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Fiction Best sellers

Non-Fiction Best sellers

Fiction Best Sellers

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Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques. Philomel Books, c1998.

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Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, c1998.

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Rogue Warrior:Seal Force Alpha by Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, Pocket Books, c1998.

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The Target by Catherine Coulter, Putnam, c1998.

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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears. Penguin Putnam, c1998.
An historical mystery, set in Oxford in the 17th century, with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the last page.

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Aphrodite by Isabel Allende. Harper Collins, c1998.
A personal ode to the pleasures of food and sex--celebrates the sensual life with joy and imagination.

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Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison. Dutton, c1998.

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Swimming to Catalina by Stuart Woods. HarperCollins, c1998.
In Swimming to Catalina, Stone is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with the brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who has left him to marry Hollywood's hottest male star, Vance Calder. Then Calder calls Stone for help: Arrington has vanished without a trace, and Calder, refusing to call the police, wants Stone to find her.

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N is for Noose by Sue Grafton. Henry Holt, c1998.

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Guilty Pleasures by Lawrence Sanders. Putnam's Sons, c1998.

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The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel. Delacorte Press, c1998.

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Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. Warner Books, c1998.

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With This Ring by Amanda Quick. Bantam, c1998.

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Blood Work by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, c1998.

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The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal. Random House, c1998.
It's Good Friday, 1939, and a teenage math prodigy is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement.

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Miracle Cure by Michael Palmer. Bantam, c1998.

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Night Train by Martin Amis. Harmony Books, c1998.
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. But this one case--this case--has gotton under her skin.--a captivating mystery of betrayal and deceiption.

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Homeport by Nora Roberts. Putnam, c1998.
The Maine air is bitterly cold when Dr. Miranda Jones arrives at the family home after a busy lecture tour. But her blood turns to ice when she suddenly feels the knife against her throat.

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Toxin by Robin Cook. Putnam, c1998.
A gripping novel of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence, from the dean of medical thrillers.

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Thrill by Jackie Collins. Simon and Schuster, c1998.

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Sudden Mischief by Robert Parker. Putnam's Sons, c1998.

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Pandora by Anne Rice. Alfred Knopf, c1998.

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Mark of the Assassin by Daniel Silva. Villard, c1998.,br>

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The Cat who Sang for the Birds by Lilian Jackson Braun. Putnam's Sons, c1998.

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Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard. Delacorte Press, c1998.

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Amber Beach by Elizabeth Lowell. Avon Books, c1998.

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Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell. Putnam's Sons, c1998.

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes. Farrar Straus Giroux, c1998.

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Sharp Edges by Jayne Ann Krentz. Pocket Books, c1998.
This novel sends a mismatched couple into the sinister, high-stakes world of priceless art--where the most valuable commodity is knowing whom to trust.

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Numbered Account by Christopher Reich. Delacorte Press, c1998.
Set in the labyrinthine world of Swiss banking, this is the story of a young man willing to risk everything--to hunt down his father's killer.

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Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz, Bantam, c1998.

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Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen. Random House, c1998.

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All I need is you / Johanna Lindsey. New York : Avon Books, c1997.

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Paradise by Toni Morrison. Alfred A. Knopf, c1998.

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The Street Lawyer by John Grisham. Doubleday, c1998.

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Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCafferey. Del Rey, 1998.

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Tidings of Great Joy by Sandra Brown. Bantam, c1997.

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The Investigators by W.E.B. Griffin. Putnam, c1998.
A new adventure in the bestselling saga of the Philadelphia police force. Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues are forced into the middle of two major cases simultaneously.

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Cat and Mouse by James Patterson Little, Brown, c1998.
Alex Cross is back trying to solve his most dangerous case yet in the new thriller, Cat & Mouse. It's double the suspense, double the action, and double the danger, so fasten your seat belts and hang on--this one's going to blow you away.

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Then Came Heaven by La Vyrle Spencer. J.P. Putnam's Sons, c1998.
Can love survive a shattering loss? A grief stricken widower learns to open his heart again.

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Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor. Viking, c1997.

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A Certain Justice by P.D. James. Alfred Knopf, c1997.
In her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, P.D. James has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror.

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Come the Spring by Julie Garwood. Pocket Books, c1997.
In Come the Spring, the Clayborne legend continues--as Julie Garwood weaves together their magnificent tale with a touching new love story.

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Another City, Not my Own by Dominick Dunne. Crown, c1997.
This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters-Gus Bailey-Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial.

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Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman. Bantam, c1997.
In this latest thriller by New York Times bestselling Jonathan Kellerman, psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant, and obsessed killer who takes as much pleasure in matching wits with the police as in robbing human life.

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Lucky you : a novel / by Carl Hiaasen. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Grange, Florida is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

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Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind. Tor, c1997.
Interview with Terry Goodkind, 1997

Reign in Hell by William Diehl. Ballantine Books, c1997.

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Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden. Alfred Knopf, 1997.
Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house.

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The Ghost by Danielle Steel. Delacorte Press, 1997.
Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden, blinding snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There, as if by chance, Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her most precious possession: a remote, exquisite lakeside chateau. Hidden deep in the woods, it once belonged to a woman who lived and died there two centuries before. Her name was Sarah Ferguson. And from the moment Charlie sets foot inside the chateau's graceful depths, he feels her presence, and longs to know more about the life she led.

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Polgara the Sorceress by David & Leigh Eddings. Del Rey, 1997.
Here is the legendary story of a woman of wit, passion, and complex emotions, a woman born of two majestic parents. Polgara lives out her family's rich prophecy in the ceaselesss truggle between the Light and the Dark.

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Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry. Simon & Schuster, c1997.
A brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own. Comanche Moon completes Larry McMurtry's epic cycle of novels of the American West that began with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove.

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The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr. Random House. c1997.
A story of modern evil in old New York.

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Apaches by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine Books, c1997.
Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes.

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The Notebook. Nicholas Sparks. Warner Books, c1996.

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DeMille, Nelson. Plum Island. Warner Books, c1997.

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The Third Twin. Ken Follett. Crown Publishers, c1996.
Follett returns to the threshold of the 21st century with a provocative, well-paced and sensational biotech-thriller about the genetic manipulation of human embryos. Striving to prove that offspring genetically predisposed toward aggression can learn to sublimate their combative nature through childhood conditioning by socially responsible parents, a feisty and brilliant young university researcher, Jeannie Ferrami, develops software to identify identical twins who have been reared apart.

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Cimarron rose / a novel by James Lee Burke. New York : Hyperion, c1997.

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Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. Atlantic Monthly Press, c1997.
Based on local history and family stories, Cold Mountain is the story of a wounded Civil War soldier, who walks away from the ravages of war and back home to his beloved.

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Deception on his Mind by Elizabeth George. Bantam, c1997.
Publishers Weekly, June 2, 1997, p. 56: "...this rich, engrossing novel portrays a contemporary England that's culturally complex and simmering with tension. ... This is an unusually elaborate and intricate mystery, but George keeps an unrelenting grip on her readers as the police constantly shift their focus among a dozen well- drawn suspects."

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Deep waters / Jayne Ann Krentz. New York : Pocket Books, 1996 (1997 printing).

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The god of small things / Arundhati Roy. New York : Random House, c1997.

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Kanon, Joseph. Los Alamos Broadway Books, c1997.
Spring, 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Sante Fe.

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Rice, Anne. Violin. Knopf. c1997.

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Sheldon, Sidney. The Best Laid Plans Morrow, 1997.
The story of the beautiful Leslie Stewart, who learns that for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac, and of Oliver Russell, the handsome governor of a small southern state, who finds out why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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Francis, Dick. Ten Pound Penalty. Putnam, c1997.
In practice, a 10 lb. penalty is the maximum extra weight a winning thoroughbred is normally set to carry in a horse race. A 10 lb. penalty can be a killer.

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Davidson, Diane Mott. The Grilling Season. Bantam, c1997.
Hired to cater a hockey party, Goldy comes up with a winning menu, but her client won't be satisfied until she serves up a hefty side order of revenge. Another blend of recipes and murder.

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The night crew / John Sandford. New York : Putnam, c1997.

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Ludlum, Robert. Matarese Countdown. Bantam, c1997.
The Matarese dynasty is back in all its glory and evil. And the one man with enough knowledge to stop it, CIA case officer Cameron Pryce, may not have enough time. The countdown has begun.

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Parker, Robert. Night Passage Putnam. c1997.
A major crime-fiction event from the creator of the Spenser novels. After he is unceremoniously dumped from the LAPD, 35-year-old Jesse Stone is looking at what seems to be a bleak future. So, when he's offered the job of police chief in a small Massachusetts town, he can't help but wonder if this job is a genuine chance to start over. Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look far f

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Secrecy / Belva Plain. New York : Delacorte Press, c1997.

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Serpent's tooth : a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel / Faye Kellerman. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow and Co., c1997.

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Star Trek : avenger / William Shatner, with Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens. New York : Pocket Books, c1997.

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Delillo, Don. Underworld Scribner, c1997.
Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

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Cussler, Clive. Flood Tide Simon & Schuster, c1997.
Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt. -- in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River that can only enhance his status as the grand master of adventure fiction.

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Vonnegut, Kurt. Timequake. Putnam, c1997.

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Up island : a novel / by Anne Rivers Siddons. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1997.

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Fiction [title]

Non-Fiction Best Sellers

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Understanding Men's Passages by Gail Sheehy. Random House, c1998.

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We are our Mother's Daughters by Cokie Roberts. Morrow, c1998.

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Bunts by George Will. Scribner, c1998. 910.9163
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Ship of Gold by Gary Kinder. Atlantic Monthly Press, c1998.

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A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt. Hyperion, c1998.

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Are you Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain. Henry Holt and Company, c1998.

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A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett. Random House, c1998.

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Titan by Ron Chernow, Random House, c1998.

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Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris. Riverhead Books, c1998.

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Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill. Doubleday, c1998.

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Broadway Books, c1998.

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Triumph of Justice by Daniel Petrocelli with Peter Knobler. Crown, c1998. ,br>

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Consilience by Edward O. Wilson. Knopf, c1998.

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Lessons Learned the Hard Way by Newt Gingrich, Harper Collins, c1998.

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Death of a Princess by Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod. St Martin's Press, c1998.

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes, Norton. c1998.

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A History of the American People by Paul Johnson. HarperCollins, c1998.

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Evidence Dismissed by Lange and Vannatter as told to Dan Moldea. Pocket Books, c1998.

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Spin Cycle by Howard Kurtz. Free Press, c1998.

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Love and Survival by Dean Ornish, M.D. Harper Collins, c1998.

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Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch. Simon & Schuster, c1998.
America in the King Years 1963-65.

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The long hard road out of hell Marilyn Manson with Nel Strauss. Harper Collins, c1998.
The shocking, confessional, and revealing life story of this controversial rock star.

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Walk this Way by Aerosmith with Stephen Davis. Avon Books, c1998.

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Bitter harvest : a woman's fury, a mother's sacrifice / Ann Rule. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.

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Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh. Dutton, c1998.
A medium's message of life after death.

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Puppies by William Wegman. Hyperion, c1998.

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The Way You Wear Your Hat by Bill Zehme. Harper Collins, c1997.

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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Doubleday, c1997.

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Diana: A tribute to the People's Princess. Courage Books, c1997.

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The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh. Little, Brown c1997.
Jack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all--his father's fortune, and his own beauty, wit, and power--with a heedless, reckless daring. There was no tomorrow, and there was no secret that money and charm could not hide.

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Sources of Strength by Jimmy Carter. Times Books, c1997.
Jimmy Carter has selected fifty-two of his favorite Bible meditations to share with anyone who is searching for new faith...or a fuller understanding of a lifelong creed.

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Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, c1997.
Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fi erce and affectionate rivalries.

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Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, c1997.
From the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterrest days of the war.

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Rock This by Chris Rock. Hyperion, c1997.

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Diana by Anrew Morton. Simon and Schuster, c1997.

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Dogs Never Lie About Love by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Crown, 1997

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Trump: The Art of the Comeback by Donald J. Trump with Kate Bohner. Random House, c1997.

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Diana Princess of Wales St Martin's Press, c1997.

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The Celestine Vision by James Redfield. Warner Books, c1997.

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Tears of Rage by John Walsh. Pocket Books, c1997.

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Tupac Shakur Crown, c1997.

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Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt. Scribner, c1996. Angela's Ashes is the memoir of Frank McCourt, who was born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. McCourt's father rarely works; when he does, he drinks his wages, so there is no money to feed the family. Calling his childhood that most miserable of childhoods, the miserable Irish Catholic childhood, McCourt tells his story with eloquence and exuberance.

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Babyhood / Paul Reiser. 1st. ed. New York : Rob Weisbach Books, c1997.

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Dr. Susan Love's Hormone book : making informed choices about menopause / Susan M. Love, with Karen Lindsey. New York : Random House, 1997.

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Dirty Jokes and Beer by Drew Carey. Hyperion, c1997.

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Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air Villard, c1997.
The immediacy of Into Thin Air is such that you feel you are actually with the Mt. Everest expedition as they struggle towards the summit and encounter disaster upon the harrowing descent. Interview with Jon Krakauer.

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The man who listens to horses / Monty Roberts ; introduction by Lawrence Scanlan. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c1997.

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Locked in the cabinet / Robert B. Reich. New York : Knopf, 1997.

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Men are from Mars, Women Are from Venus John Gray. HarperCollins, c1992.
Popular marriage counselor and seminar leader John Gray provides a unique, practical, and proven way for men and women to communicate and relate better by acknowledging the differences between them.

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Stanley, Thomas. The Millionaire Next Door Longstreet Press, c1996.

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Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. John Berendt. Random House, c1994.
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion. Was it murder or self-defense?

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Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Norton, c1997.
The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that leaves us with a sense of what it feels like to be caught helpless in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control.

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Rediscovering American Values by Dick DeVos. Dutton, c1997.
Dick DeVos, president of Amway, shows on how the values that make America great can be incoprorated into our daily lives.

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Whoopie Goldberg Book. Morrow, c1997.

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