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Hardcover Nonfiction list for May 17, 2012,
for sales ending May 13, 2012.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
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1. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro (Knopf, ISBN: 9780679405078);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 2
"Book four of Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson."
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2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen (Random House, ISBN: 9781400069347);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 3
"Sharp insights and revealing observations that confirm Quindlen’s status as America’s laureate of real life."
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3. Drift
by Rachel Maddow (Crown, ISBN: 9780307460981);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 7
"The popular talk show host examines the political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power."
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4. Wild
by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307592736);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 8
"Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read."
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5. I Am a Pole (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central, ISBN: 9781455523429);
Weeks on List: 1
"The inimitable Colbert conquers new territory with his first children's book...for adults!"
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6. Prague Winter
by Madeleine Albright (Harper, ISBN: 9780062030313);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 3
"A remarkably personal and historical new memoir by the former U.S. Secretary of State."
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7. Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: 9780618982509);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 2
"A brilliant, new graphic memoir by the bestselling author of Fun Home."
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8. Imagine
by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: 9780547386072);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 8
"Lehrer's fascinating and revelatory look at the new science of creativity."
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9. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
by Jenny Lawson (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, ISBN: 9780399159015);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 4
"Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," makes her literary debut."
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10. End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman (Norton, ISBN: 9780393088779);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 2
"Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Krugman's ideas for a quick and strong economic recovery."
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11. Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, ISBN: 9781400064168);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: *
"An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit."
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12. Quiet
by Susan Cain (Crown, ISBN: 9780307352149);
Last week: 12;
Weeks on List: 16
"Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves."
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13. This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More: For
by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's, ISBN: 9780312563554);
Weeks on List: 1
"The bestselling author of Running With Scissors explores how to survive the "un-survivable"."
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14. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
by Terry Tempest Williams (FSG, ISBN: 9780374288976);
Weeks on List: 1
"Williams' lyrical and caring meditation on the mystery of her mother's journals."
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15. A Natural Woman
by Carole King (Grand Central, ISBN: 9781455512614);
Weeks on List: 3
"King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time."
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