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Our Madame Rice is keeping busy. Besides that sideline in soft-core porn (under the nom de plume Rampling), she puts out the occasional chart-topper. In February, she'll commence a new horror series with Pandora. Set in present-day Paris, it'll feature a ''fledgling vampire'' named David Talbot who meets the titular ''child of the millennium.'' Meanwhile, Violin is enjoying the sweet strains of a 460,000-copy first pressrun.
FICTION
WEEKS ON LIST 1 VIOLIN Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95 3 2 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 20 3 THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS Caleb Carr, Random House, $25.95 8 4 THE MATARESE COUNTDOWN Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $27.50 3 5 FLOOD TIDE Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $26 7 6 UNDERWORLD Don DeLillo, Scribner, $27.50 6 7 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House, $23 14 8 LUCKY YOU Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $24 1 9 COMANCHE MOON Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster, $28.50 2 10 THE BEST LAID PLANS Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $25 9
NONFICTION
1 DIANA: HER TRUE STORY. A COMMEMORATIVE EDITION Andrew Morton, Pocket, $22.95 4 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 59 3 THE ROYALS Kitty Kelley, Warner, $27 7 4 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 13 5 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 143 6 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 20 7 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 224 8 DON'T WORRY, MAKE MONEY Dr. Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $15.95 2 9 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 28 10 DIRTY JOKES AND BEER Drew Carey, Hyperion, $22.95 6
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $8.95 31 2 ELLEN FOSTER Kaye Gibbons, Vintage, $10 1 3 A VIRTUOUS WOMAN Kaye Gibbons, Vintage, $10 1 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 23 5 A LESSON BEFORE DYING Ernest Gaines, Vintage, $12 6 6 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Frances Mayes, Broadway, $13 7 7 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE MOTHER'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 2 8 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 55 9 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 35 10 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 22
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
