Antigone Books best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 18, 2009
1. The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F.
Chana
Leonard F. Chana, Susan Lobo and Barbara Chana, University of
Arizona ($21.95)
2. Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World
Gone Mad
Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet ($14.95)
3. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest
Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall, Knopf ($24.95)
4. Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden
World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the
Process
Irene M. Pepperberg, Harper ($13.99)
5. Journey of Dreams
Marge Pellegrino, Frances Lincoln ($15.95)
6. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other
Botanical Atrocities
Amy Stewart, Algonquin ($18.95)
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Dial ($14)
8. Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About
It
Robert Glennon, Island ($27.95)
9. Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits
Martine Batchelor, Wisdom ($15.95)
10. A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore, Knopf ($25.95)
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.