The James Logan Courier

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 25, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
MASS MARKET
1. Echo Park. Michael Connelly. Grand Central, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 5
2. Almost Dead. Lisa Jackson. Zebra, $7.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 4
3. The Bourne Ultimatum. Robert Ludlum. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 9
4. Under Orders. Dick Francis. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
5. Crisis. Robin Cook. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3
6. Ricochet. Sandra Brown. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 5
7. The Ruins. Scott Smith. Vintage, $7.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4
8. The Afghan. Frederick Forsyth. Signet, $9.99
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 3
9. Break No Bones. Kathy Reichs. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1
10. To Scotland, with Love. Karen Hawkins. Pocket, $6.99
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1




11. Dockside. Susan Wiggs. Mira, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 5
12. The Bourne Identity. Robert Ludlum. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 12
13. Motor Mouth. Janet Evanovich. Harper, $7.99
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 2
14. Tangled Up in You. Rachel Gibson. Avon, $6.99
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 3
15. Dakota Born. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $7.99
Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 5


HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Secret. Rhonda Byrne. Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 34
2. The Dangerous Book for Boys. Conn & Hal Iggulden. Collins, $24.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 17
3. The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About. Kevin Trudeau. Alliance Publishing, $24.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 12
4. Change Your Thoughts_Change Your Life. Wayne Dyer. Hay House, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 4
5. Quiet Strength. Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. Tyndale, $26.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 7
6. You Can Run but You Can't Hide. Duane "Dog" Chapman. Hyperion, $25.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3
7. Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Little, Brown, $24.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 11
8. Guinness World Records 2008. Guinness Publishing, $28.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3
9. It's All About Him. Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn. Thomas Nelson, $24.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 4
10. The Abs Diet for Women. David Zinczenko with Ted Spiker. Rodale, $24.95
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 3
11. God Is Not Great. Christopher Hitchens. Twelve, $24.99
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 17
12. The World Without Us. Alan Weisman. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95
Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 5
13. A Long Way Gone. Ishmael Beah. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 28
14. The 4-Hour Workweek. Timothy Ferriss. Crown, $19.95
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 8
15. The Preacher and the Presidents. Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy. Center Street, $26.99
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1


TRADE
1. Water for Elephants. Sara Gruen. Algonquin, $13.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 19
2. Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin, $15
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 30
3. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 150
4. The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 61
5. 90 Minutes in Heaven. Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. Revell, $12.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 22
6. The Emperor's Children. Claire Messud. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 8
7. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 60
8. Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador, $15
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 12
9. Skinny Bitch. Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Running Press, $13.95
Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 4
10. Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $13.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 3
11. The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. Harper San Francisco, $13.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 53
12. The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Picador, $16
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 4
13. The Road. Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 22
14. Suite Francaise. Irene Nemirovsky. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 20
15. The Boleyn Inheritance. Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $16
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 3

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 14
2. Play Dirty. Sandra Brown. Simon & Schuster, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
3. The Quickie. James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 8
4. Away. Amy Bloom. Random House, $23.95
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1
5. The Sanctuary. Raymond Khoury. Dutton, $25.95
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1
6. Sweet Revenge. Diane Mott Davidson. Morrow, $25.95
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1
7. Power Play. Joseph Finder. St. Martin's, $24.95
Last Week: –; Weeks on List: 1
8. Sandworms of Dune. Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson. Tor, $27.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3
9. Loving Frank. Nancy Horan. Ballantine, $23.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
10. The Secret Servant. Daniel Silva. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 5
11. Force of Nature. Suzanne Brockmann. Ballantine, $21.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
12. Devil May Cry. Sherrilyn Kenyon. St. Martin's, $19.95
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 3
13. The Tin Roof Blowdown. James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $26
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 6
14. Spook Country. William Gibson. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
15. The Burnt House. Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $25.95
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 3
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(c) 2007, Reed Elsevier, USA
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