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Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for March 24, 2005
from sales the week ending March 20, 2005
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Last Week/
Weeks on List
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Plan B
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $24.95, 1573222992
A follow-up to Traveling Mercies, more humorous, spiritual, thoughtful pieces. A Book Sense Pick.
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1/3
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The Purpose-Driven Life
Rick Warren, Zondervan, $19.99, 0310205719
A Bible-centered framework for living.
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/65
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Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316172324
Gladwell does for first impressions what he did for memetics in his bestselling The Tipping Point.
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2/10
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French Women Don't Get Fat
Mireille Guiliano, Knopf, $22, 1400042127
Sacre bleu! Fresh ideas for slimming down from the U.S. CEO of a large French champagne company.
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3/11
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Collapse
Jared Diamond, Viking, $29.95, 0670033375
The author of the popular Guns, Germs, and Steel now turns his lens towards societies and how environmental factors impact their futures. Recommended by booksellers with Book Sense.
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4/12
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Mother-Daughter Wisdom
Christiane Northrup, M.D., Bantam, $28, 0553105736
A holistic view of women's physical and spiritual health.
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5/2
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Conspiracy of Fools - Debut
Kurt Eichenwald, Broadway, $26, 0767911784
The rise and fall of Enron. A compulsively readable Book Sense Pick.
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/1
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God's Politics
Jim Wallis, HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060558288
A timely discussion of Church and State.
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6/9
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A Deadly Game - Debut
Catherine Crier, ReganBooks, $27.95, 0060766123
A former judge and legal commentator presents a comprehensive, detailed rundown of the disturbing murder of Laci Peterson.
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/1
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America (The Book)
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff, Warner, $24.95, 0446532681
The funny, funny side of politics.
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7/26
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The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston, M.D., Rodale, $24.95, 1579546463
Finally a low-carb diet we can live with?
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12/94
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He's Just Not That Into You
Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo, S&S, $19.95, 068987474X
Ouch! The truth, the whole truth, from a horse's mouth.
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/25
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Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Scribner, $25, 0743247698
An autistic herself, Temple Grandin relates the behavior of animals and autistics.
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9/10
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On Bullshit - Debut
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946
Short. Insightful.
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/1
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Men in Black - Debut
Mark R. Levin, Regnery, $27.95, 0895260506
A conservative attack against judicial activism.
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/1
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $25, 0743247531
A lovely telling of a most bizarre upbringing. Chosen by independent booksellers as a Book Sense Pick.
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