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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 26 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide.

2 Bleachers by John Grisham (Doubleday: $19.95) A former 12 2 NFL player returns home to join a vigil for his dying high school football coach and meets a woman he abandoned years before.

3 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin: $24) A 3 4 Bengali couple and their son, named for the Russian writer Gogol, experience cultural jolts after leaving Calcutta for America.

4 Diary by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday: $24.95) A tortured 5 3 artist writes a diary about her life with a comatose husband and copes with mysterious events and ailments.

5 The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy (Putnam: $27.95) 2 6 Young Jack Ryan Jr. enters the covert world to track down terrorists in a far more dangerous world than his father ever knew.

6 The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks (Warner: $23.95) His -- 1 daughter’s wedding offers a workaholic lawyer and his wife a golden opportunity to revive their own marriage.

7 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Doubleday: 6 22 $21.95) A recent college grad puts up with a nightmare of a boss at a high-fashion magazine.

8 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark 4 9 Haddon (Doubleday: $22.95) Falsely accused, an autistic teen looks for the real murderer of a neighbor’s poodle.

9 Death by Hollywood by Steven Bochco (Random House: -- 1 $24.95) A screenwriter on the skids witnesses a murder and turns it into a screenplay.

10 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown: $21.95) 9 65 A murdered girl tells the story of her grieving family still learning to cope, the killer and the detective who hunts him.

11 Dead Famous by Carol O’Connell (Putnam: $24.95) Det. -- 1 Kathleen Mallory stays one step ahead of the FBI as she hunts the serial murderer of jurors in a federal case.

12 The Devil’s Banker by Christopher Reich (Delacorte Press: 11 3 $25.95) A forensic accountant is on the tangled trail of a terrorist money transfer.

13 A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George (Bantam: $26.95) -- 1 Simon and Deborah St. James investigate the murder of a philanthropist on the Isle of Guernsey in an attempt to exonerate their friends.

14 Well by Matthew McIntosh (Grove: $23) The struggling -- 1 inhabitants of a Seattle working-class suburb narrate lives of quiet desperation.

15 Jarka Ruus by Terry Brooks (Del Rey: $27.95) Teenage 10 3 druids try to rescue a high priestess from imprisonment.

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

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*--* 1 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 1 5 (Dutton: $24.95) A heaping dose of subversive wit aimed at political leaders and pundits.

2 Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: 5 3 $17) A guide to embracing life in the here and now by mastering the art of “inner stillness.”

3 The Essential 55 by Ron Clark (Hyperion: $19.95) Rules 6 12 from an award-winning teacher on promoting successful learning, manners and accountability in the classroom.

4 Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg (Putnam: $25.95) 7 10 Katharine Hepburn reveals more about her legendary life in this book, postponed until after her death.

5 The Two Percent Solution by Matthew Miller -- 1 (PublicAffairs: $26) Syndicated columnist and former White House advisor offers an imaginative program for our most intractable economic problems.

6 Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: 3 11 $30) A new look at the printer turned statesman as pragmatist and ambitious self-promoter.

7 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & 14 15 Schuster: $28) The senator and former first lady’s memoirs, from her courtship with Bill Clinton through her years in the White House.

8 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: 8 28 $19.99) How the “God-ordained” principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism bring fulfillment.

9 The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman (W.W. Norton: -- 1 $25.95) A Princeton economist and New York Times op-ed columnist attacks the fiscal policies of the Bush administration.

10 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: 9 53 $21.95) How to improve all of one’s relationships and find contentment by living in the now.

11 Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Doubleday: 2 9 $26) Two Mormon fundamentalists kill their brother’s family on what they believe are God’s orders.

12 The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz (Wiley: $19.95) -- 1 The Harvard law professor offers an impassioned defense of Israel’s conduct in the Middle East conflict.

13 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson -- 1 (Broadway: $27.50) An overview of life, the universe and everything -- from the big bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens.

14 Almost French by Sarah Turnbull (Gotham: $25) When an -- 1 emigre Australian journalist moves to Paris, she discovers love, work and a new life in the City of Light.

15 Ask Me Again Tomorrow by Olympia Dukakis (HarperCollins: -- 1 $25.95) In this autobiography, the renowned Greek American actress recounts her long career on stage and screen.

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