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Bestseller List for July 4, 2002
from sales the week ending June 30
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  HARDCOVER FICTION Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter, 0375413634, Knopf, $26.95.
A major novel and literary thriller; reviews everywhere; A Top 10 76 Pick.
1/4
2. The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, 0316666343, Little Brown, $21.95.
A Top Ten 76 Pick. A child watches from heaven as her family deals with her absence.
-/2
3. The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, 0312278586, St. Martin's, $24.95.
In a memoir thinly veiled as fiction, two nannies tell all about wealthy NYC families and the way they treat their children's caretakers.
4/16
4. Hard Eight
Janet Evanovich, 0312265859, St. Martin's, $25.95.
A little darker than past books, but still with the Jersey girl in control.
2/2
5. The Beach House
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge, 0316969680, Little Brown, $26.95.
The summer share from hell.
6/3
6. In This Mountain
Jan Karon, 0670031046, Viking, $25.95.
The seventh book in the wildly popular Mitford series.
3/5
7. The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer, 0375412824, Knopf, $24.
A young woman is faced with a terrible decision when her fiance is critically injured in an accident. A Top Ten 76 Pick.
5/4
8. Shelters of Stone
Jean M. Auel, 0609610597, Crown, $28.95.
She's back, with the fifth.
8/8
9. Atonement
Ian McEwan, 0385503954, Doubleday, $26.
A brilliant new novel by the author of Enduring Love and Amsterdam. A 76 Pick.
7/14
10. Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer, 0618173870, Houghton Mifflin, $24.
The #1 76 Pick for May/June.
9/9
11. Jolie Blon's Bounce
James Lee Burke, 0743204840, S&S, $25.
Burke bounces back to the Big Easy from a bad trip to Bitteroot.
11/4
12. The Wailing Wind
Tony Hillerman, 0060194448, HarperCollins, $25.95.
Hillerman's 15th novel featuring Leaphorn/Chee.
10/7
13. Fire Ice
Clive Cussler, 0399148728, Putnam, $26.95.
Clive and pal dredge up another underwater thriller.
12/4
14. Chopping Spree - Debut
Diane Mott Davidson, 0553107305, Dell, $23.95.
Another spicy suspense from the bestselling author.
-/1
15. Prague: A Novel - Debut
Arthur Phillips, 0375507876, Random House, $24.95.
A first novel of startling scope and ambition.
-/1
  ON THE RISE  
29. A Simple Habana Melody: From When the World Was Good
Oscar Hijuelos, 0060175699, HarperCollins, $24.95.
A 76 Pick; another romantic, literary novel from Hijuelos.
 

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