Showing posts with label tom hanks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tom hanks. Show all posts

Saturday, November 18, 2017

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) November 19th 2017

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending November 19th 2017


10 - In The Midst of Winter - Isabel Allende
(Debut)
The lives of a university professor, an undocumented worker and a Chilean academic intersect after a car accident during a snowstorm in Brooklyn.

9  -  Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
(5 weeks on list)
The first female diver a the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.

8  -  A Column of Fire - Ken Follett
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King and Owen King
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Deep Freeze - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)
Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton,MN., when a local bank's president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.

5  -  Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks
(3 weeks on list)
Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter by the Academy Award winning actor.

4  -  Twin Peaks : The Final Dossier - Mark Frost
(Debut)
Updated profiles on the residents of Twin Peaks are assembled by special agent Tamara Preston.

3  -  Origin - Dan Brown
(5 weeks on list) (3 weeks at#1)

2  -  Two Kinds of Truth - Michael Connelly
(Debut)
While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.

1  -  The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2 weeks at #1)
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.


Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

July 6th 1994
"Forrest Gump" is released in US theaters and be the 2nd biggest money making movie of the year behind "The Lion King".  The movie would win the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks) of 1994.