JEWEL DOESN'T NEED anyone to save her soul...or to market her book. The flaxen-haired songbird's July 22 appearance on Oprah sent hearts aflutter -- and pushed sales high enough for her poetry collection A Night Without Armor to crack the top 10. Looks like HarperCollins' $2 million gamble on the warbler's literary ability wasn't a foolish game: The book has 225,000 copies in print after nine pressruns.
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WEEKS ON LIST 1 POINT OF ORIGIN Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 3 2 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE Wally Lamb, ReganBooks, $27.50 8 3 SUMMER SISTERS Judy Blume, Delacorte, $21.95 11 4 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $20 16 5 BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY Helen Fielding, Viking, $22.95 8 6 THE KLONE AND I Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $17.95 6 7 LOW COUNTRY Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $25 4 8 THE STREET LAWYER John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95 25 9 A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR John Irving, Random House, $27.95 13 10 A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR Jewel Kilcher, HarperCollins, $15 5
NONFICTION 1 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D., Ballantine, $22 13 2 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 39 3 A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY Jimmy Buffett, Random House, $24.95 8 4 MARS AND VENUS STARTING OVER John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $25 4 5 MARILU HENNER'S TOTAL HEALTH MAKEOVER Marilu Henner with Laura Morton, ReganBooks, $24 8 6 A WALK IN THE WOODS Bill Bryson, Broadway, $25 8 7 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM Suze Orman, Crown, $23 19 8 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 96 9 IN THE MEANTIME Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $23 16 10 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, Longstreet, $22 53
