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  They Did it with Love

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Miracle on 49th Street

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Bestseller List for November 13, 2008
Based on sales for the week ending November 9, 2008.


  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Shack
William P. Young, Windblown, $14.99, 9780964729230
A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted.		 1/25
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $14, 9781594483295
The bestselling sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back is now available in paperback.		 2/10
3. Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Picador, $14, 9780312427085
A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend.		 3/28
4. The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $14, 9780142001745
The story of a 14-year-old girl set in South Carolina in 1964.		 4/164
5. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback.		 5/31
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15, 9781933372600
Barbery's novel, a major bestseller in Europe, is a September Indie Next List Notable title.		 8/10
7. The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, Free Press, $14, 9781416562603
Adiga's darkly comic debut novel looks at India's class struggles. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.		 7/4
8. Run
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780061340642
An intimate domestic drama from the author of Bel Canto.		 6/15
9. World Without End
Ken Follett, NAL, $22, 9780451224996
Follett brings us back to Kingsbridge, the setting of his bestselling Pillars of the Earth.		 9/5
10. Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400030903
An unforgettable portrait of vanishing small-town America.		 11/13
11. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605
An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback.		 12/83
12. In the Woods
Tana French, Penguin, $14, 9780143113492
French's debut novel is a gripping story of the murder of a child in a suburb of Dublin.		 10/25
13. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848
This remarkable historical novel is an October Indie Next List Great Read.		 14/5
14. The Best American Short Stories 2008
Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 9780618788774
A brilliant collection of the year's best short fiction.		 13/7
15. Home to Holly Springs - Debut
Jan Karon, Penguin, $14.95, 9780143114390
Karon's first book in a series featuring Episcopal priest Father Tim.		 /1
  ON THE RISE  
19. Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan, Penguin, $13, 9780143114420
O'Nan's touching novel of the last day of business of a Connecticut Red Lobster, now available in paperback.		  


  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
An elegant memoir of race and place from the president-elect.		 2/103
2. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705
The president-elect's vision of hope for the future of our country.		 3/46
3. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.		 1/93
4. Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400033539
Sacks looks at the affect music can have in our daily lives.		 4/7
5. The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $14.95, 9780393333060
The true story of the zookeeper who hid hundreds of Polish Jews during WWII, based on diaries of the wife.		 5/10
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566
The Kingsolver family moves to a rural Virginia farm and vows to eat locally for one year.		 7/28
7. The Nine
Jeffrey Toobin, Anchor, $15.95, 9781400096794
Supreme Court watcher and analyst Toobin takes us behind the veil to reveal (some of) the mystery of the high court.		 8/9
8. A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963
This follow-up to The Power of Now is an Oprah Book Club pick.		 10/41
9. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
The author's yearlong search for spiritual meaning.		 6/94
10. Change We Can Believe In
Obama for America, Barack Obama (Intro.), Three Rivers, $13.95, 9780307460455
Obama's ideas about how to fix the economy and strengthen the middle class.		 /2
11. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580
A hard-boiled look at the food chain.		 9/63
12. The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, Picador, $16, 9780312427993
How the free-market can provoke the collapse of local economies.		 13/8
13. Marley & Me
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95, 9780060817091
Irresistible, funny, and finally available in paperback!		 11/27
14. Shakespeare
Bill Bryson, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 9780061673696
A look at the life and work of Shakespeare by the author of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.		 14/2
15. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, FSG, $12, 9780374531263
The story of a 12-year-old soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone.		 /13
  ON THE RISE  
21. Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow
Tom Brokaw, Random House, $18, 9780812975116
The bestselling journalist recalls the 1960s.		  


  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $22, 9780385340991
This wonderful, poignant novel is the number one August Indie Next Great Read.		 2/15
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski, Ecco, $25.95, 9780061374227
A masterful debut novel of a mute boy's coming of age in rural Wisconsin. This July Indie Next List Great Read is now an Oprah Book Club title.		 1/22
3. The Gate House
Nelson DeMille, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446533423
DeMille's sequel to his 1990 bestseller, The Gold Coast.		 3/2
4. Divine Justice - Debut
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446195508
The new Camel Club thriller by the bestselling author of Stone Cold.		 /1
5. The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316166294
Connelly brings his two most popular characters, Hieronymus Bosch and Mickey Haller, together in this riveting thriller.		 5/4
6. A Lion Among Men
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.95, 9780060548926
Maguire's much-anticipated new novel shows Oz through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.		 8/4
7. A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré, Scribner, $28, 9781416594888
Le Carré's latest novel of spies and counterspies is an October Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/5
8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269751
This debut thriller by Swedish journalist Larsson is an October Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/8
9. Extreme Measures
Vince Flynn, Atria, $27.95, 9780743270427
A new political thriller by the bestselling author of Protect and Defend.		 6/3
10. The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446579933
A new love story by the bestselling author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe.		 9/6
11. Testimony
Anita Shreve, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316059862
Shreve's latest novel looks at the devastating results of a student sex scandal at a small private school.		 7/3
12. The Given Day
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.95, 9780688163181
The new historical novel by the author of Mystic River is an October Indie Next List Great Read.		 15/7
13. I See You Everywhere
Julia Glass, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780375422751
The new novel by the author of The Whole World Over is the #1 November Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/4
14. Swallowing Darkness - Debut
Laurell K. Hamilton, Ballantine, $26, 9780345495938
Bestselling author Hamilton's seventh Meredith Gentry novel.		 /1
15. Rough Weather
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399155192
Spenser hunts an old nemesis, the Gray Man.		 14/3
  ON THE RISE  
30. Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh, FSG, $26, 9780374174224
An epic adventure novel of the Opium Wars in nineteenth-century Calcutta.		  


  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dewey
Vicki Myron, Grand Central, $19.99, 9780446407410
The touching true story of an abandoned kitten's impact on a public library and the town of Spencer, Iowa.		 1/8
2. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781400054350
The latest cookbook from the Food Network star and bestselling author of Barefoot in Paris.		 2/2
3. Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.95, 9780374166854
The latest by the author of The World Is Flat looks at the global environmental crisis, and what we can do about it.		 3/9
4. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
The life-affirming "last lecture" by Pausch, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.		 5/31
5. Goodnight Bush
Erich Origen, Gan Golan, Little Brown, $14.99, 9780316040419
The Bush administration is roasted in this fun parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon.		 8/23
6. Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou, Random House, $25, 9781400066124
Wonderful essays by the beloved author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.		 6/6
7. The Snowball
Alice Schroeder, Bantam, $35, 9780553805093
A biography of one of the most successful and well respected men of our time.		 7/6
8. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316143479
Yet another laugh-out-loud collection of essays by indie fave Sedaris.		 11/23
9. The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489990
The bestselling author of Assassination Vacation explores the Puritans and their voyage to America.		 10/5
10. My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020744
A Harvard-trained brain scientist's account of her recovery from a massive stroke.		 9/17
11. Flat Belly Diet!
Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello, Rodale, $25.95, 9781594868511
A weight-loss plan that targets belly fat, by editors at Prevention magazine.		 4/2
12. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $26, 9780767928823
A memoir by the Fox News Network talk-show host and author of The O’Reilly Factor.		 12/7
13. Tried by War
James M. McPherson, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201912
A look at the Lincoln presidency by the author of Battle Cry of Freedom.		 15/4
14. Guinness World Records 2009
, Guinness, $28.95, 9781904994374
The annual look at world records, wild, wacky, and serious.		 14/8
15. Holidays on Ice - Debut
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316035903
Sedaris's bestselling holiday collection is new again, with six more pieces.		 /1
  ON THE RISE  
20. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Irene Pepperberg, Collins, $23.95, 9780061672477
An extraordinary true story of the bond between a human and a parrot.		  


  Mass Market Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441016990		 4/6
2. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Debut
Barack Obama, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307455871		 /1
3. Now and Then
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425224144		 1/5
4. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890		 9/55
5. Duma Key
Stephen King, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416552963		 3/3
6. Living Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441009237		 5/3
7. The Darkest Evening of the Year
Dean Koontz, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553589122		 2/3
8. Bleeding Kansas - Debut
Sara Paretsky, Signet, $9.99, 9780451224484		 /1
9. Double Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446198981		 6/6
10. Club Dead - Debut
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441010516		 /1


  Children's Interest  
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $10.95, 9780810979772		  
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136		  
3. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207		  
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810994737		  
5. Inkdeath
Cornelia Funke, Chicken House, $24.99, 9780439866286		  
6. Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
Nikki Grimes, Bryan Collier (Illus.), S&S, $16.99, 9781416971443		  
7. The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper, $17.99, 9780060530921		  
8. The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $7.99, 9780763625290		  
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Debut
John Boyne, David Fickling, $8.99, 9780385751537		  
10. Slam
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $14, 9781594483455		  
11. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little Brown, $6.99, 9780316003957		  
12. Barack Obama: An American Story - Debut
Roberta Edwards, Ken Call (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $3.99, 9780448447995		  
13. The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin, $35, 9780618233786		  
14. Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama - Debut
Garen Thomas, Feiwel & Friends, $6.99, 9780312537098		  
15. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023481		  


  Children's Illustrated  
1. Swing!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761151272		  
2. Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633		  
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617		  
4. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Laura Geringer, $16.99, 9780060283247		  
5. Fancy Nancy: Let's Get Fancy Together! - Debut
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperCollins, $17.99, 9780061576713		  
6. Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Mark Cotta Vaz, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316043137		  
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926		  
8. Gingerbread Friends
Jan Brett, Putnam, $17.99, 9780399251610		  
9. Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book - Debut
Tomie dePaola, Putnam, $29.99, 9780399244537		  
10. Pete & Pickles
Berkeley Breathed, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399250828		  
11. ABC3D - Debut
Marion Bataille, Roaring Brook, $19.95, 9781596434257		  
12. Thanks for Thanksgiving - Debut
Julie Markes, Doris Barrette (Illus.), HarperTrophy, $6.99, 9780060510985		  
13. Fifteen Animals!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9780761130666		  
14. My First Thanksgiving - Debut
Tomie dePaola, Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99, 9780448448572		  
15. Bee & Me
Elle J. McGuinness, Heather Brown (Illus.), Accord, $16.99, 9780740777349		  


  Children's Series
1. Twilight (hardcover and paperback)
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley
2. Inheritance (hardcover and paperback)
Christopher Paolini, Laurel-Leaf
3. Ranger's Apprentice (hardcover)
New in Series: The Sorcerer of the North (Book 5)
John Flanagan, Philomel
4. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.)
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
6. The Book of Ember (hardcover and paperback)
Jeanne DuPrau, Yearling
7. Alex Rider Adventures (hardcover and paperback)
Anthony Horowitz, Puffin
8. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
9. Junie B. Jones (hardcover and paperback)
Barbara Park, Denise Brunkas (Illus.), Random House
10. Warriors (hardcover and paperback)
Erin Hunter, Avon