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Literary dominatrices Patricia Cornwell and Anne Rice crack their best-selling whips this week, forcing former chart-topper Christina Schwarz to bow down to the No. 3 spot. Cornwell's 11th Kay Scarpetta thriller, The Last Precinct (one million copies in print), slices through the competition to No. 1, while Rice's Merrick (600,000 copies in print) lurks close behind at No. 2. From the dead and undead to the down-to-earth: Barbara Kingsolver's ecologically minded Prodigal Summer plants its roots at No. 5.
FICTION WEEKS 1 THE LAST PRECINCT Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $26.95 1 2 MERRICK Anne Rice, Knopf, $26.95 1 3 DROWNING RUTH Christina Schwarz, Doubleday, $23.95 4 4 THE RESCUE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $22.95 5 5 PRODIGAL SUMMER Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins, $26 1 6 THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON Tom Clancy, Putnam, $28.95 9 7 THE SKY IS FALLING Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $26 6 8 SHOPGIRL Steve Martin, Hyperion, $17.95 2 9 THE DEVIL'S CODE John Sandford, Putnam, $25.95 3 10 OPEN HOUSE Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $23.95 9
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1 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 44 2 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY The Beatles, Chronicle, $60 3 3 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 67 4 THE O'REILLY FACTOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS IN AMERICAN LIFE Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $23.95 6 5 JOE DIMAGGIO: THE HERO'S LIFE Richard Ben Cramer, Simon & Schuster, $28 1 6 ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT Stephen King, Scribner, $25 3 7 MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER Tina Sinatra with Jeff Coplon, Simon & Schuster, $26 2 8 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: THE MEN WHO BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD 1863-1869 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $28 8 9 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 154 10 FACE FORWARD Kevyn Aucoin, Little, Brown, $32.95 3 MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 POP GOES THE WEASEL James Patterson, Warner, $7.99 3 2 BEYOND EDEN Catherine Coulter, Signet, $7.50 2 3 SAVING FAITH David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $7.99 8 4 LEFT BEHIND Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, Tyndale, $7.99 7 5 A WALK TO REMEMBER Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $6.99 8 6 CALDER PRIDE Janet Dailey, HarperPaperbacks, $7.50 3 7 TOM CLANCY'S NET FORCE: BREAKING POINT Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik; written by Steve Perry, Berkley, $7.99 2 8 MONSTER Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $7.99 7 9 HIDING IN THE SHADOWS Kay Hooper, Bantam, $6.50 3 10 PAY IT FORWARD Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pocket, $7.99 1
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
