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Bestseller List for February 26, 2001
from sales the week ending February 18
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, February 22
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, February 26
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TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, 1878424319, Amber-Allen, $12.95.
A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs.
1/41
2. A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius - 1st Week On List; A 'Book Sense 76' Pick
Dave Eggers, 0375725784, Vintage, $14.00.
Heartbreaking -- yes, but brilliant, and funny, too. The memoir of a 21-year-old who lost both parents to cancer and had to raise his 7-year-old brother.
-/1
3. Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel, 0140280553, Penguin, $14.00.
An insightful, innovative biography of Galileo through the letters of his devoted daughter, a cloistered nun.
2/15
4. Life Strategies
Phillip C. McGraw, 0786884592, Hyperion, $11.95.
A book about taking control of your life from the author of Relationship Rescue
3/6
5. Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Jill Connor Browne, 0609804138, Three Rivers, $12.00.
Necessary, hilarious advice from "The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times" to "Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly" and more . . .
9/4
6. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Joshua Piven, 0811825558, Chronicle, $14.95.
Sound (and funny) advice on what to do if you're attacked by a shark, buried in an avalanche, or bitten by a snake ... to name a few of the possible calamities found in this clever book.
4/63
7. Shrub
Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose, 0375757147, Vintage, $8.99.
Two veteran journalists examine the record of President George W. Bush.
6/17
8. God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
Jill Conner Browne, 060980619X, Three Rivers, $12.95.
More advice from the fabulously big-haired and tiara-wearing Sweet Potato Queens.
5/4
9. George W. Bushisms
Edited by Jacob Weisberg, 0743222229, S&S, $9.95.
The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President.
10/2
10. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter, 0446677450, Warner, $15.95.
A book that outlines "financial literacy" and advocates the gaining and holding of assets over "traditional" jobs as a way of making and keeping money.
8/41
11. The Vagina Monologues - 1st Week On List
Eve Ensler, 0375756981, Villard, $12.95.
-/1
12. A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, 0767902521, Broadway, $13.95.
11/41
13. Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, 0393317552, Norton, $15.95.
15/63
14. Talking Dirty With the Queen Of Clean
Linda C. Cobb, 0743418301, Pocket, $8.99.
7/15
15. Desire Of the Everlasting Hills - 1st Week On List
Thomas Cahill, 0385483724, Anchor, $14.00.
-/1

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