HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "U is for Undertow," by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $27.95). Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared 21 years earlier. ...more

December 20, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "I, Alex Cross," by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99). Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. ...more

December 13, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "I, Alex Cross," by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99). Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets. ...more

December 6, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "Under the Dome," by Stephen King (Scribner, $35). When a Maine town is trapped by an invisible force field, a sanctimonious and hypocritical politician takes over. ...more

November 29, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "Ford County," by John Grisham (Doubleday, $24). Stories set in rural Mississippi. ...more

November 22, 2009

First it was books. Now it's DVDs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following its price cut on books last month. And, once again, competitors Amazon.com and Target scrambled to match the prices. ...more

November 7, 2009

M.I.A.'s planned performance at the Grammys might be more labor intensive than most. ...more

February 8, 2009

that would be the mid 1970s, when Bill Gates founded Microsoft and Steve Jobs assembled the first Apple computer - people started talking about the end of newspapers, and libraries without walls. ...more

October 5, 2008

"American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century," by Howard Blum (Crown, $24.95) ...more

September 21, 2008

"The Appeal," by John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95) ...more

February 17, 2008