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Sylvia Day lands at No. 1 with new Crossfire book

Jocelyn McClurg
USA TODAY
'There Was a Little Girl' by Brooke Shields


It's Day time: Sylvia Day's Crossfire series has hit a rapturous new high: Captivated by You is the first in the erotica collection to make its debut at No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Last year's Entwined With You hit No. 1 its second week on the list. (This week's list will publish on Wednesday, early this week because of Thanksgiving.) Captivated, the fourth book in the series, continues the story of Eva and Gideon. The series began with Bared to You, which reached No. 5 in 2012, and continued with Reflected in You, which peaked at No. 2 later that year. The Crossfire books feature jackets that are reminiscent of the mega-selling Fifty Shades of Grey series. Lionsgate has optioned the Crossfire series, with plans for a TV adaptation. A fifth Crossfire book, One With You, is planned, but no pub date yet.

'Girl' power: Brooke Shields' new book about her complicated relationship with her late mother is her second USA TODAY best seller. There Was a Little Girl enters the list at No. 33, the same spot where Down Came the Rain, Shields' memoir about postpartum depression, landed in 2005. In Little Girl, the actress writes about her mother's destructive alcoholism, but also their closeness during the years when Teri Shields was her daughter's manager. Promoting her book, Brooke Shields appeared on the cover of People magazine, and in an interview with USA TODAY she said of her mother: "The love was so intense. .. It was us against the world."

Feet of Klay: Winning the National Book Award on Nov. 19 was not enough to propel either Redeployment by Phil Klay (the fiction winner) or Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos (non-fiction) into USA TODAY's top 150 for the first time. However, the publishers of both books report going back to press for more hardcover copies. The books, also available digitally, may see a book-club bump when the paperback editions are published: Redeployment, debut short stories about the war in Iraq, is due in paper on Feb. 24; the paperback for Age of Ambition, which looks at tensions in modern China, will arrive May 19. One NBA fiction finalist remains a solid best seller: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is No. 22.

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