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April 27, 2008 - Hardcover Fiction
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.
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UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.
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CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.
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BELONG TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets.
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* SMALL FAVOR, by Jim Butcher. (Roc, $23.95.) Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.
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THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigues ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.
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COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.
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CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles.
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BULLS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before.
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.
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* REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella. (Dial, $25.) After an auto accident, a London woman loses her memory.
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ZAPPED, by Carol Higgins Clark. (Scribner, $24.) The adventures of several New Yorkers, including the P.I. Regan Reilly, on the night of the 2003 blackout.
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7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club hunt for an arsonist.
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DEAD HEAT, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.
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THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Diaz. (Riverhead, $24.95.) A Dominican-American in New Jersey struggles to escape a family curse.
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* WINTER STUDY, by Nevada Barr. (Putnam, $24.95.) The national park ranger Anna Pigeon returns to an island park in Lake Superior, where a monstrous wolf is at large.
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April 27, 2008 - Hardcover Nonfiction
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HOME, by Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews' early years.
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.
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BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son's meth addiction.
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LADIES OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts. (Morrow, $26.95.) The influential women of early America.
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ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam, $24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.
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ESCAPE, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.
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GIRLS LIKE US, by Sheila Weller. (Atria, $27.95.) The lives and times of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.
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LOSING IT, by Valerie Bertinelli. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie Van Halen.
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STANDING TALL, by C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker. (Crown, $24.95.) A memoir by the head coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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BONK, by Mary Roach. (Norton, $24.95.) An amusing look at the science of sexual physiology.
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* IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, by Michio Kaku. (Doubleday, $26.95.) A theoretical physicist who is one of the founders of string theory discusses the possibility of phenomena like force fields, teleportation and time travel.
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BRETT FAVRE: THE TRIBUTE, (Sports Illustrated, $27.95.) From the magazine, articles about and pictures of the Green Bay Packers quarterback.
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THE BIN LADENS, by Steve Coll. (Penguin Press, $35.) A history of the family and its fortune focuses on the effects of sudden oil wealth on Saudi Arabia and how it affected relationships with the West.
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VINDICATED, by Jose Canseco. (Simon Spotlight, $25.95.) In a follow-up to his memoir "Juiced," Canseco names steroid users in baseball and evaluates the Mitchell report.
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* THE REASON FOR GOD, by Timothy Keller. (Dutton, $24.95.) A minister addresses common doubts and defends faith in a Christian God.
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