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DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by . (Ace, $25.95.) 1 MATTERHORN, by Karl Marlantes. (El León Literary Arts/At- 1 Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war. 16 lantic Monthly)

THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. 12 HOUSE RULES, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria) 2 (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer pursues a killer 17 who’s preying on women and children. LUCID INTERVALS, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) When 1 18 3 Rusty Sabich’s wife is found dead, Tommy Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, as Turow revisits the characters from THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING, by Nancy Pickard. “Presumed Innocent.” 19 (Ballantine)

THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, 3 58 THE WALK, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster) 4 $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s 20 Mississippi. EIGHT DAYS TO LIVE, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s) DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, 4321 5 $27.99.) Two agents are tracking the same man, a human trafficker who is now dealing in nuclear arms. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Graha- 22 me-Smith. (Grand Central) 6 LOVER MINE, by J. R. Ward. (, $25.95.) 22 Book 8 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 23 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. () THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Si- 64 7 mon & Schuster, $25.99.) An elderly woman must decide whether CAUGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton) to reveal a family secret. 24

HANNAH’S LIST, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.) A doc- 52 BURNING LAMP, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam) 8 tor receives a letter from his dead wife in which she asks him to 25 marry one of three women she has chosen for him. CHANGES, by Jim Butcher. (Roc) BLUE-EYED DEVIL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) 1 26 9 Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch take on a politically ambitious but crooked new chief of police in Appaloosa; Parker died earlier this SILVER BORNE, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace) year. 27

TELL-ALL, by Chuck Palahniuk. (Doubleday, $24.95.) A much- 1 EDGE OF APOCALYPSE, by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall. 10 married star is seduced by a bounder who has written a memoir 28 (Zondervan) about her death in this sendup of celebrity culture. RECKLESS, by Andrew Gross. (Morrow) THE DOUBLE COMFORT SAFARI CLUB, by Alexander Mc- 7329 11 Call Smith. (Pantheon, $24.95.) The 11th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 30 HER MOTHER’S HOPE, by Francine Rivers. (Tyndale House) EVERY LAST ONE, by Anna Quindlen. (, $26.) 10 4 12 After a shocking assault on her family, a woman must discover BEATRICE AND VIRGIL, by Yann Martel. (Spiegel & Grau) how to live the rest of her life. 31

* THE IMPERFECTIONISTS, by Tom Rachman. (Dial, $25.) 1 THE ALOHA QUILT, by Jennifer Chiaverini. (Simon & Schuster) 13 Goings-on among the staff of an English-language newspaper in 32 Rome. WRECKED, by Carol Higgins Clark. (Scribner) ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA, by Isabel Allende. (Harper/ 16 2 33 14 HarperCollins, $26.99.) The story of a mulatto slave in late-18th- century Haiti who flees with her master to New Orleans. MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND, by Helen Simonson. 34 (Random House) THIS BODY OF DEATH, by Elizabeth George. (Harper/Har- 83 15 perCollins, $28.99.) Detective Thomas Lynley becomes involved THE LONELY POLYGAMIST, by Brady Udall. (Norton) when a woman’s body is found in a London cemetery. 35

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen- dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book- stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 by The New York Times Best Sellers NonFiction

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SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. (Scribner, $30.) 1 WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD, by 1 A memoir from the former first lady. 17 Jerry Weintraub with Rich Cohen. (Twelve)

THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $27.95.) The peo- 18 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion) 2 ple who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from 18 their foresight. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE, by Karl Rove. (Threshold THIS TIME TOGETHER, by Carol Burnett. (Harmony, $25.) The 2519 Editions) 3 comedian describes her rise in show business and the people she’s met along the way. 20 FOXY, by Pam Grier with Andrea Cagan. (Grand Central) CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. 39 4 (Grand Central, $25.99.) More humorous personal essays from the CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY, by Daniel comedian. 21 G. Amen. (Harmony)

MOM, edited by Dave Isay. (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A collection 1 THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENT, by Aaron Klein with Bren- 5 of interviews from NPR’s StoryCorps. 22 da J. Elliott. (WND)

OPRAH, by Kitty Kelley. (Crown, $30.) The biography, from the 44 GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. 6 author of “Nancy Reagan” and “His Way.” 23 (Harper/HarperCollins)

THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $30.) 1 AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES, by Jesse Ventura with Dick Rus- 7 Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 24 sell. (Skyhorse)

---- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. (It Books/HarperCol- 1 HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday) 8 lins, $15.99.) A coming-of-age memoir organized around the mus- 25 ings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father. COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Viking) MY FAIR LAZY, by Jen Lancaster. (NAL, $24.95.) The author of 1 26 9 “Pretty in Plaid” makes a humorous attempt to broaden her cul- tural horizons. 2010 TAKE BACK AMERICA, by Dick Morris and Eileen Mc- 27 Gann. (Harper/HarperCollins) 10 LIFT, by Kelly Corrigan. (Voice/Hyperion, $16.99.) Stories about 10 3 parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters. 28 BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf) THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose. (NAL Caliber, $26.95.) Stories 9 10 11 of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion vol- 13 BANKERS, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. (Pantheon) ume for an HBO mini-series. 29

THE BEDWETTER, by Sarah Silverman. (Harper/HarperCol- 73 THE BRIDGE, by David Remnick. (Knopf) 12 lins, $25.99.) A humorous, yet sometimes serious, memoir from the 30 comedian. STORM WARNING, by Billy Graham. (Thomas Nelson) THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca 11 14 31 13 Skloot. (Crown, $26.) The story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951. 32 TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Viking) 14* OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why 8 76 some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.” 33 EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY, by Frances Mayes. (Broadway) THE OTHER WES MOORE, by Wes Moore. (Spiegel & Grau, 52 15 $25.) A tale of two Wes Moores living in Baltimore: one, the au- PARISIANS, by Graham Robb. (Norton) thor, a Rhodes scholar, combat veteran and former White House 34 fellow; the other, a man serving a life sentence in prison. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. (Viking) * I’LL MATURE WHEN I’M DEAD, by Dave Barry. (Putnam, 1 35 16 $24.95.) Humorous essays.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen- dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book- stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Copyright © 2010 May 23, 2010 by The New York Times The New York Times Book re view Paper back Best Sellers Trade Fiction

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SAVOR THE MOMENT, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley, $16.) A 2 THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne) 1 founder of the wedding-planning company Vows has a crush on 21 the brother of one of her partners; Book 3 in the Bride Quartet. THE WHITE QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. 46 22 2 (Vintage Crime/, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress. 23 OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout. (Random House) THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. 7 3 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, by Colum McCann. (Random a murder suspect. 24 House)

LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave. (Simon & Schuster, $14.) The lives 12 CHANGE IN ALTITUDE, by Anita Shreve. (Back Bay) 4 of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide. 25

SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. (Dial, $16.) An unlikely 1 THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger. (Har- 5 group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of “The 26 vest/Harcourt) Prince of Tides.” BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley) A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick. (Algonquin, $14.95.) 18 27 6 Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SO- 28 CIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial) THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, 4 7 $16.99.) Aliens control the minds and bodies of most humans, but VISION IN WHITE, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley) one woman won’t surrender. 29

* BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. (Washington 1 THE TELLING, by Beverly Lewis. (Bethany House) 8 Square, $15.) Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite 30 years later when one needs help. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, 65 31 9 $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin) in Paris in 1942. 32

CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, 15 THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, by Muriel Barbery. 10 $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up 33 (Europa) amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia. ON FOLLY BEACH, by Karen White. (NAL) THE SHACK, by William P. Young. (Windblown Media, $14.99.) 103 34 11 A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.(†) HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by 35 Jamie Ford. (Ballantine) THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN, by Kate Morton. (Washington 12 12 Square, $15.) From England to and back, two women try to solve a family mystery.

* THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper 48 13 , $14.99.) An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

ALEX CROSS’S TRIAL, by James Patterson and Richard Di- 5 14 Lallo. (Grand Central, $14.99.) The detective Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle, who fought the Klan.

LOOK AGAIN, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.99.) 13 15 A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother.

THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $14.99.) 15 16 A 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Caro- lina and finds many kinds of love.

TINKERS, by Paul Harding. (Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95.) 3 17 A dying clock repairman recalls his impoverished New England childhood and his relationship with his epileptic father; a 2010 Pu- litzer winner. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of THE LAST CHILD, by John Hart. (Minotaur, $14.99.) A teenager 9 independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, 18 searches for his vanished twin sister. regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that * SHANGHAI GIRLS, by Lisa See. (Random House, $15.) Two Chi- 13 a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi- 19 nese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California. cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac- tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine 11 20 Paetro. (Grand Central, $14.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 by The New York Times Best Sellers Mass-Market Fiction

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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, by James Patterson and Michael Led- 2 GONE TOMORROW, by Lee Child. (Dell) 1 widge. (Vision, $9.99.) A New York detective raising 10 children 21 alone must stop a killer. RULE’S BRIDE, by Kat Martin. (Mira) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. 8 22 2 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress. 23 DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET, by Debbie Macomber. 2 3 (Mira, $7.99.) People seeking a fresh start join the Knit to Quit INTO THE DARK, by Gena Showalter. (HQN) class in Seattle. 24

WICKED PREY, by John Sandford. (Berkley, $9.99.) The Minne- 1 NEVER LESS THAN A LADY, by Mary Jo Putney. (Zebra) 4 apolis detective Lucas Davenport deals with mayhem occasioned 25 by the Republican convention. ONE ENCHANTED EVENING, by Lynn Kurland. (Jove) * THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) A 11 26 5 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love. 27 BLOOD GAME, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s) THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. 7 6 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.) A Swedish hacker becomes a THE LOST FLEET: VICTORIOUS, by Jack Campbell. (Ace) murder suspect. 28

RELENTLESS, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $9.99.) A writer is pur- 2 FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Vision) 7 sued by a sociopathic critic. 29

DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie 5 A ROGUE OF MY OWN, by Johanna Lindsey. (Pocket) 8 Stackhouse seeks the killer of a werepanther. 30

* WILD FIRE, by Christine Feehan. (Jove, $7.99.) A leopard shifter 2 BLOOD BORN, by Linda Howard and Linda Jones. (Ballantine) 9 from Panama and the woman he betrayed, a shifter from Borneo, 31 cross paths again in the jungle. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham. (Dell) SWEET TEA AT SUNRISE, by Sherryl Woods. (Mira, $7.99.) A 2 32 10 single mom returned to Serenity, S.C., goes to work for the sexy owner of a radio station; a Sweet Magnolia novel. 33 A LADY NEVER TELLS, by Candace Camp. (Pocket Star) GUARDIAN OF LIES, by Steve Martini. (Harper, $9.99.) The 2 11 lawyer Paul Madriani unravels a mystery involving gold coins, the BRIMSTONE, by Robert B. Parker. (Berkley) C.I.A. and a weapon forgotten since the Cuban missile crisis. 34

HOTHOUSE ORCHID, by Stuart Woods. (Signet, $9.99.) A C.I.A. 2 HERO AT LARGE, by Janet Evanovich. (Harper/HarperCollins) 12 special agent finds that much has changed, and not for the better, 35 when she returns to her Florida hometown.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF DRAGONS, by Katie MacAlister. (Sig- 1 13 net, $7.99.) A suburban mom wakes up to learn that she’s a famous fire-breathing dragon.

NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, by Rachel Gibson. (Avon/Harper- 2 14 Collins, $7.99.) A failed actress becomes the personal assistant to a former hockey player.

SEDUCING AN ANGEL, by Mary Balogh. (Dell, $7.99.) A beau- 2 15 tiful widow in search of a lover sets her sights on the irresistible Earl of Merton.

THE SPIRE, by Richard North Patterson. (St. Martin’s, $9.99.) 1 16 A new college president opens an inquiry into a murder that oc- curred when he was a student.

* INDIGO BLUE, by Catherine Anderson. (Signet, $7.99.) A woman 1 17 torn between her white and Comanche roots is beguiled by the foreman of her family’s ranch; a reissue of a 1992 novel.

CHASING PERFECT, by Susan Mallery. (HQN, $7.99.) A city 2 18 planner loves everything about a charming town in the Sierra Ne- Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where vada foothills, except the local hunk; a Fool’s Gold romance. a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, JUST TAKE MY HEART, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Pocket, 6 regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, 19 $7.99.) An assistant prosecutor who has had a heart transplant supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that discovers that her life is at risk when she tries a murder case. a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi- cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac- tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test FATALLY FLAKY, by Diane Mott Davidson. (Avon/HarperCol- 3 20 lins, $7.99.) The caterer Goldy Schulz tries to outwit a killer on the preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics grounds of an Aspen spa. and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Copyright © 2010 by The New The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 York Times Paperback NonFiction Best Sellers List This Weeks This Week NONFICTION On List Week NONFICTION EXTENDED

MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, by Rhoda Jan- 4 HELMET FOR MY PILLOW, by Robert Leckie. (Bantam) 1 zen. (Holt, $14.) Life’s detours send Janzen back to the Mennonite 21 home where she was raised. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Cita- EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A 170 22 del/Kensington) 2 writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia. 23 LIAR’S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver 171 3 Relin. (Penguin, $16.) A former climber builds schools in villages PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Peren- in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 24 nial)

ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chel- 19 THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin) 4 sea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $16.) Humorous 25 personal essays from the comedian. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner) CONSERVATIVE VICTORY, by Sean Hannity. (Harper, $14.99.) 6 26 5 The Fox host calls for action against the policies of .(†) 27 IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin) MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, 80 6 $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE , by How- 28 ard Zinn. (Harper Perennial) THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $13.95.) The 32 7 evolving business of football, viewed through the rise of the left THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (An- tackle Michael Oher. 29 chor)

THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, 292 A PATRIOT’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by 8 Brown, $15.99.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as 30 Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. () fads. THE FIRST TYCOON, by T. J. Stiles. (Vintage) BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) 134 31 9 Hunch and instinct in the workings of the mind. THE SURVIVORS CLUB, by Ben Sherwood. (Grand Central) SOME GIRLS, by Jillian Lauren. (, $15.) An American’s 1 32 10 account of her 18 months in a harem in Borneo. SUMMER AT TIFFANY, by Marjorie Hart. (Avon) STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS, by Tracy Kidder. (Random 1 33 11 House, $16.) A medical student survives civil war and genocide in Burundi. THE BULLPEN GOSPELS, by Dirk Hayhurst. (Citadel/Kens- 34 ington) A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. 1 12 (Broadway, $15.99.) The commentator looks back at his ALTHOUGH OF COURSE YOU END UP BECOMING upbringing and career. 35 YOURSELF, by David Lipsky. (Broadway)

* WITH THE OLD BREED, by E. B. Sledge. (Presidio, $16.) A 5 13 memoir of fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II.

90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. 176 14 (Revell, $13.99.) A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

* FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. 37 15 (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A scholar and a journalist apply eco- nomic theory to nearly everything.

* SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME, by Ron Hall and Den- 78 16 ver Moore with Lynn Vincent. (Nelson, $14.99.) An unlikely friend- ship begins at a shelter in Texas.

THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann. (Vintage Departures, 15 17 $15.95.) A New Yorker writer searches for a British explorer lost in the in 1925.

THE GIRLS FROM AMES, by Jeffrey Zaslow. (Gotham, $16.) 5 18 An enduring friendship among a group of Midwestern women.

* SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT, by Matthew B. Crawford. 2 Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where 19 (Penguin, $15.) A philosopher on what manual labor can teach a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of about the world and oneself. independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, FOR YOU MOM, FINALLY, by Ruth Reichl. (Penguin, $13.) A 1 supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that 20 pioneering food journalist examines the life of her mother, and the a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indi- sacrifices she made. cates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not ac- tively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 by The New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous

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WOMEN FOOD AND GOD, by Geneen Roth. (Scribner, $24.) 18 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi 1 459 1 How women can free themselves from the tyranny of fear and 1 Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. (Workman, $14.95.) Advice for par- hopelessness surrounding their bodies. ents-to-be.(†)

THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT (AND HOW TO GET THIN 32 THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (North- 2 145 2 FOREVER), by Jackie Warner. (Wellness Central, $24.99.) A ce- 2 field, $14.99.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will lebrity fitness trainer offers her path to an elusive goal. understand.

BRINGING UP GIRLS, by James Dobson. (Tyndale House, 54 AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS, by Mike Bender and Doug 1 3 $25.99.) Parenting advice based on biblical principles. 3 Chernack. (Three Rivers, $15.) A cringe-worthy collection of por- traits from the creators of AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. LIFE! BY DESIGN, by Tom Ferry with Laura Morton. (Ballant- 1 4 ine, $25.) A life strategist offers a plan for success at home and at WHAT’S NEW, CUPCAKE?, by Karen Tack and Alan Richard- 10 4 work.(†) 4 son. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.95.) Simple cupcake designs and recipes. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FU- 94 5 TURE, by Michael J. Fox. (Hyperion, $17.99.) The actor shares OH MY DOG, by Beth Ostrosky Stern with Kristina Grish. (Gal- 1 lessons learned. 5 lery, $25.99.) A guide to owning a dog, with tips on choosing, train- ing and feeding. HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD, by Trisha 75 6 Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard. THE BELLY FAT CURE, by Jorge Cruise. (Hay House, $19.95.) 3 16 (Clarkson Potter, $29.99.) The country music star serves up reci- 6 Do-over recipes using the “Carb Swap System” steer you away pes from a lifetime of potlucks. from foods full of hidden sweeteners and processed carbohy- drates. * GIADA AT HOME, by Giada De Laurentiis. (Clarkson Potter, 5 7 $35.) The Food Network star offers family recipes from Italy and FOOD RULES, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $11.) A succinct and 4 19 California. 7 easy-to-grasp manual for healthy eating, based on the same gen- eral principles as Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma.” THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS, by Ree Drummond. (Mor- 15 8 row/HarperCollins, $27.50.) Cowboy-tested recipes from the pro- * NOW EAT THIS!, by Rocco DiSpirito. (Ballantine, $22.) Recipes 6 10 prietor of ThePioneerWoman.com.(†) 8 for favorite comfort foods, all under 350 calories.

* SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. (Broadway, $26.) How 6 11 COOK THIS, NOT THAT!, by David Zinczenko and Matt Gould- 5 16 9 everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in 9 ing. (Rodale, $19.99.) Saving calories by cooking “restaurant” of- life.(†) ferings at home.

THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. 86 THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU, by Eric C. Westman, 7 10 (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on “seizing every moment,” from a 10 Stephen D. Phinney and Jeff S. Volek. (Fireside/Simon & Schus- Carnegie Mellon University professor who died of cancer at age ter, $16.) An updated program for the Atkins low-carb diet. 47. HARDCOVER EXTENDED pApERbACk EXTENDED

MIKE AND MIKE’S RULES FOR SPORTS AND LIFE, by THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Law- 11 Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic with Andrew Chaikivsky. (Bal- 11 rence Kimbrough. (B&H) lantine/ESPN Books) HUNGRY GIRL 1-2-3, by Lisa Lillien. (St. Martin’s Griffin) THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, by Gretchen Rubin. (Harper/ 12 12 HarperCollins) 13 THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart Tolle. (New World Library) 13 THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words) 14 THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan) 14 WELLBEING, by Tom Rath and Jim Harter. (Gallup) HELLO, CUPCAKE!, by Alan Richardson and Karen Tack. MASTER YOUR METABOLISM, by Jillian Michaels with 15 (Houghton Mifflin) 15 Mariska van Aalst. (Crown)

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of indepen- dent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book- stores report receiving bulk orders. Among those categories not actively tracked are: perennial sellers; required classroom reading; text, reference and test preparation guides; journals and workbooks; calorie counters; shopping guides; comics and crossword puzzles. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 by The New York Times Children’s Best Sellers

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THE SANDWICH SWAP, by Queen Rania of Jordan with Kelly 2 THE RED PYRAMID, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, 1 1 DiPucchio. Illustrated by Tricia Tusa. (Disney-Hyperion, $16.99.) 1 $17.99.) Ancient gods (this time from Egypt) and a mortal family Breaking bread, whatever’’s in between, leads to understanding. meet in a new adventure. (Ages 10 and up) (Ages 3 to 7) THE CARRIE DIARIES, by Candace Bushnell. (Balzer & Bray/ 2 THE QUIET BOOK, by Deborah Underwood. Illustrated by Re- 3 2 HarperCollins, $18.99.) Carrie Bradshaw, years before “Sex and 2 nata Liwska. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $12.95.) Animal friends the City.” (Ages 14 and up) experience the numerous shades of quiet. (Ages 3 to 5) THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, $17.99.) 87 THE LION AND THE MOUSE, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. 27 3 In a dystopian future, a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 3 (Little, Brown, $16.99.) A fable of reciprocal kindness, redrawn. and up) (Ages 3 to 6) SPELLS, by Aprilynne Pike. (HarperTeen/HarperCollins, 1 WADDLE!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Work- 33 4 $16.99.) It’s time for major life and love decisions for the young 4 man, $12.95.) Animals in motion, with color. (Ages 4 to 8) denizens of fairyland. (Ages 12 and up)

INSTRUCTIONS, by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Charles Vess. 2 CATCHING FIRE, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, $17.99.) The 36 5 (Harper/HarperCollins, $14.99.) Wisdom for surviving life’s jour- 5 protagonist of “The Hunger Games” returns. (Ages 12 and up) ney. (All ages) BIG NATE: IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF, written and illustrated 6 MY GARDEN, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. (Green- 9 6 by Lincoln Peirce. (Harper/HarperCollins, $12.99.) Wherever Nate 6 willow/HarperCollins, $17.99.) A little girl’s garden yields a magi- may go, trouble is never far behind. (Ages 8 to 12) cal bounty. (Ages 4 to 8) THE PRINCE OF MIST, by Carlos Ruíz Zafon. (Little, Brown, 1 GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Work- 114 7 $17.99.) Spirits of the past swirl around three young sleuths. (Ages 7 man, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 12 and up) 4 to 8) DORK DIARIES, written and illustrated by Rachel Renée Rus- 9 SKIPPYJON JONES, LOST IN SPICE, written and illustrated 22 8 sell. (Aladdin, 12.99.) Reflections of a junior Samuel Pepys of the 8 by Judy Schachner. (Dutton, $16.99.) The peppery red planet cap- female variety. (Ages 9 to 13) tures a cat’s fancy. (Ages 4 to 8) FALLEN, by Lauren Kate. (Delacorte, $17.99.) Thwarted love at 22 MARLEY AND THE KITTENS, by John Grogan. Illustrated by 1 9 boarding school. (Ages 12 and up) 9 Richard Cowdrey. (Harper/HarperCollins, $17.99.) Dog plus cats means bedlam. (Ages 3 to 6) RULES OF ATTRACTION, by Simone Elkeles. (Walker, $16.99.) 4 10 A boy with gang ties, seeking safety, finds romance, too. (Ages 14 THE EARTH BOOK, written and illustrated by Todd Parr. (Me- 3 and up) 10 gan Tingley/Little, Brown, $9.99.) Ideas for saving the planet, plus a poster. (Ages 3 to 6)

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book- stores report receiving bulk orders. Perennial sellers are not actively tracked. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. All four children’s lists appear each week on the Book Review’s Web site. Publishers have provided the age designations for their best-selling children’s titles. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times Book re view May 23, 2010 by The New York Times Children’s Best Sellers

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THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf, $11.99.) A girl 139 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. 148 1 saves books from Nazi burning. (Ages 14 and up) 1 (Disney-Hyperion, hardcover and paper) Children of the gods battle mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12) L.A. CANDY, by Lauren Conrad. (HarperCollins, $9.99.) Excite- 18 2 ment in TV land. (Ages 14 and up) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kin- 69 2 ney. (Abrams, hardcover only) The travails of adolescence, in IF I STAY, by Gayle Forman. (Speak/Penguin, $8.99.) A young 5 cartoons. (Ages 9 to 12) 3 cellist falls into a coma after she suffers an accident. (Ages 12 and up) HOUSE OF NIGHT, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. (St. Martin’s, 88 3 hardcover and paper) Vampires in school. (Ages 14 and up) THREE CUPS OF TEA: YOUNG READERS EDITION, by 67 4 Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Puffin/Penguin, $8.99.) THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer. (Megan Tingley/ 144 A former climber builds schools in Pakistani and Afghan villages. 4 Little, Brown, hardcover and paper) Vampires and werewolves in (Ages 9 to 12) school. (Ages 12 and up)

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME IN- 56 THE 39 CLUES, by various authors. (Scholastic, hardcover 44 5 DIAN, by Sherman Alexie. Illustrated by Ellen Forney. (Little, 5 only) A brother and sister travel the world in search of the key to Brown, $8.99.) A young boy leaves his reservation for an all-white their family’s power. (Ages 9 to 12) school. (Ages 12 and up) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, by Cressida Cowell. (Little, 9 FANCY NANCY AND THE LATE, LATE, LATE NIGHT, by 2 6 Brown, hardcover and paper) A smart young Viking named Hic- 6 Jane O’Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. (HarperFes- cup and his pet. (Ages 8 to 12) tival/HarperCollins, $3.99.) The celebrity lifestyle leaves Nancy exhausted. (Ages 4 to 8) MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES, by Rachel Caine. (NAL Jam, pa- 6 7 per only) Vampires in town. (Ages 14 and up) LOCK AND KEY, by Sarah Dessen. (Speak/Penguin, $8.99.) A 25 7 crack appears in a girl’s mask of cynicism. (Ages 12 and up) VAMPIRE DIARIES, by L. J. Smith. (HarperTeen/HarperCol- 52 8 lins, hardcover and paper) Vampires in school, with a love tri- SCAT, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $8.99.) An eco-mystery, with a 2 angle. (Ages 12 and up) 8 dismal swamp and wild characters who are not always what they seem. (Ages 9 to 12) GONE, by Michael Grant. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, hard- 1 9 cover and paperback) A world where adults and communication MOVERS AND FAKERS, by Lisi Harrison. (Poppy/Little, 4 networks have disappeared. (Ages 12 and up) 9 Brown, $9.99.) A boarding school with a “no losers” policy. (Ages 12 and up) DARKEST POWERS, by . (Harper/Harper- 5 10 Collins, hardcover and paper) A genetically altered girl struggles SAVVY, by Ingrid Law. (Puffin/Penguin, $7.99.) Mibs is about to 6 with the demands of adolescence. (Ages 12 and up) 10 turn 13, the age at which supernatural abilities are conferred on members of her family. (Ages 9 to 12)

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended May 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some book- stores report receiving bulk orders. Perennial sellers are not actively tracked. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. All four children’s lists appear each week on the Book Review’s Web site. Publishers have provided the age designations for their best-selling children’s titles. Copyright © 2010 by May 23, 2010 The New York Times The New York Times Book re view Editor’s Choice

INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) OPERATION MINCEMEAT: How a Dead Man and SHORT: Walking Tall When You’re Not Tall at All, by Exercising a crafty fascination for the intricacies of re- a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied John Schwartz. (Flash Point/Roaring Brook, $16.99; petitive behavior, Turow brings back Rusty Sabich, now Victory, by Ben Macintyre. (Harmony, $25.99.) An enter- ages 11 to 14.) Humorous reassurances for vertically a judge and on trial again, 23 years after the enormously taining spy tale about the British ruse that employed a challenged kids, by a 5-foot-3 Times correspondent. popular “Presumed Innocent.” corpse to cover up the invasion of Sicily. CENTER FIELD, by Robert Lipsyte. (HarperTeen/ WAR, by Sebastian Junger. (Twelve, $26.99.) The author PRIVATE LIFE, by Jane Smiley. (Knopf, $26.95.) Smi- HarperCollins, $16.99; ages 12 and up.) A neglected high of “The Perfect Storm” spent months with American ley’s novel is a panoramic portrait that traces the life school baseball player sorts out his loyalties. soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan and details stages of a passive, avoidant woman, including her sad their intense lives in this original account. marriage to a delusional astronomer. SMILE, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier. (Graphix/Scholastic, $21.99; ages 9 to 13.) Telgemeier’s SLOW LOVE: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS, by Paul graphic-novel memoir depicts her dental travails. and Found Happiness, by Dominique Browning. (Atlas, Berman. (Melville House, $26.) Berman takes aim at the $23.) The former House & Garden editor describes her widespread admiration for the Muslim scholar Tariq The full reviews of these and other recent search for peace in a life of enforced leisure. Ramadan, which he believes is misplaced. books are on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

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LOVE AND OBSTACLES: Stories, by Aleksandar Book Review. “His storytelling is memorable” for NOBODY MOVE, by Denis Johnson. (Picador, Hemon. (Riverhead, $15.) The narrator of these its “sense of immersion into a distinctive world.” $14.) This short, tight crime noir was written as eight linked stories follows a Hemonesque trajec- a serial for Playboy magazine. Its protagonist, a tory. He’s an aspiring poet in Sarajevo and an exile THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The compulsive gambler deeply in debt, is a Steve Bus- in Chicago. And like Joseph Conrad, who is evoked Making of the Modern World 1776-1914, by cemi type whose “idea of a health trip is switching in the first story’s first sentence, he is an Eastern Gavin Weightman. (Grove, $16.95.) To describe to menthols.” The novel is full of Johnson’s trade- European who becomes celebrated for his writing the “global spread of industrialism,” Weightman mark utilitarian prose and snappy, darkly funny in English; he specializes, as he says, in “those skillfully stitches together thumbnail sketches of a dialogue. SLIP OF THE KNIFE, by Denise Mina. brainy postmodern setups everybody likes so well.” large number of inventors, engineers and visionar- (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $13.99.) Mina’s heroine Hemon is the author of a novel and two other story ies whose wanderings took them all over the world. is a Glasgow newspaper columnist who becomes collections. The real industrial revolutionaries, he believes, are an investigative reporter again when her first love those who were able to put ideas, whether or not is murdered. In the Book Review, Marilyn Stasio THE WHOLE FIVE FEET: What the Great they were their own, into practice. EIFFEL’S TOW- praised the “smudged beauty” of the urban settings Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and ER: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris’s Beloved and the “roaring wit of Glasgow’s colorful citizens.” Pretty Much Every thing Else, by Christopher Monument and the Extraordinary World’s Fair Mina’s “bold, brave crime novels make up for all R. Beha. (Grove, $14.) One lonely New Year’s Eve, That Introduced It, by Jill Jonnes. (Penguin, the indignities women suffer in genre fiction,” she Beha (inset) resolved to read all 51 volumes of the $16.) Built as the centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition proclaimed. Harvard Classics, the so-called Five-Foot Shelf con- Universelle, the Eiffel Tower, meant to be “a potent ceived by the Harvard president Charles W. Eliot as symbol of French modern industrial might,” drew BOTTOM OF THE NINTH: Branch Rickey, “a good substitute for a liberal education” and first both praise and criticism. Jonnes examines the Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to published in 1909. And so he did, but his encounters tower’s importance in its historical moment and Save Baseball From Itself, by Michael Shapiro. that year with family death and his own illness tells fascinating stories about the exposition, whose (Holt, $16.) Shapiro splices together two stories: make this narrative less of a gimmick and more of participants included Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley, the attempt by Branch Rickey, the former Brooklyn a meditation on the advice of Marcus Aurelius (Vol- Thomas Edison and James McNeill Whistler. Dodgers owner, to create a third league and pro- ume II): “A limit of time is fixed for thee.” Thomas mote a formula that would create parity among the Wright, too, took on a project — to read everything DRIVING LIKE CRAZY: Thirty Years of Ve- eight new teams, and the effort by the 70-year-old Oscar Wilde had read in order to “help me give hicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America Yankees manager Casey Stengel to win one last birth to a new self.” In BUILT OF BOOKS: How the Way It’s Supposed to Be — With an Oil championship, in 1960. “Shapiro makes us feel their Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde (John Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in pain,” our reviewer, Jonathan Eig, said. Macrae/Holt, $18), he discovers that although Wil- Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Fed- de’s “sexual rebellion” makes him appear modern, eral Reserve Bank Mowing Our Lawn, by P. J. VANESSA AND VIRGINIA, by Susan Sellers. (Mari- his classical education makes him “utterly alien to O’Rourke. (Grove, $14.) Three decades’ worth of ner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $13.95.) What us” in “intellectual and existential terms.” articles in praise of cars (road trips, the pleasures would it have been like to be Virginia Woolf’s older of driving impaired) prompted our reviewer, Neil sister? Sellers’s novel follows that sister, Vanessa THE SKY BELOW, by Stacey D’Erasmo. (Mariner/ Genzlinger, to observe that O’Rourke is “personally Bell, from the household of her authoritarian father Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.95.) The selfish yet responsible for the impending death of our race and to her wildly unconventional life as a painter. seductive narrator of D’Erasmo’s third novel has planet, but at his best, as he is for about two-thirds been an artist, a drug dealer, a rent boy and a ghost- of this volume, the guy’s hilarious.” Elsa DixlEr writer for an aged novelist he steals from. Still, his “voice is irresistible,” Susann Cokal wrote in the