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March 4, 2001
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This
Week
Best Sellers Plus Weeks
On List
1 WE WERE THE MULVANEYS, by Joyce Carol Oates. (William Abrahams/Plume, $13.95.) The perfect American family tries to rebuild itself after a pretty cheerleader daughter is raped. 4
2 THE BRETHREN, by John Grisham. (Island, $7.99.) Three former judges, doing time at a federal prison in Florida, concoct a mail scam that goes awry. First Chapter 8
3 HANNIBAL, by Thomas Harris. (Dell, $7.99.) Seven years after his escape, the fiendish psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter is still at large. Audio: Thomas Harris Reads From 'Hannibal' 20
4 THE STANISLASKI SISTERS: Natasha and Rachel, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.50.) Two novels about sisters from an immigrant family who find romance in the New World. 3
5 THE END OF THE RAINBOW, by V. C. Andrews. (Pocket Star, $7.99.) The teenage daughter of a Virginia family comes of age after a terrible event. 3
6 HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, by Andre Dubus III. (Vintage Contemporaries, $7.99.) A California woman and the sheriff who loves her struggle with an Iranian immigrant over ownership of a bungalow. 14
7 CONSIDERING KATE, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $4.50.) The head of a dance school is attracted to the man she has hired to renovate her building. 3
8 CRADLE AND ALL, by James Patterson. (Warner Vision, $7.99.) A former nun, now a private eye, works on a case involving two virgins who become pregnant. 3
9 THE THIRD VICTIM, by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam, $7.50.) A policewoman in an Oregon town receives help from an F.B.I. profiler in tracking down a killer. 3
10 GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, by Tracy Chevalier. (Plume, $12.) In 17th-century Delft, a servant girl is hired to work in the Vermeer household. 5
11 MOMENT OF TRUTH, by Lisa Scottoline. (HarperTorch, $7.50.) A lawyer finds herself defending an innocent man, accused of murder, who insists he is guilty. 1
12 THE INDWELLING, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $13.99.) Volume 7 in a series about true believers who confront the Antichrist. (+) 3
13 THE RED TENT, by Anita Diamant. (Picador USA, $14.) The stories of biblical women told in the voice of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. 6
14 CHOCOLAT, by Joanne Harris. (Penguin, $12.95.) A French priest tries to sabotage a chocolate festival planned for Easter Sunday. First Chapter 1
15 ALL ABOUT LOVE, by Stephanie Laurens. (Avon, $6.99.) In early-19th-century England, Alasdair Cynster -- known to his friends as Lucifer -- woos a reluctant bride. 1

Also Selling
16 LEFT BEHIND, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $13.99.) Life as lived by those who survive a global cataclysm.
17 "O" IS FOR OUTLAW, by Sue Grafton. (Ballantine, $7.99.) The private eye Kinsey Millhone has to reappraise her youthful values while trying to solve a murder committed years earlier.
18 THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT, by Cathy Maxwell. (Avon, $6.50.) A poor orphan who is married to an earl in the Scottish Highlands tries to win him over to the arrangement.
19 ANGEL FALLS, by Kristin Hannah. (Ballantine, $6.99.) A husband whose wife lies in a coma discovers that she has kept secret a previous marriage.
20 MORE THAN MEMORY, by Dorothy Garlock. (Warner, $6.99.) A romance novel set in Clear Lake, Iowa in the 1950's.
21 DEEP SOUTH, by Nevada Barr. (Berkley, $6.99.) The national park ranger Anna Pigeon tries to solve a mystery: who killed a teenage girl in the Mississippi woods?
22 DAY OF RECKONING, by Jack Higgins. (Berkley, $7.99.) The head of a secret White House department sets out to destroy an international crime boss.
23 TRIBULATION FORCE, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $13.99.) The second volume of the "Left Behind" series, in which the forces of good battle the forces of evil after the rapture of the saved.
24 FORTUNE'S ROCKS, by Anita Shreve. (Back Bay, $13.95.) At the turn of the last century, a fifteen-year-old girl has an affair with a friend of her father. First Chapter
25 BACK ROADS, by Tawni O'Dell. (Signet, $7.99.) The ordeals of a 19-year-old man in western Pennsylvania who must care for his three younger sisters.
26 TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. (Ballantine, $7.99.) Using the latest computer technology, a group of historians travels back to 14th-century feudal France.
27 FREE FALL, by Kyle Mills. (HarperCollins, $7.50.) A renegade FBI agent investigates a missing file that could affect a presidential election.
28 ALONG CAME A SPIDER, by James Patterson. (Warner, $7.99.) Alex Cross becomes involved with a Secret Service agent while investigating a high-profile kidnapping in Washington D.C.
29 BRIDGET JONES: The Edge of Reason, by Helen Fielding. (Viking, $13.) Another year in the life of a single woman in London. First Chapter
30 THE CAT WHO ROBBED A BANK, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Jove, $6.99.) Jim Qwilleran and his two cats investigate the murder of a jewelry dealer.
31 THE ATTORNEY, by Steve Martini. (Jove, $7.99.) A lawyer represents an elderly man accused of sexual abuse by his drug addict daughter.
32 FALSE MEMORY, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $7.99.) A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image.
33 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, by John Lescroart. (Signet, $7.99.) A San Francisco lawyer's wife goes to jail when she refuses to tell a grand jury what she knows about a friend accused of killing his spouse.
34 HUNTING BADGER, by Tony Hillerman. (HarperTorch, $7.50.) Two Navajo lawmen search for the truth behind a murder and the F.B.I.'s investigation of it.
35 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, by Barbara Kingsolver. (HarperPerennial, $14.) Five female characters narrate a novel set in the Belgian Congo during that country's fight for independence. Barbara Kingsolver Reads From 'The Poisonwood Bible'



Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Feb. 17, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers, statistically weighted to represent all such outlets. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some stores received bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available at The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books.

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