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Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for April 21, 2005
from sales the week ending April 17, 2005
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Last Week/
Weeks on List
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The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.50, 0374292884
The award-winning New York Times journalist takes on globalization.
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1/2
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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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3/14
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My Life So Far
Jane Fonda, Random House, $26.95, 0375507108
Jane, Jane, Jane -- Fonda, soup to nuts.
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2/2
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And One More Thing Before You Go... - Debut
Maria Shriver, Free Press, $13.95, 0743281012
Good counsel for all ages, particularly those leaving the nest and entering the world.
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/1
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Winning
Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch, HarperBusiness, $27.95, 0060753943
Nuts and bolts management advice for workers on all rungs of the ladder.
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5/2
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On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946
Short. Insightful.
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7/5
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The Purpose-Driven Life
Rick Warren, Zondervan, $19.99, 0310205719
A Bible-centered framework for living.
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4/69
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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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6/7
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Freakonomics - Debut
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X
Analytical yet creative, provocative yet logical economic theory.
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/1
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Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl, Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200319
Multiple disguises were the necessary tools of the former restaurant critic for the New York Times. What fun! A Book Sense Notable.
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12/2
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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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8/15
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Suzanne Somers' Slim & Sexy Forever - Debut
Suzanne Somers, Crown, $25.95, 1400053250
Recipes and advice for health, for the apres-forty set.
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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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11/13
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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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9/16
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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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10/98
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ON THE RISE |
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Three Nights in August
Buzz Bissinger, Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618405445
Up close and personal with St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, over the course of a three-game series.
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