12:54 PM CDT on Monday, June 12, 2006
This week's list of local best-sellers is from Jokae's Bookstore at its new location, 3223 W. Camp Wisdom Road. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. For BookSense best-sellers from the American Booksellers Association, see www.booksense.com/bestsellers. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list LOCAL
1. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns, by J. California Cooper 2. Changing Faces, by Kimberla Lawson Roby 3. Fortunate Son, by Walter Mosley 4. Baby Brother's Blues, by Pearl Cleage 5. Love on the Dotted Line, by David Talbert 6. So You Call Yourself a Man, by Carl Weber 7. Chasing Destiny, by Eric Jerome Dickey 8. The Vow, by Denene Millner, Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller 9. In Sheep's Clothing, by Mary Monroe 10. The Interruption of Everything, by Terry McMillan
1. A Piece of Cake, by Cupcake Brown 2. A Hungry Heart, by Gordon Parks 3. The Pursuit of Happyness, by Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe 4. Mama Made the Difference, by T.D. Jakes 5. God's Trophy Women, by Jacqueline Jakes 6. Come Hell or High Water, by Michael Eric Dyson 7. If You Want Closure in Your Relationship Start With Your Legs, by Big Boom 8. Lies at the Altar, by Robin Smith 9. Why Men Won't Commit, by George Weinberg 10. If I Stop I'll Die, by John Williams and Dennis Williams
1. A Sin and a Shame, by Victoria Christopher Murray 2. When Angry Shadows Are Heard, by Cairo Styles 3. When a Sistah's Fed Up, by Monica Anderson 4. Bad Girls Finish First, by Shelia Harvey 5. Any Rich Man Will Do, by Francis Ray
NATIONAL
1. 101 Things a Black Man Should Know, by Marvin Woodard 2. Letters to Young Black Men, by Daniel Whyte III 3. The New Low-Country Cooking, by Marvin Woods 4. Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama 5. The Covenant With Black America, introduced by Tavis Smiley
1. (–) At Risk, by Patricia Cornwell 2. (1) Beach Road, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge 3. (2) Dead Watch, by John Sandford 4. (3) The Hard Way, by Lee Child 5. (4) Two Little Girls in Blue, by Mary Higgins Clark 6. (5) Digging to America, by Anne Tyler 7. (8) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown 8. (6) Blue Shoes and Happiness, by Alexander McCall Smith 9. (9) Promise Me, by Harlan Coben 10. (10) Everyman, by Philip Roth
1. (1) Marley & Me, by John Grogan 2. (–) Wisdom of Our Fathers, by Tim Russert 3. (–) Dispatches From the Edge, by Anderson Cooper 4. (2) Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick 5. (3) The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman 6. (8) Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 7. (7) Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, by John Stossel 8. (5) My Life In & Out of the Rough, by John Daly 9. (4) Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings, by Tyler Perry 10. (6) Burnt Toast, by Teri Hatcher
1. (1) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown 2. (2) Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown 3. (4) Broken Prey, by John Sandford 4. (3) Velocity, by Dean Koontz 5. (–) A Wedding in December, by Anita Shreve
1. (1) Night (new translation), Elie Wiesel 2. (3) In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote 3. (4) The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell 4. (5) The Covenant With Black America, introduced by Tavis Smiley 5. (2) Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln