Local bestsellers for the week ended July 6
Tor Books
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Wally Lamb
S&S/Marysue Rucci Books
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Atria Books
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Doubleday
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Berkley
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Riverhead Books
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Atria Books
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Henry Holt and Co.
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Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Mel Robbins
Hay House LL
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John Green
Crash Course Books
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Crown
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W.W. Norton & Company
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Pantheon
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Random House
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Knopf
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Penguin Press
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Scribner
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Harper Perennial
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Ecco
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Berkley
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Vintage
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Riverhead Books
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Chris Whitaker
Crown
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Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Crown
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Vintage
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
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Vintage
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Crown
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Michael Finkel
Vintage
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Milkweed Editions
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Holt Paperbacks
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Knopf
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Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Penguin
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Vintage
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Chronicle Books
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Harper Perennial
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