Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 2 3 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family, the killer and the detective who hunts him 2 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 4 19 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 3 THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK by Stephen L. Carter (Alfred A. 1 5 Knopf: $26.95) A professor is drawn into the underworld of Washington, D.C., by the secrets of his late father, a federal judge 4 BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: -- 1 $24.95) Easy Rawlins returns, looking for a woman’s son among revolutionaries and grieving for his dead crony Mouse 5 THE BEACH HOUSE by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge 3 4 (Little, Brown: $26.95) A law student seeks his own justice after his brother’s body is found outside a Long Island manse 6 THE REMNANT by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale -- 1 House: $24.99) The tribulation has begun, and world leader/antichrist Nicolae Carpathia calls for blood 7 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 9 18 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 8 THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER by Ann Packer (Alfred A. 10 4 Knopf: $24) A young woman struggles with the meaning of her life after a catastrophe changes her relationship with her fiance 9 HARD EIGHT by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s: $25.95) New 5 3 Jersey’s favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, faces all kinds of thugs as she hunts for a missing girl and her mother 10 SUNSET IN ST. TROPEZ by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: 15 2 $19.95) A group of old friends tries not to let personal tragedy mar a sojourn on the French Riviera 11 FIRE ICE by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: 14 5 $26.95) Old Cold War rivals team up to fight a crazed Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and ecological disaster on his mind 12 IN THIS MOUNTAIN by Jan Karon (Viking: $25.95) Father Tim 8 6 and his wife, Cynthia, receive a warm embrace from the townspeople of Mitford on their return from Whitecap Island 13 THE COLOR MIDNIGHT MADE by Andrew Winer (Washington -- 1 Square: $24) A 10-year-old boy struggles with his family in a cold shipbuilding town on an island off the California coast 14 CHOPPING SPREE by Diane Mott Davidson (Bantam: $23.95) A 11 2 Colorado caterer putting on a gala for a shopping mall opening gets pulled into a murder investigation 15 PRAGUE by Arthur Phillips (Random House: $24.95) Five -- 1 young seekers of love and experience move to central Europe after the Soviet Union’s collapse

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 1 20 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more 2 YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS by John McEnroe with James Kaplan 2 4 (Putnam: $25.95) The brash tennis great serves up career highlights laced with insight 3 SLANDER by Ann Coulter (Crown: $25.95) The conservative 3 2 pundit takes on the media and tells why liberals have been wrong about just about everything 4 GOOD TO GREAT by Jim Collins (HarperCollins: $27.50) How 12 4 a great product, a healthy corporate culture and a disciplined workforce can propel a company to success 5 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 4 25 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 6 JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster: $35) 5 47 The story of our second president, a man Thomas Jefferson called “the colossus of independence.” 7 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 6 119 The coauthor of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 8 THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M. by Catherine Millet 9 5 (Grove Press: $23) A French art critic with a gifted superego looks back on 30 years of indulging her id 9 BODY-FOR-LIFE by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso 7 12 (HarperCollins: $26) A 12-week program of weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise along with nutrition and motivation tips 10 SHOOT OUT by Peter Bart and Peter Guber (Putnam: $26.95) -- 5 Two Hollywood veterans describe the clash of egos, artistic visions and economics that goes into the making of movies 11 EXECUTION by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck 13 3 (Crown: $27.50) A recipe for managerial success, from former Honeywell CEO Bossidy and business advisor Charan 12 SNOBBERY by Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin: $25) A -- 1 meditation on the nature of pretentiousness and an attack on some of its most merciless practitioners 13 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas 8 10 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 14 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf: -- 10 $35) How LBJ awakened a moribund Senate through civil rights reform and set his sights on the White House 15 KOBA THE DREAD by Martin Amis (Talk Miramax: $24.95) A 14 2 history of the mass killings in Lenin’s and Stalin’s Russia with a memoir questioning the Left’s support of the Soviets

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