New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Nonfiction for May 11, 2008

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: May 11, 2008

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.		1
2	ESCAPE, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.	5	5
3	HOME, by Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews’s early years from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins.	2	4
4	BEAUTIFUL BOY, by David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son’s meth addiction.	1	9
5	MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.	3	5
6	LADIES OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts. (Morrow, $26.95.) The influential women of early America, from the ABC and NPR news analyst and the author of “The Founding Mothers.”	4	3
7	THE REVOLUTION, by Ron Paul. (Grand Central, $21.) A libertarian manifesto from the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate. (†)		1
8	BAD MONEY, by Kevin Phillips. (Viking, $25.95.) How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets.	7	2
9	* ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam, $24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.	8	4
10	THE SOLOIST, by Steve Lopez. (Putnam, $25.95.) A columnist for The Los Angeles Times comes upon a homeless musician on Skid Row and sets out to change his life.		1

New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Fiction for May 11, 2008

Hardcover Fiction

Published: May 11, 2008

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This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor.		1
2	HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid’s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb.	1	2
3	THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.	3	2
4	UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.	4	4
5	WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.	2	3
6	CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.	5	3
7	QUICKSAND, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier.		1
8	* DEAD HEAT, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.		5
9	THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.	6	13
10	SANTA FE DEAD, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife.		1

Livingston Reads - The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Livingston Reads is a program sponsored by the public libraries in Livingston County, Michigan and designed to encourage residents read for pleasure; to create community through reading; to promote the exploration of ideas, culture, and knowledge through books; and to advance a sense of our own local history through the experience of reading and sharing.

The program runs from February 1st through April 30th. You are encouraged to check out a copy of the book from your local public library and discuss it with your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. Each library will be hosting events in association with the book.

About the book

On April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas. People standing a few feet apart could not see each other; if they touched, they risked being knocked over by the static electricity that the dust created in the air. The Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came, the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in "black blizzards," which blew as far east as New York.

Egan's portraits of the families who stayed behind are sobering and far less familiar than those of the "exodusters" who staggered out of the High Plains.

February 11, 2008 - Livingston Reads Kickoff Program -
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Keep the Great Lakes GREAT!
Video of our Program
The Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply and currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people. Yet each day, our Lakes are damaged economically and ecologically by untreated sewage, toxic pollution, and invasive species. Unless we invest in a solution today, the price we pay tomorrow will be much higher and future generations may never experience the Great Lakes as we know them.
Fortunately there is a solution - you! Please attend the upcoming presentation at Brighton District Library. Melissa Damaschke, Sierra Club Great Lakes Regional Representative, will discuss threats to the Great Lakes and solutions to those threats as well as actions you can take to PROTECT the Great Lakes.

April 17, 2008 - AUTHOR VISIT/BOOK SIGNING:
Timothy Egan - 2:00pm
Cromaine District Library will host Mr. Egan as he briefly discusses his book and signs participants copies of "The Worst Hard Time". Books will not be sold at this appearance so make sure to bring your own. See the video here.