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FICTION
(This week/Last week)
1. (—) The Villa, Nora Roberts (Putnam; $25.95) Romantic suspense: Sex, riches, deadly secrets.
2. (—) Dreamcatcher, Stephen King (Scribner; $28) Four boyhood friends from Derry, Maine, encounter aliens.
3. (3) Scarlet Feather, Maeve Binchy (Dutton; $25.95). Family epic centers on two working-class chums.
4. (6) We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates (Plume; $13.95). The disintegration of a family after a daughter is raped; Oprah's Book Club selection.
5. (8) The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan (Putnam; $25.95). Story is told from two (mother, daughter) perspectives.
6. (1) Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Penguin; $13.95). Girl in '50s with Tourette's syndrome; Oprah's Book Club.
7. (4) 1st to Die, James Patterson (Little, Brown; $26.95). Four women work together on serial killer case; first in a series.
8. (—) The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan (Penguin USA; $14). Predictable outcome of this historic conflict is personalized through fictional characters.
9. (—) Betrayal in Death, J.D. Robb (a k a Nora Roberts) (Berkley; $7.99) Mystery revolves around maid murdered at a hotel.
10. (—) Potshot, Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $23.95) Spenser and Hawk draft old friends (characters from past books) to take on a deadly gang in Arizona.
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| NON-FICTION
(This week/Last week)
1. (—) What Black Men Should Do Now: 100 Simple Truths, Ideas, and Concepts, K. Thomas Oglesby (Birch Lane Press; $19.95) Affirmations for African-American men.
2. (9) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99). Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”
3. (10) The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen; $12.95). Subtitled “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.”
4. (4) The Wisdom of Menopause, Christiane Northrup (Bantam; $27.95). Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change.
5. (8) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95). Dealing with change at work and in life.
6. (—) Beyond Mammoth Cave, James D. Borden and Robert W. Brucker (Southern Illinois University Press; $26.95) Subtitled “A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave”
7. (—) Life Strategies, Phillip C. McGraw (Hyperion;$11.95) Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.
8.9. (—) Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work, (Delta; $14.95)
9. (3) Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg (Ballantine; $22). Subtitled “How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with Your Baby.”
10.(—) Cogan's Woods, Ron Ellis (Pruett Publishing Co.; $21.95) Author's memoir on hunting with his father.
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