Readers will see these sure-to-sell titles in bookstores for the first time this week.

Fiction

Chris Bohjalian – Skeletons at the Feast – 200,000 copies – follows German refugees as they flee the advancing Red Army in 1945 – 5/6/08

Jude Deveraux – Secrets – 175,000 copies – a young woman tracks down her childhood love interest – 5/6/08

Elizabeth George – Careless in Red - 300,000 copies – the newest Thomas Lynley mystery – 5/6/08

Charlaine Harris – From Dead to Worse - Southern Vampire mystery #8 – 5/6/08

Stephenie Meyer – The Host – 750,000 copies – a future Earth has been invaded by parasitic aliens who control most humans – 5/6/08

Nora Roberts – The Hollow - Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 2 – 5/6/08

John Sandford – Phantom Prey - 650,000 copies – newest thriller with investigator Lucas Davenport – 5/6/08

Nonfiction

Rick Bragg – The Prince of Frogtown - 85,000 copies – Bragg’s memoir of his father who “drank corn whiskey, played poker, rolled dice and settled arguments with fists and knives and sometimes just acted a little peculiar.â€? 5/6/08

Lt. Lynn “Buck” Compton and Marcus Brotherton – Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers - a personal account of Easy Company – 5/6/08

Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby – The Chris Farley Show - 150,000 copies – 5/6/08

Alexandra Fuller – The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - story of 26-year old father who died on an oil rig because safety measures were ignored, and whose family received zero compensation – 5/6/08

Jeffrey Gitomer – The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource – 250,000 copies – updated with 13 years of new info – 5/6/08

David Halberstam – Everything They Had: Sportswriting from David Halberstam - 200,000 copies – 5/6/08

Carl Hiaasen – The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport - 150,000 copies – Hiaasen returns to golfing after a 32-year absence – 5/6/08

Kate Jacobs – Comfort Food - a frustrated chef and mother teaches her family to cook on a live TV show – 5/6/08

Alyson Mead – Wake Up to Your Weight Loss: Using the Art of Personal Narrative to Achieve Your Best Body – help identify emotional problems that cause overeating, provide motivation for exercise and “rewrite the story of your life” – 5/6/08

Jim Nantz with Eli Spielman – Always by My Side: A Father’s Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other - 150,000 copies – explores the influence of Nantz’s father on his career as a sports commentator – 5/6/08

Jill Price and Bart Davis – The Woman Who Can’t Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science–A Memoir – the first ever case of hyperthymestic syndrome – 5/6/08

James Arthur Ray – Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want - 200,000 copies – 5/6/08

Ricardo S. Sanchez – Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story - 200,000 copies – memoir by the retired Army general who was commander in Iraq – 5/6/08

Ted Sorenson – Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History - 150,000 copies – memoir by the confidant of and speechwriter for President Kennedy 5/6/08

Barbara Walters – Audition – 515,000 copies – 5/6/08

Simon Winchester – The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom - 250,000 copies – story of a Cambridge professor who documented areas of China largely unknown to outsiders in the 1940s – 5/6/08

Fareed Zakaria – The Post-American World – 150,000 copies – 5/5/08

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