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By TIMES WIRES
Published May 7, 2006

FICTION

1. TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (Mary Higgins Clark) A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.

2. BLUE SHOES & HAPPINESS (Alexander McCall Smith) The seventh novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, featuring Mma Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutski.

3. OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL (Anonymous) When a wealthy hospital donor is found dead on arrival at a gala in his honor, three women suspect murder. A tie-in to As the World Turns.

4. DARK HARBOR (Stuart Woods) Stone Barrington, the New York cop- turned-lawyer, investigates the death of his cousin, a CIA agent.

5. GONE (Jonathan Kellerman) Two acting students stage their own disappearance - but then one of them is murdered. The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.

6. CHASING DESTINY (Eric Jerome Dickey) When a Los Angeles biker beauty discovers she is pregnant, her married boyfriend is not happy.

7. SHIVER (Lisa Jackson) A New Orleans detective tracks a serial killer.

8. THE 5TH HORSEMAN (James Patterson and Maxine Paetro) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.

9. PRIOR BAD ACTS (Tami Hoag) Two Minneapolis detectives search for a kidnapped judge who has been trying a murder case.

10. DARK TORT (Diane Mott Davidson) The caterer Goldy Schulz is back in the amateur gumshoe business after a paralegal is killed.

NONFICTION

1. DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARRINGS (Tyler Perry) Musings on life from the man behind Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

2. MARLEY & ME (John Grogan) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.

3. THE WORLD IS FLAT (Thomas L. Friedman) A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of globalization trends.

4. FREAKONOMICS (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.

5. THE JESUS PAPERS (Michael Baigent) One of the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail argues that Jesus survived his crucifixion and had a child with Mary Magdalene.

6. THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS (edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregor Wurst) An early Christian manuscript lost for 1,700 years portrays Judas Iscariot not as Jesus' betrayer but as his favored disciple and willing collaborator.

7. A DEATH IN BELMONT (Sebastian Junger) A man who worked in the author's childhood home - who later confessed to being the Boston Strangler - may have murdered a neighbor.

8. AMERICAN THEOCRACY (Kevin Phillips) A former Republican strategist warns against the dangers of religious zealotry, oil dependence and ballooning public and private debt.

9. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA (Michael Pollan) Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.

10. COBRA II (Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor) A definitive account of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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