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Pure drivel it's not. Steve Martin's Shopgirl (165,000 copies in print after four pressruns) lands at No. 5 this week. The actor took to the airwaves to promote his debut novella, hamming it up on the Today show, The View, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and Regis. From the star of Mixed Nuts to authors who spill their guts: The nonfiction debuts may tarnish a legend or two. Princess Di's former assistant dishes his way into the No. 5 seat, while Tina Sinatra's memoir My Father's Daughter swings into No. 6. Doobee doobee doo. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 DROWNING RUTH Christina Schwarz, Doubleday, $23.95 3 2 THE RESCUE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $22.95 4 3 THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON Tom Clancy, Putnam, $28.95 8 4 THE SKY IS FALLING Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $26 5 5 SHOPGIRL Steve Martin, Hyperion, $17.95 1 6 THE DEVIL'S CODE John Sandford, Putnam, $25.95 2 7 OPEN HOUSE Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $23.95 8 8 DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, $27.50 2 9 THE BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood, Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $26 6 10 THE CAROUSEL Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $18.95 1
NONFICTION
1 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 43 2 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY The Beatles, Chronicle, $60 2 3 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 66 4 THE O'REILLY FACTOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS IN AMERICAN LIFE Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $23.95 5 5 SHADOWS OF A PRINCESS: AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT BY HER PRIVATE SECRETARY P.D. Jephson, HarperCollins, $26 1 6 MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER Tina Sinatra with Jeff Coplon, Simon & Schuster, $26 1 7 ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT Stephen King, Scribner, $25 2 8 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 153 9 FACE FORWARD Kevyn Aucoin, Little, Brown, $32.95 2 10 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: THE MEN WHO BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD 1863-1869 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $28 7
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 TALKING DIRTY WITH THE QUEEN OF CLEAN Linda Cobb, Pocket, $8.99 5 2 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperPerennial, $14 53 3 RICH DAD POOR DAD Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, Warner, $15.95 25 4 PLAINSONG Kent Haruf, Vintage, $13 8 5 THE SEAT OF THE SOUL Gary Zukav, S&S/Fireside, $12 84 6 NIGHT TALES Nora Roberts, Silhouette, $14.95 7 7 THE FOUR AGREEMENTS Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95 25 8 'TIS Frank McCourt, Touchstone, $14 7 9 THE RED TENT Anita Diamant, Picador, $14 10 10 WAITING Ha Jin, Vintage, $13 3
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
