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Jean Carper, a former medical correspondent for CNN and the author of the best-seller Food -- Your Miracle Medicine, has now entered the highly lucrative territory staked out by Deepak Chopra (Ageless Body, Timeless Mind). If you want to Stop Aging Now!, however, you'd better have plenty of cupboard space: Carper lists a staggering number of vitamins and minerals that need to be consumed in order to remain spry. (Magnesium supplements, anyone?) Readers sure seem to be gobbling it up, though: There are 170,000 copies of the book in print after six pressruns.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 FROM POTTER'S FIELD Patricia Cornwell, Scribner, $24 3 2 BEACH MUSIC Pat Conroy, Doubleday/Talese, $27.50 8 3 MEMNOCH THE DEVIL Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 6 4 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 78 5 LIGHTNING Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $24.95 6 6 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Doubleday, $25.95 19 7 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Robert James Waller, Warner, $17.95 156 8 STORMY WEATHER Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $24 2 9 DANGEROUS TO KNOW Barbara Taylor Bradford, HarperCollins, $24 6 10 POLITICALLY CORRECT BEDTIME STORIES James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 59
NONFICTION
1 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 125 2 TO RENEW AMERICA Newt Gingrich, HarperCollins, $24 8 3 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 27 4 A GOOD WALK SPOILED John Feinstein, Little, Brown, $23.95 11 5 STOP AGING NOW! Jean Carper, HarperCollins, $24 4 6 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 70 7 NEW PASSAGES Gail Sheehy, Random House, $25 10 8 SLEEPERS Lorenzo Carcaterra, Ballantine, $23 6 9 SPONTANEOUS HEALING Andrew Weil, M.D., Knopf, $23 14 10 how to argue and win every time Gerry Spence, St. Martin's, $22.95 20
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Sidney Sheldon, Warner, $6.99 2 2 THE BODY FARM Patricia Cornwell, Berkley, $6.99 5 3 INSOMNIA Stephen King, Signet, $7.50 3 4 THE ALIENIST Caleb Carr, Bantam, $6.99 11 5 PLAYING FOR THE ASHES Elizabeth George, Bantam, $6.50 2 6 THE HOT ZONE Richard Preston, Doubleday/Anchor, $6.99 7 7 DEBT OF HONOR Tom Clancy, Berkley, $7.50 10 8 THE 13TH JUROR John T. Lescroart, Dell/Island, $6.50 5 9 ONE TRUE THING Anna Quindlen, Dell, $6.99 1 10 APOLLO 13 Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Pocket Books, $6.50 8
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
