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MICROSOFT head and master of the multimedia universe Bill Gates is now spreading his message in that most quaint and old-fashioned of ways -- he's written a book. Buoyed by an excerpt in Newsweek magazine, The Road Ahead, a ''travel guide'' to the future of technology, clicks up seven places to oust shock jock Howard Stern from the nonfiction top spot. There are currently 850,000 copies in print after three pressruns. Oh, and hold on to your mouse, because the book comes with its very own CD-ROM -- of course.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 THE CHRISTMAS BOX Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $12.95 6 2 THE LOST WORLD Michael Crichton, Knopf, $25.95 11 3 FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $15.95 3 4 SILENT NIGHT Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $16 9 5 POLITICALLY CORRECT HOLIDAY STORIES James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $9.95 9 6 THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES Amy Tan, Putnam, $23.95 7 7 THE HORSE WHISPERER Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $23.95 13 8 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 93 9 THE FINAL JUDGMENT Richard North Patterson, Knopf, $25 2 10 MORNING, NOON & NIGHT Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $24 13
NONFICTION 1 THE ROAD AHEAD Bill Gates, Viking, $29.95 2 2 MISS AMERICA Howard Stern, ReganBooks, $27.50 4 3 CHARLES KURALT'S AMERICA Charles Kuralt, Putnam, $24.95 7 4 MY AMERICAN JOURNEY Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico, Random House, $25.95 12 5 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 140 6 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Goleman, Bantam, $23.95 11 7 DAVID BRINKLEY David Brinkley, Knopf, $25 5 8 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 42 9 LINCOLN David Herbert Donald, Simon & Schuster, $35 6 10 SISTERS Carol Saline and Sharon Wohlmuth, Running Press, $27.50 44
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1 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson, Vintage, $12 10 2 THE CALVIN & HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK Bill Watterson, Andrews & McMeel, $14.95 11 3 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12.95 72 4 A 2ND HELPING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12.95 34 5 THE CHRISTMAS BOX Richard Paul Evans, Steinway, $4.95 1 6 THE STONE DIARIES Carol Shields, Penguin, $10 33 7 REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher, Ballantine, $12.50 36 8 THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 1996 Robert Famighetti, World Almanac, $9.95 1 9 THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 5 Gary Larson, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 7 10 THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $12 254
