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Only six months after Malice, yet another Danielle Steel novel soars to the top of the charts. This particular best-seller, however (her 38th), marks a slight departure from her usual beach-blanket fare, taking on racial prejudice, modern history, and -- oh, all right -- a love story. Set during World War II, Silent Honor tells the tale of an 18-year-old Japanese girl who, after traveling to America for her education, winds up in a ''detention center'' following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Of course, Steel could probably put her name on a repair manual, and it would still be a blockbuster.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 SILENT HONOR Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $24.95 3 2 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Jacquelyn Mitchard, Viking, $23.95 12 3 M IS FOR MALICE Sue Grafton, Holt, $25 4 4 EXECUTIVE ORDERS Tom Clancy, Putnam, $27.95 15 5 THE TAILOR OF PANAMA John le Carre, Knopf, $25 6 6 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.95 6 7 THE THIRD TWIN Ken Follett, Crown, $25.95 5 8 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 7 9 THE FALLEN MAN Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, $24 1 10 THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $15.95 1
NONFICTION 1 MAKE THE CONNECTION Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey, Hyperion, $18.95 11 2 MY SERGEI: A LOVE STORY Ekaterina Gordeeva, with E.M. Swift, Warner, $18.95 5 3 MY STORY Sarah the Duchess of York, with Jeff Coplon, Simon & Schuster, $24 2 4 THE SOUL'S CODE: IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER AND CALLING James Hillman, Random House, $23 4 5 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 190 6 DOGBERT'S TOP SECRET MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK Scott Adams, HarperBusiness, $16 6 7 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $17.95 36 8 THE ZONE Barry Sears, Ph.D., with Bill Lawren, ReganBooks, $22 40 9 EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO MY OPINION David Brinkley, Knopf, $20 2 10 FOREVER, ERMA Erma Bombeck, Andrews & McMeel, $22.95 2
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 SONG OF SOLOMON Toni Morrison, Plume, $11.95 6 2 THE BOOK OF RUTH Jane Hamilton, Anchor Books, $9.95 1 3 IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD: A CALVIN AND HOBBES COLLECTION Bill Watterson, Andrews & McMeel, $14.95 11 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 7 5 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson, Vintage, $12 60 6 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $12 3 7 REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Ballantine, $12.50 85 8 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Dr. Robert C. Atkins, M. Evans, $12.95 47 9 A CIVIL ACTION Jonathan Harr, Vintage, $13 11 10 FUGITIVE FROM THE CUBICLE POLICE: A DILBERT BOOK Scott Adams, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 10
