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Tuesday, May 08, 2001

Tristate best sellers list




FICTION

(This week/Last week)

        1. (3) On The Street Where You Live, Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster; $26) Emily Graham flees the insanity of her life only to find herself in danger in her tranquil sanctuary.

        2. (2) Common Life, Jan Karon (Viking Press; $24.95) Author fills in the blanks surrounding the marriage of Mitford's favorite couple.

        3. (—) Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Penguin; $13.95). Girl in '50s with Tourette's syndrome; Oprah's Book Club.

        4. (4) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Penguin USA; $12.95) Bridget confides her attempts and failures at improving her life.

        5. (6) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.

        6. (8) Arkansas Traveler, Earlene Fowler (Prime Crime; $21.95) Benni Harper returns home to Sugartree, Ark., where she exposes the worst of small town Southern life.

        7. (5) Death in Holy Orders, P.D. James (Knopf; $25) Dalgliesh visits a haunt from his youth and finds the most horrific case of his career.

        8. (7) On Secret Service, John Jakes (Signet; $7.99) Author returns to a Civil War setting to explore rivalries between the Union's Pinkerton's Detective Agency and the Confederacy's agent provocateurs.

        9. (—) Carolina Moon, Nora Roberts (Jove Publications; $7.99) Heroine faces the death of a childhood friend while rebuilding her life in a town that betrayed her.

        10. (—) Cold Paradise, Stuart Woods (Putnam Publishing Group; $24.95) Stone Barrington juggles his women while chasing a ghost, both his client's and his own.

NON-FICTION

(This week/Last week)

        1. (5) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”

        2. (—) Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away, Suzanne Sommers (Crown Publishing; $25).

        3. (—) Body For Life, Bill Phillips (HarperCollins; $25). 12-week weightlifting and cardiovascular program.

        4. (3) The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen; $12.95) Subtitled “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.”

        5. (2) Mothers and Other Heroes, Laura Pulfer (Orange Frazer Press; $14.95) Local author honors mothers and the other heroes in our lives.

        6. (8) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.

        7. (—) A Different Drummer, Michael K. Deaver (Harpercollins; $25) subtitled My Thirty Years with Ronald Regan.

        8. (4) Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand (Random House; $24.95) Story of the great racehorse.

        9. (—) I'll Cook When Pigs Fly, (Junior League, $19.95). Junior League cookbook in relation to the Big Pig Gig with cover by Jim Borgman.

        10. (9) Life Strategies, Phillip C. McGraw (Hyperion; $11.95) subtitled Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.

        About the list: Participants: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Books & Co., Montgomery Book Co., The Open Book. Based on book sales ending week of April 28(—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

       



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