Local bestsellers for the week ended May 18
Doubleday
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Berkley
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Knopf
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Harper
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Simon & Schuster
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Ballantine Books
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Joe Abercrombie
Tor Books
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Clare Leslie Hall
Simon & Schuster
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
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Penguin Press
2.
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Mel Robbins
Hay House LL
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Crown
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The Dial Press
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Scribner
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Random House
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John Green
Crash Course Books
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Pantheon
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Simon & Schuster
PAPERBACK FICTION
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Berkley
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Riverhead Books
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Ecco
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Vintage
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Harper Perennial
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Vintage
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Poisoned Pen Press
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Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Grove Press
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
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Crown
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Michael Finkel
Vintage
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Milkweed Editions
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Matt Kracht
Chronicle Book
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Vintage
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Harper Perennial
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Knopf
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Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Penguin
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Workman Publishing Company
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Crown
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