THE DOCTOR IS IN. And she's got lots of frank -- even harsh -- advice on everything from rocky romances and lousy lovers to troubled teens and family feuds. In fact, Dr. Laura Schlessinger heaps the same right-wing lectures on her readers that she does on her radio talk-show listeners. (She counsels against abortion, for starters.) Schlessinger's brand of moral outrage must be working: Her first book, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, has been on the trade paperback list for a year, and her second self-help tome, How Could You Do That?! The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience, is at No. 3 with some 307,500 copies in print.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 PRIMARY COLORS Anonymous, Random House, $24 2 2 THE HORSE WHISPERER Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $23.95 21 3 INTENSITY Dean Koontz, Knopf, $25 5 4 BEHIND THE LINES W.E.B. Griffin, Putnam, $23.95 5 5 THE WEB Jonathan Kellerman, Bantam, $23.95 6 6 FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $15.95 11 7 THAT CAMDEN SUMMER LaVyrle Spencer, Putnam, $23.95 2 8 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 101 9 CONTAGION Robin Cook, Putnam, $23.95 4 10 HIDE AND SEEK James Patterson, Little, Brown, $23.95 7
NONFICTION 1 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 148 2 IT TAKES A VILLAGE: AND OTHER LESSONS CHILDREN TEACH US Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $20 4 3 HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! THE ABDICATION OF CHARACTER, COURAGE, AND CONSCIENCE Dr. Laura Schlessinger, HarperCollins, $22 2 4 RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS Al Franken, Delacorte, $21.95 3 5 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Goleman, Bantam, $23.95 19 6 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 50 7 THE WAY OF THE WIZARD Deepak Chopra, Harmony, $15.95 6 8 THE ROAD AHEAD Bill Gates, Viking, $29.95 10 9 TIME PRESENT, TIME PAST: A MEMOIR Bill Bradley, Knopf, $25 2 10 THE BEARDSTOWN LADIES' STITCH-IN-TIME GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR NEST EGG The Beardstown Ladies, Hyperion, $19.95 2 MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS 1 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Dell, $7.99 5 2 WAITING TO EXHALE Terry McMillan, Pocket Books, $6.99 28 3 HOME SONG LaVyrle Spencer, Jove, $6.99 3 4 ORIGINAL SIN P.D. James, Warner, $6.99 4 5 THE FOURTH PROCEDURE Stanley Pottinger, Ballantine, $6.99 3 6 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Jane Austen, Signet, $5.99 5 7 FOR THE ROSES Julie Garwood, Pocket Books, $6.99 4 8 ACCEPTABLE RISK Robin Cook, Berkley, $6.99 5 9 EYES OF A CHILD Richard North Patterson, Ballantine, $6.99 7 10 THE GIFT Danielle Steel, Dell, $5.99 1
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
