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    By The Associated Press | Associated Press – Thu, May 16, 2013 8:15 PM EDT

    Week ending May 12th, 2013, powered by Nielsen BookScan. Copyright 2013 The Nielsen Company.

    HARDCOVER FICTION

    1. "Dead Ever After: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

    2. "12th of Never" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

    3. "Silken Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)

    4. "The Hit" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

    5. "A Step of Faith: A Novel (Walk)" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster)

    6. "Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts (Putnam)

    7. "A Delicate Truth: A Novel" by John le Carre (Viking)

    8. "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)

    9. "Robert B. Parker's Wonderland (Spenser) by Ace Atkins (Putnam)

    10. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

    11. "Fly Away" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)

    12. "Paris" by Edward Rutherford (Doubleday)

    13. "Best Kept Secret" by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin's Press)

    14. "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown)

    15. "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult (Atria)

    HARDCOVER NONFICTION

    1. "Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander" by Phil Robertson and Mark Schlabach (Howard Books)

    2. "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf)

    3. "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

    4. "The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family and Ducks Built a Dynasty" by Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson and Mark Schlabach (Howard Books)

    5. "Waiting to Be Heard" by Amanda Knox (Harper)

    6. "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation" by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press)

    7. "It's All Good" by Gwyneth Paltro (Grand Central Publishing)

    4. "The Duck Commander Family" by Willie Robertson (Howard Books)

    7. "Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World" by Phil McGraw (Bird Street Books)

    8. "Keep it Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World" by Bill O'Reilly (Crown-Archetype)

    9. "Dad is Fat" by Jim Gaffigan (Crown-Archetype)

    10. "The Unstoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power" by Bill Schley and Graham Weston (Wiley)

    11. "Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World" by Phil McGraw (Bird Street Books)

    12. "The One Thing: The surprisingly SImple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (Bard Press)

    13. "Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook" by Weight Watchers (St. Martin's Griffin)

    14. "Bunker Hill" by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)

    15. "Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis" by Robert M. Edsel (Norton)

    MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

    1. "Stolen Prey" by John Sandford (Berkley)

    2. "Guilty Wives" by James Patterson/David Ellis (Vision)

    3. "Wind Chime Point" by Sherryl Woods(Mira)

    4. "Odd Apocalypse" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

    5. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks(Grand Central)

    6. "Informed Risk" by Robyn Carr (Harlequin)

    7. "Cheyenne Amber" by Catherine Anderson (Signet)

    8. "Hard Ride to Hell: The Family Jensen" by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (Pinnacle)

    9. "Judgment Call" by J.A. Jance (Harper)

    10. "Change of Heart" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

    11. "Courageous" by Diana Palmer (Harlequin)

    12. "Bare It All" by Lori Foster (Harlequin)

    13. "Gypped: A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark (Pocket Books)

    14. "Haven" by Kay Hooper (Jove)

    15. "Against the Edge" by Kat Martin (Mira)

    TRADE PAPERBACKS

    1. "Control" by Glenn Beck (S&S/Threshold)

    2. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner)

    3. "Proof of Heaven" by Eben Alexander (Simon & Schuster)

    4. "The Witness" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)

    5. "Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 Just Desserts: 200 Recipes under 200 Calories" by Lisa Lillien (St. Martin's Griffin)

    6. "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed (Vintage)

    7. "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial)

    8. "The Forgotten" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

    9. "Sea Swept: Book One of the Chesapeake Bay Saga" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)

    10. "Waking Up in Heaven" by Crystal McVea (Howard Books)

    11. "The Black Box" by Michael Connelly (Grand Central Publishing)

    12. "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great" by Ben Carson M.D. and Candy Carson (Zondervan)

    13. "The Next Best Thing: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square)

    14. "Obamacare Survival Guide" by Nick J. Tate (Humanix Books)

    15. "Where We Belong" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Griffin) BC-US--Best-Sellers-Books-PW,0704

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