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Best-sellers for week of Nov. 13

  Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. Check out reviews of many of these books here at The Book Nook, including "The Brass Verdict," "Bones," "Rough Weather" and "The Host."

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
2. "Salvation In Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)
3. "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine)
4. "The Gate House" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)
5. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
6. "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
7. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Atria)
8. "Midnight: A Gangster Love Story" by Sister Souljah (Atria)
9. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
10. "A Good Woman" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)
11. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
12. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
13. "Testimony" by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown)
14. "A Lion Among Men" by Gregory Maguire (William Morrow)
15. "Rough Weather" by Robert B. Parker (Putnam)

NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)
3. "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
4. "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello, Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books)
5. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)
6. "The Snowball" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)
7. "The Purpose Of Christmas" by Rick Warren (Howard Books)
8. "Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery" by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman (Little, Brown)
9. "The American Journey of Barack Obama" by Life Magazine (Little, Brown)
10. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
11. "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking)
12. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
13. "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (Random House)
14. "Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets" by Jon and Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson (Zondervan)
15. "Guinness: World Records 2009" by Guinness World Records (Guinness Publishing)

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. "Small Town Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
6. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Pocket)
7. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
8. "The Chase" by Clive Cussler (Berkley)
9. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
10. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
11. "Quicksand" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
12. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog " by John Grogan (Harper)
13. "Deadly Harvest" by Heather Graham (Mira)
14. "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" by David Michaels (Berkley)
15. "All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire" by Kerrelyn Sparks (Avon)

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)
3. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)
4. "Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)
5. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
6. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (B&H)
7. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (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, Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group)
11. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz by (Riverhead)
12. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)
13. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)
14. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
15. "Remember Me?" by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press Trade Paperback)

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