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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 19, 1995

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KISS THE GIRLS
James Patterson
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KISS THE GIRLS

by James Patterson · Little, Brown

5 wks on list

Join Alex Cross on his most terrifying murder case yet in this #1 New York Times bestseller and one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads." In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing-and they are working coast to coast.

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ORIGINAL SIN
P.D. James

ORIGINAL SIN

by P.D. James · Knopf

2 wks on list
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ACCEPTABLE RISK
Robin Cook
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HOME SONG
LaVyrle Spencer
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HOME SONG

by LaVyrle Spencer · Putnam

2 wks on list
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ALWAYS A RECKONING
Jimmy Carter
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ALWAYS A RECKONING

by Jimmy Carter · Times Books/Random House

2 wks on list

A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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THE MURDERERS
W.E.B. Griffin
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THE MURDERERS

by W.E.B. Griffin · Putnam

4 wks on list

A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner's wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a heroin overdose. At first the crimes seem unconnected. But these four deaths are about to trigger a massive convergence of corruption, cops, and the mob that could tear the Philadelphia Police Department apart from the inside out. All the way to the top...

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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Robert James Waller
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

by Robert James Waller · Warner

132 wks on list

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

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MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER
Marlo Morgan
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MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER

by Marlo Morgan · HarperCollins

20 wks on list

In this "New York Times" bestseller, Morgan leads readers on the fictional spiritual odyssey of an American woman in the Australian outback.

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THE PAPERBOY
Pete Dexter
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THE PAPERBOY

by Pete Dexter · Random House

1 wks on list

Two brothers become involved with a sexy young woman who asks them to investigate the case of the man she loves, a man whom she has never met but who has been convicted of killing the local sheriff.

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DEBT OF HONOR
Tom Clancy
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DEBT OF HONOR

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

Enemies have become friends and friends have become enemies, and even the form of conflict has changed.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.