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  • EAT THE RICH, by P. J. O'rourke. (Atlantic Monthly) The humorist's treatise on economics and the business world.
  • TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door. 
  • THE DAY DIANA DIED, by Christopher Anderson. (Morrow).
  • A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY, by Jimmy Buffett. (Random House,) Traveling from Florida to the Amazon, the singer-songwriter reflects on his life. 
  • A WALK IN THE WOODS, by Bill Bryson. (Broadway) A journalist hikes the Appalachian Trail. 
  • ANGELA'S ASHES, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner) An Irish-American writer recalls his childhood amid the miseries of Limerick. 
  • THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. (Longstreet) An analysis of the lives of wealthy Americans. 
  • A MONK SWIMMING, by Malachy McCourt. (Hyperion) The writer and actor (and brother of Frank McCourt) remembers his life in America and Ireland. 
  • CITIZEN SOLDIERS, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster) The United States Army from Normandy to the Bulge to Germany's surrender. 
  • TITAN, by Ron Chernow. (Random House) The life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. 
  • WE ARE OUR MOTHERS' DAUGHTERS, by Cokie Roberts. (Morrow) The television news anchor's personal reflections on women. 
  • THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS, by Thomas Cahill. (Talese/ Doubleday) What Western civilization owes an ancient nomadic tribe. 
  • SHIP OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by Gary Kinder. (Atlantic Monthly) The efforts of a group to recover sunken treasure off the Carolina coast. 
  • MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, by John Berendt. (Random House) The mysterious death of a young man in Savannah, Ga. 
  • PHILISTINES AT THE HEDGEROW, by Steven Gaines. (Little, Brown) A social history of the East End of Long Island, haunt of the rich and celebrated. 
  • THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES, by Monty Roberts. (Random House) The memoirs of a professional horse trainer. 
  • EXPLAINING HITLER, by Ron Rosenbaum. (Random House) An analysis of the many theories about the origins of Hitler's evil. 
  • TALKING TO HEAVEN, by James Van Praagh. (Dutton) A "world-famous medium" discusses communication with the other side. 
  • IF ONLY YOU KNEW HOW MUCH I SMELL YOU: TRUE PORTRAITS OF DOGS, photographs by Valerie Shaff, text by Roy Blount. (Bulfinch) A photographic portrait gallery of dogs, with humorous verse portraying what they are "thinking." 
  • PACK OF TWO: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, by Caroline Knapp. (Dial) A love letter to a shepherd mix and to all humans whose lives have been enhanced by dogs. 
  • REAL BOYS, by William Pollack. (Random House) A Harvard clinical psychologist's study of boyhood. 
  • THE ROARING 2000s, by Harry S. Dent, Jr. (Simon & Schuster) Building wealth during the upcoming boom. 
  • CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC, by Tony Horwitz. (Pantheon) The author's odyssey through the battlefields of the Civil War, with a look at those obsessed by that era. 
  • ARE YOU SOMEBODY, by Nuala O'Faolain. (Holt) The memoir of a Dublin journalist. 
  • THE SOUL OF SEX, by Thomas Moore. (HarperCollins) The role that sex can and should play in our lives, as perceived by a former monk. 
  • BUNTS, by George F. Will. (Scribner) A collection of essays and reflections about baseball and its heros. 
  • BE SWEET: A Conditional Love Story, by Roy Blount, Jr. (Knopf) A memoir of the writer's childhood in Georgia. 
  • RED LOBSTER, WHITE TRASH, AND THE BLUE LAGOON, by Joe Queenan. (Hyperion) Essays on popular American culture by the TV Guide columnist. 
  • RANTING AGAIN, by Dennis Miller. (Doubleday) More monologues on current topics by the comedian. 
  • THE MAN WHO LOVED ONLY NUMBERS, by Paul Hoffman. (Hyperion) A biography of the prolific and eccentric mathematician Paul Erdos. 
  • STILL ME, by Christopher Reeve. (Random House) The stage and film actor looks back at his life, especially since his crippling accident three years ago. 
  • CONSILIENCE, by Edward O. Wilson. (Knopf) The biologist argues that a few fundamental natural laws govern the principles of every branch of learning. 
  • EVERYBODY WAS SO YOUNG: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story, by Amanda Vaill. (Houghton Mifflin) A biography of the Murphys, central to the social and artistic life of Paris in the 1920s. 
  • ABOUT THIS LIFE, by Barry Lopez. (Knopf) Autobiographical essays by the naturalist. 
  • DIANA: Portrait of A Princess, by Jayne Fincher. (Callaway/Simon & Schuster Editions) Photographs. 
  • A FINE YOUNG MAN, by Michael Gurian. (Tarcher/Putnam) How parents, mentors and educators help shape boys into men. 
 
 Non-Fiction Paperback
  • THE STARR REPORT, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. (Pocket) The findings of the independent counsel.
  • THE PERFECT STORM, by Sebastian Junger. (Harper Paperbacks) The story of the nor'easter of 1991, focusing on a crew of fishermen from Gloucester, Mass. 
  • INTO THIN AIR, by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor/ Doubleday) A journalist's account of his ascent of Mount Everest in 1996, the deadliest season in history. 
  • UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, by Frances Mayes. (Broadway) A celebration of life in the Italian countryside. 
  • INTO THE WILD, by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor/ Doubleday) How a young man's obsession with the wilderness had a tragic end.
  • D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Touchstone/S&S.) A historian recounts the Allied invasion of Normandy. 
  • THE CLIMB: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt. (St. Martin's) Another account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. 
  • BRAIN DROPPINGS, by George Carlin. (Hyperion) Comments on life and the ways of the world by the stand-up comedian. 
  • THE COLOR OF WATER, by James McBride. (Riverhead) A black writer remembers growing up with his white mother in Brooklyn. 
  • DIRTY JOKES AND BEER, by Drew Carey. (Hyperion) Observations on his life, and life in general, by the comedian. 
  • A CIVIL ACTION, by Jonathan Harr. (Vintage) A lawsuit brought by Massachusetts householders against industrial polluters.  
  • A CHILD CALLED ''IT'': An Abused Child's Journey from Victim to Victory, by Dave Pelzer. (Health Communications) The autobiography of a man who survived his mother's abuse. 
  • UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Touchstone/S&S) Lewis and Clark's exploration of the West. 
  • PERSONAL HISTORY, by Katharine Graham. (Vintage) The autobiography of the former publisher of The Washington Post. 
  • WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Touchstone/S&S) Memories of a 50's girlhood, in the orbit of the Brooklyn Dodgers. 
  • NAKED, by David Sedaris. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) Autobiographical comic essays whose subjects include a nudist trailer park. 
 
 
 
 Fiction Hardcover
  • BAG OF BONES, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A series of terrifying events besets a best-selling novelist four years after his wife's sudden death.
  • RAINBOW SIX, by Tom Clancy. (Putnam) John Clark, heading an international task force, investigates terrorist incidents in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. 
  • POINT OF ORIGIN, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam) Dr. Kay Scarpetta battles an old enemy, a serial killer who has escaped and is resuming her crimes. 
  • I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE, by Wally Lamb. (Regan Books/HarperCollins.) A troubled man must care for his schizophrenic identical-twin brother and face the nightmares that have bedeviled their family. (Oprah's Book Club.)
  • SUMMER SISTERS, by Judy Blume. (Delacorte) Two young women from very different backgrounds come of age together on Martha's Vineyard.
  • THE FIRST EAGLE, by Tony Hillerman. (HarperCollins) Two Navajo policemen pursue a mysterious killer -- a plague or a person? -- in the Southwest.
  • MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner) After finding a seaborne bottle containing an enigmatic letter, a divorced woman encounters love.
  • BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, by Helen Fielding. (Viking) A year in the life of a 30-something single woman in London.
  • A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR, by Jewel Kilcher. (HarperCollins) The singer-songwriter's poems contemplate love, family, Alaska and life on the road. 
  • MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by Arthur Golden. (Knopf) The life of a young woman growing up in Kyoto who has to reinvent herself after World War II begins.
  • Moon Music, by Faye Kellerman. (Morrow).
  • A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, by John Irving. (Random House) Three looks at the complex emotional life of a writer and single mother.
  • THE KLONE AND I, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) A woman believes she has found Mr. Right, a high-tech expert, then is amazed to meet his clone.

    • COLD MOUNTAIN, by Charles Frazier. (Atlantic Monthly) A wounded Confederate soldier journeys home toward the end of the Civil War to meet an old love and a new world. 
 
Fiction Paperback
  • WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY . . . , by Pearl Cleage. (Avon) Returning to her rustic hometown, a woman finds many changes since she left -- and romance. 
  • DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD, by Rebecca Wells. (Harper Perennial) The experiences -- marriage, motherhood, anguish -- of three generations of Southern women.
  • THE NOTEBOOK, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner Vision) A World War II veteran meets an old flame who is about to be married. 
  • COLD MOUNTAIN, by Charles Frazier. (Vintage) A wounded Confederate soldier journeys home toward the end of the Civil War to meet an old love and a new world.
  • PETALS ON THE RIVER, by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. (Avon) An Englishwoman finds love with a widower in 18th-century Virginia. 
  • LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE, by Rebecca Wells. (Harper Perennial) An account of earlier experiences of the Ya-Ya sisterhood. 
  • RISING TIDES, by Nora Roberts. (Jove) Returning to his home on the Maryland shore, a man finds a new love and hope for the future. 
  • THE BEST LAID PLANS, by Sidney Sheldon. (Warner) The relationship between a power-hungry governor and a vengeful woman. 
  • THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, by Arundhati Roy. (Harper Perennial) Death and secrets haunt a once-prosperous family in India.
  • SHE'S COME UNDONE, by Wally Lamb. (Pocket) A woman's harrowing progress from youth to middle age. 
  • GUILT, by John Lescroart. (Island/Dell) The trial of an attorney for his wife's murder changes the lives of everyone involved. 
  • REIGN IN HELL, by William Diehl. (Ballantine) Martin Vail is called on by the President to save the nation from a terrorist militia group. 
  • LED ASTRAY, by Sandra Brown. (Mira) A woman who enjoys sweet romance with a man later has a wild, reckless time with his brother. 
  • UNNATURAL EXPOSURE, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley) Dr. Kay Scarpetta contends with a killer who uses a smallpox-like virus. 
  • HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK, by Terry McMillan. (Signet) A divorced woman finds romance on a Jamaican holiday. 
Advice
  • IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES: Ten Rules for Being Human, As Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Chérie Carter-Scott, Jack Canfield. (Broadway) Ways to achieve a fulfilling life.
  • THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC 1999, by Michael R. Eades and Mary Dan Eades. (Yankee Publishing/Villard) The 207th annual edition of a collection of facts and counsel.
 
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