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Books

Last week’s best-selling books at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Jefferson Pointe:

FICTION

1. “

The Racketeer” by John Grisham

2. “

Threat Vector” by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

3. “

Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn

4. “

The Forgotten” by David Baldacci

5. “

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross” by James Patterson

6. “

Notorious Nineteen” by Janet Evanovich

7. “

The Black Box” by Michael Connelly

8. “

The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling

9. “

The Last Man” by Vince Flynn

10. “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” by Ayana Mathis

NON-FICTION

1. “

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard

2. “

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination

that Changed America Forever” by Bill O’Reilly,

Martin Dugard

3. “

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

by Jon Meacham

4. “

Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust” by Ina Garten

5. “

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden” by Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer

6. “

America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t” by Stephen Colbert

7. “

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand

8. “

I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

by Joel Osteen

9. “

Bruce” by Peter Ames Carlin

10. “

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers” by Anne Lamott

E-BOOKS

1. “

A Will and a Way” by Nora Roberts

2. “

Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks

3. “

Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn

4. “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

by Jessica Sorensen

5. “The Last Lion” by William Manchester

6. “Odd Thomas” by Dean Koontz

7. “

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

8. “

Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James

9. “

Hopeless” by Colleen Hoover

10. “

The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

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