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Trade Paperback Nonfiction
Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds
Bestseller List for May 1, 2000
from sales the week ending April 23
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, April 27
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, May 1
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Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook,
Joshua Piven
Chronicle, $14.95, 0811825558
Sound (though funny) advice on what to do if you're attacked by a shark,
buried in an avalanche, or bitten by a snake�just to name a few.
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Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav
S&S, $12.00, 067169507X
A meditation on spirituality and our evolving souls.
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Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
Vintage, $12.00, 0679746048
The basis for the movie about the author's years in a mental hospital.
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The Professor and the Madman, Simon
Winchester
HarperPerennial, $13.00, 006099486X
A fascinating story of the compiling of the OED, and the insane genius
who contributed more than 10, 000 definitions.
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Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Norton, $14.95, 0393317552
An amazing chronicle of how the modern world came to be which argues that
geographical and environmental factors shaped our societies.
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Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Anchor, $13.00, 0385496095
A funny and wise chronicle of faith and spirituality.
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Bella Tuscany, Francis Mayes
Broadway, $15.00, 076790284X
Francis Mayes' luscious sequel to UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
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Woman, Natalie Angier
Anchor, $15.00, 0385498411
A brilliant look at women and biology that blasts gender stereotypes to
make room for a new "liberation biology" that combines science and feminism
in a revolutionary way.
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A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Broadway, $13.00, 0767902521
Hysterically funny memoir about an attempt to hike the entire Appalachian
trail.
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The Onion's Finest News Reporting, The
Onion et al
Three Rivers, $16.00, 0609804634
Hilarious spoof news reports from the people who bring you the newspaper
and website.
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Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
Vintage, $15.00, 0375708111
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The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean
Ballantine, $14.00, 044900371X
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Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui, Karen
Kingston
Broadway, $10.00, 0767903595
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A Child Called 'It', David J. Pelzer
Health Communications, $9.95, 1558743669
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Statehood Quarter Folder #1 1999-2001,
Whitman/St. Martin's, $3.00, 0307096971
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