Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 1 12 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 2 THE SHELTERS OF STONE by Jean M. Auel (Crown: $28.95) 3 4 Cavewoman Ayla has to negotiate warring tribes and win over her beloved’s family in the latest “Earth’s Children” installment 3 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 2 11 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 4 CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $25.95) 6 5 Detective Harry Bosch is after the truth behind the 20-year-old murder of a child whose bones are discovered in Laurel Canyon 5 ATTACK OF THE CLONES by R.A. Salvatore (Del Rey: $26) In 8 4 this “Star Wars” installment, Anakin Skywalker challenges his Jedi master and falls in love with a beautiful diplomat 6 THE WAILING WIND by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins: 5 2 $25.95) A body found in a parked car helps Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee solve an old case 7 DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon and 4 5 Schuster: $26) A journalist struggles to keep her sister’s killer in prison despite his wealthy and influential family 8 MORTAL PREY by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) Minneapolis -- 1 cop Lucas Davenport is headed for the altar, but first he has to stop the killing spree of his nemesis 9 A THOUSAND COUNTRY ROADS by Robert James Waller (John M. 11 3 Hardy: $19.95) In this epilogue to “The Bridges of Madison County,” we learn what happened to the two lovers after their affair 10 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer 9 5 (Houghton Mifflin: $24) A comic novel about a man’s search for his family’s past in Ukraine and the history of a forgotten shtetl 11 THE SUMMONS by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A man 10 15 discovers $3 million in his dead father’s house and hides it from his prodigal brother and a mysterious extortioner 12 THE BONDWOMAN’S NARRATIVE by Hannah Crafts (Warner: -- 4 $24.95) Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. edited this long-lost manuscript, possibly the first novel by a former slave 13 SIN KILLER by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: $25) An -- 1 aristocratic family abandons English comfort to explore the Missouri River frontier of the 1830s. (See review, page 14.) 14 THIEVES’ PARADISE by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton: $19.95) -- 1 The prospect of fast money lures two buddies into a world rife with con men and beautiful women 15 COURTING TROUBLE by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins: -- 1 $25.95) The newest member of an all-female Philadelphia law firm plays dead to smoke out the man who’s after her

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 1 13 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more 2 THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME by Marlo Thomas 2 3 (Pocket Books: $25) The actress and author is joined by a host of luminaries sharing words of wisdom they’ve found useful 3 AMERICAN SON by Richard Blow (Henry Holt: $25) The ups 3 2 and downs of starting a magazine and being John F. Kennedy Jr., by one of his colleagues at George 4 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf: 4 4 $35) How LBJ awakened a moribund Senate through civil rights reform and set his sights on the White House 5 ODD GIRL OUT by Rachel Simmons (Harcourt Brace: $25) A 9 4 look at the culture of hidden aggression the author says develops when girls are socialized to avoid conflict and anger 6 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 7 18 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 7 THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE by Christiane Northrup (Bantam: 8 13 $27.95) A physician describes symptoms and treatments for menopause 8 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 13 112 The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 9 THE HEALTHY KITCHEN by Andrew Weill and Rosie Daley 5 3 (Alfred A. Knopf: $24.95) Navigating around fatty, unhealthful foods to follow an ideal, appetizing diet plan in your own home 10 WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis (Oxford University: -- 12 $23) An esteemed historian describes the Islamic Middle East’s fall from enlightenment into repression and tyranny 11 LUCKY MAN by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion: $22.95) A 6 7 heartfelt, candid memoir by the celebrity, describing his rise to fame and the effect of Parkinson’s disease on his life 12 THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: -- 7 $21.95) How to improve relationships and encourage happiness and contentment by living in the present 13 FIND ME by Rosie O’Donnell (Warner: $23.95) The -- 4 talk-show host writes about how helping a pregnant young girl led to her decision to end her daily television show 14 WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY by Kevin Phillips (Broadway Books: -- 1 $29.95) A look at the ways capitalists embrace government influence when they can use it to their advantage 15 BODY-FOR-LIFE by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso -- 6 (HarperCollins: $26) A 12-week program of weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise, along with nutrition and motivation tips

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