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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of December 20, 1953

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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
Norman Vincent Peale
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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall, Inc

98 wks at #1 · 59 on list

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
Polly Adler
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A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

by Polly Adler · Rinehart & Company

27 wks on list

"Polly Adler's house--the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title--was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name synonymous with sin." --Google Books.

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MAN, TIME AND FOSSILS
Ruth E. Moore

MAN, TIME AND FOSSILS

by Ruth E. Moore · Alfred A. Knopf

3 wks on list

An exposition of the study of evolution as it has contracted man's age and expanded the earth, as it has been manifested in the work of men - Darwin, the anthropological diggers, Mendel and the rest.

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