Top Ten Selling Book In December

1.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

by Jeff Kinney

Youth: Greg's life is turned upside down when his school has a Valentine's Day dance and he has a date but his friend Rowley doesn't. (H, Amulet Books)

Genre: Youth | Debuted: November 22, 2012

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2.The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition

by Carol V. Aebersold, Chanda B. Bell

Children: Santa relies on elves to find out who has been naughty and who has been nice. (H, CCA and B)

Genre: Children | Debuted: November 12, 2009

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  3.Threat Vector

by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

President Jack Ryan must thwart a plan by China to invade Taiwan. (H, Putnam Adult)

Genre: General fiction | Debuted: December 13, 2012

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4.Proof of Heaven

by Eben Alexander

Subtitle: "A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife". (P, Simon & Schuster)

Genre: Religion/Inspiration | Debuted: November 01, 2012

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5.Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (H, Henry Holt and Co.)

Genre: History | Debuted: October 11, 2012

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6. The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The adventures of hobbit Bilbo Baggins; classic. (E, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: July 03, 1997

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7.The Racketeer

by John Grisham

Former attorney Malcolm Bannister, serving a 10-year term for a crime he did not commit, may cut his sentence when the feds need his help investigating a murder. (H, Doubleday)

Genre: General fiction | Debuted: November 01, 2012

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8.Notorious Nineteen

by Janet Evanovich

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is searching for an embezzler who vanishes from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. (H, Bantam)

Genre: General fiction | Debuted: November 29, 2012

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9.Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

When Nick Dunne’s wife Amy disappears on their fifth anniversary, he is considered a suspect. But is he guilty? . (H, Crown)

Genre: General fiction | Debuted: June 14, 2012

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10.Barefoot Contessa: Foolproof

by Ina Garten

Subtitle: "Recipes You Can Trust". (H, Clarkson Potter)

Genre: Cookbooks | Debuted: November 08, 2012

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Book Description

Release Date: 14 Nov 2012 | Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7

The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released in the UK in August 2012!


Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley?

A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His bestfriend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation.

Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love . . .

Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.



Praise for Jeff Kinney:

'The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Sun

'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' - Independent

'The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Big Issue

'Hilarious' - Telegraph

Winner of Blue Peter's Best Book of the Last 10 Years award.

Jeff Kinney is an online game developer and designer, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jeff has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Powerful People in the World. Jeff is also creator of Poptropica.com, which was names one of Time magazine's 50 Best Websites. He lives in  



                                          Massachusetts, USA.

                                                                                                                                                                     

Top ten best selling fantasy books in july 2012

1.A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings)

 
A Game of Thrones  by George R.R. Martin

Trouble and coldness descend on a kingdom where the seasons are out of balance; book one in series. (E, Bantam)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: August 14, 1997

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2.A Storm of Swords

by George R.R. Martin

Tensions build as the Seven Kingdoms remain at war; third in series. (P, Bantam)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: November 09, 2000

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3.A Clash of Kings

by George R.R. Martin

Factions struggle to gain control of a divided land; book two in “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. (E, Bantam)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: February 11, 1999

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George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Boxed set includes the first four volumes in “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. (P, Bantam)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: April 28, 2011

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A Dance With Dragons

by George R.R. Martin

The fate of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again; fifth book in series. (E, Bantam)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: July 21, 2011

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A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

Power struggle continues in the Seven Kingdoms; fourth in series. (P, Spectra)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: November 17, 2005

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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Classic: In the future, books are burned because ideas are dangerous; 1966 movie. (P, Simon & Schuster)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: June 26, 1997

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Ender’s Game

by Orson Scott Card

Bean, who is Ender’s friend, becomes his strategist. (E, Tor)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi | Debuted: June 30, 2011

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The Innocent

David Baldacci's books very erratic in terms of quality. For example, I enjoyed Zero Day but I thought that True Blue was appallingly bad. The Innocent has a lot of his trademark characteristics and if you're a fan of his, you will no doubt enjoy it. I thought it started really well, but it falls apart due to an absence of credibility that becomes laughable by the end of the book.

The main character is a Government assassin called Will Robie. The early chapters establish that he's a very efficient and clinical killer. Then he gets an assignment which differs from his usual fare - a US citizen on US soil. When he gets to the target's house, he realizes that it's a Government employee who's a solo mother with two young children. He hesitates - and someone else shoots the target. Realizing that he will also be targeted, he bolts for his pre-planned escape route. Almost immediately, he crosses paths with a teenage girl who is also on the run after witnessing the death of her parents.

Up to this point the story is gripping but almost immediately it takes an unlikely turn. Instead of proceeding with his escape plans, Robie decides to go home, hide Julie the teenager and try to solve the mystery of her parents' deaths for her. At the same time he is obliged to start working with the FBI to solve the murder of the very woman that he was hired to kill. Meanwhile there appears to be somebody on the inside who is setting him up at every turn.

The main character - an assassin called Robie - is an intriguing character, but he veers between being extremely smart and extremely slow on the uptake in a way that doesn't make sense unless it's purely to serve the plot. Julie, the 14 year old girl who's just seen her parents murdered, also doesn't feel even remotely credible. More concerned about keeping up her grades than grieving for her parents and able to make deductions that the grown ups miss.

Sunrise Point

A former marine returning home to Virgin River finds love with a single mother.

 Sunrise Point was a WONDERFUL addition to an addictive series. For me, this one rated WAY up there when it comes to all of the books in this series. Be forewarned that this story goes for the heart. The romance unfolds slowly, and it becomes a beautiful friends-to-lovers romance.

Desperate for money and willing to work hard, Nora applies for a backbreaking job of picking apples at Tom Cavanaugh’s orchard, but what she ends up with is a life changing experience of friendship, family, safety, comfort and love like she has never known. But these good things don’t come quickly. While Tom is drawn to Nora, he is not interested in a woman with so much baggage. Two kids and an ex-boyfriend doing time in prison? No thanks.

Shortly after Nora starts work at his orchard, he begins testing the waters with a possible romantic relationship with Darla, a beautiful widow of a former military man he served with. She is nothing like Nora. She is polished, stunningly beautiful, educated, wealthy, independent and without baggage. Only one problem: she’s kind of a spoiled bitch.

Tom Cavanaugh was a wonderful hero, albeit a bit clueless with women but that was part of his charm. While he initially believes Darla to be a better catch for him, his growing friendship with Nora challenges him every step of the way. Watching him come to the realization that Nora was by far the better woman, and that their ‘friendship-only’ status be damned, was incredibly fun to read. I loved every minute of it.

And then there was Maxine, Tom’s grandmother and one of my new favorite secondary characters in Virgin River. I pray we see more of her, I loved that old woman and her lady friends to pieces. Her words of wisdom were well done. She helps Tom to eventually find the right answers without being obvious or pushy, she simply reminds him of what’s important and lets him work it out.

You may remember Nora from Bring Me Home for Christmas as the young lady with a 1-month old who was left abandoned in a rundown home with no windows, refrigeration, food…etc. She made another appearance in Hidden Summit as a neighbor to Leslie, where we got to see that she is doing much better, making friends, but still struggling to make ends meet. I knew I would like her as a heroine of her own romance, but I was not prepared to like Nora this much. Her HEA is one of the sweetest ones in this series, and definitely one of the most deserving.

There were other storylines going on as well, but they did not shorten the romance part down at all. Nora learns more about her parents, the pesky black bear with three cubs returns to wreak more havoc, and Luke Riordan has an old buddy (Coop) come into to town to do some hunting. Turns out Coop has an unfriendly past with Jack, but we will have to wait to see how that story unfolds. I assume Coop will be a hero or major character in a later story. I wasn’t all that impressed with his cocky attitude and the chip on his shoulder, but there were glimpses of a pretty solid guy too, so for now I’m holding judgment if I will like him or not.

I should probably mention again that this was a slower paced romance, so don’t expect any hot and heavy passion early in the book. But it does come, and it does deliver! I would even recommend this book if you want to read it stand-alone. I wouldn’t say that for many of the books, but this one could easily be read out of order as a stand-alone. I sure wish there was another book in this series for me to read, as I always hate reading the last book in her annual trilogies cause that means I have to wait another year to read more.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Stephen King's newest effort, The Wind Through the Keyhole, combines two of the author's more masterful skills: creating short stories with similar themes in a single package, and writing chapters set in his Western-tinged fantasy The Dark Tower series, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
The title is King's eighth Dark Tower novel, although it takes place between the fourth volume, Wizard and Glass (1997), and the fifth, Wolves of the Calla (2003).
While on their mission to the mythical Dark Tower, the enigmatic gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his fellow questers take refuge from an oncoming "starkblast," a violent storm that brings deathly cold temperatures and destruction.
Roland tells his people of his early days as a gunslinger from Gilead and how he teamed up with another young man to investigate a shape-shifter, called "the Skin-man," who began a killing spree around a mining town.
King takes the reader down the rabbit hole a little more from there: Roland strikes up a friendship with a boy whose father is murdered and tells him a fairy tale — one that lasts half the novel — involving magicians, dragons, swamp people and an 11-year-old named Tim determined to avenge his father's death.
On anybody else's typewriter, this might have turned into a mess. King, however, shows himself to be an ace storyteller yet again, spinning yarns like a favorite relative about a hero and his adventures in a world like our own but just slightly skewed.
The famed horror-meister has pulled back from expanding the sprawling Dark Tower world to now detailing different parts of its Mid-World, such as creating fairy tales parents tell children, fleshing out previous characters and employing an indigenous speech and vocabulary as distinctive as Elvish or Klingon.
It may not be as much of a page-turner as King's recent novels Under the Dome and 11/22/63 (unless you're already a Tower-phile), but Wind Through the Keyhole is a perfect storm of everything he does well.

Calico Joe - John Grisham

Calico Joe

Calico Joe is the new John Grisham book and is his 26th full-length novel. Calico Joe was released on April 10, 2012 and is yet another bestseller by John Grisham.

Calico Joe will initially be published in hardcover, large-print paperback, ebook and audio book formats.

Calico Joe Book Description:

John Grisham - Calico Joe is a stunning and poignant novel about sons and their dads, the forgiveness and redemption that can be needed in these relationships, all set in the world of Major League Baseball.

It all started innocuously enough. The first baseman for the Cubs Minor League team pulled a hamstring while rounding third trying to score. The following day, the first baseman for the Cubs - Jim Hickman - hurt his back.

With two first basemen out injured, the Cubs urgently needed someone to replace them, so they called up Joe Castle from their AA club in Midland, Texas. Everyone was buzzing about Joe's talent and he'd become the hottest player in AA.

So in the summer of 1973, Joe Castle made an even bigger name for himself. He became the best rookie player Major League Baseball had ever seen. This boy from Calico Rock, Arkansas blew the Cubs fans away as he scored one home run after another, always tipping his hat politely at the fans, on the road to breaking every rookie batting record.

It didn't take long for Calico Joe to become the idol of every baseball fan in the US. This includes Paul Tracey - the son of the Mets pitcher who partied as hard as he threw. Warren Tracey eventually faced Calico Joe, with his son Paul watching in the stands. Paul was cheering for his Dad, but also rooting for everyone's new idol.

But then Warren threw a fastball that would change all their lives. Forever.

This new John Grisham book has thrilling baseball, but what makes Calico Joe a classic is what happens off the field.

You can buy Calico Joe by John Grisham now, so order it today!