New York Times Best Sellers List for August 6, 2006

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: August 6, 2006

Pinckney Owns On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Morrow, $21.95.) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.	1	40
2	THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50; updated and expanded edition, $30.) A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy.	4	68
3	CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE, by John W. Dean. (Viking, $25.95.) The authoritarian character of contemporary conservative beliefs and attitudes.	2	2
4	THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE, by Ron Suskind. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) An investigation of the Bush administration's strategic thinking and of the role of ideology and personality in the decision to go to war.	3	5
5	GODLESS, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $27.95.) The columnist argues that liberalism is a religion with sacraments, a creation myth and a clergy.	5	7
6	FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.) A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.	6	67
7	MAYFLOWER, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $29.95.) How America began, from the author of "In the Heart of the Sea."	7	11
8	DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE, by Anderson Cooper. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) The CNN correspondent describes a year of covering the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.	10	9
9	MYTHS, LIES, AND DOWNRIGHT STUPIDITY, by John Stossel. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The "20/20" anchor questions conventional wisdom.	9	11
10	THE LONG TAIL, by Chris Anderson. (Hyperion, $24.95.) How the Internet has changed business so that its future requires "selling less of more."	13	2

New York Times Best Sellers List for August 6, 2006

Published: August 6, 2006

Pinckney Owns On Order

Hardcover Fiction

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	PHANTOM, by Terry Goodkind. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95.) The 11th volume of the "Sword of Truth" fantasy series.		1
2	ANGELS FALL, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $25.95.) When a chef from Boston, now living in Wyoming, witnesses a murder, the locals won't believe her.	1	2
3	TWELVE SHARP, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $26.95.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must find a killer and rescue a kidnapped child.	2	5
4	PEGASUS DESCENDING, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) In the 15th Dave Robicheaux novel, the Louisiana detective pursues interrelated cases that lead back to the killing of his best friend 25 years earlier.		1
5	THE RUINS, by Scott Smith. (Knopf, $24.95.) Two young American couples on vacaton in the Yucatán confront a horrible menace.		1
6	COMING OUT, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $20.) An attorney's household is thrown into chaos when her daughters receive an invitation to a debutante ball.	3	4
7	CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN, by Fannie Flagg. (Random House, $29.95.) A return to Elmwood Springs, Mo., the setting of Flagg's novel "Standing in the Rainbow."	4	3
8	BREAK NO BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $25.95.) The forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan finds a fresh skeleton at an Indian burial ground in South Carolina.	5	2
9	BEACH ROAD, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.	6	12
10	SLEEPING WITH FEAR, by Kay Hooper. (Bantam, $25.) A psychic F.B.I. agent, investigating possible occult activity in South Carolina, comes under attack by someone who can control dark forces. The last volume in Hooper's "Fear" trilogy.		1

West of the Pecos - Staff Favorite

TITLE: West of the Pecos
AUTHOR: Grey, Zane
CALL NO.: WES GRE pb

This is one of my favorite westerns by Zane Grey. The story follows a young girl and her father who go out West and the cowboy who helps them along. However, Zane Grey uses an age-old plot of girl-disguised-as-boy to make this story much more fun than your average Western. The romance is cute and the Western theme is fun. All in all, a good read.

Reviewed by: Maryn Mishler

Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori-Book One) - Staff Favorite

Title: Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori-Book One)
Author: Lian Hearn
Call No.: SF HEA (book) or CD HEA (audio book)

Before a two-week-long trip, I picked up this book on the basis of the “Staff Pick” list from Borders, and I was glad I did. I’m usually a slow reader, but this book was one I flew through rather quickly.

The story is set in a “fantasy” Japan and is the tale of young Takeo, who was born of the Hidden—a pacifist, secret religious sect—who then finds himself violently thrown from the world he’d grown up in and is tossed right into the world of political intrigue when he is rescued and adopted by Lord Shigeru of the Otori Clan. The story is action packed from beginning to end, and the author’s style of alternating between Takeo’s first-person narrative and, the other main character to this epic saga, Lady Kaede Shirakawa’s third-person narrative flows quite well—making readers think that there are two interlocking stories happening simultaneously and helps keep readers wanting to see these two strong characters come together that much more immediate.

I liked the story so much, especially this first book in the series, that I bought the trilogy for the library’s SF collection and have heard many good reactions from patrons since then. The audio book versions were also highly recommended by other library patrons, and on my next long road-trip, I might just check them out. After all, I wasn’t disappointed with the book version.

Reviewed by: Hope Siasoco

How to Design Your Grocery Store Bouquet

Deby Henneman, of Carousel Floral, was at the Pinckney Public Library on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 showing attendies how to shop for freshness and economy and to arrange their grocery store bouquets.

Wicked - Staff Favorite

TITLE: Wicked

AUTHOR: MacGuire, Gregory

CALL NO.: FIC MAC

This is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. It starts at the beginning of her life and introduces the reader to people and events that shaped who she was as a person. Her life was difficult and she had to overcome a lot of obstacles. She didn’t start out bad—circumstances made her that way. She had a human side—one where she felt love and compassion towards others. It was interesting reading a fairy tale.

Reviewed by: Tyra Schmitter