardcover)$27.99 ISBN-13: 9780446562423Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Grand Central Publishing, 05/01/2010 The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife. Let the Great World Spin (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780812973990Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2010 In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Cutting for Stone (Paperback)$15.95 ISBN-13: 9780375714368Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Tinkers (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9781934137123Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Bellevue Literary Press, 01/01/2009 An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Little Bee (Paperback)$14.00 ISBN-13: 9781416589648Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Simon & Schuster, 02/01/2010 WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK. It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The Imperfectionists (Hardcover)$25.00 ISBN-13: 9780385343664Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: The Dial Press, 04/01/2010 Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat. The Help (Hardcover)$24.95 ISBN-13: 9780399155345Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 02/01/2009 Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. |