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Of all the delicious, widely forgotten snippets of Sidney Sheldon trivia out there, surely the fact that he used to produce I Dream of Jeannie (Hart to Hart, too!) is the Best. Now, of course, the 80-year-old Bel Air author has almost entirely devoted himself to cranking out naughty, lucrative potboilers with feisty heroines -- like this week's No. 2 debut. Morrow just knows we'll lap 'em up. Looks like the publisher's million-copy first pressrun was the right Plan.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 12 2 THE BEST LAID PLANS Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $25 1 3 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 8 4 PLUM ISLAND Nelson DeMille, Warner, $25 16 5 THE PARTNER John Grisham, Doubleday, $26.95 28 6 IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE E. Lynn Harris, Doubleday, $23.95 8 7 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 47 8 SPECIAL DELIVERY Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $16.95 11 9 LONDON Edward Rutherfurd, Crown, $25.95 16 10 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House, $23 6
NONFICTION
1 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 51 2 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 12 3 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 5 4 BABYHOOD Paul Reiser, Rob Weisbach, $22 3 5 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 20 6 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95 35 7 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 135 8 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, Longstreet, $22 19 9 THE GIFT OF FEAR Gavin de Becker, Little, Brown, $22.95 11 10 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 216
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... AND IT'S ALL SMALL STUFF Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $8.95 23 2 SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME Mary McGarry Morris, Penguin, $13.95 12 3 THE HEART OF A WOMAN Maya Angelou, Bantam, $12 18 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 15 5 SHE'S COME UNDONE Wally Lamb, Washington Square Press, $14 33 6 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 47 7 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 27 8 AT HOME IN MITFORD Jan Karon, Penguin, $11.95 4 9 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 14 10 STONES FROM THE RIVER Ursula Hegi, Scribner, $13 28
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
