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Los Angeles Times List for June 17, 2007

*--* Fiction Weeks on list 1. The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $21.99) 3 Harry Bosch is on the case after a physicist is found dead on a Mulholland Drive overlook. 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 3 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 3. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 6 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 4. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf: $25) Violence 1 upends the lives of a man and his children working on a Northern California farm in the 1970s. 5. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $26) The 4 destruction of Sept. 11 from the perspectives of a survivor, his estranged wife and a terrorist. 6. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (Delacorte: $26) Jack 3 Reacher seeks the killer of former members of his Army special investigations unit. 7. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion: $21.95) An 25 alcoholic encounters his mother’s ghost, who tells him about her sacrifices as a single parent. 8. The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $27) A stonemason 1 mistaken for a hit man embarks on a trek to warn the intended target. 9. Star Wars: Sacrifice by Karen Traviss (Del Rey: $25.95) 1 The Galactic Alliance battles breakaway planets, and Han and Leia Solo are on the run. 10. The Tourists by Jeff Hobbs (Simon & Schuster: $24) A 4 trio of Yale alumni gets caught up in a tangled tale of illicit romance.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin: $25.95) 2 The former vice president laments the lack of reasoned political debate on vital national issues. 2. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 24 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 3. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 6 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 4. The Reagan Diaries edited by Douglas Brinkley 2 (HarperCollins: $35) The 40th president’s daily record of the events of his two terms as president. 5. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) A 9 portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 6. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 5 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other skills. 7. Buddha Is as Buddha Does by Lama Surya Das 1 (HarperSanFrancisco: $23.95) A guide on how to live your life based on traditional Buddhist teachings. 8. Learning Like a Girl by Diana Meehan (PublicAffairs: 3 $24.95) The founder of L.A.’s Archer School explains the need for girls-only classrooms. 9. ¡Ask a Mexican! by Gustavo Arellano (Scribner: $20) 2 The OC Weekly columnist’s answers to curious and sometimes hateful questions about Mexicans. 10. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & 10 Giroux: $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp.

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