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March 30, 1997
Best Sellers Plus

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This
Week
Best Sellers Weeks
on List
1 THE RUNAWAY JURY, by John Grisham. (Island/Dell, $7.99.) A woman in a Mississippi Gulf Coast town sues a tobacco company for causing her husband's death. 7
2 STONES FROM THE RIVER, by Ursula Hegi. (Scribner, $13.) A dwarf becomes the moral conscience of her German town during the Nazi era. 3
3 TICKTOCK, by Dean Koontz. (Ballantine, $7.99.) A writer of detective novels flees a threatening doll he finds on his doorstep. 2
4 SHE'S COME UNDONE, by Wally Lamb. (Washington Square/Pocket, $14.) A woman's harrowing progress from youth to middle age. 8
5 ACTS OF WAR, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. (Berkley, $7.50.) An American Op-Center team contends with Kurdish terrorists. 5
6 THE ENGLISH PATIENT, by Michael Ondaatje. (Vintage, $12.) Four damaged people are left behind in a Tuscan villa at the end of World War II. 17
7 THAT CAMDEN SUMMER, by LaVyrle Spencer. (Jove, $6.99.) In 1916, a divorced woman, returning to her Maine hometown with her three daughters, finds scorn, harassment and romance. 6
8 THE WILD BARON, by Catherine Coulter. (Jove, $6.99.) A philandering 19th-century Englishman contends with a missing treasure and murder. 1
9 THE WEDDING, by Julie Garwood. (Pocket, $6.99.) A 12th-century Scottish laird captures and marries an English lady. 1
10 THE LAST DON, by Mario Puzo. (Ballantine, $7.99.) The aging head of a Mafia family plans for his heirs' activities in Hollywood and Las Vegas. 5
11 *THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES: Parts 1, 2 and 3, by John Saul. (Fawcett, $2.99 each.) A serial horror tale set in a New England town. 6
12 ABSOLUTE POWER, by David Baldacci. (Warner, $7.50.) Political intrigue, sex and murder in Washington's high circles. 19
13 THE ROSEWOOD CASKET, by Sharyn McCrumb. (Signet, $6.99.) As an Appalachian farmer lies dying, a family secret comes to light. 1
14 THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton. (Anchor/Doubleday, $11.95.) Domestic violence rips apart a young woman's life in a tiny Illinois town. 17
15 GUILTY AS SIN, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $6.50.) An assistant district attorney prosecutes a professor for kidnapping his neighbor's child. 10

Also Selling
16 EXTREME DENIAL, by David Morrell. (Warner, $6.99.) An American intelligence operative falls in love with a woman with secrets.
17 FLOATERS, by Joseph Wambaugh. (Bantam, $6.99.) San Diego harbor cops contend with mayhem and murders on the eve of the America's Cup race.
18 VEGAS RICH, by Fern Michaels. (Zebra, $6.99.) The start of a trilogy about the pleasures and ordeals of a family's life in Nevada.
19 SONG OF SOLOMON, by Toni Morrison. (Plume/Penguin, $11.95.) A black man's search for his family's history. (+)
20 SPRING COLLECTION, by Judith Krantz. (Bantam, $7.50.) Intrigue and rivalry in the fashion world on the runways of New York and Paris.
21 SHADOWS OF EMPIRE, by Steve Perry. (Spectra/Bantam, $5.99.) A criminal organization undertakes to obtain control of the "Star Wars" empire.
22 THE CAT WHO SAID CHEESE, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Jove, $6.50.) Jim Qwilleran and his two feline sleuths probe a deadly explosion.
23 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, by David Guterson. (Vintage, $12.) A murder trial recalls the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. (+)
24 THE HORSE WHISPERER, by Nicholas Evans. (Dell, $7.50.) A woman seeks solace for herself, her daughter and their horse from a wrangler.
25 LOVE'S ENCORE, by Sandra Brown. (Warner, $6.50.) A decorator encounters an old flame when she's hired to renovate a plantation home.
26 FINER THINGS, by Brenda Joyce. (St. Martin's, $6.50.) A poor London orphan rises to nobility.
27 FIVE DAYS IN PARIS, by Danielle Steel, (Dell, $6.50.) A chance encounter between two Americans at the Ritz changes their lives forever.
28 THE LOST WORLD, by Michael Crichton. (Ballantine, $7.99.) Scientists visit a Costa Rican jungle that is the breeding ground of dinosaurs.
29 LILY WHITE, by Susan Isaacs. (Harper Paperbacks, $6.99.) A defense lawyer takes on the case of a con man charged with murder, whose true motives mystify her.
30 SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW, by Peter Hoeg. (Dell, $6.50.) In Copenhagen and Greenland, a woman investigates a child's death.



Rankings reflect sales figures, for the week ending March 15, at 3,985 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers, statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders for a book.

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