Last week’s best-selling books, according to the Publishers Weekly:

FICTION

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House Rules” by Jodi Picoult. The symptoms of Jacob Hunt’s Asperger’s syndrome cause him to become a murder suspect.

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The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

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Fantasy in Death” by J.D. Robb

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” by Seth Grahme-Smith. The famous president becomes a secret vampire hunter after a vampire murders his mother.

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Big Girl” by Danielle Steel

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Worst Case” by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

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Black Magic Sanction” by Kim Harrison

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Split Image” by Robert B. Parker

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The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown

10 “

Winter Garden” by Kristin Hannah

NON-FICTION

1“

No Apology: The Case for American Greatness” by Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor and failed Republican presidential candidate asserts a case for restoring America’s strength.

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Payback Time: Making Big Money Is the Best Revenge!” by Phil Town. The author gives a set of rules for investing (not trading but investing) in the right businesses at the right time to make big money.

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Lift” by Kelly Corigan. The author’s advice for living a full life written in the form of a letter to her children.

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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime” by John Hellermann, Mark Halperin

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard” by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

6“

Not Without Hope” by Nick Schuyler, Jere’ Longman. An account from the sole survivor of a harrowing boating accident.

7 “

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

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The Pacific” by Hugh Ambrose. The companion book to the HBO miniseries, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, about four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II.

9“

The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down” by Andrew Young

10 “

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend” by James S. Hirsch