Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 1 5 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family, the killer and the detective who hunts him 2 THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK by Stephen L. Carter (Alfred A. 2 7 Knopf: $26.95) A professor is drawn into the underworld of Washington, D.C., by the secrets of his late father, a federal judge 3 THE BEACH HOUSE by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge 6 6 (Little, Brown: $26.95) A law student seeks his own justice after his brother’s body is found outside a Long Island manse 4 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 3 21 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 5 THE REMNANT by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale 12 3 House: $24.99) The tribulation has begun, and world leader/antichrist Nicolae Carpathia calls for blood 6 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday: $26) A 5 20 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 7 HARD EIGHT by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s: $25.95) New 7 5 Jersey’s favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, faces all kinds of thugs as she hunts for a missing girl and her mother 8 BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: 4 3 $24.95) Easy Rawlins returns, looking for a woman’s son among revolutionaries and grieving for his dead crony, Mouse 9 SUNSET IN ST. TROPEZ by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: 9 4 $19.95) A group of old friends tries not to let personal tragedy mar a sojourn on the French Riviera 10 SLEEP NO MORE by Greg Iles (Putnam: $24.95) Living on the 13 2 Mississippi Delta, a single father encounters a woman who knows too much about his youthful affair with a dead woman 11 TWELVE by Nick McDonell (Grove Press: $23) A gritty look -- 1 at life on the edge for the lost souls in the privileged existence of the Manhattan prep school set 12 THE COLOR MIDNIGHT MADE by Andrew Winer (Washington -- 2 Square: $24) A 10-year-old boy struggles with his family in a shipbuilding town on an island off the California coast 13 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer -- 12 (Houghton Mifflin: $24) A comic novel about a man’s search for his family’s past in Ukraine and the history of a forgotten shtetl 14 GRAVE SECRETS by Kathy Reichs (Scribner: $25) Forensic -- 1 ace Temperance Brennan wonders whether a decades-old massacre is connected to the recent deaths of several young women 15 THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER by Ann Packer (Alfred A. 8 6 Knopf: $24) A young woman struggles with the meaning of her life after a catastrophe changes her relationship with her fiance

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE STATE 1 22 OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the government and more 2 YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS by John McEnroe with James Kaplan 2 6 (Putnam: $25.95) The brash tennis great serves up career highlights laced with insight 3 SLANDER by Ann Coulter (Crown: $25.95) A political 3 4 pundit takes on the media and explains how liberal bias is threatening to ruin the country 4 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 5 27 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 5 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas 6 12 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 6 BODY-FOR-LIFE by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso 10 14 (HarperCollins: $26) A 12-week program of weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise along with nutrition and motivation tips 7 FISH by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul and John -- 3 Christensen (Hyperion: $19.95) Lessons on management told via the fishmongers at Seattle’s Pike Place Market 8 GOOD TO GREAT by Jim Collins (HarperCollins: $27.50) How -- 5 a great product, a healthy corporate culture and a disciplined workforce can propel a company to success 9 GET WITH THE PROGRAM! by Bob Greene (Simon & Schuster: -- 1 $24) Oprah’s personal trainer combines an exercise plan with a look at the emotional connection to eating 10 LUCKY by Alice Sebold (Scribner: $22) The writer -- 1 recounts her rape when she was a college freshman, from the incident itself to the police investigation and trial 11 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 7 121 The coauthor of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 12 WHY I AM A CATHOLIC by Garry Wills (Houghton Mifflin: -- 1 $26) The historian reflects on his deep sense of faith and challenges the authority of the papacy. Reviewed by Andrew Sullivan, Page 6 13 THE LOBSTER CHRONICLES by Linda Greenlaw (Hyperion: -- 1 $22.95) The former swordboat captain returns home to an island off the coast of Maine to take up the art of lobstering 14 EXECUTION by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck -- 4 (Crown: $27.50) A recipe for managerial success, from former Honeywell CEO Bossidy and business advisor Charan 15 RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs (St. -- 1 Martin’s: $23.95) The disturbing childhood of a boy shipped off to live with his mother’s psychiatrist

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