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Best-Seller Collection
The Continuing Education Committee of the Alumnae Association
of Mary Baldwin College generously helps to fund the best-seller collection.
Below is a list of fiction and non-fiction titles currently in the collection, which can be found on the main floor of the library.
Updated 18 April 2008.
| Author |
Title |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. |
Half of a yellow sun. |
| Albom, Mitch. |
For one more day. |
| Allen, Woody. |
Mere anarchy. |
| Almond, Steve. |
Not that you asked: rants, exploits, and obsessions. |
| Alvarez, Julia. |
Once upon a quinceanera: coming of age in the USA. |
| Andersen, Kurt. |
Heyday: a novel. |
| Anderson, Chris. |
The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more. |
| Ariely, Dan. |
Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions. |
| Armstrong, Karen. |
The Bible: a biography. |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. |
The tent. |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. |
Moral disorder: stories. |
| Baez, Joan. |
And a voice to sing with: a memoir. |
| Baldacci, David. |
Simple genius. |
| Baldacci, David. |
Stone cold. |
| Balogh, Mary. |
Simply unforgettable. |
| Baxter, Charles. |
The soul thief. |
| Beah, Ishmael. |
A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier. |
| Bechdel, Alison. |
Fun home: a family tragicomic. |
| Berg, Elizabeth. |
The day I ate everything I wanted: and other small acts of liberation. |
| Berg, Elizabeth. |
Dream when you're feeling blue: a novel. |
| Berg, Elizabeth. |
We are all welcome here: a novel. |
| Bhutto, Benazir. |
Reconciliation: Islam, democracy, and the West. |
| Biden, Joseph R. |
Promises to keep: on life and politics/ |
| Boyd, Pattie. |
Wonderful tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and me. |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan. |
Talk talk: a novel. |
| Bradbury, Ray. |
Now and forever: Somewhere a band is playing and Leviathan 99. |
| Brashares, Ann. |
The last summer (of you and me). |
| Brockmann, Suzanne. |
Force of nature: a novel. |
| Brooks, Geraldine. |
People of the book: a novel. |
| Brooks, Terry. |
The elves of Cintra. |
| Brown, Carrie. |
The rope walk. |
| Brown, Cupcake. |
A piece of cake: a memoir. |
| Brown, Dan. |
The great expectations school: a rookie year in the new blackboard jungle. |
| Brown, Dan. |
Angels and demons. |
| Brown, Dan. |
The Da Vinci code: a novel. |
| Brown, Rita Mae. |
The purrfect murder: a Mrs. Murphy mystery. |
| Brown, Sandra, 1948- |
Play dirty: a novel. |
| Bryson, Bill. |
William Shakespeare: the world as stage. |
| Buckhanon, Kalisha. |
Conception. |
| Buckley, Christopher. |
Boomsday: a novel. |
| Burroughs, Augusten. |
Possible side effects. |
| Byrne, Rhonda. |
The secret. |
| Capote, Truman. |
Summer crossing: a novel. |
| Card, Orson Scott. |
Magic street. |
| Clinton, Bill. |
Giving: how each of us can change the world. |
| Colbert, Stephen. |
I am America (and so can you!). |
| Collins, Francis S. |
The language of God: a scientist presents evidence for belief. |
| Conason, Joe. |
It can happen here: authoritarian peril in the age of Bush. |
| Cooper, Anderson. |
Dispatches from the edge: a memoir of war, disasters, and survival. |
| Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. |
Book of the dead. |
| Coulter, Catherine. |
Double take. |
| Cox, Lynne. |
Grayson. |
| Crawford, Alan Pell. |
Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson. |
| Crichton, Michael. |
Next: a novel. |
| Crosby, Molly Caldwell. |
The American plague: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history. |
| Crowther, Yasmin. |
The saffron kitchen. |
| Crusie, Jennifer. |
Don't look down. |
| Cutler, Jessica. |
The Washingtonienne. |
| Davidson, Diane Mott. |
Sweet revenge. |
| De Bruyn, Pippa. |
Frommer's India. |
| DeLillo, Don. |
Falling man: a novel. |
| Dershowitz, Alan M. |
Blasphemy: how the religious right is hijacking our Declaration of Independence. |
| Desai, Kiran. |
The inheritance of loss. |
| Diaz, Junot. |
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao. |
| Dickey, Eric Jerome. |
Chasing destiny. |
| Dickey, Eric Jerome. |
Genevieve. |
| Dickey, Eric Jerome. |
Pleasure. |
| Dickey, Eric Jerome. |
Sleeping with strangers. |
| Dickey, Eric Jerome. |
Waking with enemies. |
| Dodd, Christina. |
Tongue in chic. |
| Dwyer, Jim. |
102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers. |
| Dylan, Bob. |
Bob Dylan: the essential interviews. |
| Ephron, Nora. |
I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman. |
| Esquivel, Laura. |
Malinche. |
| Evanovich, Janet. |
Lean mean thirteen. |
| Evanovich, Janet. |
Plum lovin'. |
| Evanovich, Janet. |
Plum lucky. |
| Faludi, Susan. |
The terror dream: fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America. |
| Fessler, Ann. |
The girls who went away: the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade. |
| Fforde, Katie. |
Restoring Grace. |
| Fishman, Charles. |
The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works --and how it's transforming the American economy. |
| Flagg, Fannie. |
Can't wait to get to heaven: a novel. |
| Follett, Ken. |
World without end. |
| Frey, James. |
A million little pieces. |
| Gaffney, Patricia. |
Mad dash: a novel. |
| Gaiman, Neil. |
Anansi boys: a novel. |
| Gaiman, Neil. |
Fragile things: short fictions and wonders. |
| Gallagher, Nora. |
Changing light. |
| Gibson, William. |
Spook country. |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth. |
Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia. |
| Godwin, Peter. |
When a crocodile eats the sun: a memoir of Africa. |
| Goldberg, Amanda. |
Celebutantes. |
| Grafton, Sue. |
N is for noose. |
| Grafton, Sue. |
S is for silence. |
| Greenspan, Alan. |
The age of turbulence: adventures in a new world. |
| Greer, Germaine. |
Shakespeare's wife. |
| Gregory, Philippa. |
The Boleyn inheritance. |
| Gregory, Philippa. |
The constant princess. |
| Grippando, James. |
Last call. |
| Grisham, John. |
The appeal. |
| Grisham, John. |
The innocent man: murder and injustice in a small town. |
| Grisham, John. |
Playing for pizza. |
| Groff, Lauren. |
The monsters of Templeton. |
| Groopman, Jerome E. |
How doctors think. |
| Gruen, Sara. |
Water for elephants: a novel. |
| Guiliano, Mireille. |
French women for all seasons: a year of secrets, recipes, & pleasure. |
| Gulley, Philip. |
Porch talk: stories of decency, common sense, and other endangered species. |
| Haddon, Mark. |
A spot of bother: a novel. |
| Hale, Shannon. |
Austenland: a novel. |
| Hannah, Kristin. |
Firefly Lane. |
| Harbison, Elizabeth M. |
Shoe addicts anonymous. |
| Harding, Robyn. |
The journal of mortifying moments. |
| Harris, E. Lynn. |
I say a little prayer. |
| Higgins, Jack. |
Killing ground. |
| Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. |
Infidel. |
| Hitchens, Christopher. |
God is not great: how religion poisons everything. |
| Hoag, Tami. |
Prior bad acts. |
| Holton, Cathy. |
The secret lives of the kudzu debutantes. |
| Hood, Ann. |
The knitting circle. |
| Horan, Nancy. |
Loving Frank: a novel. |
| Hornbacher, Marya. |
Madness: a bipolar life. |
| Hosseini, Khaled. |
A thousand splendid suns. |
| Hunter, Stephen. |
The 47th samurai: a Bob Lee Sawgger novel. |
| Hyde, Catherine Ryan. |
Love in the present tense. |
| Jin, Ha. |
A free life. |
| Johansen, Iris. |
On the run. |
| Johansen, Iris. |
Pandora's daughter. |
| Kalman, Maira. |
The principles of uncertainty. |
| Kamenetz, Anya. |
Generation debt: why now is the worst time to be young. |
| Karlin, Ben. |
Things I've learned from women who've dumped me. |
| Karpyshyn, Drew. |
Darth Bane: rule of two: a novel of the Old Republic. |
| Katz, Jon. |
Dog days: dispatches from Bedlam Farm. |
| Keillor, Garrison. |
Pontoon: a Lake Wobegon novel. |
| Kelly, Karen. |
The secret of "The secret": unlocking the mystery of the phenomenal bestseller. |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn. |
The dream hunter. |
| Keyes, Marian. |
Anybody out there?. |
| Khadra, Yasmina. |
The attack. |
| Khoury, Raymond. |
The last Templar. |
| Kibuishi, Kazu. |
Flight, volume 4. |
| King, Stephen. |
Cell: a novel. |
| King, Stephen. |
Duma Key. |
| Kingsolver, Barbara. |
Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life. |
| Kinsella, Sophie. |
The undomestic goddess. |
| Kinsella, Sophie. |
Remember me?. |
| Kinsella, Sophie. |
Shopaholic & baby. |
| Koontz, Dean R. |
The darkest evening of the year. |
| Kozol, Jonathan. |
Letters to a young teacher. |
| Kraus, Nicola. |
Dedication. |
| Krinsky, Natalie. |
Chloe does Yale. |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa. |
Unaccustomed earth. |
| Lippman, Laura. |
What the dead know. |
| Luce, Edward. |
In spite of the gods: the strange rise of modern India. |
| Martin, Charles. |
Chasing fireflies. |
| Mayes, Frances. |
A year in the world: journeys of a passionate traveller. |
| McCafferty, Megan. |
Fourth comings: a novel. |
| McCaffrey, Anne. |
Dragon Harper. |
| McCain, John. |
Hard call: great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them. |
| McCourt, Frank. |
Angela and the baby Jesus. |
| McEwan, Ian. |
On Chesil Beach. |
| McKillip, Patricia A. |
Od magic. |
| McQuaid, John. |
Path of destruction: the devastation of New Orleans and the coming age of superstorms. |
| Meltzer, Brad. |
The book of fate. |
| Messud, Claire. |
The emperor's children. |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn. |
Cage of stars. |
| Moore, Christopher. |
You suck: a love story. |
| Moore, Jane. |
Love @ first site: a novel. |
| Moran, Lindsay. |
Blowing my cover: my life as a C.I.A. spy. |
| Mosse, Kate. |
Labyrinth. |
| Mundy, Liza. |
Everything conceivable: how assisted reproduction is changing men, women, and the world. |
| Oates, Joyce Carol. |
The gravedigger's daughter: a novel. |
| Obama, Barack. |
The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream. |
| Orman, Suze. |
The money book for the young, fabulous & broke. |
| Palahniuk, Chuck. |
Haunted: a novel of stories. |
| Palmer, Michael. |
The first patient. |
| Paretsky, Sara. |
Bleeding Kansas. |
| Park, Paul. |
A princess of Roumania. |
| Patterson, James. |
The 5th horseman: a novel. |
| Patterson, James. |
The 6th target: a novel. |
| Patterson, James. |
The quickie. |
| Patterson, James. |
7th heaven: a novel. |
| Patterson, James. |
Double cross: a novel. |
| Patterson, Richard North. |
The race: a novel. |
| Pausch, Randy. |
The last lecture. |
| Peltason, Ruth A. |
I am not my breast cancer: women talk openly about love & sex, hair loss & weight gain, mothers & daughters, and being a woman with breast cancer. |
| Penny, Louise. |
Still life. |
| Peterson, Dale. |
Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man. |
| Phillips, Kevin P. |
American theocracy: the peril and politics of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century. |
| Picoult, Jodi |
The tenth circle. |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Change of heart: a novel. |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Nineteen minutes: a novel. |
| Pollan, Michael. |
In defense of food: the myth of nutrition and the pleasures of eating. |
| Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. |
Reading the man: a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters. |
| Rice, Anne. |
Christ the Lord: the road to Cana: a novel. |
| Rice, Luanne. |
Light of the moon. |
| Richmond, Michelle. |
The year of fog: a novel. |
| Robb, J. D. |
Creation in death. |
| Robb, J. D. |
Innocent in death. |
| Robb, J. D. |
Memory in death. |
| Roberts, Nora. |
Angel's fall. |
| Robison, John Elder. |
Look me in the eye: my life with Asperger's. |
| Roby, Kimberla Lawson. |
The best-kept secret. |
| Roby, Kimberla Lawson. |
Sin no more. |
| Rodriguez, Deborah. |
Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil. |
| Roizen, Michael F. |
You, on a diet: the owner's manual for waist management. |
| Rowling, J. K. |
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. |
| Russo, Richard. |
Bridge of sighs. |
| Sabato, Larry. |
A more perfect Constitution: 23 proposals to revitalize our Constitution and make America a fairer country. |
| Sacks, Oliver W. |
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain. |
| Sandford, John. |
Dark of the moon. |
| Saul, John. |
The devil's labyrinth: a novel. |
| Saunders, Kate. |
Bachelor boys. |
| Schine, Cathleen. |
The New Yorkers. |
| Scott, Elizabeth. |
Bloom. |
| Scottoline, Lisa. |
Daddy's girl. |
| Sebold, Alice. |
The almost moon: a novel. |
| Sedaris, Amy. |
I like you: hospitality under the influence. |
| Shan, Sa. |
Empress. |
| Sheff, David. |
Beautiful boy: a father's journey through his son's addiction. |
| Shields, Charles J. |
Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee. |
| Shriver, Lionel. |
The post-birthday world. |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis. |
Prep: a novel. |
| Smiley, Jane. |
Ten days in the hills. |
| Smith, Lee. |
On Agate Hill: a novel. |
| Smith, Zadie. |
On beauty: a novel. |
| Sparks, Nicholas. |
The choice. |
| Sparks, Nicholas. |
Dear John. |
| Spencer, Irene. |
Shattered dreams: my life as a polygamist's wife. |
| Spurlock, Morgan. |
Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?. |
| Steel, Danielle. |
Sisters. |
| Steffans, Karrine. |
Confessions of a video vixen. |
| Teresa, Mother. |
Mother Teresa: come be my light: the private writings of the "Saint of Calcutta". |
| Tolle, Eckhart. |
A new earth: awakening to your life's purpose. |
| Toobin, Jeffrey. |
The nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. |
| Trillin, Calvin. |
About Alice. |
| Tropper, Jonathan. |
How to talk to a widower. |
| Truss, Lynne. |
Talk to the hand: the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or, six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door. |
| Twelve Hawks, John. |
The dark river. |
| Tyree, Omar. |
Diary of a groupie: a novel. |
| Van Ryn, Don. |
Mistaken identity: two families, one survivor, unwavering hope. |
| Vonnegut, Kurt. |
A man without a country. |
| Walsh, Peter. |
It's all too much: an easy plan for living a richer life with less stuff. |
| Wasserstein, Wendy. |
Elements of style: a novel. |
| Weiner, Jennifer. |
Certain girls: a novel. |
| Weis, Margaret. |
Dragons of the highlord skies. |
| Weisman, Alan |
The world without us. |
| Wiseman, Rosalind. |
Queen bee moms & kingpin dads: dealing with the parents, teachers, coaches, and counselors who can make--or break--your child's future. |
| Woodruff, Lee. |
In an instant: a family's journey of love and healing. |
| Woodward, Bob. |
State of denial. |
| Zane. |
Love is never painless: three novellas. |
| Zane. |
Succulent: chocolate flava II. |
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