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Data for 05/28/2012 Bestsellers Hardcover Nonfiction
1 The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House Edward Klein, Author. Regnery Publishing,$27.95 (277) 9781596987852 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
10 Killing Lincoln:
The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever Bill O'Reilly, Author, Martin Dugard, Author. Holt,$28 (336p) 978-0-8050-9307-0 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
11 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen, Author. Random House,$26 (208) 978-1-4000-6934-7 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
12 The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier Ree Drummond, Author. William Morrow & Company,$29.99 (293) 978-0-06-199718-1 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier
13 Service: A Navy Seal at War Marcus Luttrell, Author, James D Hornfischer, With. Little Brown and Company,$27.99 (364) 978-0-316-18536-3 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Service: A Navy Seal at War
14 Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lehrer, Author. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH),$26 (279) 978-0-547-38607-2 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Imagine: How Creativity Works
15 Wheat Belly William Davis, Author. Rodale,$25.99 978-1-60961-154-5 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Wheat Belly
16 The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity Nancy Gibbs, Author, Michael Duffy, Author. Simon & Schuster,$32.50 (656) 978-1-4391-2770-4 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
17 Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging Suzanne Somers, Author. Crown Archetype,$26 (348) 978-0-307-58854-8 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging
18 This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. for Augusten Burroughs, Author, Edgar Burroughs, Author. St. Martin's Press,$24.99 (240) 978-0-312-56355-4 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. for
19 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand, Author. Random,$27 (496) 978-1-4000-6416-8 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2 The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin Bob Harper, Author, Greg Critser, With. Ballantine Books,$26 (278) 9780345533128 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin
20 Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy-And How Our Leaders Help Them Do It Dick Morris, Author, Eileen McGann, Author, Pete Larkin, Read by. Broadside Books,$27.99 (368) 978-0-06-219669-9 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy-And How Our Leaders Help Them Do It
21 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 Madeleine Albright, Author. Harper,$29.99 (496) 978-0-06-203031-3 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
22 The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change Jason Jennings, Author. Portfolio,$26.95 (256) 978-1-59184-423-5 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change
23 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg, Author. Random House,$28 (371) 978-1-4000-6928-6 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
24 Vegan Cooking for Carnivores: Over 125 Recipes So Tasty You Won't Miss the Meat Roberto Martin, Author, Roberto Martin, Illustrator, Quentin Bacon, Photographer, Ellen DeGeneres, Afterword by. Grand Central Publishing,$29.99 (240) 978-1-60941-242-5 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Vegan Cooking for Carnivores: Over 125 Recipes So Tasty You Won't Miss the Meat
25 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson, Author. Simon & Schuster,$35 978-1-4516-4853-9 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Steve Jobs
3 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro, Author. Knopf Publishing Group,$35 (752) 978-0-679-40507-8 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
4 The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service Henry A Crumpton, Author. Penguin Press,$27.95 (338) 9781594203343 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
5 The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive Brendon Burchard, Author. Free Press,$26 (254) 9781451667530 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive
6 My Cross to Bear Gregg Allman, Author. William Morrow & Company,$27.99 (400) 978-0-06-211203-3 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) My Cross to Bear
7 Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture Andy Cohen, Author, James Ed. Cohen, Author. Henry Holt & Company,$25 (288) 978-0-8050-9583-8 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
8 I Am a Pole (and So Can You!) Stephen Colbert, Author, Paul Hildebrandt, Illustrator. Grand Central Publishing,$15.99 (32p) 978-1-4555-2342-9 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) I Am a Pole (and So Can You!)
9 How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton M. Christensen, Author, James Allworth, Author, Karen Dillon, Author. HarperBusiness,$25.99 (256) 978-0-06-210241-6 components/bestseller_stats.html not found (No such file or directory) How Will You Measure Your Life?
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