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Week of February 20, 1994

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THE BOOK OF VIRTUES
William J. Bennett
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THE BOOK OF VIRTUES

by William J. Bennett · Simon & Schuster

9 wks on list

Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.

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SOUL MATES
Thomas Moore
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SOUL MATES

by Thomas Moore · HarperCollins

6 wks on list

In companion volumes, Care of the Soul, a philosophical guide, shows how to add spirituality and meaning to modern life, and Soul Mates, explains how relationships deepen our lives and fulfill the needs of the soul.

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HAVING OUR SAY
Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
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HAVING OUR SAY

by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth · Kodansha

12 wks on list

An inspiring memoir by two lively, keen-witted African American senior citizens. In their 200+ combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany have seen it all. They saw their father, who was born into slavery, become America's first black Episcopal bishop. They saw their mother--a woman of mixed racial parentage who was born free--give birth to ten children, all of whom would become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma. They saw the post-Reconstruction South, the Jim Crow laws,

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SEINLANGUAGE
Jerry Seinfeld
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SEINLANGUAGE

by Jerry Seinfeld · Bantam

24 wks on list

Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by one of today's most popular comic performers, featuring hilarious Seinfeld observations on everything from Relationships to Raisinets. Publication will coincide with the debut of the new season of Seinfeld, his top-ten NBC television series.

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A DRINKING LIFE
Pete Hamill
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A DRINKING LIFE

by Pete Hamill · Little, Brown

1 wks on list

This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times). As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker. "Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." --Boston Globe

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REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION
Michael Hammer and James Champy
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REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION

by Michael Hammer and James Champy · Harper Business

29 wks on list

The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance. Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped to create -- promising to help corporations save hundreds of millions of dollars more, raise their customer satisfaction still higher, and grow ever more nimble in the years to come.

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WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes · Ballantine

80 wks on list

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."--Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul."This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world."--Thomas Moore Author of Care of the Soul"I am grateful to WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."--Maya Angelou"An inspiring book, the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature."--San Francisco Chronicle"Stands out from the pack . . . A joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift."--Los Angeles Times"A mesmerizing voice . . . Dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts."--Newsweek From the Paperback edition.

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PRIVATE PARTS
Howard Stern
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PRIVATE PARTS

by Howard Stern · Simon & Schuster

18 wks on list

The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie! Here's the reader's chance to discover the book that began the phenomenon. Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto that will once again have fans storming the bookstore--and everyone else running for cover.

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LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE
Naomi Judd

LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE

by Naomi Judd · Villard

10 wks on list

Illustrations and the words to a popular song show how children from around the world demonstrate the power of love.

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A HISTORY OF GOD
Karen Armstrong
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A HISTORY OF GOD

by Karen Armstrong · Knopf

6 wks on list

Explores the ways in which the "idea" and "experience" of God evolved among monotheists--Jews, Christians and Muslims.

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