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1. Have a Little Faith: A True Story - by Mitch Albom

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780786868728
ISBN-10: 0786868724

A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.

2. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780060889579
ISBN-10: 0060889578

A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.

3. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316075848
ISBN-10: 0316075841

A decade of New Yorker essays.

4. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis--and Lost - by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021253
ISBN-10: 0670021253

The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.

5. Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government - written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, and others

Publisher: Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416595014
ISBN-10: 1416595015

The case against big government.

First Chapter

6. Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters - by Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061924682
ISBN-10: 0061924687

The importance of preparing for the unexpected, by the pilot-hero of Flight 1549.

7. True Compass: A Memoir - by Edward M. Kennedy

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/14/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446539258
ISBN-10: 0446539252

The late senator’s autobiography.

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8. 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, from the author of Blink.

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9. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - by Richard Dawkins

Publisher: Free Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416594789
ISBN-10: 1416594787

Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.

10. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - by Jon Krakauer

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/15/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385522267
ISBN-10: 0385522266

The story of Pat Tillman and the Army’s cover-up of his death by friendly fire in Afghanistan.

11. The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King--a Nonfiction Thriller - by James Patterson and Martin Dugard

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/28/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316043656
ISBN-10: 0316043656

Investigating the Boy King’s sudden death.

12. Eating the Dinosaur - by Chuck Klosterman

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416544203
ISBN-10: 1416544208

Essays about pop culture.

First Chapter

13. Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales - by Clarence Clemons and Don Reo

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/21/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446546263
ISBN-10: 0446546267

The life of the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.

14. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present - by Gail Collins

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/14/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316059541
ISBN-10: 0316059544

The revolution in women’s lives in the past 50 years, by a New York Times columnist.

15. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - by Timothy Egan

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/19/2009
ISBN-13: 9780618968411
ISBN-10: 0618968415

The heroism displayed in fighting a huge forest fire in 1910 won public support for Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts; by a New York Times columnist.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 8 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 24, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.

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