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Published: July 20, 2008
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THIS
WEEK |
TITLE |
LAST
WEEK |
WEEKS
ON LIST |
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris.
(Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s latest essays deal with
middle age, mortality and giving up smoking. |
1 |
6 |
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2 |
Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea
Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous
personal essays from the stand-up comedian. |
4 |
12 |
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3 |
Fleeced, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper,
$26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor
unions and lobbyists. |
2 |
3 |
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4 |
What Happened, by Scott McClellan. (PublicAffairs,
$27.95.) A former White House press secretary regrets that “I
allowed myself to be deceived” by top officials. |
3 |
7 |
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5 |
STORI Telling, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin.
(Simon Spotlight, $24.95.) The actress’s memoir, from her
Hollywood childhood through “Beverly Hills, 90210,” to her son’s
birth. |
9 |
7 |
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6 |
The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston with Mario
Spezi. (Grand Central, $25.99.) An American writer who moved to
Florence works with an Italian journalist to discover the
identity of a local serial killer. |
5 |
5 |
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7 |
The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton,
$25.95.) The rise of China and India and the global distribution
of power. |
8 |
11 |
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8 |
Audition, by Barbara Walters. (Knopf, $29.95.) A
personal and professional memoir. |
7 |
10 |
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9 |
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, by Vincent
Bugliosi. (Vanguard, $26.95.) The Manson prosecutor makes a case
for trying the president for the deaths of 4,000 American
soldiers in Iraq. |
16 |
5 |
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10 |
My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking,
$24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996
stroke. |
6 |
6 |
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11 |
Rome 1960, by David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster,
$26.95.) How the 1960 Olympic Games reflected their time. |
14 |
2 |
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12 |
Somewhere in Heaven, by Christopher Andersen. (Hyperion,
$23.95.) The marriage of Christopher and Dana Reeve. |
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1 |
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13 |
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press,
$21.95.) A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly
plants.” |
12 |
20 |
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14 |
I am America (and So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert,
Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Allison Silverman et al. (Grand
Central, $26.99.) The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of
Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.” |
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28 |
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15 |
Me of Little Faith, by Lewis Black. (Riverhead, $24.95.)
The stand-up comedian’s essays about religion focus on what we
believe and why. |
11 |
6 |
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