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By the numbers: Best-sellers

12:09 PM CDT on Monday, March 19, 2007

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Jokae's African American Books, 3223 W. Camp Wisdom Road. National bestsellers are from The New York Times. For BookSense best-sellers from the American Booksellers Association, see www.booksense.com/bestsellers. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list.

LOCAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1. Love & Lies, by Kimberla Lawson Roby
2. Divas of Damascus Road, by Michelle Stimpson
3. The First Lady, by Carl Weber
4. When Somebody Loves You Back, by Mary B. Morrison
5. Do You Take This Woman?, by RM Johnson
6. She Ain't the One, by Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison
7. One Night Stand, by Roland Jefferson
8. Holy Ghost Corner, by Michele Andrea Bowen
9. Borrow Trouble, by Mary Monroe and Victor McGlothin
10. God Don't Play, by Mary Monroe

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
2. A Hand to Guide Me, by Denzel Washington
3. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
4. Friends: A Love Story, by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard
5. Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, From Cocaine to Foie Gras, by Jeff Henderson
6. Photo By Sammy Davis Jr., by Burt Boyar
7. Letters to a Young Brother, by Hill Harper
8. The Gospel According to Rev. Walt 'Baby' Love, by Walt 'Baby' Love
9. It's Never Too Late, by Zachery Tims
10. A Piece of Cake, by Cupcake Brown

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. In Another Man's Bed, by Francis Ray
2. Into Each Life, by Shelia Lipsey
3. Perfect for You, by Sylvia Lett
4. I Wish I Had Waited, by Sylvia Lett
5. Sapphires and Satin, by Lisa Brown Ross

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. How Public Schools Fail Black Boys, by Augustus Corbett
2. The Legal Navigator, by Bobbie Edmonds
3. A Wealth of Family, by Thomas Brooks
4. My Mother's Rules, by Lynn Toler
5. Surviving the Storm: Finding Life After Death, by Mike Frazier
NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1. (–) Shopaholic & Baby, by Sophie Kinsella
2. (2) Step on a Crack, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
3. (1) Innocent in Death, by J.D. Robb
4. (3) Sisters, by Danielle Steel
5. (–) The Watchman, by Robert Crais
6. (4) The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian
7. (8) The Alexandria Link, by Steve Berry
8. (7) Plum Lovin', by Janet Evanovich
9. (5) For One More Day, by Mitch Albom
10. (6) Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1. (–) In An Instant, by Lee and Bob Woodruff
2. (1) The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
3. (2) Somebody's Gotta Say It, by Neal Boortz
4. (3) A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
5. (7) Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
6. (–) The Jesus Family Tomb, by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino
7. (5) The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
8. (6) I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
9. (4) Marley & Me, by John Grogan
10. (10) Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. (–) Prior Bad Acts, by Tami Hoag
2. (–) Deadly Game, by Christine Feehan
3. (1) The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
4. (–) Shiver, by Lisa Jackson
5. (–) Judge & Jury, by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. (1) The Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
2. (2) The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
3. (3) Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. (4) The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
5. (5) Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
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