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Trade Paperback Nonfiction
Bestseller List for April 7, 2005
from sales the week ending April 3, 2005
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Bad Cat
Jim Edgar, Workman, $9.95, 0761136193
That puss on page 278 looks awfully familiar...
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1/24
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The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601
A Book Sense Reading Group Pick and Book Sense Book of the Year finalist. As the subtitle says, murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America.
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2/60
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi, Random House, $13.95, 081297106X
A 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year winner! This memoir reminds us of the necessity for beauty, imagination, and literature.
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4/66
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624
A fascinating study of how and why major societal changes can happen quickly.
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5/13
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Don't Think of an Elephant
George Lakoff, Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717
How to counter conservative arguments.
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3/24
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad, Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417
The controversial and convincing account of the hidden lives of Afghan women and families.
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6/24
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Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806
Murder and extreme Mormonism collide in Utah. A hardcover bestseller, too.
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11/43
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Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals - Debut
Rachael Ray, Clarkson Potter, $18.95, 1400082536
She's perky, she's quick, and now The Food Network mega-star gets healthy!
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/1
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, Norton, $16.95, 0393317552
A persuasive chronicle of how the modern world came to be.
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7/13
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Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts, Perennial, $14.95, 006009026X
The wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters behind our country's founding men.
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12/7
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The Spiral Staircase
Karen Armstrong, Anchor, $14, 0385721277
The paperback edition of the deeply felt memoir by a former nun.
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10/5
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene, Vintage, $15.95, 0375727205
Physics made easy, in paperback.
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9/8
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The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $14, 1577314808
More millions to sell in paperback!
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8/16
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Alexander Hamilton - Debut
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $18, 0143034758
The bestselling bio, now in paperback.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Debut
Jack Weatherford, Three Rivers, $14.95, 0609809644
Fascinating history about the conqueror, his armies, and the world they changed.
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ON THE RISE |
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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
Kenji Kawakami, Norton, $12.95, 0393326764
These inventions go beyond useless, to unuseless!
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