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Trade Paperback Fiction
Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds
Bestseller List for March 27, 2000
from sales the week ending March 19
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, March 23
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, March 27
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TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION |
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The Hours, Michael Cunningham
$13.00, Picador, 0312243022
Exquisitely crafted novel of three interwoven lives spanning the century, one being Virginia Woolf's. |
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The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
$14.00, HarperPerennial, 0060930535
Indie bookseller fave's ambitious, beautifully written novel set in the Belgian Congo. |
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House Of Sand and Fog -- A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick, Andre Dubus III
$13.00, Vintage, 0375708413
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. |
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Chocolat, Joanne Harris
$12.95, Penguin, 0140282033
An enchanting, delicious novel about a woman who opens an irresistible chocolate shop in a tiny town in France. |
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Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout
$13.00, Vintage, 0375705198
A moving portrait of the relationship between a woman and her teenaged daughter in a small town |
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Memoirs of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
$14.00, Vintage, 0679781587
A mesmerizing novel written in memoir style about the life of a beautiful and renowned Geisha. |
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While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
$12.95, Ballantine, 0345435001
A woman's happy life and marriage begin to unravel as her past comes back into her life, bringing temptation, and menace. |
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Close Range, Annie Proulx
$13.00, Scribner, 0684852225
Brilliant stories of Wyoming; at turns brutal, heartbreaking, and exquisitely beautiful. |
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The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
$14.00, Picador, 0312195516
A fascinating reimagining of the biblical Dinah, daughter to Jacob and Leah, and of women in the ancients world. |
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Evensong, Gail Godwin
$14.00, Ballantine, 0345434773
This wonderful sequel to FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER brings us into a small community in the Smoky Mountains, and the life struggles of its inhabitants. |
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Map Of the World, Jane Hamilton
$12.95, Anchor, 0385720106 |
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Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson
$14.00, Vintage, 067976402X |
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Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson
$12.95, Ballantine, 0345433491 |
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Bridget Jones' Diary, Helen Fielding
$12.95, Penguin, 014028009X |
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Sister Of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
$13.00, Anchor, 038548951X |
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ON THE RISE |
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
$16.00, Picador, 0312254997
Rushdie's latest, just out in paperback; an ambitious, epic romance of love, death and music. |
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