Our Best Seller List for December 2007

This last month of the year is greatly influenced by gift purchasing and by book group selections, particularly in the Trade books. With a 12% increase in holiday sales over 2006, we are happy to report these sales. May you all enjoy a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

Best Sellers in Hardcover

Best Sellers in Trade Paperback

Best Sellers in Mass Market Paperback

Hardcover Best Sellers

1. Afterimage by Kathleen George

Pittsburgh author's latest introduces rookie cop Colleen Greer
$24.95 Signed copies available

2. T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

Kinsey Milhone faces a cunning and ruthless killer
$26.95 Signed copies available

3. A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry

Perry's latest Christmas mystery features Superintendent Runcorn. Anne Perry comes to MLB on April 13.
$17.95

4. Exit Music by Ian Rankin

Is this the end of Rebus?
$36.95

5. Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer

Horace Rumpole once more into the breach
$23.95

6. Good Granny/Bad Granny by Mary McHugh

Humorous look at styles of grandparenting
$9.95

7. A Pale Horse by Charles Todd

Ian Rutledge investigates murder in Yorkshire
$23.95

8. Third Strike by Phillip R. Craig and William G. Tapply

Craig and Tapply bring their series characters back for a third outing
$24

9. Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton

Irascible Agatha Raisin fights Christmas to a draw
$23.95

10. Winter in White pop-up by Robert Sabuda

Elegant mini pop-up celebrates winter
$12.99

Trade Paperback Best Sellers

1. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

he insightful NY Times columnist shares his views on the ways that gloabalization provides opportunities as well as risks to the United States.
$16

2. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture.
$14.95

3. Rococo by Adriana Trigiani

A strapping, handsome painter energizes the women in the town, galvanizes the faithful, and restores hope where there was none.
$13.95

4. Flip Book of Crosswords edited by Will Shortz

Unique format of tear-off pad of crosswords
$10.95

5. How to Raise a Jewish Dog by Ellis Weiner

Everything a dog owner needs to know to nurture a canine companion with both an exaggerated sense of his own wonderfulness and paralyzing self doubt
$12.99