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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 16, 1954

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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 · 80 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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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Heinrich Harrer
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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

by Heinrich Harrer · E.P. Dutton

9 wks on list

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.

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THE TAFT STORY
William S. White
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THE TAFT STORY

by William S. White · Harper & Row

3 wks on list

The story of the Ohio senator.

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THE JOURNEY
Lillian Smith
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THE JOURNEY

by Lillian Smith · Nelson Doubleday, Inc

1 wks on list

A book of autobiographical musings, introspection and social commentary based on inteviews gathered on a driving tour of coastal Georgia. The focus was on human dignity apparent in the suffering and pain in the lives of many individuals in the South.

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