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Trade Paperback Fiction
Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds
Bestseller List for June 12, 2000
from sales the week ending June 4
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, June 8
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, June 12
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TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
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While I Was Gone - 1st Week at #1, Sue Miller
Ballantine, 12.95, 0345443284
A woman's happy life and marriage unravel as her past comes back to haunt
her, bringing temptation and menace.
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The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
HarperPerennial, 14.00, 0060930535
An ambitious, beautifully-written novel set in the Belgian Congo, written
by an indie-bookseller favorite.
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The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank
Penguin, 12.95, 0140293248
Just out in paperback, Bank's funny, moving, interconnected stories have
struck a chord with women everywhere.
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The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Penguin, 12.95, 0452282195
Morrison's heartrending first novel: the story of a little girl who believes
that white skin and blue eyes will change the brutal path of her young
life.
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The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Picador, 13.00, 0312243022
An exquisitely crafted novel of three interwoven lives spanning the century�and
one of whom is Virginia Woolf.
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Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Mariner, 12.00, 039592720X
A beautiful, moving, Pulitzer-prize winning collection of stories that
take place on both India and America.
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Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
Warner, 12.00, 0446672211
The recent release of the movie is driving this title, a former Oprah
pick, back up our list.
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White Oleander, Janet Fitch
Back Bay, 13.95, 0316284955
A dense, evocative novel about a 13-year-old girl and her mother, a luminous
poet sentenced to life in prison for murder.
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East Of the Mountains, David Guterson
Harcourt Brace, 14.00, 0156011042
The beloved author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS' latest, a touching story
of an old man facing the rest of life.
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Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Penguin, 12.95, 0140282033
An enchanting, delicious novel about a woman who opens an irresistible
chocolate shop in a tiny town in France.
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The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Picador, 14.00, 0312195516
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House Of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
Vintage, 13.00, 0375708413
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Memoirs of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Vintage, 14.00, 0679781587
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A New Song, Jan Karon
Penguin, 12.95, 0140270590
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Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
HarperPerennial, 16.00, 0380788624
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