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City of Thieves hits bestsellers list

Is it a trend?  City of Thieves (copies in print: 258,333) is the fifth novel-after The Middle Place, Firefly Lane, American Wife and People of the Book-to hit this list in the past few weeks.  PW’s starred review said, “Bennioff follows up The 25th Hour...

Book Picks by Nicholas Sparks

(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 20) Parade magazine (Sept. 28) asked Nicholas Sparks which novels moved him the most.  His list:  The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon (“Compulsively readable literary thriller”); Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill...