1. 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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2. ____ 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.

3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship - by Gail Caldwell

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400067381
ISBN-10: 1400067383

A tribute to a deep friendship between two women.

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8. The Obama Diaries - by Laura Ingraham

Publisher: Threshold Editions
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439197516
ISBN-10: 1439197512

A satirical fictional journal with commentary, by the conservative political commentator.

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9. 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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10. 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.

11. 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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12. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - by Mary Roach

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/02/2010
ISBN-13: 9780393068474
ISBN-10: 0393068471

A humorous investigation of life without gravity in the space program, by the author of Stiff and Bonk.

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13. Sliding into Home: A Memoir - by Kendra Wilkinson with Jon Warech

Publisher: Gallery Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/06/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439180914
ISBN-10: 1439180911

The life of the reality TV star and former Playboy cover model.

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14. The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam - by Eliza Griswold

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/17/2010
ISBN-13: 9780374273187
ISBN-10: 0374273189

An interpretive circuit of the swath of the globe where Christianity and Islam meet.

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15. 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 during the past ten years.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 12 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending August 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.