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The Inventor of modern football

By ALLEN BARRA
Published September 24, 2006

Hardback bestsellers for the week ended Sept. 9, according to the New York Times.

FICTION

1. THE BOOK OF FATE (Brad Meltzer) The apparent murder of a presidential aide reveals Masonic secrets in Washington and a 200-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson.

2. RISE AND SHINE (Anna Quindlen) The lives of two sisters, one the host of a television show and the other a social worker.

3. DARK CELEBRATION (Christine Feehan) Carpathians from around the world join together to oppose their enemies' plot to kill all Carpathian women.

4. JUDGE & JURY (James Patterson and Andrew Gross) An aspiring actress and an FBI agent join forces against a powerful mobster.

5. RICOCHET (Sandra Brown) A detective is attracted to a judge's wife who he also suspects is not telling the truth about a fatal shooting.

6. THE AFGHAN (Frederick Forsyth) To foil an al-Qaida plot, a British operative masquerades as a Taliban commander just released from Guantanamo.

7. INTO THE STORM (Suzanne Brockmann) A night of passion raises the temperature between a member of the Navy SEALs and a former cop who must work together to track a serial killer in a remote corner of New Hampshire.

8. THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN (Claire Messud) A group of privileged 30-somethings try to make their way in literary New York just before 9/11.

9. HUNTERS OF DUNE (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson) Adventures of the fugitives fleeing the "Honored Matres," based on Frank Herbert's final outline for the Dune series.

10. THE GUY NOT TAKEN (Jennifer Weiner) Stories about women and relationships from the author of In Her Shoes.

NONFICTION

1. I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK (Nora Ephron) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally).

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

3. THE WORLD IS FLAT (Thomas L. Friedman) A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

4. THE LOOMING TOWER (Lawrence Wright) The road to 9/11 as seen through the lives of terrorist planners and the FBI counterterrorism chief.

5. FIASCO (Thomas E. Ricks) How the Bush administration's and the military's failure to understand the developing Iraq insurgency contributed to its further growth.

6. STATE OF EMERGENCY (Patrick J. Buchanan) The conservative commentator argues that unchecked immigration means that the American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico, and offers a border- security plan.

7. FREAKONOMICS (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to legalized abortion and to falling crime rates.

8. ELIZABETH (J. Randy Taraborrelli) A biography of E. Taylor.

9. DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE (Anderson Cooper) The CNN correspondent describes a year of covering the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the war in Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina.

10. WINS, LOSSES AND LESSONS (Lou Holtz) The retired football coach turned motivational speaker tells his life story.

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