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Bestsellers

By Times Staff
Published April 30, 2006

Hardback bestsellers for the week ended April 15, according to the New York Times.

FICTION

1. TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (Mary Higgins Clark) A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.

2. DARK HARBOR (Stuart Woods) Stone Barrington, the New York cop-turned-lawyer, investigates the death of his cousin, a CIA agent.

3. OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL (Anonymous) When a wealthy hospital donor is found dead on arrival at a gala in his honor, three women suspect murder. A tie-in to As the World Turns.

4. DARK TORT (Diane Mott Davidson) The caterer Goldy Schulz is back in the amateur gumshoe business after a paralegal is killed.

5. GONE (Jonathan Kellerman) Two acting students stage their own disappearance - but then one of them is murdered. The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.

6. THE DA VINCI CODE (Dan Brown) A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.

7. THE 5TH HORSEMAN (James Patterson and Maxine Paetro) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.

8. CHASING DESTINY (Eric Jerome Dickey) When a Los Angeles biker beauty discovers she is pregnant, her married boyfriend is not happy.

9. THE TEMPLAR LEGACY (Steve Berry) A former Justice Department operative becomes involved in a desperate search for the long-lost treasure and secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.

10. THE SECRET SUPPER (Javier Sierra) Clues in The Last Supper reveal Da Vinci's heretical beliefs.

NONFICTION

1. DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARRINGS (Tyler Perry) Musings on life from the man behind Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

2. MARLEY & ME (John Grogan) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.

3. THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS (Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregor Wurst) An early Christian manuscript lost for 1,700 years portrays Judas Iscariot not as Jesus' betrayer but as his favored disciple and willing collaborator.

4. AMERICAN THEOCRACY (Kevin Phillips) A former Republican strategist warns against the dangers of religious zealotry, oil dependence and ballooning public and private debt.

5. FREAKONOMICS (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.

6. THE WORLD IS FLAT (Thomas L. Friedman) A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of globalization trends.

7. THE JESUS PAPERS (Michael Baigent) One of the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail argues that Jesus survived his crucifixion and had a child with Mary Magdalene.

8. GAME OF SHADOWS (Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams) How a San Francisco laboratory supplied steroids to many elite baseball players.

9. COBRA II (Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor) A definitive account of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq.

10. MY LIFE IN FRANCE (Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme) How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking.

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