Houston Chronicle Sunday

BEST-SELLERS

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Fiction

1. The Rooster Bar: By John Grisham. Three students at a sleazy for-profit lawschool hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it. 2. Two Kinds of Truth: By Michael Connelly. While he investigat­es the murder of two pharmacist­s, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch. 3. Origin: By Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director. 4. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier: By Mark Frost. Updated profiles on the residents of Twin Peaks are assembled by special agent Tamara Preston. 5. Uncommon Type: short By Academy Tom Hanks.stories, a typewriter, Award-winning each Seventeen incorporat­ing by the actor. 6. Deep Freeze: By John Sandford. Virgil Flowers is called to investigat­e in Trippton, Minn., when a local bank’s president is found dead in a nearly frozen river. 7. Sleeping Beauties: By Stephen King and Owen King. Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another. 8. A Column of Fire: By Ken Follett. A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne. 9. Manhattan Beach: By Jennifer Egan. The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeare­d. 10. In the Midst of Winter: By Isabel Allende. The lives of a university professor, an undocument­ed worker and a Chilean academic intersect after a car accident during a snowstorm in Brooklyn.

Nonfiction

1. Leonardo Davinci: By Walter Isaacson. A biography of the Italian Renaissanc­e polymath that connects his work in various discipline­s. 2. Bobby Kennedy: By Chris Matthews. The New York senator’s journey from his formative years to his tragic run for president. 3. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson takes on the British in Louisiana. 4. Sisters First: By Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. How the twin daughters of former President George W. Bush grew up in the public eye. 5. Grant: By Ron Chernow. A biography of the Union general of the Civil War and two-term president of the United States. 6. Killing England: By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Major events and battles during the Revolution­ary War are told from several perspectiv­es. 7. What Happened: By Hillary Rodham Clinton. An inside look at her campaign and how she recovered in its aftermath. 8. We Were Eight Years in Power: By Tanehisi Coates. A series of essays that cover each year of the Obama administra­tion and the writer’s own journey. 9. Astrophysi­cs for People in a Hurry: By Neil de Grasse Tyson. A straightfo­rward, easy-toundersta­nd introducti­on to the universe. 10. What Does This Button do?: By Bruce Dickinson. The lead singer of Iron Maiden discusses his time as a competitiv­e fencer, airline pilot and cancer survivor.

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