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Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for April 28, 2005
from sales the week ending April 24, 2005
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Hardcover Nonfiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.50, 0374292884
The award-winning NYT journalist takes on globalization. |
1/3 |
| 2. |
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316172324
Gladwell does for first impressions what he did for memetics in his bestselling
The Tipping Point. |
2/15 |
| 3. |
My Life So Far
Jane Fonda, Random House, $26.95, 0375507108
Jane, Jane, Jane -- Fonda, soup to nuts. |
3/3 |
| 4. |
And One More Thing Before You Go...
Maria Shriver, Free Press, $13.95, 0743281012
Good counsel for all ages, particularly those leaving the nest and entering
the world. |
4/2 |
| 5. |
Plan B
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $24.95, 1573222992
A follow-up to Traveling Mercies, more humorous, spiritual, thoughtful
pieces. A Book Sense Pick. |
8/8 |
| 6. |
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946
Short. Insightful. |
6/6 |
| 7. |
The Purpose-Driven Life
Rick Warren, Zondervan, $19.99, 0310205719
A Bible-centered framework for living. |
7/70 |
| 8. |
Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl, Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200319
Multiple disguises were the necessary tools of the former restaurant critic
for the NYT. What fun! A Book Sense Notable. |
10/3 |
| 9. |
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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5/3 |
| 10. |
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X
Analytical yet creative, provocative yet logical economic theory. |
9/2 |
| 11. |
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. |
11/16 |
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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. |
14/17 |
| 13. |
Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and
Mental Transformation - Debut
Pamela Peeke, Rodale, $26.95, 1579546013
Dr. Peeke, author of Fight Fat After Forty, offers the Body-for-Life
plan just for women. |
/1 |
| 14. |
God's Politics
Jim Wallis, HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060558288
A timely discussion of Church and State. |
13/14 |
| 15. |
Assassination Vacation - Debut
Sarah Vowell, S&S, $21, 0743260031
A historical, political, and slightly macabre journey to political assassination
sites around the country. Road-trip anyone? |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 16. |
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir
Bob Dole, HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060763418
A riveting, true account of Bob Dole's WWII experiences. |
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