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Local and national best-sellers

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, October 26, 2008

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2201 Preston Road, Plano. 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 Brass Verdict,* by Michael Connelly
	2.	*A Lion Among Men,* by Gregory Maguire
	3.	*Brisingr,* by Christopher Paolini
	4.	*One Fifth Avenue,* by Candace Bushnell
	5.	*The Maze of Bones,* by Rick Riordan
	6.	*The Other Queen,* by Philippa Gregory
	7.	*The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,* by Stieg Larsson
	8.	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	9.	*The Lucky One,* by Nicholas Sparks
	10.	*The Fire,* by Katherine Neville

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*The Go Getter,* by Peter Kyne
	2.	*The Last Lecture,* by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
	3.	*Boys Will Be Boys,* by Jeff Pearlman
	4.	*The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,* by Alice Schroeder
	5.	*Dewey,* by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
	6.	*Beyond Belief,* by Josh Hamilton with Tim Keown
	7.	*A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity,* by Bill O'Reilly
	8.	*Here's the Story,* by Maureen McCormick
	9.	*Kill Bin Laden,* by Dalton Fury
	10.	*Why Faith Matters,* by David Wolpe

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	*Twilight,* by Stephenie Meyer
	3.	*Frindle,* by Andrew Clements
	4.	*Barefoot,* by Elin Hilderbrand
	5.	*The Road,* by Cormac McCarthy

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*Same Kind of Different as Me,* by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
	2.	*The Love Dare,* by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick
	3.	*The Duchess,* by Amanda Foreman
	4.	*Don't Mind If I Do,* by George Hamilton
	5.	*Tutankhamun,* by Renzo Rossi

NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Lucky One,* by Nicholas Sparks
	2.	(2)	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	3.	(–)	*The Pirate King*, by R.A. Salvatore
	4.	(–)	*A Most Wanted Man,* by John le Carré
	5.	(3)	*One Fifth Avenue,* by Candace Bushnell
	6.	(4)	*Heat Lightning,* by John Sandford
	7.	(6)	*The Other Queen,* by Philippa Gregory
	8.	(–)	*Grace,* by Richard Paul Evans
	9.	(–)	*The Host,* by Stephenie Meyer
	10.	(9)	*The Given Day,* by Dennis Lehane

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,* by Alice Schroeder
	2.	(3)	*Hot, Flat, and Crowded,* by Thomas Friedman
	3.	(2)	*Dewey,* by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
	4.	(4)	*A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity,* by Bill O'Reilly
	5.	(7)	*Letter to My Daughter,* by Maya Angelou
	6.	(–)	*Kill Bin Laden,* by Dalton Fury
	7.	(–)	*The Wordy Shipmates,* by Sarah Vowell
	8.	(–)	*Ted, White, and Blue,* by Ted Nugent
	9.	(8)	*The War Within,* by Bob Woodward
	10.	(5)	*The Limits of Power,* by Andrew J. Bacevich

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	(2)	*The Secret Life of Bees,* by Sue Monk Kidd
	3.	(–)	*World Without End,* by Ken Follett
	4.	(–)	*The Black Dagger Brotherhood,* by J.R. Ward
	5.	(3)	*The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,* by Junot Díaz

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(1)	*Three Cups of Tea,* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
	2.	(2)	*Eat, Pray, Love,* by Elizabeth Gilbert
	3.	(3)	*The Audacity of Hope,* by Barack Obama
	4.	(4)	*Dreams From My Father,* by Barack Obama
	5.	(–)	*A Long Way Gone,* by Ishmael Beah