Fiction (This week/Last week)         1. (3) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.         2. (1) Plantation — A Low Country Tale, Dorethea Benton Frank (Jove Publications; $6.99) Romance explores South Carolina Low Country and complex family issues.         3. (3) The Last Precinct, Patricia Cornwell (Berkley Publishing Group; $7.99) The 11th Scarpetta novel.         4. (9) White Teeth: A Novel, Zadie Smith (Knopf; $14) Race, class, history and gender politics sweep from Jamaica to Bangladesh and back again.         5. (—) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Penguin USA; $12.95) Bridget confides her attempts and failures at improving her life.         6. (5) Tell No One: A Novel, Harlan Coben (Dell Pub Co.; $22.95) Rebuilt life unravels as David Beck backtracks over the events surrounding his wife's murder.         7. (2) The Fourth Hand, John Irving (Random House; $26.95) A donor, recipient, surgeon, Green Bay Packers fan and the left hand that brings them together.         8. (—) Riptide, Catherine Coulter (Jove Publications; $7.99) Rebecca Matlock is on the verge of being swept under by a stalker, a skeleton and the revelation of her father's deception.         9. (—) An Offer From a Gentleman, Julia Quinn (Avon; $6.99) A Regency retelling of the Cinderella tale.         10. (—) Sherlock In Love, Sena Jeter Naslund (Harperperennial Library; $13) Dr. Watson's request for information on the late Holmes for a biography raise hackles and the dead.

Non-fiction (This week/Last week)         1. (—) Straight from the Horse's Mouth, Amelia Kinkade (Crown Publishers; $22) subtitled “How to Talk to Animals and Get Answers”.         2. (1) John Adams, David McCullough, (Simon & Schuster; $35) Biography of the second American president.         3. (2) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”         4. (6) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.         5. (3) Lessons From the School of Suffering, the Rev. Jim Willig (St. Anthony Messenger Press; $6.95) subtitled “A Young Priest With Cancer Teaches Us How to Live.”         6. (—) The Truth Is, Melissa Etheridge and Laura Morton (Villard Books;$24.95) subtitled “My Life in Love and Music”.         7. (—) I Hope You Dance, Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers (Rutledge Hill Press; $13.99) Gift book based on the Country Music Association song of the year.         8. (—) Causing a Stir, Junior League (Junior League of Dayton; $22.95) Dayton Junior League cookbook.         9. (—) Fish!, Stephen C. Lundin Ph.D., Harry Paul, John Christensen (Hyperion; $19.95) subtitled “A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results”.         10. (—) The Last River, Todd Balf (Crown Publishers; $13) subtitled “The Tragic Race for Shangri-La”

        About the list: Participants: Books & Co., Joseph Beth Booksellers, Montgomery Book Co. and The Open Book. Based on sales ending week of July 14 (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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