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COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION

1 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy. 24 2 2 FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy. 24 3 3 FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) The final book in an erotic trilogy. 23 4 4 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown Publishing.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 10 5 6 BARED TO YOU, by Sylvia Day. (Penguin Group.) Two troubled people develop an intense, obsessive relationship. 10 6 SWEET TALK, by Julie Garwood. (Penguin Group.) An I.R.S. officer and an F.B.I. agent fight corruption, and a mutual attraction, while investigating a Ponzi scheme. 1 7 7 WHERE WE BELONG, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's Press.) A woman’s successful life is disrupted by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with a link to her past. 3 8 STYGIAN'S HONOR, by Lora Leigh. (Penguin Group.) Stygian’s mission is to find Honor Roberts, a missing Breed, no matter the cost. 1 9 TIME UNTIME, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martin's Press.) Kateri Avani must face a Keetoowah warrior, and Ren Waya must come back from the dead to prevent the world from ending in this Dark-Hunter novel. 1 10 11 SLAMMED, by Colleen Hoover. (Colleen Hoover.) A girl falls in love with a neighbor who enjoys slam poetry, but they encounter obstacles. 5 11 12 BLACK LIST, by Brad Thor. (Simon & Schuster.) If the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can discover who has targeted him for death, he can prevent a terrorist attack. 3 12 13 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, by M. L. Stedman. (Scribner.) An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. 2 13 DREAM LAKE, by Lisa Kleypas. (St. Martin's Press.) Zoe, an innkeeper in the town of Friday Harbor, has been so hurt in the past that she dare not trust her heart with anyone — especially not the bitter Alex Nolan, who drinks to keep his own demons at bay. 1 14 YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, by Lisa Jackson. (Kensington Publishing.) A woman whose toddler went missing two years ago suspects that he’s still alive. 1 15 15 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown & Company.) A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin. 5

hunger games story

The Hunger Games is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. In the remains of North America lies the country of Panem, where there are 12 Districts that must choose one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 to 18 to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death in an arena on live television. The Hunger Games are used as punishment for "the Dark Days" when the 13 districts rebelled together against the country's government, the Capitol, resulting in the destruction of the 13th District. When 16 year old Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to takes her sister, Prim's (Willow Shields), place in the Games...

The Hunger Games

he Hunger Games is a young adult novel by American television writer and novelist Suzanne Collins. It was first published on September 14, 2008, in hardcover, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien.[1] It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds hegemony over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death until only one person remains. The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors, including author Stephen King. It was praised for its storyline and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and the Japanese novel Battle Royale (1999), as well as other works. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won numerous awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. The Hunger Games has been released in paperback and also as an audiobook and ebook. The hardcover had an initial print of 200,000 – twice doubled from the original 50,000. Since its release, the novel has been translated into 26 languages, and rights of production have been sold in 38 countries. The Hunger Games is the first novel in The Hunger Games trilogy,[2] followed by Catching Fire, published on September 1, 2009,[3] and Mockingjay, published on August 24, 2010.[4] A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released worldwide on March 23, 2012.