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*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 1 (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic: $34.99) Dark and dangerous, Harry’s saga comes to a close. 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 10 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 3. The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (Simon & 1 Schuster: $26) The line between survival and criminality is blurred in post-Katrina New Orleans. 4. Peony in Love by Lisa See (Random House: $23.95) A 17th 4 century Chinese girl who dies before she can marry tells her story from the netherworld. 5. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 8 $22) A couple face a cruel reality on their wedding night. 6. The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 3 (Little, Brown: $27.99) A detective with a cheating husband is caught in a web of revenge. 7. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 13 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 8. High Noon by Nora Roberts (Putnam: $26.95) A police 2 hostage negotiator and those close to her are targeted by a mysterious assailant in Savannah, Ga. 9. Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson (Putnam: $24.95) An 2 Idaho sheriff tries to foil an assassin intent on harming a woman who is about to run for president. 10. The Judas Strain by James Rollins (William Morrow: 3 $25.95) Members of the Sigma Force fight an ancient plague, which takes the form of a cryptogram. *--*

*--* Nonfiction 1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 31 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 2. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Doubleday: 7 $27.50) A dishy take on the late princess of Wales by the former editor of Tatler and Vanity Fair. 3. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 13 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 4. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 12 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other vital skills. 5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, 9 Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins: $26.95) Living off the family farm. 6. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: 15 $32) A portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 7. Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen (Random House: $21.95) A 6 collection of vintage Allen rants, along with some new humor. 8. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & 15 Giroux: $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp. 9. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne: 1 $24.95) An eye-popping look at how our planet might fare if there were no people on it. 10. Save Me From Myself by Brian Welch (HarperOne: 1 $25.95) The former Korn lead guitarist writes of his journey from drugs to Christianity. *--*