Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, November 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

"What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co. 410 pages. (Also on 10 CDs read by the author. Hachette Audio.)

A remarkable coffee-table book provides flashes of fancy with each page, not slow-burning reading material. These new books are ripe for the flipping.

"The Untamed Bride" by Stephanie Laurens; Avon Books (2009), 356 pages, $7.99 (paperback)

"Mennonite in A Little Black Dress" by Rhoda Janzen; Holt (256 pages, $22)

"You know, I'm a lazy son of a gun."

"Hollywood Moon" by Joseph Wambaugh; Little, Brown (352 pages, $26.99)

As a "famous minor television personality," John Hodgman is almost a household name.

"Generosity: An Enhancement" by Richard Powers; Farrar Straus (296 pages, $25)

"Stitches: A Memoir" by David Small; Norton (329 pages, $24.95)

"War Dances" by Sherman Alexie; Grove (208 pages, $23)

"A New Literary History of America," Harvard University Press (1,095 pages, $49.95)

Talk about a bad week. Rhoda Janzen's husband ditched her for a man he met on Gay.com and she was in a car accident that left her, as she writes, with "assorted broken bones and Frankenbruises the size of my head."

"Wrench in the System: What's Sabotaging Your Business Software and How You Can Release the Power to Innovate" by Harold Hambrose; Wiley (272 pages, $45)

"Under the Dome" by Stephen King; Scribner ($1,075 pages, $35)

SEATTLE - This is a red-letter week for friends and enemies of Sarah Palin, Republican former vice-presidential candidate and newly minted author. With the help of a ghostwriter, Palin published a memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," on Tuesday. Late last week, thanks to pre-orders, "Going Rogue" was No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list. Palin's fans will read this book for inspiration; her enemies will read it for strategy tips.

DALLAS With netbook sales continuing to soar, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. said it will launch its first Windows 7 netbooks later this month.

A return from travels across Britain and Ireland often entails stories about staying at grand hotels in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. But in truth, the more memorable stays can be found more readily in the elegant, smaller lodgings in the countryside.

"Tea & Crumpets: Recipes & Rituals from European Tearooms and Cafes"

MIAMI A three-year battle that pitted claims of censorship against the right of Miami-area schools to remove from their shelves a book that portrays an inaccurate view of life in Cuba ended Monday on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Hi. I'm Tom and I'm a compulsive spender."

PHILADELPHIA On a Tuesday morning in a windowless basement in Kensington, Pa., a book group is discussing "Push," the 1996 novel about Claireece Precious Jones, an obese, illiterate, HIV-positive African American teenager from Harlem who is beaten, neglected, and sexually abused by both her parents.

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 7, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

"The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies" by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave. Portfolio. 320 pages.

I'm done with Facebook.

Derek Landy has a problem. He knows his "Skulduggery Pleasant" children's books click with readers: They're hugely popular in the U.K., nipping at the heels of the "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" series. But they haven't caught on yet in the biggest market, the United States.

(This is an excerpt from North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams' autobiography, "Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court," with author Tim Crothers. In this chapter, Williams tells why he turned down the UNC job the first time while he was at Kansas.)

"Ice" by Linda Howard; Ballantine Books (2009), 198 pages, $22 (hardcover)

"The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman" by D.M. Giangreco; Zenith Press (304 pages, $28)

When Barbara Kingsolver is not writing, she may be shearing sheep, or harvesting vegetables. Most recently, peppers, tomatillos and cardoons. Cardoons?

"High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly" by Donald Spoto; Harmony Books (303 pages, $25.99)

"Under the Dome" by Stephen King; Scribner (1,074 pages, $35)

"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver; Harper ($26.99)

In the "Mad Men" era, they were the pinnacles of sophisticated pin-upry: grown-up, smart and sexy. That's as good a reason as any for the recent explosion of biographies of iconic actresses of the 1950s and '60s.

"No Impact Man" by Colin Beavan; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (274 pages, $25)

-"Fatally Flaky" by Diane Mott Davidson; Morrow (336 pages, $25.99)

"Box 21" by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (400 pages, $26)

John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one - even at 67, even wildly famous as one of America's great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller.

WASHINGTON A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some of the 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

WASHINGTON A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.