Book News for the week of January 12

Living in Northeastern Ohio always means a snowy January. And for me that means curling up with a really good book. Here are some books that are coming out or just released that I may be taking a peek at:

Bases Loaded by Kirk Radomski. Description from Borders: Radomski, a former New York Mets employee, pleaded guilty to distributing anabolic steroids to dozens of major league players between 1995 and 2005. Since cooperating with baseball’s steroids investigation, Radomski breaks his silence on life in the Major Leagues. Release date: January 27, 2009.

The Associate by John Grisham. Description from Borders: Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want — even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.

Here is this week’s New York Times Bestseller List for Fiction:

1. BLACK OPS, by W. E.B. Griffin. An Army officer and special presidential agent is targeted for death — but by whom?
2. SCARPETTA, by Patricia Cornwell. The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, newly married, is splitting her time between Boston and New York, where she takes on a new assignment.
3. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most human beings, but one woman won’t surrender.
4. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson. Alex Cross chases the leader of a lethal teenage gang.
5. FIRE AND ICE, by Julie Garwood. A reporter and her F.B.I. bodyguard uncover a conspiracy in Alaska.
6. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. A young mute who can communicate with the dogs his family raises takes refuge with three of them in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s death.
7. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Jason Wright. A boy learns from his disappointment with his mother’s gift.
8. RUNNING HOT, by Jayne Ann Krentz. Two members of the Arcane Society, dedicated to paranormal research, encounter a group of criminal sensitives.
9. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, by Wally Lamb. A man reconstructs five generations of family history.
10. THE LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks. A marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.

Here is this week’s New York Times Bestseller List for Non-Fiction:

1. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity — from the author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.”
2. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library and his rise to fame.
3. AMERICAN LION, by Jon Meacham. Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Newsweek’s editor.
4. MULTIPLE BLESSINGS, by Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson. A couple has sextuplets.
5. WHY WE SUCK, by Denis Leary. Sardonic essays from the actor and comedian, currently the co-creator and star of the TV series “Rescue Me.”
6. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
7. WISHFUL DRINKING, by Carrie Fisher. A memoir based on Fisher’s one-woman show.
8. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman. How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist.
9. TOO FAT TO FISH, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza. Humorous memories from the comedian, a member of the cast of “The Howard Stern Show.”
10. THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder. The life of Warren Buffett.

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