Things have been going relatively well for Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth lately. Their surprise hit, Sisters, has spent nine weeks on the nonfiction list, currently sitting pretty at No. 5, with 318,000 copies in print after eight pressruns. The book, featuring photos of famous and mere mortal female sibs, was initially rejected by major publishers, then picked up by Philly's small Running Press. Recently, though, it was big-league Doubleday that came running-paying $2 million plus for the pair's next two books. Weeks on Fiction List 1 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 55 2 Our Game John Le Carre, Knopf, $24 2 3 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales For Our Life and Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 36 4 Border Music Robert James Waller, Warner, $17.95 5 5 Original Sin P.D. James, Knopf, $24 8 6 The Cat Who Blew the Whistle Lilian Jackson Braun, Putnam, $21.95 4 7 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies, Viking, $23.95 5 8 The Juror George Dawes Green, Warner, $21.95 5 9 The Glass lake Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $23.95 4 10 Kiss The Girls James Patterson, Little, Brown, $22.95 10
Nonfiction 1 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 102 2 The Hot Zone Richard Preston, Random House, $23 23 3 Breaking The Surface Greg Louganis, Random House, $23 2 4 The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide Leslie Whitaker, Hyperion, $19.95 8 5 Sisters Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, Running Press, $27.50 9 6 The Death of Common Sense Philip K. Howard, Random House, $18 5 7 I Want To Tell You O.J. Simpson, Little, Brown, $17.95 7 8 An Anthropologist On Mars Oliver Sacks, Knopf, $24 3 9 The Discipline of Market Leaders Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema, Addison-Wesley, $25 5 10 In The Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 47
* Mass-Market Paperbacks 1 Tom Clancy's Op-Center Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, Berkley, $6.99 9 2 The dDay After Tomorrow Allan Folsom, Warner, $6.99 9 3 Inca Gold Clive Cussler, Pocket Books, $6.99 4 4 Decider Dick Francis, Jove, $5.99 2 5 The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood, Bantam, $6.50 6 6 Accident Danielle Steel, Dell, $6.99 6 7 Mistress Amanda Quick, Bantam, $5.99 1 8 Night Prey John Sandford, Berkley, $6.99 4 9 Embraced By The Light Betty J. Eadie, Bantam, $5.99 26 10 The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Lilian Jackson Braun, Jove, $5.99 5
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