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Best Sellers-Books

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:38 AM

Best Sellers-Books

The Associated Press

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

2. "Just After Sunset: Stories" by Stephen King (Scribner)

3. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

4. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)

5. "Salvation In Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)

6. "The Gate House" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)

7. "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison (Knopf)

8. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

9. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Atria)

10. "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine)

11. "A Good Woman" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)

12. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

13. "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly (Little Brown)

14. "Midnight: A Gangster Love Story" by Sister Souljah (Atria)

15. "The Bodies Left Behind" by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. "Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)

2. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

3. "YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Free Press)

4. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)

5. "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham (Random House)

6. "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

7. "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books)

8. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)

9. "The American Journey of Barack Obama" by Life Magazine (Little Brown)

10. "The Snowball" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)

11. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

12. "The Purpose Of Christmas" by Rick Warren (Howard Books)

13. "Call Me Ted" by Ted Turner and Bill Burke (Grand Central Publishing)

14. "Guinness: World Records 2009" by Guinness World Records (Guinness Publishing)

15."The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)

MASS MARKET

PAPERBACKS

1."One Silent Night" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

2. "Suite 606" by Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas (Berkley)

3. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

4. "Foul Play" Janet Evanovich (Harper)

5. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)

6. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan (Harper)

7. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

8. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Pocket)

9. "The Chase" by Clive Cussler (Berkley)

10. "Small Town Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

11. "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" by David Michaels (Berkley)

12. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

13. "Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event" by James H. Cobb (Vision)

14. "Quicksand" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

15. "Silver Bells" by Fern Michaels, JoAnn Ross, Mary Burton and Judy Duarte (Zebra)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

2. "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

3. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

4. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)

5. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H)

6. "Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

7. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

8. "Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book" by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter)

9. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (NAL)

10. "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group)

11. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)

12. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

13. "Remember Me?" by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press Trade Paperback)

14. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz by (Riverhead)

15. "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

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Stories

Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the town
     it rained and it froze and the trees all fell down.
     The wires that were strung on utility poles
     snapped like a twig and the houses all froze.

We got our selves nestled all snug in our bed
     while visions of warmer days danced in our head,
     and me in my thermals and Pa in his cap
     stayed huddled together for a bone chilling nap.

The moon on the ice made a crystalline glow
     and we thought to ourselves, just how long can this go?
     When what to our wondering eyes did appear
     but our son with some coffee and donuts and cheer.

We could see our white breath in the darkness above
     and deep under the covers I searched for my love.
     His feet, they were frozen and so was his head ---
     made me think to myself that he just might be dead.

The days passed so slowly, we must be insane
     as we waited and wondered and called out by name
     "On Thursday, on Friday, on Saturday too!
     on Sunday, on Monday, on Tuesday – oh foo!
     on Wednesday, and Thursday and Friday (oh dread!)
     the kerosene fumes must have gone to our head.

To add to the pleasure of winter's delight
     two snowstorms came by - 18 inches of white.
     The snowing and blowing made things bad to worse
     and we prayed to the heavens our pipes wouldn't burst.

Pa's eyes now were sunken, his expression --- not merry,
     his cheeks had a pallor, his nose like a cherry.
     The odd little smile on his face wasn't fun
     He often was mumbling "go get me, my gun".

Then a rap on the door, and the fireman said,
     "Are you sick, are you sane, and is anyone dead?
     There's a shelter, there's warmth, you can come if you're able,
     we have showers and kindness and food on the table" ---
     and we looked at each other and thought --- "what the heck?"
     yeah ... eleven days later you FINALLY check!

On night number twelve we heard the faint roar
     of a convoy of trucks and we ran to the door.
     To the top of the poles, to the stretch of the cable ---
     please bring us your power just as fast as you' re able!

They spoke not a word, but went straight to their work
     and the power came on with a hum and a jerk.
     They heard us exclaim, as they drove out of sight ---
      MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
      WE HAVE HEAT! WE HAVE LIGHT!