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Bestseller List for March 14, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 9, 2013
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Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307594884 An autobiography by the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. |
1/8 |
2. | I Could Pee on This Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585 In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, Marciuliano helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans. |
2/29 |
3. | Help, Thanks, Wow Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $17.95, 9781594631290 Lamott writes about three simple prayers she believes are essential to coming through tough times and the hardships of daily life. |
3/17 |
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. |
4/50 |
5. | Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo, Random House, $27, 9781400067558 Boo's brilliant work of narrative nonfiction tells the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in the "unequal city" of Mumbai. |
6/24 |
6. | Detroit: An American Autopsy Charlie LeDuff, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594205347 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff looks at his hometown of Detroit for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. |
13/4 |
7. | Salt Sugar Fat Michael Moss, Random House, $28, 9781400069804 Pulitzer Prize-winner Moss exposes the story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the obesity epidemic. |
5/2 |
8. | Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective- Debut Pat Summitt, Sally Jenkins, Crown Archetype, $28, 9780385346870 Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, talks about facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. |
/1 |
9. | The Future Al Gore, Random House, $30, 9780812992946 A frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come, by the former vice president and author of An Inconvenient Truth. |
10/6 |
10. | Life Code Phillip C. McGraw, Bird Street Books, $26, 9780985462734 Dr. Phil McGraw tells readers the ugly truth about the users, abusers, and overall "bad guys" we all have in our lives. |
7/4 |
11. | Going Clear Lawrence Wright, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307700667 A look into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower. |
12/8 |
12. | Whitey Bulger Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy, Norton, $26.95, 9780393087727 An unforgettable look at the gangster career of Whitey Bulger, and the epic manhunt for him. |
9/2 |
13. | Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court- Debut Sandra Day O'Connor, Random House, $26, 9780812993929 O'Connor provides a fascinating look at the history and evolution of the United States Supreme Court. |
/1 |
14. | The World Until Yesterday Jared M. Diamond, Viking, $36, 9780670024810 Diamond provides a mesmerizing, firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years -- a past that has mostly vanished -- and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. |
11/10 |
15. | 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. |
/110 |
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