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Best Sellers - Week of May 24

Published on Sunday, May 24, 2009

 

Fiction
1. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
2. The 8th Confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
3. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk. Terrorists from a totalitarian country enter the Midwest disguised as exchange students in this satire.
4. First Family, David Baldacci. Former Secret Service agents, now PIs, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.
5. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith. The 10th novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
Nonfiction
1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
2. Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox. Fox's last 10 years, since he retired from Spin City; his struggles with Parkinson's disease and his work as an activist through his foundation.
3. Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards. Dealing with life's challenges, including cancer and her husband's infidelity.
4. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of Blink and The Tipping Point.5. The Girls from Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow. An enduring friendship among a group of Midwestern women.
Advice, how-to, miscellaneous
1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. Relationship tips from the comedian and host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
2. The G-Free Diet, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Advice for living without gluten, from a television host who suffers from celiac disease.
3. Master Your Metabolism, Jillian Michaels with Mariska van Aalst. A plan for removing toxins and rebalancing hormones to lose weight, by a trainer and coach from The Biggest Loser on NBC.
4. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Thoughts on the importance of ''seizing every moment'' from Pausch, a professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.
5. 10-10-10, Suzy Welch. Evaluating decisions based on how they will affect your life in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Paperback nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2. Audition, Barbara Walters. A personal and professional memoir.
3. Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. The harrowing story of a Navy Seals operation in Afghanistan.
4. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan. A manifesto urges us to ''Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.''
5. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert. A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Kids' paperbacks
1. Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and ''Three Cups of Tea,'' Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth. A school grows in Pakistan. (Ages 4 to 8)
2. Explorer Extraordinaire!, Jane O'Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Fancy Nancy meets the outdoors in the finest tradition of the great explorers. (Ages 4 to 7)
3. Gallop!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
4. Llama Llama Misses Mama, written and illustrated by Anna Dewdney. A little creature goes to preschool.(Ages 2 or older)
5. The Curious Garden, written and illustrated by Peter Brown. A boy named Liam nurtures a straggly garden to vivid fruition.(Ages 4 to 8)
— New York Times

 

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