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    [NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS] Hardcover



    Sunday, Nov 25, 2007, Page 18

    FICTION

    1. STONE COLD

    by David Baldacci

    Grand Central

    Members of Washington's Camel Club are being murdered to prevent them from uncovering government secrets.

    2. CREATION IN DEATH

    by J.D. Robb

    Putnam

    Lieutenant Eve Dallas pursues the Groom, a killer who disappeared nine years earlier but has now returned; by Nora Roberts, writing under a pseudonym.

    3. THE CHASE

    by Clive Cussler

    Putnam

    In the early 20th century, a detective tracks a killer all over the West.

    4. PROTECT AND DEFEND

    by Vince Flynn

    Atria

    An American counterterrorism operative has to avert catastrophe in nuclear Iran.

    5. RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLE

    by Donald McCaig

    St Martin's

    An authorized sequel to Gone With the Wind updates the character of Rhett Butler for the modern reader.

    6. BOOK OF THE DEAD

    by Patricia Cornwell

    Putnam

    The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta opens a private practice in Charleston, South Carolina.

    7. HOME TO HOLLY SPRINGS

    by Jan Karon

    Viking

    The Mitford character Father Tim returns to his native town to reconnect with family and friends.

    8. PLAYING FOR PIZZA

    by John Grisham

    Doubleday

    An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.

    9. WORLD WITHOUT END

    by Ken Follett

    Dutton

    Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett's Pillars of the Earth.

    10. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

    by Khaled Hosseini

    Riverhead

    A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

    11. THE CHOICE

    by Nicholas Sparks

    Grand Central

    How the choices made by a North Carolina man play out in life.

    12. AMAZING GRACE

    by Danielle Steel

    Delacorte

    A San Francisco earthquake brings four strangers together.

    NONFICTION

    1. I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)

    by Stephen Colbert et al

    Grand Central

    The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central's Colbert Report.

    2. BOOM!

    by Tom Brokaw

    Random House

    The retired news anchor recalls and assesses the 1960s.

    3. RESCUING SPRITE

    by Mark Levin

    Pocket Books

    A family's love for an older dog they adopted.

    4. CLAPTON

    by Eric Clapton

    Broadway Books

    The great guitarist looks back on his life and his music.

    5. THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

    by Alan Greenspan

    Penguin Press

    A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

    6. SLASH

    by Slash with Anthony Bozza

    HarperEntertainment

    The autobiography of the Guns 'N' Roses guitarist.

    7. MY GRANDFATHER'S SON

    by Clarence Thomas

    Harper

    A memoir from an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

    8. AMERICAN CREATION

    by Joseph Ellis

    Knopf

    Triumphs and tragedies of the slow-building American Revolution.

    9. QUIET STRENGTH

    by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

    Tyndale

    A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl. (He did it with the Indianapolis Colts in February 2007.)

    10. LONE SURVIVOR

    by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

    Little, Brown

    The only survivor of a Navy SEAL operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle.

    11. MUSICOPHILIA

    by Oliver Sachs

    Knopf

    The neurologist and author of Awakenings examines the interaction between music and the brain.

    12. STEVE & ME

    by Terri Irwin

    Simon Spotlight Entertainment

    The widow of Steve Irwin, host of Animal Planet's Crocodile Hunter, recalls their life together.

    13. FAIR GAME

    by Valerie Plame Wilson

    Simon & Schuster

    A former undercover CIA officer who was exposed by the Bush administration describes

    her experience.


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