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1. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Plume, $11.20 paper): A spiritual manifesto aimed at improving yourself.
2. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $18.86): A novel about redemption and love involving a Death Row inmate who wants to donate his heart to the sister of the girl he was convicted of killing.
3. The Appeal by John Grisham (Doubleday, $18.86): John Grisham’s new novel is an indictment of special interests and the political system.
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $13.95 paper): A Depression-era novel about a traveling circus train and star-crossed lovers, by a Chicago-area writer.
5. Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $14): An adventure in which a genetically engineered flock of winged children agree to help environmental scientists who are studying global warming.
