The top 30 most-ordered nonfiction titles through Edelweiss in the past 60 days, as of 4/20/11. Titles have a pub date before Aug 1,

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1.  In the Garden of Beasts by Larson, Erik (Random House/Crown) PubDate: May 10 2011; Large Print, Random House; 9780739378144

2.   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? by Tyler, Steven (HarperCollins/Ecco) PubDate: May 3 2011

3.  The Maine Summers Cookbook by Greenlaw, Linda (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Studio) PubDate: Jun 30 2011

4.   What? by Kurlansky, Mark (Macmillan/Walker & Company) PubDate: Apr 26 2011

5.   Lost in Shangri-La by Zuckoff, Mitchell (HarperCollins/Harper) PubDate: Apr 26 2011

6.   Sex on the Moon by Mezrich, Ben (Random House/Doubleday) PubDate: Jul 12 2011; Large Print, Thorndike, 9781410438850, $31.99, 7/20/2011

7.   The Post-American World by Zakaria, Fareed (W.W. Norton/W. W. Norton & Company) PubDate: May 31 2011 — a revised and expanded version of the 2009 best seller

8.   Alphabetter Juice by Blount Jr., Roy (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) PubDate: May 10 2011 —  a followup to the author’s Alphabet Juice

9.   Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Lowe, Rob (Macmillan/Henry Holt and Co.) PubDate: Apr 26 2011

10.   The Floor of Heaven by Blum, Howard (Random House/Crown) PubDate: Apr 26 2011 — this has movie buzz; it was acquired before publication by Fox.

11.   On China by Kissinger, Henry (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Penguin Press HC, The) PubDate: May 17 2011

12.   If You Ask Me by White, Betty (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Putnam Adult) PubDate: May 3 2011; Large Print, Thorndike, 9781410437488, $32.99, 5/18/2011

13.   Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea’s Family, Friends, and Other Victims (Hachette/Grand Central Publishing) PubDate: May 10 2011

14.  Guy Fieri Food by Fieri, Guy (HarperCollins/William Morrow Cookbooks) PubDate: May 3 2011

15.   Finding Everett Ruess by Roberts, David (Random House/Broadway) PubDate: Jul 19 2011

16.   The New Ann Coulter by Coulter, Ann (Random House/Crown Forum) PubDate: Jun 7 2011

17.  My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Van Dyke, Dick (Random House/Crown Archetype) PubDate: May 3 2011

18.   Wicked Bugs by Stewart, Amy (Workman/Algonquin Books) PubDate: May 3 2011

19,   A Jane Austen Education by Deresiewicz, William (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Penguin Press HC, The) PubDate: Apr 28 2011; Large Print, Thorndike, 9781410440266, $31.99, 8/17/2011

20.   The Churchills by Lovell, Mary S. (W.W. Norton/W. W. Norton & Company) PubDate: May 9 2011

21.   The Influencing Machine by Gladstone, Brooke (W.W. Norton/W. W. Norton & Company) PubDate: May 23 2011

22.   Your Voice in My Head by Forrest, Emma (Random House/Other Press) PubDate: May 3 2011

23.   The Triple Agent by Warrick, Joby (Random House/Doubleday) PubDate: Jul 19 2011

24.  The Solitudes by Gongora, Luis de (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Penguin Classics Hardcover) PubDate: Jun 28 2011

25.   20 Years Younger by Kotler, Ronald L. (Hachette/Little, Brown and Company) PubDate: Apr 26 2011

26.   The Reading Promise by Ozma, Alice (Hachette/Grand Central Publishing) PubDate: May 3 2011; Large Print, Thorndike, 009781410439574, $32.99, 8/3/2011

27.   Railway Maps of the World by Ovenden, Mark (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Viking Adult) PubDate: Apr 28 2011

28.   The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes by Chopra, Deepak (HarperCollins/HarperOne) PubDate: May 31 2011

29.   To End All Wars by Hochschild, Adam (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) PubDate: May 3 2011

30.   The Notes by Reagan, Ronald (HarperCollins/Harper) PubDate: May 10 2011 – HarperCollins Adult Summer 2011