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NYT Best-sellers: Hardback nonfiction

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.26.2007
NYT Best-sellers
Hardback nonfiction
(Weeks on list in parentheses.)
1. LONE SURVIVOR by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99). The only survivor of a Navy SEAL operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape. (5)
2. QUIET STRENGTH by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99). A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl. (He did it this year, with the Indianapolis Colts). (1)
3. THE DIANA CHRONICLES by Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50). The Princess of Wales' romance with the media. (5)
4. HAPPY ENDINGS by Jim Norton (Simon Spotlight, $23.95). Raunchy personal essays from the radio personality and stand-up comic. (1)
5. A LONG WAY GONE by Ishmael Beah (Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22). A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity. (22)
6. THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95). How Gore believes the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning. (8)
7. GOD IS NOT GREAT by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99). Religion as a malignant force in the world. (11)
8. EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster $32). A biography based on newly released personal letters. (14)
9. OUTRAGE by Dick Morris with Eileen McGann (HC/HarperCollins, $26.95). An attack on illegal immigration, U.N. profiteers, lazy congressmen and high drug prices. (5)
10. THE WORLD WITHOUT US by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $24.95). Drawing on science, art, religion and more, Weisman imagines what Earth would be like if humans disappeared. (1)
Advice, how-to and miscellaneous
1. THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95). The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want. (27)
2. THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins/HarperCollins, $24.95). Skipping stones, tying knots and other essential activities — video games not included. (11)