1. Spoken from the Heart - by Laura Bush

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439155202
ISBN-10: 1439155208

A memoir from the former first lady.

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2. War - by Sebastian Junger

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446556248
ISBN-10: 0446556246

The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of The Perfect Storm.

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

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780393072235
ISBN-10: 0393072231

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

4. The Promise - by Jonathan Alter

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/18/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439101193
ISBN-10: 1439101191

A detailed look at President Obama’s decision-making process on issues like health care and the Afghanistan war offers a glimpse of what it’s like to work in his White House.

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5. To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine - by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis

Publisher: Regnery
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/17/2010
ISBN-13: 9781596985964
ISBN-10: 1596985968

How to reverse President Obama's policies, by the former speaker of the House of Representatives.

6. 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 from the comedian.

7. ---- My Dad Says - by Justin Halpern

Publisher: HarperCollins
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.

8. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - by Nathaniel Philbrick

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670021727
ISBN-10: 0670021725

Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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9. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory - by Ben Macintyre

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/04/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307453273
ISBN-10: 0307453278

The British ruse that employed a corpse to fool the Nazis about the invasion of Sicily.

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10. This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection - by Carol Burnett

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/06/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307461186
ISBN-10: 0307461181

The comedian describes her rise in show business and the people she’s met along the way.

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11. Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball - by Bill Madden

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061690310
ISBN-10: 0061690317

A biography of the New York Yankees owner.

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12. Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Why some people succeed, from the author of Blink.

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13. The Pacific - by Hugh Ambrose

Publisher: NAL Caliber
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780451230232
ISBN-10: 045123023X

Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.

14. Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance - by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm

Publisher: Penguin Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9781594202506
ISBN-10: 1594202508

How the global financial system broke down in 2008, and what may happen if new regulations are not embraced.

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15. Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home - by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/18/2010
ISBN-13: 9780062000675
ISBN-10: 0062000675

A journalist captured and imprisoned by the North Koreans describes her captivity, and her sister, also a journalist, discusses her effort to get her and a colleague released.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 6 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 22, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.