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Though a recent movie version was eradicated due to Jodie Foster's and Robert Redford's defections, the Hot Zone book-a true story about a highly deadly and contagious African rain forest virus that sprang up in the '80s-is thriving. The book debuted on the nonfiction chart at No. 10, with 210,000 copies in print after five press runs. And why shouldn't it be a best-seller? Could there be anything more entertaining than a book about a filovirus that kills + nine out of 10 whom it infects-and in particularly excruciating and disgusting ways, too. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 Taltos Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 2 2 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy, Putnam, $25.95 7 3 The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell, Scribner, $23 5 4 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 33 5 Wild Horses Dick Francis, Putnam, $22.95 2 6 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales For Our Life and Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 14 7 Nothing Lasts Forever Sidney Sheldon, William Morrow, $23 4 8 The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 111 9 A Son of the Circus John Irving, Random House, $25 8 10 Brothers and Sisters Bebe Moore Campbell, Putnam, $22.95 4
NONFICTION
1 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 80 2 Barbara Bush: A Memoir Barbara Bush, Scribner, $25 5 3 Couplehood Paul Reiser, Bantam, $19.95 6 4 All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President Mary Matalin and James Carville, Random House, $24 3 5 In The Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 25 6 James Herriot's Cat Stories James Herriot, St. Martin's, $16.95 2 7 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $30 2 8 The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories William J. Bennett, Simon & Schuster, $30 41 9 Baseball: An Illustrated History Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Knopf, $60 3 10 The Hot Zone Richard Preston, Random House, $23 1
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK
1 Disclosure Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $6.99 5 2 Vanished Danielle Steel, Dell, $6.99 3 3 Embraced by the light Betty J. Eadie, Bantam, $5.99 4 4 Door to December Dean Koontz, Signet, $6.99 3 5 Star Wars: Champions Of The Force Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, $5.99 4 6 Pearl in the Mist V.C. Andrews, Pocket Books, $6.50 5 7 Private Parts Howard Stern, Pocket Books, $6.99 4 8 Forrest Gump Winston Groom, Pocket Books, $5.50 13 9 Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg, Dell, $6.50 8 10 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquivel, Anchor, $5.99 9
