Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List for February 9, 2006 from sales the week ending February 5, 2006 For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE or visit www.booksense.com   Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/ Weeks on List 1. Marley & Me John Grogan, Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089 The top Book Sense Pick for November. Irresistible and funny. 1/15 2. The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.50, 0374292884 The award-winning New York Times journalist takes on globalization. 3/43 3. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion, Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X A devastating, honest, and therapeutic memoir of grief. Winner of the National Book Award and a Book Sense Notable title. 2/18 4. Our Endangered Values Jimmy Carter, S&S, $25, 0743284577 The former president cautions Americans against eroding the separation between church and state. 5/14 5. Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X Analytical yet creative, provocative yet logical economic theory. A Book Sense Pick. 4/42 6. Teacher Man Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26, 0743243773 A journey through teaching in the NYC public schools, by the beloved author of Angela's Ashes. 6/12 7. You're Wearing That? Deborah Tannen, Random House, $24.95, 1400062586 Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand, attempts to dicipher the mother/daughter relationship through conversation. Were it only so simple... 9/2 8. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $35, 0684824906 The prize-winning historian studies Lincoln as the ultimate manager and motivator. 7/15 9. Blink Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316172324 Gladwell does for first impressions what he did for memetics in his bestselling The Tipping Point. 12/51 10. Self-Made Man Norah Vincent, Viking, $24.95, 0670034665 Passing as a man, in all ways, provides a rich journey and report. 8/2 11. Misquoting Jesus Bart D. Ehrman, HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060738170 Expect controversy with this critical assessment of the text of the New Testament. 13/5 12. 1776 David McCullough, S&S, $32, 0743226712 One year, grippingly told, by the renowned historian and storyteller. /33 13. Sex and the Seasoned Woman Gail Sheehy, Random House, $25.95, 1400062632 Views on approaching sex, love, romance, and marriage at different ages, from the author of Passages. 15/3 14. American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - Debut Bernard-Henri Levy, Random House, $24.95, 1400064341 A contemporary Frenchman's view of America. /1 15. The City of Falling Angels John Berendt, Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580 A new city, a new mystery, from the author of the bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. /16   ON THE RISE   18. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- And How It's Transforming the American Economy Charles Fishman, Penguin Press, $25.95, 1594200769 A balanced look at America's largest retailer.   The Book Sense Bestseller List is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted without permission from the American Booksellers Association. For information on obtaining permission, contact Meg Smith, Associate Director, Book Sense Marketing, ABA, 200 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591, call (914) 591-2665, ext. 6641. Reprint Guidelines.