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Wimps be warned: If you're soothed by the dulcet tones of touchy-feely self-help books, be afraid -- be very afraid -- of advice guru Phillip McGraw. The Oprah regular's tough-loving (some say cantankerous) wake-up call for the masses muscled onto the best-seller list (450,000 copies in print after three pressruns), fueled no doubt by his recent hour-long appearance on the star's chat-fest. His claim to fame? Skillfully guiding Winfrey through last year's cattle-ranchers lawsuit. You can bet she doesn't have a beef with that.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 SOUTHERN CROSS Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 1 2 A MAN IN FULL Tom Wolfe, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.95 10 3 SEIZE THE NIGHT Dean Koontz, Bantam, $26.95 3 4 BILLY STRAIGHT Jonathan Kellerman, Random House, $25.95 3 5 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS James Patterson, Little, Brown, $25 11 6 THE SIMPLE TRUTH David Baldacci, Warner, $25 8 7 IN DANGER'S PATH W.E.B. Griffin, Putnam, $24.95 1 8 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperFlamingo, $27.50 14 9 THE CAT WHO SAW STARS Lilian Jackson Braun, Putnam, $22.95 1 10 ANGELS FLIGHT Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, $25 3
NONFICTION
1 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 6 2 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 63 3 LIFE STRATEGIES Phillip McGraw, Ph.D., Hyperion, $21.95 1 4 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM Suze Orman, Crown, $23 43 5 THE CENTURY Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster, Doubleday, $60 8 6 BLIND MAN'S BLUFF Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette L. Drew, Public Affairs, $25 7 7 ONE DAY MY SOUL JUST OPENED UP Iyanla Vanzant, S&S/Fireside, $13 8 8 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 3 9 IN THE MEANTIME Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $23 38 10 THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN Simon Winchester, HarperCollins, $20 12 TRADE PAPERBACKS
