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It's a literary Lilith Fair this week, as books by or about females pepper the best-sellers chart. Debuting in nonfiction is See Jane Win (55,000 copies in print after four pressruns), Today correspondent Sylvia Rimm's anecdotal guide to raising successful women (in which former Cosmo editrix Helen Gurley Brown amusingly admits to using her smarts to compensate for ''terminal acne''). Meanwhile in fiction, newcomer Melissa Bank's smash short-story collection, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing -- featuring, coincidentally, a successful woman named Jane -- holds steady at No. 6 in its eighth week.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 6 2 WHITE OLEANDER Janet Fitch, Little, Brown, $24 11 3 GRANNY DAN Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $19.95 3 4 MOTHER OF PEARL Melinda Haynes, Hyperion, $23.95 5 5 THE TESTAMENT John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95 24 6 THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING Melissa Bank, Viking, $23.95 8 7 THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON Stephen King, Scribner, $16.95 15 8 TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT Ernest Hemingway, Scribner, $26 2 9 MCNALLY'S DILEMMA Lawrence Sanders, Putnam, $24.95 2 10 WE'LL MEET AGAIN Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $25 13
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1 SOMETHING MORE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 17 2 REAL AGE Michael F. Roizen, HarperCollins/Cliff Street, $25 4 3 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 89 4 SUZANNE SOMERS' GET SKINNY ON FABULOUS FOOD Suzanne Somers, Crown, $24 11 5 SHADOW Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 5 6 LIVE NOW AGE LATER Isadore Rosenfeld, Warner, $24 5 7 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 5 8 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 131 9 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 32 10 SEE JANE WIN Sylvia Rimm, Crown, $25
