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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for April 4, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 31, 2013
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| Hardcover Nonfiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. |
Lean In Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385349949 Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, common sense ideas to empower women to achieve their full potential. |
1/3 |
| 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. |
2/32 |
| 3. |
The Drunken Botanist Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $19.95, 9781616200466 Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, transformed into alcohol over the centuries. |
3/3 |
| 4. |
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. |
5/20 |
| 5. |
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. |
4/11 |
| 6. |
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. |
7/5 |
| 7. |
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. |
10/27 |
| 8. |
The FastDiet Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer, Atria, $24, 9781476734941 A radical new way of thinking about food, and a lifestyle choice that could transform your health. |
8/2 |
| 9. |
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. |
9/7 |
| 10. |
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. |
14/113 |
| 11. |
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II- Debut Denise Kiernan, Touchstone, $27, 9781451617528 Kiernan's book is a fascinating look at a remarkable, almost forgotten chapter of American history. |
/1 |
| 12. |
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941- Debut Lynne Olson, Random House, $30, 9781400069743 A powerful narrative that chronicles the debate over American intervention in World War II by the bestselling author of Citizens of London. |
/1 |
| 13. |
Sum It Up 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. |
/2 |
| 14. |
Daring Greatly Brene Brown, Gotham, $26, 9781592407330 Brown offers a new vision that encourages us to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. |
11/2 |
| 15. |
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. |
13/7 |
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| 19. |
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala, Knopf, $24, 9780307962690 Deraniyagala's unforgettable memoir of the devastating tsunami in Sri Lanka in December 2004. |
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