Everyone's eyes -- Irish or not -- are smiling at Scribner. The tiny Simon & Schuster imprint has managed to land books atop both the nonfiction and fiction lists this week, a feat rarely achieved even by big publishing houses. 'Tis (1.3 million copies in print after four pressruns), Frank McCourt's follow-up to his celebrated memoir Angela's Ashes, and Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis, both sit pretty at No. 1. Elsewhere on the list, Hurricane Floyd may have swirled up sales for Erik Larson's chronicle of a horrifying Galveston, Tex., tempest: Isaac's Storm splashes into the top ten in its fourth week.

FICTION WEEKS ON LIST

1 HEARTS IN ATLANTIS Stephen King, Scribner, $28 2 2 TARA ROAD Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $24.95 16 3 THE ALIBI Sandra Brown, Warner, $25.95 4 4 BIG TROUBLE Dave Barry, Putnam, $23.95 2 5 HARD TIME Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, $24.95 2 6 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER Elizabeth George, Bantam, $25.95 4 7 ASSASSINS Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $22.99 8 8 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 8 9 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 16 10 ENDER'S SHADOW Orson Scott Card, Tor, $24.95 4

NONFICTION

1 'TIS Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26 1 2 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 99 3 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000: MILLENNIUM EDITION Guinness Publishing, $25.95 2 4 FAITH OF MY FATHERS John McCain with Mark Salter, Random House, $25 3 5 LIFE STRATEGIES Phillip C. McGraw, Hyperion, $21.95 19 6 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 171 7 YESTERDAY, I CRIED Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $22 19 8 CHILDREN ARE FROM HEAVEN John Gray, HarperCollins, $25.95 3 9 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 15 10 ISAAC'S STORM Erik Larson, Crown, $25 4

MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS

1 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Avon, $6.50 139 2 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS James Patterson, Warner, $7.99 4 3 THE REEF Nora Roberts, Jove, $7.50 4 4 RAINBOW SIX Tom Clancy, Berkley, $8.50 8 5 THE LOOP Nicholas Evans, Dell, $7.99 3 6 SUMMER SISTERS Judy Blume, Dell, $7.50 21 7 THE COUNTESS Catherine Coulter, Signet, $7.50 2 8 REMEMBER SUMMER Elizabeth Lowell, Avon, $6.99 3 9 THE WILDFLOWERS: JADE V.C. Andrews, Pocket, $3.99 4 10 UNSPEAKABLE Sandra Brown, Warner, $7.99 8

SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY


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