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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for May 17, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending May 13, 2012
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35, 9780679405078 Book four of Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson. |
1/2 |
| 2. | Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400069347 Sharp insights and revealing observations that confirm Quindlen's status as America's laureate of real life. |
2/3 |
| 3. | Drift Rachel Maddow, Crown, $25, 9780307460981 The popular talk show host examines the political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power. |
3/7 |
| 4. | Wild Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736 Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/8 |
| 5. | I Am a Pole (and So Can You!)- Debut Stephen Colbert, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455523429 The inimitable Colbert conquers new territory with his first children's book...for adults! |
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| 6. | Prague Winter Madeleine Albright, Harper, $29.99, 9780062030313 A remarkably personal and historical new memoir by the former U.S. Secretary of State. |
7/3 |
| 7. | Are You My Mother? Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22, 9780618982509 A brilliant, new graphic memoir by the bestselling author of Fun Home. |
6/2 |
| 8. | Imagine Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547386072 Lehrer's fascinating and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. |
8/8 |
| 9. | Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95, 9780399159015 Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," makes her literary debut. |
9/4 |
| 10. | End This Depression Now! Paul Krugman, Norton, $24.95, 9780393088779 Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Krugman's ideas for a quick and strong economic recovery. |
5/2 |
| 11. | Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168 An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. |
11/78 |
| 12. | Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
12/16 |
| 13. | This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More- Debut Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's, $24.99, 9780312563554 The bestselling author of Running With Scissors explores how to survive the "un-survivable". |
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| 14. | When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice- Debut Terry Tempest Williams, FSG, $23, 9780374288976 Williams' lyrical and caring meditation on the mystery of her mother's journals. |
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| 15. | A Natural Woman Carole King, Grand Central, $27.99, 9781455512614 King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. |
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