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USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1 Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
by Robert Kurson ( Random House, nonfiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Contemporary saga of two men and their hunt for the wreck of the Golden Fleece, a 17th- century pirate ship; by the author of Shadow Divers.
“An enjoyable read,
THE BUZZ: especially if you’ve got a thing for pirates,” says Kirkus Reviews.
Table setting fit for a pirate.
2 Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother’s Kitchen
by Luca Dotti ( Harper Design, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S
Audrey ABOUT: Hepburn’s son remembers his filmstar mother through family photographs and recipes such as Spaghetti al Pomodoro.
THE BUZZ: Twenty-two years after her death, the gamine beauty remains a style icon.
3 Tom Clancy Under Fire: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel
by Grant Blackwood ( Putnam, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
Ryan Jr.,
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: the president’s son, is on an anti- terrorist mission when he falls for a brilliant Iranian woman.
Blackwood, who
THE BUZZ: co- wrote Dead or Alive with the late Clancy, carries on the best- selling writer’s franchise.
4 Grey
by E. L. James ( Vintage, fiction on sale Thursday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Billion-aire Christian Grey tells his side of the erotic story as the blockbuster Fifty Shades series continues.
Fifty Shades of Grey spent
THE BUZZ: 20 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list, a record.
5 The Santangelos
by Jackie Collins ( St. Martin’s Press, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
Lucky Santangelo has
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: some juicy problems to deal with as she tries to build a hotel/ casino/ apartment complex/ movie studio in Vegas.
Collins says
THE BUZZ: this is the concluding volume in her best- selling series about the Mob clan
that began with 1981’ s Chances.