Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

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*--* 1 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon (Picador: $15) Cousins in the comics biz 2 DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS by P.D. James (Fawcett: $7.99) Adam Dalgliesh faces a horrific case at a remote college 3 FALL ON YOUR KNEES by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Scribner: $14) The travails of a family in coal-mining Nova Scotia 4 THE VILLA by Nora Roberts (Jove: $7.99) The merger of two Napa family wineries leads to romance and murder 5 ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket: $7.99) A century-old mystery has new corpses 6 DUST TO DUST by Tami Hoag (Bantam: $7.99) Did a young, gay internal affairs officer commit suicide, or was it murder? 7 A PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham (Dell Island: $7.99) Violence looms over a boyhood in rural Arkansas in 1952 8 SHOPGIRL by Steve Martin (Theia: $10.95) Department store clerk Mirabelle meets an older man too good to be true 9 THE LAST TIME THEY MET by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown: $13.95) Two poets share a lifelong passion 10 BIG CHERRY HOLLER by Adriana Trigiani (Ballantine: $13.95) A husband’s and wife’s fidelity is tested after tragedy

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*--* 1 SEABISCUIT by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine: $15) How a thoroughbred horse went from also-ran to sports icon 2 THE WRINKLE CURE by Nicholas Perricone (Warner: $13.95) Using antioxidants to keep the skin looking young 3 THE FOUR AGREEMENTS by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $12.95) Life lessons based on ancient Toltec wisdom 4 RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Techpress: $15.95) Adventures in fiscal parenting 5 FOUNDING BROTHERS by Joseph Ellis (Vintage: $14) The genius, cunning and flaws of the nation’s architects 6 FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser (HarperCollins: $13.95) The unappetizing practices of the junk-food industry 7 A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar (Touchstone: $16) A brilliant mathematics professor’s battle with schizophrenia 8 ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $14.95) Wisecracking essays on life in Paris and elsewhere 9 KILLING PABLO by Mark Bowden (Penguin: $14) The hunt to capture the head of a Colombian cocaine cartel 10 9-11 by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories Press: $8.95) An alternative view of the U.S.-led war on terrorism

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