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| 1 | FANTASY IN DEATH (Putnam, $26.95) By J.D. Robb. A computer gaming tycoon, found dead in a locked room, is Lt. Eve Dallas's latest case. | 1 |
| 2 | THE HELP (Amy Einhorn, $24.95) By Kathryn Stockett. A frank chronicle of the lives of several black maids working in a town in 1960s Miss. | 32 |
| 3 | BIG GIRL (Delacorte, $28). By Danielle Steel The eldest daughter of a tony L.A. family has it all--save for a perfect body and her parents' approval. | 1 |
| 4 | WORST CASE (Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A serial killer targets the children of N.Y.C.'s most affluent families. | 4 |
| 5 | SPLIT IMAGE (Putnam, $25.95) By Robert B. Parker. Murder thrusts Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall together once more in Paradise, Mass. | 1 |
| 6 | BLACK MAGIC SANCTION (Eos, $25.99) By Kim Harrison. Rachel Morgan is accused of dabbling in dark magic and faces life in prison. Or worse. | 1 |
| 7 | THE LOST SYMBOL (Doubleday, $29.95) By Dan Brown. Masonic lore figures prominently in this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"; set in D.C. | 24 |
| 8 | WINTER GARDEN (St. Martin's, $26.99) By Kristin Hannah. A father's death drives two sisters' discovery of their Russian-born mother's scarred past. | 4 |
| 9 | THE MAN FROM BEIJING (Knopf, $25.95) By Henning Mankell. A massacre in Sweden is linked to China, slavery and the opening of the American West. | 2 |
| 10 | THE POSTMISTRESS (Amy Einhorn, $25.95) By Sarah Blake. The specter of war in Europe draws together the lives of three different women in 1940. | 3 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | GAME CHANGE: OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME (Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin | 7 |
| 2 | THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS (Crown, $26). By Rebecca Skloot. The shocking story of a stem cell theft in 1951 and the HeLa cell line. | 4 |
| 3 | SWITCH: HOW TO CHANGE THINGS WHEN CHANGE IS HARD (Broadway Business, $26) By Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Anecdotal examples. | 2 |
| 4 | THE BUSINESS OF HAPPINESS: 6 SECRETS TO EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS IN WORK AND LIFE (Regnery, $27.95). By Ted Leonsis with John Buckley | 2 |
| 5 | ON THE BRINK: INSIDE THE RACE TO STOP THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM (Business Plus, $28.99). By Henry M. Paulson Jr. | 4 |
| 6 | THE POLITICIAN: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF JOHN EDWARDS'S PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENCY . . . (Thomas Dunne, $24.99). By Andrew Young | 5 |
| 7 | THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM: A LEADERSHIP FABLE (Jossey-Bass, $24.95) By Patrick M. Lencioni. Help for group dynamics. | 1 |
| 8 | MAKING TOAST: A FAMILY STORY (Ecco, $21.99) By Roger Rosenblatt. Domesticity as a salve in coping with the loss of a daughter and helping her family. | 1 |
| 9 | COMMITTED: A SKEPTIC MAKES PEACE WITH MARRIAGE (Viking, $26.95). By Elizabeth Gilbert Picking up where "Eat, Pray, Love" left off. | 1 |
| 10 | YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK: USE THE NEW BODY LANGUAGE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT! (Crown, $25). By Janine Driver with Mariska van Aalst | 2 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 28, 2010. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2010 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. The bestseller lists in print alternate between hardcover and paperback.)
