Monday, April 09, 2007

New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover NonFiction for April 8, 2007

Hardcover NonFiction

Published: April 8, 2007

This
Week


Last
Week

Weeks
On List

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IN AN INSTANT, by Lee and Bob Woodruff (Random House, $25.95.) The aftermath of the ABC co-anchor’s traumatic bran injury in Iraq in 2006

1

4

2

GRACE (EVENTUALLY), by Anne Lamott. (Riverhead, $24.95.) Essays about faith and forgiveness.


1

3

HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses and what patients can do to make sure they don’t err.

7

2

4

A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

2

6

5

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.

4

23

6

* I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, by Nora Ephron. (Knopf, $19.95.) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (“When Harry Met Sally”).

3

34

7

INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the Somali-born advocate for Muslim immigrant women, once a member of the Dutch Parliament, who has been threatened with death.

5

7

8

THE HARDCORE DIARIES, by Mick Foley. (World Wrestling Entertainment/Pocket, $24.) The former professional wrestling champion discusses his fame and his life at World Wrestling Entertainment

6

3

9

BLACKWATER, by Jeremy Scahill. (Nation, $26.95.) An account of the private army that has been deployed by the government in Afghanistan and Iraq.


1

10

SOMEBODY’S GOTTA SAY IT, by Neal Boortz (HC/HarperCollins, $25.95.) A radio talk-show host discusses government, poverty, prayer in the schools, race relations, gun control and other topics.

9

5


Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: April 8, 2007

This
Week


Last
Week

Weeks
On List

1

IN AN INSTANT, by Lee and Bob Woodruff. (Random House, $25.95.) The aftermath of the ABC co-anchor’s traumatic brain injury in Iraq in 2006.

1

4

2

GRACE (EVENTUALLY), by Anne Lamott. (Riverhead, $24.95.) Essays about faith and forgiveness.


1

3

HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses and what patients can do to make sure they don’t err.

7

2

4

A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

2

6

5

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.

4

23

6

* I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, by Nora Ephron. (Knopf, $19.95.) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (“When Harry Met Sally”).

3

34

7

INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the Somali-born advocate for Muslim immigrant women, once a member of the Dutch Parliament, who has been threatened with death.

5

7

8

THE HARDCORE DIARIES, by Mick Foley. (World Wrestling Entertainment/Pocket, $24.) The former professional wrestling champion discusses his fame and his life at World Wrestling Entertainment.

6

3

9

BLACKWATER, by Jeremy Scahill. (Nation, $26.95.) An account of the private army that has been deployed by the government in Afghanistan and Iraq.


1

10

SOMEBODY’S GOTTA SAY IT, by Neal Boortz (HC/HarperCollins, $25.95.) A radio talk-show host discusses government, poverty, prayer in the schools, race relations, gun control and other topics.

9

5

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