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Local and national best-sellers

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, July 20, 2008

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Borders, 10720 Preston Road (at Royal Lane). National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list.

LOCAL

HARDBACK FICTION
	1.	*The Last Patriot,* by Brad Thor
	2.	*Made in the US.A.,* by Billie Letts
	3.	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	4.	*Tribute,* by Nora Roberts
	5.	*Tailspin,* by Catherine Coulter
	6.	*Chasing Darkness,* by Robert Crais
	7.	*Married Lovers,* by Jackie Collins
	8.	*The Beach House,* by Jane Green
	9.	*Fearless Fourteen,* by Janet Evanovich
	10.	*Swan Peak,* by James Lee Burke

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*When You Are Engulfed in Flames*, by David Sedaris
	2.	*Spend 'til the End,* by Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
	3.	*Now, Discover Your Strengths,* by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
	4.	*The Secret*, by Rhonda Byrne
	5.	*Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea,* by Chelsea Handler
	6.	*Deceptively Delicious,* by Jessica Seinfeld
	7.	*The Monster of Florence,* by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
	8.	*Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World,* by David Maraniss
	9.	*What Happened*, by Scott McClellan
	10.	*The Last Lecture,* by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	*Second Chance,* by Jane Green
	3.	*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,* by Mark Haddon
	4.	*On Chesil Beach,* by Ian McEwan
	5.	*Loving Frank,* by Nancy Horan

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*Three Cups of Tea,* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
	2.	*Skinny Bitch,* by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
	3.	*Because They Hate,* by Brigitte Gabriel
	4.	*Stuff White People Like,* by Christian Lander
	5.	*A New Earth,* by Eckhart Tolle

NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION
	1.	(–)	*The Last Patriot,* by Brad Thor
	2.	(1)	*Fearless Fourteen,* by Janet Evanovich
	3.	(2)	*Sail,* by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
	4.	(3)	*Tailspin,* by Catherine Coulter
	5.	(6)	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	6.	(5)	*The Host,* by Stephenie Meyer
	7.	(–)	*Chasing Darkness,* by Robert Crais
	8.	(4)	*Rogue,* by Danielle Steel
	9.	(–)	*Death Angel,* by Linda Howard
	10.	(9)	*The Beach House,* by Jane Green

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(1)	*When You Are Engulfed in Flames*, by David Sedaris
	2.	(2)	*Fleeced,* by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
	3.	(3)	*What Happened*, by Scott McClellan
	4.	(4)	*Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea,* by Chelsea Handler
	5.	(5)	*The Monster of Florence,* by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
	6.	(7)	*My Stroke of Insight,* by Jill Bolte Taylor
	7.	(6)	*Audition*, by Barbara Walters
	8.	(8)	*The Post-American World,* by Fareed Zakaria
	9.	(–)	*sTori Telling,* by Tori Spelling
	10.	(–)	*The Billionaire's Vinegar,* by Benjamin Wallace

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	(2)	*Water for Elephants,* by Sara Gruen
	3.	(3)	*The Kite Runner,* by Khaled Hosseini
	4.	(–)	*The Alchemist,* by Paulo Coelho
	5.	(4)	*The Friday Night Knitting Club,* by Kate Jacobs

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(2)	*Three Cups of Tea,* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
	2.	(1)	*Wisdom of Our Fathers,* by Tim Russert
	3.	(4)	*Eat, Pray, Love,* by Elizabeth Gilbert
	4.	(3)	*Big Russ & Me,* by Tim Russert
	5.	(5)	*The Audacity of Hope,* by Barack Obama