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Los Angeles Times List for April 29, 2007

*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $26.95) A small 6 New England town tries to cope after a troubled teen kills 10 at the local high school. 2. I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & 2 Schuster: $25.95) Two bodies are found on a New Jersey estate, and police suspect the owner. 3. Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (Twelve: $24.99) Blogger 4 Cass Devine pushes euthanasia as a solution to the Social Security crisis. 4. Fresh Disasters by Stuart Woods (Putnam: $25.95) Stone 1 Barrington takes a mob boss to court for ordering the beating of a man who owes him money. 5. The Last Empress by Anchee Min (Houghton Mifflin: $25) 1 Orchid, the concubine turned empress, guides her son through coups and the Boxer Rebellion. 6. Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: $26.95) 3 Psychologist Alex Delaware and an LAPD detective investigate a deathbed confession. 7. White Night by Jim Butcher (Roc: $23.95) Harry Dresden 2 tries to stop whoever is killing Chicago’s wizards, with a cast of ghouls and vampires. 8. You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday: 4 $24.95) A femme-fatale musician takes her best lyrics from a professional copywriter. 9. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s: $26) A 16 Sudanese refugee finds safety and a sense of belonging elusive in America. 10. The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster: $25.95) 8 A party-girl heiress reluctantly accepts protection after witnessing a crime.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) The 17 book promises the secret to life distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 2. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) 2 An examination of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 3. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & 4 Giroux: $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp. 4. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown: $25) The 26 U.S. senator argues for an end to political partisanship to reclaim the American dream. 5. Deep Economy by Bill McKibben (Times Books: $25) “The 2 End of Nature” author offers alternatives to gas-guzzling, consumer-oriented economies. 6. Women & Money by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau: $24.95) 7 How women can harness their finances, fix their credit and save for retirement. 7. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (Houghton 5 Mifflin: $26) How physicians respond to patients’ symptoms, sometimes incorrectly. 8. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press: $26) The 7 Somali-born activist tells of receiving death threats for criticizing how her Muslim faith treats women. 9. Get in the Game by Cal Ripken Jr. with Donald T. 1 Phillips (Gotham: $26) Ripken distills his eight keys to succeeding at baseball and at life. 10. The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes (Viking: 1 $24.95) The novelist tells of learning at 31 of her adoption and confronting her birth parents.

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