Best sellers 2010

According New York Times the top list of best sellers for May, 2010 includes:
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. 61 HOURS, by Lee Child. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save.

In 61 Hours, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.

2. STORM PREY, by John Sandford
3. DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris
4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
5. INNOCENT, by Scott Turow

Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush
2. WAR, by Sebastian Junger
3. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis
4. THE PROMISE, by Jonathan Alter
5. TO SAVE AMERICA, by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis

Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
3. SAVOR THE MOMENT, by Nora Roberts
4. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave
5. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
3. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
4. WICKED PREY, by John Sandford
5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks

Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. WITH THE OLD BREED, by E. B. Sledge
2. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. HELMET FOR MY PILLOW, by Robert Leckie
4. MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, by Rhoda Janzen
5. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler

Hardcover Advice
Top 5 at a Glance
1. WOMEN FOOD AND GOD, by Geneen Roth
2. THE WAY WE’RE WORKING ISN’T WORKING, by Tony Schwartz with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy
3. SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
4. HEROES FOR MY SON, by Brad Meltzer
5. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

Paperback Advice
Top 5 at a Glance
1. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
2. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman
3. THE BELLY FAT CURE, by Jorge Cruise
4. AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS, by Mike Bender and Doug Chernack
5. SKINNY ITALIAN, by Teresa Giudice with Heather Maclean

Graphic Books
Top 5 at a Glance
1. TWILIGHT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, VOL. 1, by Stephenie Meyer and Young C. Kim
2. KICK-ASS, by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
3. THE WALKING DEAD: BOOK 5, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
4. BLOOM COUNTY: THE COMPLETE LIBRARY, VOL. 2, by Berkeley Breathed
5. WILSON, by Daniel Clowes

What about books for children the list includes such as

1. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
2. LADYBUG GIRL AT THE BEACH, by David Soman and Jacky Davis
3. THE LION AND THE MOUSE, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
4. STAR WARS, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
5. THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS, by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton

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Women are always beautiful

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, “A Woman’s Worth”

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown

Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

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