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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 16 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide

2 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Doubleday: 2 12 $21.95) A recent college grad puts up with a nightmare of a boss at a high-fashion magazine

3 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 8 55 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family still learning to cope, the killer and the detective who hunts him

4 Trading Up by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion: $24.95) Model -- 1 Janey Wilcox doesn’t let marriage to an entertainment exec get in the way as she hones her social climbing skills

5 Lake House by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $27.95) Six 3 5 children survive years of captivity and yearn to be with the couple who saved them in this sequel to “When the Wind Blows.”

6 Bad Company by Jack Higgins (Putnam: $25.95) An aging -- 1 mobster threatens to reveal the contents of a World War II souvenir -- Hitler’s diary -- which could bring down the U.S. government

7 Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs (Scribner: $25) A forensic -- 1 anthropologist’s vacation to the North Carolina seashore is stopped cold when sets of remains turn up

8 Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: $19.95) -- 1 A high school heartthrob killed in a car crash after his senior prom comes back to Earth to help his loved ones heal

9 White Death by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: 4 3 $26.95) After a showdown between a Danish ship and environmentalists, Kurt Austin discovers something sinister afloat

10 The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst (Little, Brown: 7 4 $21.95) A man tries to teach the family dog to talk after realizing the canine is the only witness to his wife’s fatal fall from a tree

11 You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s: -- 21 $22) Two friends take an around-the-world trip, handing out money to strangers

12 The Face by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $26.95) The geeky 6 6 10-year-old son of a movie superstar faces a sinister kidnapper and has only his bodyguards, both dead and alive, to protect him

13 Diary of a Groupie by Omar Tyree (Simon & Schuster: -- 1 $19.95) A diary with the details of a twentysomething’s high-powered dating life becomes the object in a high-stakes game

14 The King of Torts by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) The 9 20 case of a young man charged in a street killing turns out to be tied to a conspiracy involving a pharmaceutical giant

15 Isle of Palms by Dorothea Benton Frank (Berkley: $22.95) 15 2 A hot summer becomes a steamy one in a Southern town where secrets are revealed and new entanglements made

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Nonfiction LAST WEEK WEEKS ON LIST

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*--* 1 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & 1 5 Schuster: $28 ) The senator and former first lady’s memoirs, from her courtship with Bill Clinton to her rocky years in the White House

2 Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: -- 1 $30) A new look at the printer turned statesman, both a pragmatist and ambitious self-promoter

3 Treason by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum: $26.95) The 2 2 conservative pundit contends liberals have been on the wrong side of every foreign policy issue from the Cold War to the war on terrorism

4 Who’s Your Caddy? by Rick Reilly (Doubleday: $24.95) A -- 2 Sports Illustrated columnist lugged the golf bags of Jack Nicklaus, Deepak Chopra, Bob Newhart and others to glean their golf insights

5 Atkins for Life by Robert C. Atkins (St. Martin’s: 7 24 $24.95) The late physician’s mission against low-fat diets argues that carbohydrates are the true culprits in weight gain

6 Moneyball by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton: $24.95) How 4 8 Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s use of statistics helped transform major league castoffs into a winning franchise

7 The Essential 55 by Ron Clark (Hyperion: $19.95) Rules 8 2 devised by an award-winning teacher to promote successful learning, manners and accountability in the classroom

8 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 5 6 (Broadway: $27.50) An entertaining guide to the great moments in the history of science, from the Big Bang to the present day

9 Leap of Faith by Queen Noor (Miramax Books: $25.95) The -- 14 life and times of a Princeton student who is courted by a Middle Eastern monarch and becomes Jordanian royalty

10 Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of -- 66 the Nation by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more

11 When Hollywood Had a King by Connie Bruck (Random House: 9 5 $29.95) The life and times of Hollywood power broker extraordinaire Lew Wasserman

12 Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels (Random House: $24.95) How 12 4 early Christian fathers debated which texts should be considered authoritative and embraced the gospel of John over that of Thomas

13 Krakatoa by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins: $25.95) The -- 8 cataclysmic eruption in 1883 of a volcanic island in Indonesia and its aftereffects, felt the world over

14 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: 10 43 $21.95) How to improve relationships and encourage happiness and contentment by living in the present

15 Good to Great by Jim Collins (HarperCollins: $27.50) How -- 31 a great product, a healthy corporate culture and a disciplined work force can propel a company to success

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