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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 19, 1995

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ORIGINAL SIN
P.D. James

ORIGINAL SIN

by P.D. James · Knopf

6 wks on list
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OUR GAME
John le Carré
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OUR GAME

by John le Carré · Knopf

1 wks on list
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THE GLASS LAKE
Maeve Binchy
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THE GLASS LAKE

by Maeve Binchy · Delacorte Press

2 wks on list

Unable to come to terms with her misfit mother's bouts of depression, Kit McMahon finds escape in her evening vigils along the lake shore, until her mother's sudden death changes Kit's life forever. By the author of Circle of Friends. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

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THE CAT WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE
Lilian Jackson Braun
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THE CAT WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE

by Lilian Jackson Braun · Putnam

4 wks on list

Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country, with cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, will help him sort out his life.

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HOME SONG
LaVyrle Spencer
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HOME SONG

by LaVyrle Spencer · Putnam

6 wks on list
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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

136 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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ALWAYS A RECKONING
Jimmy Carter
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ALWAYS A RECKONING

by Jimmy Carter · Times Books/Random House

6 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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MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER
Marlo Morgan
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MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER

by Marlo Morgan · HarperCollins

23 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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ROGUE WARRIOR: GREEN TEAM
Richard Marcinko and John Weisman
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ROGUE WARRIOR: GREEN TEAM

by Richard Marcinko and John Weisman · Pocket

2 wks on list

The Green Team, a top-secret unit of the U.S Navy, battles internal as well as external enemies in a dangerous test of their skills that involves a transnational terror network based in a violent religous organization.

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KISS THE GIRLS
James Patterson
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KISS THE GIRLS

by James Patterson · Little, Brown

9 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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THE CUNNING MAN
Robertson Davies
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THE CUNNING MAN

by Robertson Davies · Viking Press

In this perceptive and entertaining memoir of a doctor’s life, we encounter at least one miraculous cure, a bad breath contest of Olympian standards, tales of cannibals and Tsarist bordellos, medical solutions to literary mysteries—and startling insights into the secrets of a doctor’s consulting room.

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