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    <title>Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers</title>
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    <description>
      Trade Paperback Fiction list for January 1, 2009, 
      for sales ending December 28, 2008.
      Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.           
      For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
      or visit
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                   ending="2008-12-28"
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        <title>1. The Shack</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780964729230&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by William P. Young (Windblown, ISBN: 9780964729230);
	  
	    Last week: 1;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 32
          
	    "A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Shack</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>1</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>William P. Young</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Windblown</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780964729230</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted.</dc:description>
        
        
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        <title>2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9781594483295&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Junot Diaz (Riverhead, ISBN: 9781594483295);
	  
	    Last week: 2;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 17
          
	    "The bestselling sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back is now available in paperback."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>2</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Junot Diaz</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Riverhead</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9781594483295</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>The bestselling sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back is now available in paperback.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="17"
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>14</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>3. A Thousand Splendid Suns</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9781594483851&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, ISBN: 9781594483851);
	  
	    Last week: 3;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 5
          
	    "Splendid characters and plot indeed, once again set in Afghanistan, by the author of the wondrous The Kite Runner."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>A Thousand Splendid Suns</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>3</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Khaled Hosseini</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Riverhead</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9781594483851</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Splendid characters and plot indeed, once again set in Afghanistan, by the author of the wondrous The Kite Runner.</dc:description>
        
        
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	  last="3"
	   wol="5"
	  />
        
    <xcbl:Price><xcbl:UnitPrice>
      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>16</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>4. Out Stealing Horses</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780312427085&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Per Petterson (Picador, ISBN: 9780312427085);
	  
	    Last week: 4;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 35
          
	    "A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>Out Stealing Horses</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>4</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Per Petterson</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Picador</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780312427085</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="35"
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        <title>5. The White Tiger</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9781416562603&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Aravind Adiga (Free Press, ISBN: 9781416562603);
	  
	    Last week: 5;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 11
          
	    "Adiga's darkly comic debut novel looks at India's class struggles. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The White Tiger</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>5</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Aravind Adiga</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Free Press</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9781416562603</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Adiga's darkly comic debut novel looks at India's class struggles. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="11"
	  />
        
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>14</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9781933372600&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions, ISBN: 9781933372600);
	  
	    Last week: 6;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 17
          
	    "Barbery's novel, a major bestseller in Europe, is a September Indie Next List Notable title."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Elegance of the Hedgehog</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>6</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Muriel Barbery</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Europa Editions</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9781933372600</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Barbery's novel, a major bestseller in Europe, is a September Indie Next List Notable title.</dc:description>
        
        
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	  last="6"
	   wol="17"
	  />
        
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>15</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>7. Water for Elephants</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9781565125605&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Sara Gruen (Algonquin, ISBN: 9781565125605);
	  
	    Last week: 7;
	  
	    Weeks on List: *
          
	    "An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>Water for Elephants</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>7</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Sara Gruen</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Algonquin</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9781565125605</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="*"
	  />
        
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>13.95</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>8. The Road</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780307387899&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307387899);
	  
	    Last week: 12;
	  
	    Weeks on List: *
          
	    "A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Road</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>8</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Cormac McCarthy</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Vintage</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780307387899</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>A barren, post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="*"
	  />
        
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>14.95</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>9. The Best American Short Stories 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780618788774&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN: 9780618788774);
	  
	    Last week: 11;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 13
          
	    "A brilliant collection of the year's best short fiction."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Best American Short Stories 2008</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>9</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Houghton Mifflin</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780618788774</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>A brilliant collection of the year's best short fiction.</dc:description>
        
        
	  <bsbl:history
	  last="11"
	   wol="13"
	  />
        
    <xcbl:Price><xcbl:UnitPrice>
      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>14</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>10. Run</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780061340642&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780061340642);
	  
	    Last week: 9;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 22
          
	    "An intimate domestic drama from the author of Bel Canto."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>Run</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>10</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Ann Patchett</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Harper Perennial</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780061340642</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>An intimate domestic drama from the author of Bel Canto.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="22"
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        <title>11. The Hearts of Horses</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780547085753&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Molly Gloss (Mariner, ISBN: 9780547085753);
	  
	    Last week: 10;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 6
          
	    "A young woman gets to live a cowboy's life during World War II."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>The Hearts of Horses</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>11</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Molly Gloss</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Mariner</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780547085753</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>A young woman gets to live a cowboy's life during World War II.</dc:description>
        
        
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	  last="10"
	   wol="6"
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        <title>12. Loving Frank</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780345495006&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Nancy Horan (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345495006);
	  
	    Last week: 8;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 38
          
	    "Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>Loving Frank</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>12</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Nancy Horan</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Ballantine</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780345495006</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="38"
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>14</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>13. World Without End</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780451224996&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Ken Follett (NAL, ISBN: 9780451224996);
	  
	    Last week: 14;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 12
          
	    "Follett brings us back to Kingsbridge, the setting of his bestselling Pillars of the Earth."
          
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	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>World Without End</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>13</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Ken Follett</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>NAL</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780451224996</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Follett brings us back to Kingsbridge, the setting of his bestselling Pillars of the Earth.</dc:description>
        
        
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	   wol="12"
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      <xcbl:UnitPriceValue>22</xcbl:UnitPriceValue>
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        <title>14. In the Woods</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780143113492&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Tana French (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143113492);
	  
	    Last week: 13;
	  
	    Weeks on List: 32
          
	    "French's debut novel is a gripping story of the murder of a child in a suburb of Dublin."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>In the Woods</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>14</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Tana French</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Penguin</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780143113492</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>French's debut novel is a gripping story of the murder of a child in a suburb of Dublin.</dc:description>
        
        
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        <title>15. Revolutionary Road</title>
        <link>http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=objective&amp;isbn=9780307454621&amp;assignStoreNear=00000</link>
        <description>
	  by Richard Yates (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307454621);
	  
	  
	    Weeks on List: 1
          
	    "Yates' highly regarded 1961 novel is now a major motion picture."
          
	</description>
	<ttl>360</ttl>
	<dc:title>Revolutionary Road</dc:title>
	<bsbl:rank>15</bsbl:rank>
	<dc:creator>Richard Yates</dc:creator>
	<dc:publisher>Vintage</dc:publisher>
	<dc:identifier>9780307454621</dc:identifier>
        
        <dc:description>Yates' highly regarded 1961 novel is now a major motion picture.</dc:description>
        
        
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