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Bestseller List for September 20, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 16, 2012
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Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | No Easy Day Mark Owen, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525953722 A first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid by a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. |
1/2 |
2. | The Price of Politics- Debut Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781451651102 Woodward looks at how President Obama and Congressional leaders attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government's fiscal condition. |
/1 |
3. | Wild Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736 Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/26 |
4. | Mortality Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $22.99, 9781455502752 Hitchens, who died in December 2011, poignantly describes the torments of illness and how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. |
3/3 |
5. | I Could Pee on This Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585 In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, Marciuliano helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans. |
4/5 |
6. | Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168 An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. |
5/96 |
7. | How Music Works David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531 Byrne's brainy, irresistible, and impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power. |
15/3 |
8. | Dearie Bob Spitz, Knopf, $29.95, 9780307272225 An entertaining and in-depth new biography of Julia Child. |
6/6 |
9. | Darth Vader and Son Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452106557 Brown's delightful book presents the trials and joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far, far away. |
7/16 |
10. | Double Cross Ben Macintyre, Crown, $26, 9780307888754 Macintyre tells the intriguing story of the grand final deception of WWII and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it. |
9/7 |
11. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
/37 |
12. | Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story D.T. Max, Viking, $27.95, 9780670025923 Max's biography of one of the most influential writers of his generation, David Foster Wallace. |
8/3 |
13. | Guinness World Records 2013- Debut Guinness, $28.95, 9781904994879 The latest incarnation of the bestselling annual with thousands of new and classic records. |
/1 |
14. | The Amateur Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987852 Klein's view of the Obama administration's political inner workings. |
12/15 |
15. | Wheat Belly William Davis, Rodale, $25.99, 9781609611545 A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage and reverse many health problems. |
11/2 |
ON THE RISE | ||
18. | How Children Succeed Paul Tough, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547564654 Tough examines how character plays a role in why some children succeed and others fail. |
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