BESTSELLERS

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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 17 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide

2 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Doubleday: 2 13 $21.95) A recent college grad puts up with a nightmare of a boss at a high-fashion magazine

3 Trading Up by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion: $24.95) Model 4 2 Janey Wilcox doesn’t let marriage to an entertainment exec get in the way as she hones her social climbing skills

4 Lake House by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $27.95) Six 5 6 children survive years of captivity and yearn to be with the couple who saved them in this sequel to “When the Wind Blows.”

5 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 3 56 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family still learning to cope, the killer and the detective who hunts him

6 White Death by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: 9 4 $26.95) After a showdown between a Danish ship and environmentalists, Kurt Austin discovers something sinister afloat

7 Maneater by Gigi Levangie Grazer (Simon & Schuster: -- 5 $23.95) A thirtysomething social climber is determined to have the wedding of the season; all she needs is a groom

8 Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs (Scribner: $25) A forensic 7 2 anthropologist’s vacation to the North Carolina seashore is stopped cold when sets of remains turn up

9 Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel by Walter Mosley -- 1 (Little, Brown & Co.: $24.95) Fearless Jones searches for a missing man, an emerald pendant and a missing diary

10 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: -- 8 $27) A Greek family embraces the mid-century American dream, and a young girl takes a journey to womanhood

11 Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: $19.95) 8 2 A high school heartthrob killed in a car crash after his senior prom comes back to Earth to help his loved ones heal

12 To the Nines by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s Press: -- 1 $25.95) New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of an Indian contract worker who has gone missing

13 The King of Torts by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) The 14 21 case of a young man charged in a street killing turns out to be tied to a conspiracy involving a pharmaceutical giant

14 Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith -- 2 (Pantheon: $19.95) The proprietor of Botswana’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has a rival setting up shop

15 Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (Random House: $24.95) -- 1 The daughter of a grocer must choose between the uptown life of a fashion apprentice and duty to family in 1950s New York

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Nonfiction LAST WEEK WEEKS ON LIST

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*--* 1 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & 1 6 Schuster: $28 ) The senator and former first lady’s memoirs, from her courtship with Bill Clinton to her rocky years in the White House

2 Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg (Putnam: $25.95) -- 1 Katharine Hepburn reveals more about her legendary life in this book postponed until after her death

3 Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: 2 2 $30) A new look at the printer turned statesman, both a pragmatist and an ambitious self-promoter

4 The Essential 55 by Ron Clark (Hyperion: $19.95) Rules 7 3 devised by an award-winning teacher to promote successful learning, manners and accountability in the classroom

5 The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been -- 1 Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years by Edward Klein (St. Martin’s Press: $24.95) A chronicle of the deaths and tragedies of a dynasty

6 Treason by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum: $26.95) The 3 3 conservative pundit contends liberals have been on the wrong side of every foreign policy issue from the Cold War to the war on terrorism

7 The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: -- 19 $19.99) How the principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism lead to a fulfilled life

8 Moneyball by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton: $24.95) How 6 9 Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s use of statistics helped transform major league castoffs into a winning franchise

9 Atkins for Life by Robert C. Atkins (St. Martin’s: 5 25 $24.95) The late physician’s mission against low-fat diets argues that carbohydrates are the true culprits in weight gain

10 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: 14 44 $21.95) How to improve relationships and encourage contentment by living in the present

11 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 8 7 (Broadway: $27.50) An entertaining guide to the great moments in the history of science, from the Big Bang to the present day

12 Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels (Random House: $24.95) How 12 5 early Christian fathers debated which texts should be considered authoritative and embraced the gospel of John over that of Thomas

13 When Hollywood Had a King by Connie Bruck (Random House: 11 6 $29.95) The life and times of Hollywood power broker extraordinaire Lew Wasserman

14 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Crown: -- 12 $25.95) A chronicle of how a serial killer, posing as a charming doctor, haunted the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

15 Dharma Punx by Noah Levine (Harper San Francisco: $23.95) -- 2 Memoirs of a former skate punk, drug addict and petty thief turned Buddhist meditation instructor

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