The James Logan Courier

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)


HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Giving. Bill Clinton. Knopf, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Secret. Rhonda Byrne. Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 36
3. The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About. Kevin Trudeau. Alliance Publishing, $24.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 14
4. Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa & Bill Kolodiejchuk. Doubleday, $22.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
5. Quiet Strength. Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. Tyndale, $26.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9
6. The Dangerous Book for Boys. Conn & Hal Iggulden. Collins, $24.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 19
7. Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Little, Brown, $24.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 13
8. Dead Certain. Robert Draper. Free Press, $28
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. Wonderful Tonight. Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor. Harmony, $25.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
10. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. Alan Alda. Random House, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
11. The World Without Us. Alan Weisman. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 7
12. Blonde Ambition. Rita Cosby. Grand Central, $23.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
13. Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life. Wayne Dyer. Hay House, $26.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 6
14. It's All About Him. Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn. Thomas Nelson, $24.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 6
15. You Can Run but You Can't Hide. Duane "Dog" Chapman. Hyperion, $25.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 5

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 16
2. The Wheel of Darkness. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $25.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Bones to Ashes. Kathy Reichs. Scribner, $25.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
4. Dark Possession. Christine Feehan. Berkley, $24.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
5. The Elves of Cintra. Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $26.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
6. The Quickie. James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 10
7. HeartSick. Chelsea Cain. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
8. Play Dirty. Sandra Brown. Simon & Schuster, $26.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4
9. Sweet Revenge. Diane Mott Davidson. Morrow, $25.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
10. Tree of Smoke. Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
11. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade. Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte, $25
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2
12. Songs Without Words. Ann Packer. Knopf, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
13. Away. Amy Bloom. Random House, $23.95
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 3
14. Garden Spells. Sarah Addison Allen. Bantam, $20
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
15. Power Play. Joseph Finder. St. Martin's, $24.95
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 3


MASS MARKET
1. The Collectors. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $9.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
2. 74 Seaside Avenue. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $7.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Act of Treason. Vince Flynn. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
4. Inferno (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force). Troy Denning. Del Rey, $7.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
5. Beyond Seduction. Stephanie Laurens. Avon, $7.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
6. Killer Dreams. Iris Johansen. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
7. Innocent in Death. J.D. Robb. Berkley, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2
8. Silver Master. Jayne Castle. Jove, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2
9. What Came Before He Shot Her. Elizabeth George. Harper, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
10. Break No Bones. Kathy Reichs. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
11. The Mephisto Club. Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
12. Exile. Richard North Patterson. St. Martin's, $9.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 2
13. Fresh Disasters. Stuart Woods. Signet, $9.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
14. Ricochet. Sandra Brown. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 7
15. Darkfever. Karen Marie Moning. Dell, $6.99
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 2

TRADE
1. Water for Elephants. Sara Gruen. Algonquin, $13.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 21
2. Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin, $15
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 32
3. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 152
4. Skinny Bitch. Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Running Press, $13.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 6
5. The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 63
6. The Emperor's Children. Claire Messud. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 10
7. 90 Minutes in Heaven. Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. Revell, $12.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 24
8. The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. Harper San Francisco, $13.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 55
9. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 62
10. Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $13.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 5
11. Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador, $15
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 14
12. Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Anchor, $13.95
Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 2
13. The Road. Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 24
14. Digging to America. Anne Tyler. Ballantine, $14.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
15. The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Picador, $16
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 6

(c) 2007, Reed Elsevier, USA
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