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USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.

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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.

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