Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 1 15 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 2 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 3 14 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 3 THE SHELTERS OF STONE by Jean M. Auel (Crown: $28.95) 2 7 Cavewoman Ayla has to negotiate warring tribes and win over her beloved’s family in the latest “Earth’s Children” installment 4 THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK by Stephen L. Carter (Alfred A. -- 1 Knopf: $26.95) A professor is drawn into the underworld of Washington D.C. by the secrets of his late father, a federal judge 5 IN THIS MOUNTAIN by Jan Karon (Viking: $25.95) Father Tim 5 2 and his wife, Cynthia, receive a warm embrace from the townspeople of Mitford on their return from Whitecap Island 6 JOLIE BLON’S BOUNCE by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster: -- 1 $25) Ghosts from his past haunt Dave Robicheaux as he tries to exonerate a Cajun blues singer charged with murder 7 FIRE ICE by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: -- 1 $26.95) Old Cold War rivals team up to fight a crazed Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and ecological disaster on his mind 8 MORTAL PREY by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) Minneapolis 7 4 cop Lucas Davenport is headed for the altar, but first he has to stop the killing spree by his nemesis 9 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer 6 8 (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 10 THE WAILING WIND by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins: 4 5 $25.95) A body found in a parked car helps Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee solve an old case 11 SIN KILLER by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: $25) The 12 4 aristocratic Berrybender family abandons English comfort to explore the Missouri River frontier of the 1830s 12 THIEVES’ PARADISE by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton: $19.95) 11 3 The prospect of fast money lures two buddies into a world rife with con men and beautiful women 13 A THOUSAND COUNTRY ROADS by Robert James Waller (John M. -- 5 Hardy: $19.95) What happened to the lovers Kincaid and Francesca after “The Bridges of Madison County.” 14 THE SUMMONS by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A man 15 18 discovers $3 million in his dead father’s house and hides it from his prodigal brother and a mysterious extortioner 15 DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & 8 8 Schuster: $26) A journalist struggles to keep her sister’s killer in prison despite his wealthy and influential family

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 3 16 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more 2 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 1 21 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 3 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas 2 6 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 4 SHOOT OUT by Peter Bart and Peter Guber (Putnam: $26.95) -- 2 Two Hollywood veterans describe the clash of egos, artistic vision and economics that go into the making of movies 5 ODD GIRL OUT by Rachel Simmons (Harcourt: $25) A look at 5 7 the culture of hidden aggression the author says develops when girls are socialized to avoid conflict and anger 6 THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE by Christiane Northrup (Bantam: 14 16 $27.95) A physician describes symptoms and treatments for menopause 7 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf: 7 7 $35) How LBJ awakened a moribund Senate through civil rights reform and set his sights on the White House 8 WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT AMERICA by Dinesh D’Souza -- 1 (Regnery: $27.95) A conservative pundit presents his vision of America and takes on left-wing criticisms 9 THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY by Greg Palast (Pluto -- 2 Press: $25) Polemics by a reporter who writes for the BBC against globalization and its harmful effect on the world 10 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? By Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 11 115 The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 11 THE HEALTHY KITCHEN by Andrew Weil and Rosie Daley 10 6 (Alfred A. Knopf: $24.95) A cookbook that navigates around fatty, unhealthful foods to follow an ideal, appetizing diet plan at home 12 AMERICAN SON by Richard Blow (Henry Holt: $25) The ups 12 5 and downs of starting a magazine and being John F. Kennedy Jr., by one of his colleagues at George 13 A MIND AT A TIME by Mel Levine (Simon & Schuster: $26) A 6 8 pediatrics professor argues that schools need to teach children based on their individual learning styles 14 THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M. by Catherine Millet -- 1 (Grove Press: $23) A French art critic with a gifted superego looks back on 30 years of indulging her id 15 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING by Stephen Hawking (New -- 1 Millennium Press: $19.95) The theoretical physicist takes an tour of the universe, its origin and the future

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