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‘The ________  _________: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice’ is a book about Mother Teresa’s life and work, written by Christopher Hitchens. The book became controversial both for the double entendre in the title as well as for criticizing Teresa as a political opportunist who adopted the guise of a saint in order to raise money to spread Catholicism. Fill in the blanks.

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Missionary Position
It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs."

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X is a 2010 bestselling fiction book, the fifth in its series, that edged out former US President George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points (which was released on the same day) in sales in its first week of publication.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, the fifth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Ugly Truth sold 548,000 copies in its first week of publication, compared to Decision Points' 437,000 copies.