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USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1 Where Nobody Knows Your Name
by John Feinstein ( Doubleday, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The popular sportswriter ( A Good Walk Spoiled) takes readers on a tour of “Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball.”
THE BUZZ: Feinstein launches his latest book just as spring training begins in the big leagues.
2 The Chase
by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg ( Bantam, fiction, on sale Tuesday) Nicolas Fox
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: and Kate O’Hare pursue a former White House chief of staff who’s stolen a Chinese artifact from the Smithsonian.
THE BUZZ: The first Fox O’Hare mystery, last year’s The Heist, climbed to No. 2 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list.
3 A Story of Easter and All of Us
by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett ( FaithWords, on sale Tuesday) Companion
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: volume to the 2013 hit History Channel miniseries The Bible, featuring more than 100 color images.
THE BUZZ: Timed to the Feb. 28 theatrical release of Son of God, which resurrects heartthrob Diogo Morgado of The Bible as Jesus.
4 The Perfect Score: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT
by Debbie Stier ( Harmony, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Stier takes the SAT seven times in one year, helping her son improve his score along the way.
THE BUZZ: The author, a veteran of book publishing, steps to the other side of the business for her first book.
5 Bark
by Lorrie Moore ( Knopf, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A new story collection from the author of Birds of America and Self- Help.
THE BUZZ: It’s an Indie Next pick of independent booksell-ers. “Hilarious and heartbreaking, sometimes in the same paragraph,” says Kirkus Reviews.