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. 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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3. 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.

4. ____ 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.

5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Bob Dylan in America - by Sean Wilentz

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/07/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385529884
ISBN-10: 0385529880

Dylan's music in the context of its time.

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10. 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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11. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - by Chelsea Handler

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446552448
ISBN-10: 0446552445

More humorous personal essays.

12. 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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13. Choosing to See: A Journey of Struggle and Hope - by Mary Beth Chapman with Ellen Santilli Vaughn

Publisher: Revell
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780800719913
ISBN-10: 0800719913

The wife of the singer-songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman describes her life and faith and the death of their young daughter.

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14. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - by Anthony Bourdain

Publisher: Ecco
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/08/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061718946
ISBN-10: 0061718947

The author of Kitchen Confidential looks critically at changes in the food and restaurant cultures.

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15. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - by Christopher McDougall

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/05/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307266309
ISBN-10: 0307266303

Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 26 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 11, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.