| This Week | Title | Last Week | Weeks on List |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch; Publisher: Hyperion; ISBN: 9781401323257
The life-affirming "last lecture" by Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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1 | 18 |
| 2 |
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Author: David Sedaris; Publisher: Little Brown; ISBN: 9780316143479
Yet another laugh-out-loud collection of essays by indie fave Sedaris.
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2 | 10 |
| 3 |
Goodnight Bush: An Unauthorized Parody
Author: Erich Origen, Gan Golan; Publisher: Little Brown; ISBN: 9780316040419
The Bush administration is roasted in this fun parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon.
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3 | 10 |
| 4 |
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Author: Ron Suskind; Publisher: Harper; ISBN: 9780061430626
How the U.S. lost its moral authority and how it can regain it.
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-- | 1 |
| 5 |
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Author: Jane Mayer; Publisher: Doubleday; ISBN: 9780385526395
Mayer's disturbing look at the decisions made by the Bush administration after September 11, 2001.
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4 | 4 |
| 6 |
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
Author: Jerome R. Corsi; Publisher: Threshold; ISBN: 9781416598060
The new book by a co-author of Unfit for Command.
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-- | 1 |
| 7 |
Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within.
Author: Maria Shriver; Publisher: Hyperion; ISBN: 9781401323189
Shriver offers hope and inspiration and reminds people it's not too late to be the person you want to be.
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5 | 13 |
| 8 |
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Author: Haruki Murakami; Publisher: Knopf; ISBN: 9780307269195
Murakami's insightful memoir is an August Indie Next List selection.
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8 | 2 |
| 9 |
In Defense of Food
Author: Michael Pollan; Publisher: Penguin Press; ISBN: 9781594201455
Pollan's answers to the questions he raised in his bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.
|
7 | 32 |
| 10 |
The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne; Publisher: Atria/Beyond Words; ISBN: 9781582701707
A collection of wisdom and philosophies to improve our daily lives.
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6 | * |
| 11 |
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor; Publisher: Viking; ISBN: 9780670020744
A Harvard-trained brain scientist's account of her recovery from a massive stroke.
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10 | 9 |
| 12 |
You: Staying Young
Author: Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.; Publisher: Free Press; ISBN: 9780743292566
Aging gets a tune-up in the newest addition to the You series.
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-- | 10 |
| 13 |
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Author: Thomas Frank; Publisher: Metropolitan; ISBN: 9780805079883
The latest from the bestselling author of Whats the Matter With Kansas?
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-- | 1 |
| 14 |
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Author: Chelsea Handler; Publisher: Simon Spotlight; ISBN: 9781416954125
Hilarious essays by the author of My Horizontal Life.
|
12 | 8 |
| 15 |
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Author: Vincent Bugliosi; Publisher: Vanguard; ISBN: 9781593154813
The famed prosecutor's argument for holding the Bush administration responsible for the deaths of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting in Iraq.
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13 | 4 |