1. The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/07/2010
ISBN-13: 9780553805376
ISBN-10: 0553805371

Central questions of philosophy and science, from the author of A Brief History of Time.

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2. Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama - by Bill O'Reilly

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061950711
ISBN-10: 0061950718

The Fox News commentator scrutinizes the meaning of change in the era of Obama.

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3. ____ My Dad Says - by Justin Halpern

Publisher: It Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061992704
ISBN-10: 0061992704

A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author's father.

4. Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama - by David Limbaugh

Publisher: Regnery
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/23/2010
ISBN-13: 9781596986244
ISBN-10: 1596986247

A political indictment of the Obama presidency.

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5. A Journey: My Political Life - by Tony Blair

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307269836
ISBN-10: 0307269833

A memoir by the former British prime minister.

6. Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer - by Nancy G. Brinker with Joni Rodgers

Publisher: Crown Archetype
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307718129
ISBN-10: 0307718123

How a sister's love started a global movement to end breast cancer.

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7. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean - by Susan Casey

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780767928847
ISBN-10: 0767928849

Giant oceanic waves and the scientists and surfers who love them.

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8. Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/18/2008
ISBN-13: 9780316017923
ISBN-10: 0316017922

Why some people succeed--it has to do with luck and opportunity--from the author of Blink.

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9. Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View - by Stephen Breyer

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307269911
ISBN-10: 0307269914

The Supreme Court justice discusses legal philosophy, history, and the Constitution.

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10. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - by Michael Lewis

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780393072235
ISBN-10: 0393072231

The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

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11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - by Isabel Wilkerson

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/07/2010
ISBN-13: 9780679444329
ISBN-10: 0679444327

The Great Migration of blacks who fled the South, starting in 1915.

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12. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History - by S. C. Gwynne

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416591054
ISBN-10: 1416591052

The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.

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13. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - by Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670021659
ISBN-10: 0670021652

The author of Eat, Pray, Love wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.

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14. Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream - by Arianna Huffington

Publisher: Crown Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/07/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307719829
ISBN-10: 0307719820

The American middle class as an endangered species, by the editor of the Huffington Post website.

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15. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot

Publisher: Crown Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400052172
ISBN-10: 1400052173

The story of a woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 3 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 18, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.