Best Selling Non-Fiction from the New York Times List - July 13, 2008   This Week Printer friendly                       Nonfiction Hardcover Click on the link to see holdings and availability.  1 WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s latest essays. 814 SED 2 FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. on order 3 WHAT HAPPENED, by Scott McClellan. (PublicAffairs, $27.95.) A former White House press secretary regrets that “I allowed myself to be deceived” by top officials. 973.931 MCCLE 4 ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian. 306.7 HAN 5 THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi. (Grand Central, $25.99.) An American writer in Florence and an Italian journalist work to discover the identity of a local serial killer. 364.1523 PRE 6 AUDITION, by Barbara Walters. (Knopf, $29.95.) A personal and professional memoir. B WALTERS 7 MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke. on order 8 THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.) The rise of China and India and the global distribution of power. 303.49 ZAK 9 BIG RUSS AND ME, by Tim Russert. (Miramax, $22.95.) Russert remembers his father and the other important teachers in his life. B RUSSERT 10 ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT, by Michael Dobbs. (Knopf, $28.95.) A day-by-day account of the Cuban missile crisis. 972.91 DOB 11 STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight, $24.95.) The actress’s memoir, from her Hollywood childhood through “Beverly Hills, 90210,” to her son’s birth. B SPELLING 12 ME OF LITTLE FAITH, by Lewis Black. (Riverhead, $24.95.) The stand-up comedian’s essays about religion. B BLACK 13 THE DOWNHILL LIE, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $22.) The Florida novelist takes up golf again after 32 years. 796.352 HIA 14 THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER, by Vincent Bugliosi. (Vanguard, $26.95.) The Manson prosecutor makes a case for trying the president for the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq. 973.931 BUG 15 IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” 613 POL 16 SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, by Douglas A. Blackmon. (Doubleday, $29.95.) There were tens of thousands of blacks in forced labor until World War II. 305.896 BLA  If a title is owned by any library in the system, the call number is shown. Click on the link to see holdings and availability.   If 'PINES' is shown in place of a call number, then the title is owned somewhere in a PINES library in Georgia. New books may not be available immediately to request from other ECGRL libraries, or from other libraries in the PINES system, until it goes off the "new book" or "best seller" status.   "On order" signifies that the title is on order for one or more of the East Central Georgia Regional libraries.

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