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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of January 28, 1996

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THE ROAD AHEAD
Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson
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THE ROAD AHEAD

by Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson · Viking Press

7 wks at #1 · 8 on list

"A masterful job...Inspires all kinds of empowering ways to use technology."-Chicago Tribune. Now updated with new material, the software pioneer describes how emerging technologies will transform human existence in unprecedented ways.

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CHARLES KURALT'S AMERICA
Charles Kuralt
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CHARLES KURALT'S AMERICA

by Charles Kuralt · Putnam

13 wks on list

"Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers, a man who has helped us to see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before." "He takes us to Montana in September and Alaska in June, deep into Cajun country in winter and along the North Carolina mountains in spring. He explores Charleston and the Florida Keys, the coast of Maine and the deserts of New Mexico, the boundary waters of northern Minnesota and the back roads of Vermont when the oaks and maples turn to crimson and gold." "Throughout, his accounts are filled with people, stories, and experiences; suffused by a poet's love of language; rich in the spirit and flavor of this infinite and varied land. Here is a book of pure reading pleasure - like its author, a national treasure."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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MISS AMERICA
Howard Stern
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MISS AMERICA

by Howard Stern · Regan

10 wks on list

Howard Stern versus the world in Miss America. Including eight pages of full-color photos, this book covers the celebrity shock jocks thoughts on himself and the world in which he leaves. From the author of the New York Times bestselling author of Private Parts. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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DAVID BRINKLEY
David Brinkley
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DAVID BRINKLEY

by David Brinkley · Knopf

11 wks on list

Title cont: 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina, A Borzoi Book.

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LONGITUDE
Dava Sobel
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LONGITUDE

by Dava Sobel · Walker

4 wks on list

The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time.

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MY POINT . . . AND I DO HAVE ONE
Ellen DeGeneres
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MY POINT . . . AND I DO HAVE ONE

by Ellen DeGeneres · Bantam

21 wks on list

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles–including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we’re so scared of the boogeyman–to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen’s Real Frenchy French Toast. Most of all, this witty, engaging book offers insights into the mind of one of America’s most beloved comics.… Dear Reader, I was awfully excited when I was asked to write a book. I was however, nervous. I was afraid I didn’t have anything important to say. But when I began writing, I realized that although I don’t know a lot about any one thing, I know a little about a whole bunch of things: baking a pie; dancing; curing the common cold; running the Iditarod–it’s all in the book. And I realized I notice things that maybe some people don’t notice (or they don’t notice that they don’t notice). That’s all in the book, too.

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MY AMERICAN JOURNEY
Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico

MY AMERICAN JOURNEY

by Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico · Random House

18 wks on list

In his enlightening and very human memoir, General Colin Powell, one of the most prominent figures in American public life, celebrates not only the rise of a great man from obscurity, but, in the General's own words, "the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers". 32 pages of photos. Barbara Walters interview scheduled for September. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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