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*--* Fiction Weeks on list 1. Run by Ann Patchett (Harper: $25.95) A widower faces 3 complications when one of his children is shadowed by the birth mother. 2. World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton: $35) Four 1 children of the Pillars’ families struggle in 14th century England during the Black Death. 3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 22 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 4. Playing for Pizza by John Grisham (Doubleday: $21.95) A 3 hack pro quarterback finds refuge on a football team in Parma, Italy. 5. You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan 5 (Little, Brown: $27.99) Trouble ensues when a nanny falls for her employer. 6. Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: $25.99) 2 Easy Rawlins, torn up at losing his longtime love, must track down two missing friends. 7. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: $26) Nathan 4 Zuckerman finds everything changed in post-9/11 New York City, his solitude challenged. 8. Dark of the Moon by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) A 2 Minnesota detective is sent to the little town of Bluestem to solve a wave of murders. 9. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & 4 Giroux: $27) The saga of an undercover CIA agent, beginning with the Tet offensive in Vietnam. 10. Midnight Rambler by James Swain (Ballantine: $24.95) An 1 antisocial ex-cop is determined to put a serial killer back in prison. *--*
*--* Nonfiction 1. Clapton by Eric Clapton (Broadway: $26) The guitarist 1 tells all about the blues, becoming a rock legend, his bouts with addiction and his loves. 2. I Am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 2 (Grand Central: $26.99) “The Colbert Report” star expounds on the forces destroying America. 3. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (Penguin: 4 $35) The enigmatic former Fed chief explains and rates his economic actions, good and bad. 4. Celebrity Detox (The Fame Game) by Rosie O’Donnell 1 (Grand Central: $23.99) How this celebrity walked away from the limelight. 5. My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas 2 (HarperCollins: $26.95) The high-court justice details his youth, early career and the battle for confirmation. 6. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton: 6 $24.95) How the Warsaw Zoo director and his wife tried to shelter Polish Jews during World War II. 7. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 43 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 8. Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry 1 Wills (Penguin: $29.95) How Christian ideas have shaped American government and society. 9. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday: $27.95) The 4 New Yorker reporter and legal eagle details the inner workings and politics of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan: $28) 2 How free trade and privatization policies have wreaked economic havoc around the world. *--*
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