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*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 3 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 2. The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine 1 Paetro (Little, Brown: $27.99) A violent attacker and a series of kidnappings shock San Francisco. 3. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander 4 McCall Smith (Pantheon: $21.95) Precious Ramotswe investigates mysterious deaths in a local hospital. 4. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck 2 Palahniuk (Doubleday: $24.95) Those who knew him tell the tale of a bad boy-turned-evil man. 5. Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Warner: $26.99) 3 Two former Secret Service agents must work out their demons on and off the job to save their relationship. 6. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $22.95) The 1 underbelly of a Tokyo night is explored through two very different sisters and their coteries. 7. The Woods by Harlan Coben (Dutton: $26.95) A New 4 Jersey prosecutor whose sister was murdered years earlier learns that her killer has struck again. 8. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $26) The 1 destruction of Sept. 11 from the perspectives of a survivor, his estranged wife and a terrorist. 9. Buddha by Deepak Chopra (HarperSanFrancisco: 1 $24.95) A tale of how Indian prince Siddhartha abandoned his inheritance to become the Buddha. 10. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Ace Books 2 $24.95) Waitress Sookie Stackhouse prepares for a vampire summit in post-Katrina New Orleans.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) The book 21 promises the secret to life distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 2. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) An 6 examination of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille 2 Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins: $26.95) Living off the family farm. 4. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 7 $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp. 5. At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet (HarperCollins: 2 $30) The former CIA director defends himself and the agency in the wake of Sept. 11. 6. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: $24.99) 3 The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 7. All Those Moments by Rutger Hauer (HarperEntertainment: 1 $24.95) The screen villain traces his life’s arc from poverty to stardom. 8. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf: $19.95) The 41 author and screenwriter tries to reconcile herself to life among the post-bikini set. 9. Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott (Riverhead: $24.95) The 6 author explores decency, love, forgiveness and finding grace in living. 10. Let’s Face It by Kirk Douglas (Wiley: $22.95) The actor 1 reflects on life, his 50-year marriage and the death of friends and one of his children.

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