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. 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.

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. ---- 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.

5. 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.

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. 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.

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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. 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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10. The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists - by Aaron Klein with Brenda J. Elliott

Publisher: WND Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/03/2010
ISBN-13: 9781935071877
ISBN-10: 1935071874

President Obama’s life and campaigns are sifted for Communist and socialist ties.

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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. 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 the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.

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13. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition - by Daniel Okrent

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780743277020
ISBN-10: 0743277023

The rise and fall of Prohibition.

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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. 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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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 13 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending May 29, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.