Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 1 4 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family, the killer and the detective who hunts him 2 THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK by Stephen L. Carter (Alfred A. 3 6 Knopf: $26.95) A professor is drawn into the underworld of Washington, D.C., by the secrets of his late father, a federal judge 3 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 2 20 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 4 BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: 4 2 $24.95) Easy Rawlins returns, looking for a woman’s son among revolutionaries and grieving for his dead crony Mouse 5 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 7 19 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 6 THE BEACH HOUSE by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge 5 5 (Little, Brown: $26.95) A law student seeks his own justice after his brother’s body is found outside a Long Island manse 7 HARD EIGHT by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s: $25.95) New 9 4 Jersey’s favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, faces all kinds of thugs as she hunts for a missing girl and her mother 8 THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER by Ann Packer (Alfred A. 8 5 Knopf: $24) A young woman struggles with the meaning of her life after a catastrophe changes her relationship with her fiance 9 SUNSET IN ST. TROPEZ by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: 10 3 $19.95) A group of old friends tries not to let personal tragedy mar a sojourn on the French Riviera 10 THE SHELTERS OF STONE by Jean M. Auel (Crown: $28.95) -- 9 Cavewoman Ayla has to negotiate warring tribes and win over her beloved’s family in the latest “Earth’s Children” installment 11 PRAGUE by Arthur Phillips (Random House: $24.95) Five 15 2 young seekers of love and experience move to central Europe after the Soviet Union’s collapse. Reviewed on Page 3 12 THE REMNANT by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale 6 2 House: $24.99) The tribulation has begun, and world leader/antichrist Nicolae Carpathia calls for blood 13 SLEEP NO MORE by Greg Iles (Putnam: $24.95) Living on the -- 1 Mississippi Delta, a single father encounters a woman who knows too much about his youthful affair with a dead woman 14 CHOPPING SPREE by Diane Mott Davidson (Bantam: $23.95) A 14 3 Colorado caterer putting on a gala for a shopping mall opening gets pulled into a murder investigation 15 THE MULBERRY TREE by Jude Deveraux (Pocket Books: $25) -- 1 When her thuggish tycoon husband dies, a woman finds that his will leaves her only a Virginia farmhouse and a cryptic letter

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 1 21 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the government and more 2 YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS by John McEnroe with James Kaplan 2 5 (Putnam: $25.95) The brash tennis great serves up career highlights laced with insight 3 SLANDER by Ann Coulter (Crown: $25.95) A political 3 3 pundit takes on the media and explains how liberal bias is threatening to ruin the country 4 THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M. by Catherine Millet 8 6 (Grove Press: $23) A French art critic with a gifted superego looks back on 30 years of indulging her id 5 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 5 26 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 6 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas 13 11 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 7 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 7 120 The coauthor of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 8 SNOBBERY by Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin: $25) A 12 2 meditation on the nature of pretentiousness and an attack on some of its most merciless practitioners 9 JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster: $35) 6 48 The story of our second president, a man Thomas Jefferson called “the colossus of independence.” 10 BODY-FOR-LIFE by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso 9 13 (HarperCollins: $26) A 12-week program of weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise along with nutrition and motivation tips 11 THE BEST DEMOCRACY THAT MONEY CAN BUY by Greg Palast -- 3 (Pluto Press: $25) Polemics by a reporter with the BBC against globalization and its harmful effect on the world 12 SHOOT OUT by Peter Bart and Peter Guber (Putnam: $26.95) 10 6 Two Hollywood veterans describe the clash of egos, artistic visions and economics that go into the making of movies 13 THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: -- 8 $21.95) How to improve relationships and encourage happiness and contentment by living in the present 14 KOBA THE DREAD by Martin Amis (Talk Miramax: $24.95) A 15 3 history of the mass killings in Lenin’s and Stalin’s Russia with a memoir questioning the Left’s support of the Soviets 15 A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE by Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Media: -- 3 $44.95) The universe and other complex systems explained through simple computer experiments

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