Hardcover Fiction
January 9, 2011
Dead or Alive The covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his black-ops team face their greatest foe: a sadistic terrorist known as the Emir.
The Confession A man who committed a despicable crime but allowed another to be sent to death row in his place now wants to admit his guilt, but must convince the authorities he's telling the truth.
Cross Fire Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government.
Full Dark, No Stars Grisly human behavior and its consequences drive this collection of stories.
Freedom A family of Midwestern liberals during the Bush years.
Port Mortuary In the 18th Kay Scarpetta novel, the forensic pathologist masters a sophisticated new autopsy technology at an Air Force base; meanwhile, a young man’s mysterious death causes trouble at her new forensic center in Cambridge, Mass.
The Help Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk A look at human nature through darkly comic morality stories enacted by animals.
Fall of Giants Five interrelated families from five countries are caught in the upheavals of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Safe Haven The arrival of a mysterious young woman in a small North Carolina town raises questions about her past.
Hell's Corner The former assassin John Carr, a k a Oliver Stone, teams with an MI-6 agent to search for the perpetrators of a terrorist attack against the British prime minister.
An Object of Beauty A young, beautiful and ambitious woman ruthlessly ascends the heights of the Manhattan art world.
Crescent Dawn Dirk Pitt seeks to discover the connection between a trove of ancient Roman artifacts and a series of mosque explosions.
Room The world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held. The basis of the movie.
Hardcover Nonfiction
January 9, 2011
Decision Points The former president discusses his decisions on 9/11, Iraq and Katrina.
Unbroken An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Read by Edward Herrmann. 13 hours, 56 minutes unabridged.
Earth (the Book) A visitor’s guide to the human race, presented by "The Daily Show."
Life The Rolling Stones guitarist's revealing autobiography is also a portrait of the era when rock came of age.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 Twain is pointedly political and willing to play the angry prophet.
Cleopatra Reimagining the Egyptian queen.
Decoded The hip-hop star leads a narrative journey through his lyrics and his life.
America by Heart The former vice-presidential candidate reflects on family, faith and patriotism.
_____ My Dad Says A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author's father. Originally published in 2010.
Broke The Fox News host’s plan for fixing the country’s financial woes.
Pinheads and Patriots The Fox News commentator scrutinizes the meaning of change in the era of Obama.
I Remember Nothing Reflections on age and memory, from the author of “I Feel Bad About My Neck.”
The Last Boy A biography of the Yankees star Mickey Mantle.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The story of a woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.
Colonel Roosevelt The third and concluding volume of Morris’s monumental biography of Theodore Roosevelt.