1. ---- 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.

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. 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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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

Reversing President Obama's policies, by the former speaker of the House of Representatives.

7. 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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8. 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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9. 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 sense of what it’s like to work in his White House.

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10. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted: Boost Your Brain to Improve Your Weight, Skin, Heart, Energy, and Focus - by Daniel G. Amen

Publisher: Harmony Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/16/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307463579
ISBN-10: 0307463575

Using the brain-body connection to lose weight and avoid depression.

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11. Hitch-22: A Memoir - by Christopher Hitchens

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446540339
ISBN-10: 0446540331

The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir.

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12. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home - by Dan Ariely

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061995033
ISBN-10: 0061995037

How we can make better choices about money and relationships given the human tendency toward irrational, emotional decision-making.

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13. 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

Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.

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14. 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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15. Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song, and the Power of Perseverance - by David Archuleta with Monica Haim

Publisher: Celebra
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780451230188
ISBN-10: 0451230183

A young singer who was a runner-up on American Idol discusses his career, faith and family.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 20 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending June 5, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.