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RELENTLESS by Dean Koontz
(Bantam, $27.) - A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic.

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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 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 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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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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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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ROADSIDE CROSSES  by Jeffery Deaver
(Simon & Schuster, $26.95) - A California kinesics expert pursues a killer who stalks victims using information they've posted online.
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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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MATTERS OF THE HEART  by Danielle Steel
(Delacorte, $27.) - A New York photographer falls in love with a sociopathic novelist who lures her to his isolated Irish estate. Click to place a hold for this best seller:

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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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DEAD AND GONE  by Charlaine Harris
(Ace, $25.95) - Sookie Stackhouse searches for the
killer of a werepanther.
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THE HOST  by Stephenie Meyer
(Little, Brown, $25.99) - Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most human beings, but one woman won't surrender. Click to place a hold for this best seller:

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WICKED PREY  by John Sandford
(Putnam, $27.95) - The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport deals with mayhem occasioned by the Republican convention.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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HOME GAME  by Michael Lewis
(Norton, $23.95) - A reluctant father cottons to his offspring. 

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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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THE GIRLS FROM AMES by Jeffrey Zaslow
( Gotham, $26.) - An enduring friendship among a
group of Midwestern women.

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SOUL SURVIVOR 
by Andrea Leininger and Bruce Leininger,
with Ken Gross (Grand Central, $24.99) - The authors discover that their young son is reliving the life of a deceased World War II fighter pilot.

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HOW THE MIGHTY FALL  by Jim Collins
(Jim Collins/HarperCollins, $23.99) - Companies fail in stages, and their decline can be detected and reversed.

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RESILIENCE  by Elizabeth Edwards
(Broadway, $22.95) - Dealing with life's challenges, including cancer and her husband's infidelity.
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MY REMARKABLE JOURNEY  by Larry King,
with Cal Fussman (Weinstein, $27.95) - From
Depression-era Brooklyn to Larry King Live .
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SATCHEL  by Larry Tye
(Random House, $26.) - A biography of the great Negro League pitcher.

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