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HI gang, Rick here from Community Joint Ventures with a new feature we are going to do each week, the Top 10 Best Selling NON-FICTION Books of the Week.

NON-FICTION

1. The Suns Climbs Slow, Erna Paris
A powerful investigation of the story and individuals behind America’s refusal to acknowledge international law and an inquiry into the urgent role of international criminal justice from the award-winning, bestselling author of Long Shadows.In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America’s opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large.

Erna Paris describes, movingly and convincingly, the dawn of a new age of international law. There could be no better guide to the emerging world in which no guilty person, however powerful, can escape responsibility for acts of barbarism. Obligatory reading for the forward looking.” —John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate
1. The Suns Climbs Slow, Erna Paris

2. Musicophillia: Tales of Music and Brain, Oliver Sacks
Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with music inside me,” and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies.

With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer’s patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a “musical species.” –Dave Callanan

I believe this book is a must for musicians, who will probably acquire new understandings regarding the dimensions of their music in relation to their own brains. 2. Musicophillia: Tales of Music and Brain, Oliver Sacks

3. An Apple a Day, Joe Schwarcz
Eat salmon. It’s full of good omega-3 fats. Don’t eat salmon. It’s full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They’re full of good antioxidants. Don’t eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer.Forget your dinner jacket and put on your lab coat: you have to be a nutritional scientist these days before you sit down to eat—which is why we need Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the expert who’s famous for connecting chemistry to everyday life.

JOE SCHWARCZ is director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. He teaches courses on nutrition and the applications of chemistry to everyday life. His informative and entertaining public lectures range from nutritional controversies to the chemistry of love. Schwarcz has received numerous awards, including the Royal Society of Canada’s McNeil Award, and is the only non-American to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack Award. 3. An Apple a Day, Joe Schwarcz

4. In Defence of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
Examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of health, this powerfully argued, thoroughly researched and elegant manifesto cuts straight to the chase with a maxim that is deceptively simple: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. But as Pollan explains, food in a country that is driven by a thirty-two billion-dollar marketing machine is both a loaded term and, in its purest sense, a holy grail.

It is so good to read a book about nutrition that does not promote any new diet! The author’s message is plain and simple: Go back to nature, eat wholesome foods, and don’t bother with dieting. Don’t overeat; instead eat slowly, and enjoy your meals.
4. In Defence of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan

5. Cook with Jamie, Jamie Oliver
The seemingly inexhaustible Oliver (The Naked Chef, Happy Days with the Naked Chef, etc.) returns with what may be his best book yet. Aiming to educate readers on cooking basics, Oliver offers over 175 recipes that emphasize flavor and freshness over labor-intensive preparation.

Jamie says, My guide to making you a better cook. I can’t tell you how long I’ve dreamed about writing this book. It’s the biggest book I’ve ever done, and I’ve really tried to make it a timeless, modern-day classic. Whether you’re a student, a young couple, an established cook, or a novice, I’ll take you through a whole load of simple and accessible recipes that will blow the socks off your family and any guests you might have round for dinner.

P.S.: By the way, you should feel good about buying this book because every single penny I make from it will go toward training and inspiring young kids from tough backgrounds all over the world to have a career in food through the Fifteen Foundation. So on behalf of them, thank you. 5. Cook with Jamie, Jamie Oliver

6. Reconciliation, Benazair Bhutto
Madeleine Albright”It is impossible to understand today’s world without knowing Pakistan; and impossible to understand Pakistan without reading this book. A courageous woman—tragically killed—speaks to us of reconciliation. We owe it to her—and to ourselves—to listen, comprehend, and act.” Walter Isaacson”This is one of the most gripping and important books of our era. It’s a brilliant manifesto for challenging radical Islam. Benazir Bhutto was an intense but charming woman driven by a crucial mission. Her death makes this beautiful book all the more poignant, and also more necessary.”

This is an incredible book with an extremely important message. The world lost an amazing leader and a fascinating woman when Benazir Bhutto was assasinated, but her last words will resonate for generations to come. A MUST READ.
6. Reconciliation, Benazair Bhutto

7. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.”

In this delightfully witty, provocative book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from critics around the world, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that it’s actually more important to know a book’s role in our collective library than its details.

“In this hilarious and elaborate spoof, Bayard proves once again that being almost ridiculously erudite and screamingly funny are by no means mutually exclusive.” —Booklist. 7. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard

8. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Gabor Mate
Finally, he takes aim at the hugely ineffectual, largely U.S.-led War on Drugs (and its worldwide followers), challenging the wisdom of fighting drugs instead of aiding the addicts, and showing how controversial measures such as safe injection sites are measurably more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most major governments have going.

“Written with clarity and compassion. . . . The book’s characteristics seem to describe Maté himself: armed with knowledge and straight from the heart.” —Georgia Straight

“When Maté witnesses and testifies to human suffering, including his own, he is compassionate and compelling.” —The Globe and Mail
8. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Gabor Mate

9. The Geography of Hope, Chris Turner
With a mix of front-line reporting, analysis and passionate argument, Chris Turner pieces together the glimmers of optimism amid the gloom and the solutions already at work around the world, from Canada’s largest wind farm to Asia’s greenest building and Europe’s most eco-friendly communities.

“Smart and funny, Turner is clearly one of the converted, and he writes with fitting enthusiasm for his subject while working in seemly references to cultural theory and TV-insider politics.” —The Hollywood Reporter“One of the more fascinating and entertaining works I’ve read.” —The Globe and Mail
9. The Geography of Hope, Chris Turner

10. Jane Boleyn, Julia Fox
From Publishers WeeklyWife of Anne Boleyn’s brother George, Jane, Viscountess Rochford, has been painted by historians, beginning with the Protestant Elizabethan John Foxe, as a barren, jealous shrew who lied about George and Anne’s incestuous relationship, helping send them to their deaths for treason against Henry VIII. Jane herself was executed for treason several years later for abetting the adultery of Henry’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

“A riveting story–expertly written and based on an impressive body of research. Julia Fox’s book re-creates the inner life of one of the great scapegoats of history and vividly depicts the fervid, extravagant, interbred world of the Tudor court.”–Sarah Gristwood, author of Elizabeth & Leicester“Jane Boleyn’s true history was obscured by lies and propaganda. Now, in an outstanding debut by Julia Fox, the full tragedy of her thwarted life has come to light. A fascinating and moving read, Jane Boleyn exposes the harsh reality of Henry VIII’s court, where cleverness and ambition often led to the block.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
10. Jane Boleyn, Julia Fox

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HI gang, Rick here from Community Joint Ventures with a new feature we are going to do each week, the Top 10 Best Selling Books of the Week.

FICTION

1. The Appeal, John Grisham.

“Building a remarkable degree of suspense…Grisham delivers his savviest book in years. His extended vacation from hard–hitting fiction is over.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“A novel that could become its own era–defining classic. John Grisham holds up that same mirror to our age as Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities.”—The Boston Globe

“Chilling and timeless.”—The Washington Post

“An intricately detailed, involving story…the ending may surprise you.”—People

“Stirring popular fiction that doubles as an important public–service announcement.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Packs a wallop…The timing, in the midst of all the presidential primaries, makes it all the more compelling.”–USA Today

“Fascinating…filled with deadly accurate characterizations by and author who knows both the law and politics from the inside.”–Los Angeles Times

“A clever story and thoughtful plot…Grisham confronts in stark relief the dangers of electing judges in an era of big–money politics.”—Seattle Times–Post Intelligencer
1. The Appeal, John Grisham.

2. World Without End, Ken Follett.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End.

Eighteen years after Pillars of the Earth weighed in with almost 1,000 pages of juicy historical fiction about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, bestseller Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an equally weighty tome that deftly braids the fate of several of the offspring of Pillars’ families with such momentous events of the era as the Black Death and the wars with France. 2. World Without End, Ken Follett.

3. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks.

One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emotionally rich, thrilling fictionalization that retraces its turbulent journey.

In the hands of Hanna Heath, an impassioned rare-book expert restoring the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, it yields clues to its guardians and whereabouts: an insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals, and a white hair. While readers experience crucial moments in the book’s history through a series of fascinating, fleshed-out short stories, Hanna pursues its secrets scientifically, and finds that some interests will still risk everything in the name of protecting this treasure. A complex love story, thrilling mystery, vivid history lesson, and celebration of the enduring power of ideas, People of the Book will surely be hailed as one of the best of 2008. 3. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks.

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini.
It’s difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini’s compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.

We wanted to spread the word on the book as widely, and as soon, as we could. See below for an exclusive excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns and early reviews of the book from some of our top customer reviewers.–The Editors
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini.

5. Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay.
It’s 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. Her enchanting voice disarms hard-bitten broadcaster Harry Boyd and electrifies the station, setting into motion rivalries both professional and sexual. As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to rip open the land, inspiring many people to find their voices for the first time.

This is the moment before television conquers the north’s attention, when the future of the Arctic hangs in the balance. After the snow melts, four members of the radio station take a long canoe trip into the Barrens, a mysterious landscape of lingering ice and 24-hour light. The unexpected turns lethal — is it too late for Dido and Harry? Stark, witty, and dynamically charged, this dazzling tale embodies the power of a place and of the human voice to breed love and haunt the memory.

This is a tremendous book, a moving invocation of the North and of the less-visited reaches of love. It gathers so much momentum that by mid-book you can no more stop reading than stop breathing.
5. Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay.

6. Before Green Gables, Budge Wilson
A must-read for generations of book lovers. This remarkable, and heart-warming prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery’s heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.

Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley’s life before her arrival at Green Gables-a heartwarming tale of a precocious child whose lively imagination and relentless spirit help her to overcome difficult circumstances and of a young girl’s ability to love, learn, and above all, dream.

For the millions of readers who devoured the Green Gables series, Before Green Gables is an irresistible treat; the account of how one of literature’s most beloved heroines became the girl who captivated the world.
6. Before Green Gables, Budge Wilson

7. Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips
British blogger Phillips’s delightful debut finds the Greek gods and goddesses living in a tumbledown house in modern-day London and facing a very serious problem: their powers are waning, and immortality does not seem guaranteed.

In between looking for work and keeping house, the ancient family is still up to its oldest pursuit: crossing and double-crossing each other.
Marie Phillips’s first novel, Gods Behaving Badly, hovers somewhere between Pride and Prejudice and an episode of “Bewitched.” I’m not complaining; I have an unusually high regard for Elizabeth Montgomery’s oeuvre. And Austen got off some good lines, too. 7. Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips

8. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, Jeffrey Eugenides
“When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart.

All proceeds from My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

If you purchase “My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead” you not only obtain a wonderfully entertaining yet complex anthology of “love” stories, you also contribute to a worthy charity that supports budding writers. Win-Win! I picked up this anthology expecting to just dip in and out of it, but the selections are so engrossing and lively that I was instantly mesmerized.
8. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, Jeffrey Eugenides

9. A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father’s body will never be found.

Martin’s ill-fated scheme to make every Australian a millionaire; and a feverish odyssey through Thailand’s menacing jungles. Toltz’s exuberant, looping narrative—thick with his characters’ outsized longings and with their crazy arguments—sometimes blows past plot entirely, but comic drive and Toltz’s far-out imagination carry the epic story, which puts the two (and Martin’s own nemesis, his outlaw brother, Terry) on an irreverent roller-coaster ride from obscurity to infamy.

“Comic drive and Steve Toltz’s far-out imagination carry the epic story . . . a nutty tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“This hilarious, sneaky smart first novel is as big and rangy as Australia . . . Toltz salts it all with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life. This is one rampaging and irresistible debut.” —Booklist, starred review“A fantastic, rollicking adventure of a novel, both startlinglyoriginal and hysterically funny. Surely this isthe new picaresque, rivaling Ignatius Reilly and Billy Bathgate.”—David Francis, author of The Great Inland Sea
9. A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz

10. Duma Key, Stephen King
It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King’s latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that Duma Key, the story of Edgar Freemantle and his recovery from the terrible nightmare-inducing accident that stole his arm and ended his marriage, is Stephen King’s most brilliant novel to date.

This is one of the best books ever from one of the best American writers. Stephen King knows what scares us, and he’s been proving it for thirty years, but this new novel adds a layer of humanity to the fantasy that makes it all the more surprising. Though the protagonist of DUMA KEY is ostensibly a divorced construction engineer with a latent talent for drawing, he is also clearly a stand-in for the author himself, making this arguably his most personal narrative.

This is the Stephen King we all know and scared us out of our wits so well. “Duma Key” is more than just a horror novel, or pop fiction, it also has a lot to say about the human condition. 10. Duma Key, Stephen King