Tue, Dec 02, 2008

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N.Y. Times best-sellers

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.24.2008
Paperback nonfiction
Number of weeks on the list in parenthesis.
1. THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (76)
2. EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer's yearlong journey in search of self. (77)
3. BIG RUSS AND ME by Tim Russert. (Miramax/ Hyperion, $13.95.) Russert remembers his father and the other important teachers in his life. (12)
4. WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS by Tim Russert. (Random House, $13.95.) The journalist presents readers' letters about their fathers in response to his memoir, "Big Russ and Me." (9)
5. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95.) The Illinois senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions. (29)
6. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $13.95.) The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother. (104)
7. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident. (90)
8. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL by Tucker Max. (Citadel, $12.95.) Reflections of a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer. (41)
9. ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $14.95.) The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food. (11)
10. MARLEY & ME by John Grogan. (Harper, $13.95.) Lessons learned from a neurotic dog. (18)