Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

WASHINGTON The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.

Marriage in the FLDS is a divine revelation. The prophet receives the news and then tells the couple. And in keeping with tradition, Carolyn Jessop is forced to marry Merril Jessop, who soon becomes one of the most exalted men in the polygamist community. Carolyn is 18; Merril is 50. They enter into an arranged marriage that is actually part of a business deal between Merril and her father.

Warren Jeffs becomes leader and prophet of the Fundamentalist of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) in September 2002, after the death of his father. Years later, he is convicted in Utah on two counts of being an accomplice to rape. His extremism knows no boundaries.

Carolyn Jessop fears for her life and the survival of her eight children. "Ugly realities" highlight her first-person account of a life inside a religious cult known as the Fundamentalist of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS).

NEW YORK Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune and a longtime news executive for The New York Times, has been named by The Associated Press to the new position of managing editor for U.S. news.

SALT LAKE CITY A book and promotional tour by a woman who helped convict polygamist leader Warren Jeffs could taint the jury pool in a rape case against her cousin and former husband, the husband's attorney said.

LONDON The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said she and her husband watched in distress as George Bush won the U.S. presidential election in 2000, according to extracts of her autobiography published Wednesday.

WASHINGTON Busy with "Monday Night Football" and his many other jobs, Tony Kornheiser essentially stopped writing columns for The Washington Post long ago. Thus it only seemed inevitable that he tell the world that he's taking the newspaper's buyout - while on the radio.

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The mother of former NFL player Pat Tillman suspects the military's account of how fellow Army Ranger comrades shot and killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, four years later, according to her new book.

NEW YORK A publishing institution, faithfully mailed at least twice a year to thousands of stores and libraries for about as long as the industry has existed, may be on its way out: The paper catalog.

NEW YORK Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

CONWAY, S.C. The man who coined the word "cyberspace" has returned to his home page.

Isaac Carbajal, a fourth grader at Leesville Road Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., reviews "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules" Series 2. "I really liked how the author wrote this story, and the illustrations are great! I really hope he writes more books."

Dreams do come true. Just ask author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, author and illustrator of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" Series 1 and 2. Book lovers are huge fans of this popular series about middle school mischief and Kinney can't crank them out fast enough.

Today, despite the popularity of cable television, video games and anything electronic, many kids still find time to read. Isaac Carbajal, a fourth grader at Leesville Road Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., proves that young readers will always embrace a good book. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" Series 1 and 2 by Jeff Kinney captures the attention of book lover Carbajal and readers nationwide.

ATLANTA Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on those visits.

LONDON Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.