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HARDBACK FICTION
1. "Twelve Sharp," by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $26.95.) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must find a killer and rescue a kidnapped child.
2. "Coming Out," by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $20.) An attorney's household is thrown into chaos when her daughters receive an invitation to a debutante ball.
3. "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven," by Fannie Flagg. (Random House, $25.95.) A return to Elmwood Springs, Mo., the setting of Flagg's novel "Standing in the Rainbow."
4. "Danse Macabre," by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $25.95.) Complications arise when vampire hunter Anita Blake discovers that she may be pregnant.
5. "Beach Road," by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.
6. "The Husband," by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) A man whose wife is kidnapped has 60 hours to come up with a huge ransom.
7. "Black Order," by James Rollins. (Morrow, $24.95.) Sigma Force, a special military unit, investigates worldwide mysteries that all originate with a secret Nazi experiment smuggled out of wartime Berlin.
8. "The Book of the Dead," by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Warner, $25.95.) The final volume of a trilogy involving Secret Agent Aloysius Pendergast of the FBI and his criminal brother.
9. "At Risk," by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $21.95.) A Massachusetts state investigator applies DNA and other forensic techniques to a cold murder case (written as a serial for the New York Times Magazine).
10. "Baby Proof," by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's, $23.95.) Everything changes for a high-powered childless-by-choice Manhattan couple when the husband decides he wants a child after all.
HARDBACK NONFICTION
1. "Marley & Me," by John Grogan. (Morrow, $21.95.) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
2. "Freakonomics," by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to legalized abortion and falling crime rate.
3. "The One Percent Doctrine," by Ron Suskind. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) An investigation of the Bush administration's strategic thinking and of the role of ideology and personality in the decision to go to war.
4. "Godless," by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $27.95.) The columnist argues that liberalism is a religion with sacraments, a creation myth and clergy.
5. "The World Is Flat," by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st century economics and foreign policy.
HARDBACK ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. "Cesar's Way," by Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier. (Harmony, $24.95.) The star of the television show "Dog Whisperer" offers insight into canine psychology and help solving problems.
2. "The Purpose-Driven Life," by Rick Warren. (Zondervan, $19.99.) The meaning of life through God. (b)
3. "Your Best Life Now," by Joel Osteen. (Warner, Faith, $19.99.) A faith-based approach to living with enthusiasm. (b)
4. "The Alphabet of Manliness," by Maddox. (Citadel, $15.95.) Ribald humor for men, based on the author's Web site.
5. "You: The Owner's Manual," by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz. (HarperResources, $24.95.) A guide to how the body works.
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. "The Devil Wears Prada," by Lauren Weisberger (Broadway, $13.95; Anchor, $7.99). A young woman gets a job at a fashion magazine with a difficult boss.
2. "The Lincoln Lawyer," by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99). A criminal defense attorney takes a case that proves more dangerous than he expected.
3. "Eleven On Top," by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $7.99). As she tries to quit bounty hunting, Stephanie Plum realizes a lunatic is stalking her.
4. "4th of July," by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner Vision, $9.99). Detective Lindsay Boxer, a member of the Women's Murder Club, looks into a series of killings while she herself is on trial.
5. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter," by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14). A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. "1776," by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $18). An account of America's founding year focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.
2. "An Inconvenient Truth," by Al Gore (Rodale, $21.95). The former vice president sounds an alarm about global warming in this companion volume to the movie of the same title.
3. "Night," by Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9). A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.
4. "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14). A savage murder in Kansas in 1959 and its consequences.
5. "Running With Scissors," by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14). In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid household.
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