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Hardcover Fiction
Published: June 29, 2009

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KNOCKOUT by Catherine Coulter
(Putnam, $26.95) - Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife, try to protect a 7-year-old with psychic powers from her exploitive criminal uncle. Click here to place a hold for this best seller.

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THE BOURNE DECEPTION by Eric Van Lustbader
(Grand Central, $27.99) - Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne helps to avert a possible world war.
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THE ANGEL'S GAME by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
(Doubleday, $26.95) - A Barcelona writer accepts a sinister commission. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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RELENTLESS by Dean Koontz
(Bantam, $27.) - A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE by Katherine Howe
(Voice, $25.99) - A graduate student is caught up in her research on a healer accused of witchcraft in Salem.
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THE SCARECROW by Michael Connelly
(Little, Brown, $27.99) - A Los Angeles Times reporter
tracks a devious killer.
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MEDUSA by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
(Putnam, $27.95) - In the eighth NUMA Files novel, Kurt Austin and his team confront a rare jellyfish, a Chinese crime syndicate, and a deadly virus.
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SHANGHAI GIRLS by Lisa See
(Random House, $25.) - Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California, and leave their war-torn country to join them.
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THE NEIGHBOR by Lisa Gardner
(Bantam, $25.) - There are many suspects when a pretty teacher disappears.
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GONE TOMORROW by Lee Child
(Delacorte, $27.) - Jack Reacher discovers a conspiracy dating back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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SKIN TRADE by Laurell K. Hamilton
(Berkley, $26.95) - Investigating some killings in Las Vegas, the vampire hunter Anita Blake must contend with the power of the weretigers.
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FIRST FAMILY by David Baldacci
(Grand Central, $27.99) - Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.s, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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DEAD AND GONE by Charlaine Harris
(Ace, $25.95) - Sookie Stackhouse searches for the
killer of a werepanther.
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DUNE ROAD by Jane Green
(Viking, $25.95) - In a wealthy Connecticut town, a divorced woman takes a job as an assistant to a famous reclusive novelist with a secret.
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THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett
(Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95) - A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s-Mississippi.
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THE 8TH CONFESSION
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(Little, Brown, $27.99) - Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
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Hardcover Nonfiction
Published: June 29, 2009

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LIBERTY AND TYRANNY by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, $25.) - A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.  Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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HORSE SOLDIERS by Doug Stanton
(Scribner, $28.) - A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.
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OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell
(Little, Brown, $27.99) - Why some people succeed -- it has to do with luck and opportunity -- from the author of Blink. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway, $26.) - The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
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RENEGADE by Richard Wolffe
(Crown, $26.) - The rise of Barack Obama, based on the author's coverage of the campaign and on a dozen interviews. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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HOME GAME by Michael Lewis
(Norton, $23.95) - A reluctant father cottons to his offspring. Click here to place a hold for this best seller.

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THE LAST BEST HOPE by Joe Scarborough
(Crown Forum, $26.) - Advice for the Republicans and for America, from the host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, a former congressman.

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 
by Rocco Mediate and John Feinstein
(Little, Brown, $26.99) - Mediate's lively competition with Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open.
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THE YANKEE YEARS by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (Doubleday, $26.95) - The former Yankee manager (1996-2007) on his years with the team.
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CRAZY FOR THE STORM by Norman Ollestad
(Ecco, $25.99) - An 11-year-old survives the plane crash that killed his father and hikes down a mountain alone in a blizzard. Click to place a hold for this best seller:
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PRAIRIE TALE by Melissa Gilbert
(Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $26.) - Overcoming substance abuse and bad relationships, by the star of Little House on the Prairie.
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THE END OF OVEREATING by David A. Kessler
(Rodale, $25.95) - How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.
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SATCHEL by Larry Tye
(Random House, $26.) - A biography of the great Negro League pitcher.
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ALWAYS LOOKING UP by Michael J. Fox
(Hyperion, $25.99) - Fox's latest 10 years; his struggles with Parkinson's disease and his work as an activist through his foundation.
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BORN TO RUN by Christopher McDougall
(Knopf, $24.95) - Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
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TEARS IN THE DARKNESS 
by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) - The Bataan death march and its aftermath.

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