31.   Just before Christmas, Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House, accepted the advance deal from HarperCollins for two nonfiction books.

32.   Last year it was the top-selling nonfiction book in America.

33.   Mostly, but not always, it is nonfiction books that are purchased for excerpts, in lengths running from several thousand words to many more.

34.   Mydans was the author of three novels and co-author of a nonfiction book.

35.   Nonfiction books and films always dance cheek to cheek with real life, of course.

36.   Nonfiction books are generally considered to be more reliable Christmas gifts than fiction titles, so nonfiction sales are particularly strong in the fall.

37.   Other trends Ashmead foresees are an increase in sales of serious nonfiction books and electronic books and the growth of regional publishers.

38.   She is also working on a nonfiction book for Random House, about female-to-male transsexuals.

39.   So was his first nonfiction book, a meditation on the Book of Acts.

40.   Struggling women of the past are also the subjects of three nonfiction books.