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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2024 YTD
1	-	1	Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches Steve Harvey, Author Amistad Press, $25.99 (240) 978-0-06-222032-5 Last rank 12 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2014 Average Rank 9.00 [details] Sales history for Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches date, rank 09/22/2014, 1 09/29/2014, 1 10/06/2014, 2 10/13/2014, 6 10/20/2014, 14 10/27/2014, 15 11/03/2014, 13 11/10/2014, 12 11/17/2014, 19 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 25,757 YTD: 25,817	Sep 2014	25,757 25,817
2	-	1	13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, Author Twelve, $28.00 (352) 978-1-4555-8227-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 7.60 [details] Sales history for 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi date, rank 09/22/2014, 2 09/29/2014, 2 10/06/2014, 4 10/13/2014, 11 10/20/2014, 18 10/27/2014, 20 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 24,450 YTD: 24,623	Sep 2014	24,450 24,623
3	1	2	What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe, Author Houghton Mifflin, $24.00 (320) 978-0-544-27299-6 Last rank 36 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/15/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/15/2014 Average Rank 14.03 [details] Sales history for What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions date, rank 09/15/2014, 1 09/22/2014, 3 09/29/2014, 5 10/06/2014, 7 10/13/2014, 10 10/20/2014, 13 10/27/2014, 14 11/03/2014, 19 11/10/2014, 22 11/17/2014, 16 11/24/2014, 15 12/01/2014, 11 12/08/2014, 9 12/15/2014, 7 12/22/2014, 6 12/29/2014, 6 01/05/2015, 6 01/12/2015, 12 01/19/2015, 13 01/26/2015, 16 02/02/2015, 16 02/09/2015, 21 02/16/2015, 24 02/23/2015, 14 03/02/2015, 13 03/09/2015, 19 03/16/2015, 20 03/23/2015, 17 03/30/2015, 19 04/06/2015, 20 04/13/2015, 18 04/27/2015, 25 05/04/2015, 24 06/15/2015, 25 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 17,068 YTD: 53,117	Sep 2014	17,068 53,117
4	2	2	Unphiltered: The Way I See It Phil Robertson, Author, Mark Schlabach, With Howard Books, $25.99 (213) 978-1-4767-6623-2 Last rank 6 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/15/2014 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/15/2014 Average Rank 10.44 [details] Sales history for Unphiltered: The Way I See It date, rank 09/15/2014, 2 09/22/2014, 4 09/29/2014, 6 10/06/2014, 10 10/13/2014, 14 10/20/2014, 23 10/27/2014, 22 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 15,357 YTD: 33,679	Sep 2014	15,357 33,679
5	3	2	What I Know for Sure Oprah Winfrey, Author Flatiron Books, $24.99 (240) 978-1-250-05405-0 Last rank 22 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 09/15/2014 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/15/2014 Average Rank 14.73 [details] Sales history for What I Know for Sure date, rank 09/15/2014, 3 09/22/2014, 5 09/29/2014, 8 10/06/2014, 9 10/13/2014, 12 10/20/2014, 20 10/27/2014, 18 11/03/2014, 22 12/29/2014, 22 01/05/2015, 22 01/12/2015, 21 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 11,606 YTD: 21,222	Sep 2014	11,606 21,222
6	-	1	Guinness World Records 2015 Guinness World Records, Author, Various, Author Guinness World Records, $28.95 (256) 978-1-908843-63-0 Last rank 36 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 12/29/2014 Average Rank 11.23 [details] Sales history for Guinness World Records 2015 date, rank 09/22/2014, 6 09/29/2014, 7 10/06/2014, 6 10/13/2014, 7 10/20/2014, 10 10/27/2014, 12 11/03/2014, 7 11/10/2014, 8 11/17/2014, 8 11/24/2014, 5 12/01/2014, 5 12/08/2014, 5 12/15/2014, 4 12/22/2014, 4 12/29/2014, 3 01/05/2015, 4 01/12/2015, 10 01/19/2015, 18 01/26/2015, 20 02/02/2015, 17 02/09/2015, 20 02/16/2015, 22 02/23/2015, 17 03/02/2015, 18 03/09/2015, 21 03/16/2015, 23 04/13/2015, 25 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 11,526 YTD: 11,676	Sep 2014	11,526 11,676
7	-	1	The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life Chris Guillebeau, Author Harmony, $25.00 (304) 978-0-385-34884-3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 11,022 YTD: 11,273	Sep 2014	11,022 11,273
8	-	1	Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel David Limbaugh, Author Regnery Publishing, $27.99 (406) 978-1-62157-255-8 Last rank 16 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/29/2014 Average Rank 11.00 [details] Sales history for Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel date, rank 09/22/2014, 8 09/29/2014, 3 10/06/2014, 3 10/13/2014, 9 10/20/2014, 15 10/27/2014, 16 11/03/2014, 23 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 9,660 YTD: 9,729	Sep 2014	9,660 9,729
9	-	1	Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Jack E Levin, Concept by, Mark R Levin, Preface by Threshold Editions, $18.00 978-1-4767-8426-7 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 7.67 [details] Sales history for Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address date, rank 09/22/2014, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 9,221 YTD: 9,364	Sep 2014	9,221 9,364
10	-	1	Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action Kerry Shook, Author, Chris Shook, Author, Rick Warren, Foreword by Waterbrook Press, $21.99 (240) 978-1-4000-7381-8 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 10 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2014 Average Rank 13.00 [details] Sales history for Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action date, rank 09/22/2014, 10 09/29/2014, 16 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 8,989 YTD: 8,989	Sep 2014	8,989 8,989
11	5	17	One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future Ben Carson, Author, Candy Carson, Author Sentinel, $25.95 (256) 978-1-59523-112-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 06/02/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/02/2014 Average Rank 5.09 [details] Sales history for One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future date, rank 06/02/2014, 1 06/09/2014, 1 06/16/2014, 1 06/23/2014, 2 06/30/2014, 2 07/07/2014, 3 07/14/2014, 4 07/21/2014, 4 07/28/2014, 3 08/04/2014, 2 08/11/2014, 2 08/18/2014, 2 08/25/2014, 2 09/01/2014, 2 09/08/2014, 2 09/15/2014, 5 09/22/2014, 11 09/29/2014, 11 10/06/2014, 11 10/13/2014, 20 10/27/2014, 25 LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 17 PUB DATE: May 2014 UNITS SOLD: 7,606 YTD: 272,814	May 2014	7,606 272,814
12	-	1	Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Sam Harris Simon & Schuster, $26.00 (256) 978-1-4516-3601-7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 7,518 YTD: 7,759	Sep 2014	7,518 7,759
13	-	1	World Order Henry Kissinger, Author Penguin Press, $36.00 (432) 978-1-59420-614-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 11.00 [details] Sales history for World Order date, rank 09/22/2014, 13 09/29/2014, 10 10/06/2014, 12 10/13/2014, 22 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 6,607 YTD: 6,680	Sep 2014	6,607 6,680
14	8	2	Diary of a Mad Diva Joan Rivers, Author Berkley Publishing Group, $26.95 (289) 978-0-425-26902-2 Last rank 14 Initial Rank 19 Initial Date 07/14/2014 Highest Rank 8 Highest Rank Date 09/15/2014 Average Rank 16.29 [details] Sales history for Diary of a Mad Diva date, rank 07/14/2014, 19 07/21/2014, 12 07/28/2014, 20 08/04/2014, 22 09/15/2014, 8 09/22/2014, 14 09/29/2014, 19 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Jul 2014 UNITS SOLD: 6,562 YTD: 26,228	Jul 2014	6,562 26,228
15	-	1	The Grain Brain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health David Perlmutter MD, Author Little Brown and Company, $30.00 (352) 978-0-316-33425-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 15 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 15.00 [details] Sales history for The Grain Brain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health date, rank 09/22/2014, 15 09/29/2014, 20 10/06/2014, 20 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 5,890 YTD: 6,218	Sep 2014	5,890 6,218
16	6	15	America: Imagine a World Without Her Dinesh D'Souza, Author Regnery Publishing, $29.99 (289) 978-1-62157-203-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 11 Initial Date 06/16/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 07/21/2014 Average Rank 7.00 [details] Sales history for America: Imagine a World Without Her date, rank 06/16/2014, 11 06/23/2014, 16 06/30/2014, 11 07/07/2014, 9 07/14/2014, 12 07/21/2014, 1 07/28/2014, 1 08/04/2014, 1 08/11/2014, 1 08/18/2014, 1 08/25/2014, 1 09/01/2014, 3 09/08/2014, 3 09/15/2014, 6 09/22/2014, 16 09/29/2014, 17 10/06/2014, 22 LAST WEEK: 6 WEEKS ON LIST: 15 PUB DATE: Jun 2014 UNITS SOLD: 5,239 YTD: 181,434	Jun 2014	5,239 181,434
17	-	1	Daily Love: Growing Into Grace Mastin Kipp, Author Hay House, $24.95 (227) 978-1-4019-4227-4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 4,837 YTD: 4,846	Sep 2014	4,837 4,846
18	-	1	The Taste of Home Cookbook, 4th Edition: 1,380 Busy Family Recipes for Weeknights, Holidays and Everyday Between, All New Edition! Editors of Taste of Home, Author Reader's Digest Association, $29.99 (672) 978-1-61765-293-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 18 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 8 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 13.00 [details] Sales history for The Taste of Home Cookbook, 4th Edition: 1,380 Busy Family Recipes for Weeknights, Holidays and Everyday Between, All New Edition! date, rank 09/22/2014, 18 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 4,655 YTD: 4,667	Sep 2014	4,655 4,667
19	7	3	100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love Lisa Leake, Author William Morrow & Company, $29.99 (368) 978-0-06-225255-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/08/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2014 Average Rank 6.40 [details] Sales history for 100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It, What We Learned, and 100 Easy, Wholesome Recipes Your Family Will Love date, rank 09/08/2014, 1 09/15/2014, 7 09/22/2014, 19 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Aug 2014 UNITS SOLD: 4,071 YTD: 26,301	Aug 2014	4,071 26,301
20	-	1	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Geoffrey C. Ward, Author, Ken Burns, Author Knopf Publishing Group, $60.00 (528) 978-0-307-70023-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 20 Initial Date 09/22/2014 Highest Rank 7 Highest Rank Date 10/20/2014 Average Rank 13.50 [details] Sales history for The Roosevelts: An Intimate History date, rank 09/22/2014, 20 09/29/2014, 13 10/06/2014, 14 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 3,865 YTD: 3,900	Sep 2014	3,865 3,900
21	12	52	Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers David Perlmutter, Author, Kristin Loberg, With Little Brown and Company, $27.00 (336) 978-0-316-23480-1 Last rank 20 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 09/30/2013 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 03/31/2014 Average Rank 12.71 [details] Sales history for Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers date, rank 09/30/2013, 9 10/07/2013, 15 10/14/2013, 19 10/21/2013, 22 11/04/2013, 14 11/11/2013, 16 11/18/2013, 20 11/25/2013, 11 12/02/2013, 23 12/16/2013, 25 12/23/2013, 25 12/30/2013, 21 01/06/2014, 19 01/13/2014, 11 01/20/2014, 9 01/27/2014, 10 02/03/2014, 9 02/10/2014, 11 02/17/2014, 7 02/24/2014, 6 03/03/2014, 6 03/10/2014, 9 03/17/2014, 5 03/24/2014, 4 03/31/2014, 3 04/07/2014, 5 04/14/2014, 10 04/21/2014, 10 04/28/2014, 5 05/05/2014, 6 05/12/2014, 6 05/19/2014, 16 05/26/2014, 16 06/02/2014, 16 06/09/2014, 9 06/16/2014, 10 06/23/2014, 15 06/30/2014, 9 07/07/2014, 10 07/14/2014, 14 07/21/2014, 13 07/28/2014, 15 08/04/2014, 16 08/11/2014, 11 08/18/2014, 16 08/25/2014, 11 09/01/2014, 13 09/08/2014, 9 09/15/2014, 12 09/22/2014, 21 09/29/2014, 20 10/06/2014, 18 LAST WEEK: 12 WEEKS ON LIST: 52 PUB DATE: Sep 2013 UNITS SOLD: 3,856 YTD: 218,618	Sep 2013	3,856 218,618
22	-	1	Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World Kirsten Gillibrand, Author, Elizabeth Weil, With, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Foreword by Ballantine Books, $26.00 (194) 978-0-8041-7907-2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 3,447 YTD: 3,521	Sep 2014	3,447 3,521
23	9	4	Player's Handbook Wizards RPG Team, Author Wizards of the Coast, $49.95 (320) 978-0-7869-6560-1 Last rank 9 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 09/01/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/01/2014 Average Rank 8.80 [details] Sales history for Player's Handbook date, rank 09/01/2014, 1 09/08/2014, 4 09/15/2014, 9 09/22/2014, 23 LAST WEEK: 9 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Aug 2014 UNITS SOLD: 3,425 YTD: 39,276	Aug 2014	3,425 39,276
24	-	1	Let Us All Eat Cake: Gluten-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Cakes Catherine Ruehle, Author, Erin Kunkel, Photographer, Sarah Scheffel, With Ten Speed Press, $24.99 (214) 978-1-60774-629-4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2014 UNITS SOLD: 3,372 YTD: 3,375	Sep 2014	3,372 3,375
25	13	34	Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book Diane E Muldrow, Author Golden Books, $9.99 (96) 978-0-307-97761-8 Last rank 28 Initial Rank 19 Initial Date 03/17/2014 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 07/21/2014 Average Rank 12.66 [details] Sales history for Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book date, rank 03/17/2014, 19 03/24/2014, 21 03/31/2014, 20 04/07/2014, 18 04/14/2014, 17 04/21/2014, 22 04/28/2014, 12 05/05/2014, 12 05/12/2014, 10 05/19/2014, 15 05/26/2014, 15 06/02/2014, 11 06/09/2014, 10 06/16/2014, 9 06/23/2014, 13 06/30/2014, 8 07/07/2014, 8 07/14/2014, 11 07/21/2014, 5 07/28/2014, 6 08/04/2014, 5 08/11/2014, 6 08/18/2014, 8 08/25/2014, 8 09/01/2014, 8 09/08/2014, 7 09/15/2014, 13 09/22/2014, 25 10/06/2014, 25 LAST WEEK: 13 WEEKS ON LIST: 34 PUB DATE: Sep 2013 UNITS SOLD: 3,260 YTD: 148,348	Sep 2013	3,260 148,348

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Nielsen BookScan, week 37 of 2014, data through 9/14/2014; PW Issue of September 22, 2014

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