Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 2 9 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 2 CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $25.95) 3 2 Detective Harry Bosch is after the truth behind the 20-year-old murder of a child, whose bones are discovered in Laurel Canyon 3 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 1 8 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 4 DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon and 5 2 Schuster: $26) A journalist struggles to keep her sister’s killer in prison despite his wealthy and influential family 5 SEA GLASS by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown: $25.95) 4 2 Newlyweds move to a New Hampshire beach in the 1920s, before the Great Depression changes their lives 6 THE SUMMONS by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A man 7 12 discovers $3 million in his dead father’s house and hides it from his prodigal brother and a mysterious extortioner 7 THE SHELTERS OF STONE by Jean M. Auel (Crown: $28.95) -- 1 Cavewoman Ayla has to negotiate warring tribes and win over her beloved’s family in the latest “Earth’s Children” installment 8 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer 9 2 (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 9 THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & -- 33 Giroux: $26) The saga of a dysfunctional Midwestern family living at the end of the 20th century 10 EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL by Stephen King (Scribner: $28) A 8 6 collection of stories about close encounters with the dead and near-dead; includes King’s e-book, “Riding the Bullet.” 11 STAR WARS EPISODE II by R. A. Salvatore (Del Rey: $26) -- 1 Dissent swirls in the Force as Anakin Skywalker challenges his Jedi master and falls in love with a beautiful diplomat 12 BLACK WATER by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion: $23.95) 6 4 Homicide detective Merci Rayborn is alone in believing that a sheriff’s deputy didn’t kill his young wife 13 THE SHORT FOREVER by Stuart Woods (Putnam: $24.95) -- 1 Private eye Stone Barrington is hired to track a young couple in London, but is soon caught in a web of international intrigue 14 THE BONDWOMAN’S NARRATIVE by Hannah Crafts (Warner: -- 2 $24.95) Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. edited this long-lost manuscript, possibly the first novel by a former slave 15 IF LOOKS COULD KILL by Kate White (Warner: $22.95) A -- 1 high-powered magazine editor may be the boss from hell, but she needs help discovering who poisoned her live-in nanny

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 1 10 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more 2 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf: -- 1 $35) How LBJ awakened a moribund Senate through civil rights reform and set his sights on the White House 3 THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE by Christiane Northrup (Bantam: 3 10 $27.95) A physician describes symptoms and treatments for menopause 4 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 10 15 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 5 LUCKY MAN by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion: $22.95) A 4 4 heartfelt, candid memoir by the celebrity, describing his rise to fame and the effect of Parkinson’s disease on his life 6 A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN by Maya Angelou (Random House: 7 2 $23.95) The author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” continues her account of life during the 1960s and ‘70s 7 A MIND AT A TIME by Mel Levine (Simon & Schuster: $26) A 6 4 pediatrics professor argues that schools need to teach children based on their individual learning styles 8 FIND ME by Rosie O’Donnell (Warner: $23.95) The 11 2 talk-show host writes about how helping a pregnant young girl led to her decision to end her daily television show 9 THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: 14 6 $21.95) How to improve relationships and encourage happiness and contentment by living in the present 10 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 5 109 The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 11 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas -- 1 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 12 BLINDED BY THE RIGHT by David Brock (Crown: $25.95) 2 5 Conspiracies, schemes and character assassination are the focus of these confessions by a self-described “ex-conservative.” 13 THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL by Stephen Hawking (Bantam: 15 17 $35) The celebrated physicist offers up a look at space, time and the origin and future of the universe 14 WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis (Oxford University: 9 10 $23) An esteemed historian describes the Islamic Middle East’s fall from enlightenment into repression and tyranny 15 ODD GIRL OUT by Rachel Simmons (Harcourt Brace: $25) How -- 1 girls are socialized to avoid conflict and not express anger, which the author says leads to a culture of hidden aggression

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