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By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Hospital patients' puzzling deaths suggest a wily murderer.

107THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14)

By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal.

1568OBSESSION(Ballantine, $9.99)

By Jonathan Kellerman. A former patient of Alex Delaware hears a startling deathbed confession.

49THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH(NAL, $24.95)

By Ken Follett. Political realities aid and hinder a cathedral's construction in 12th-century England.

2010THE ALIBI MAN(Bantam, $7.99). By Tami Hoag

P.I. Elena Estes squares off against Palm Beach's beau monde (including her ex-fiance) over murder.

2Nonfiction/General1EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR

EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND

INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert

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A pandemic waiting in the wings

Alan Sipress's superb and sobering "The Fatal Strain" details the shadowy progression of a virulent avian flu now moving across Asia.

Who do men say that I am?

Though too cursory to work as an intro to the Gospels, Mary Gordon's "Reading Jesus" should appeal to anyone who wants to wrestle with the problems and paradoxes of the New Testament.