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New York Times Best Sellers -- Hardcover Nonfiction
Note: The searches of the Dallas Public Library catalog on these pages use the ISBN number to search for the exact item listed. If the item is not found in the catalog, please search the catalog using the title to see if we have other versions than the one specified in this list.
Title: GAME CHANGE.
Author: John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html
ISBN: 9780061733635 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS.
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Publisher: Crown
Description: Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/books/03book.html
ISBN: 9781400052172 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: I AM OZZY.
Author: Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446569897 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE POLITICIAN.
Author: Andrew Young
Publisher: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s
Description: A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29book.html
ISBN: 9780312640651 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HAVE A LITTLE FAITH.
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hyperion
Description: A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 22 weeks.
ISBN: 9780786868728 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO.
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan/Holt
Description: Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 8 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/books/24book.html
ISBN: 9780805091748 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: OUTLIERS.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 67 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/books/18kaku.html
ISBN: 9780316017923 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WILLIE MAYS.
Author: James S Hirsch
Publisher: Scribner
Description: The life and career of a baseball legend.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/books/10book.html
ISBN: 9781416547907 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: COMMITTED.
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Viking
Description: The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 8 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/books/04book.html
ISBN: 9780670021659 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: STONES INTO SCHOOLS.
Author: Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Viking
Description: Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 13 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/books/10book.html
ISBN: 9780670021154 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR.
Author: David Dosa
Publisher: Hyperion
Description: A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9781401323233 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ON THE BRINK.
Author: Henry M Paulson Jr
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: The Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown describes the decisions that were made.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446561938 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: DRIVE.
Author: Daniel H Pink
Publisher: Riverhead
Description: What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
ISBN: 9781594488849 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: MAKING TOAST.
Author: Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher: Ecco/HarperCollins
Description: The writer and his wife help to raise their grandchildren after the sudden death of their 38-year-old daughter.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780061825934 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: STAYING TRUE.
Author: Jenny Sanford
Publisher: Ballantine
Description: The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/books/04book.html
ISBN: 9780345522399 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY.
Author: Daniel G Amen
Publisher: Harmony
Description:
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307463579 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BORN TO RUN.
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Knopf
Description: Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307266309 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WHAT THE DOG SAW.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: A decade of New Yorker essays.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/books/20gladwell.html
ISBN: 9780316075848 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SUPERFREAKONOMICS.
Author: Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Description: A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060889579 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE QUANTS.
Author: Scott Patterson
Publisher: Crown Business
Description: How a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/21shelf.html
ISBN: 9780307453372 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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