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''Be not afraid!'' counsels the back cover, but actually, the competition has plenty to fear. In its second week out, Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II has itself crossed the threshold, displacing Faye D. Resnick's sleaze-read on Nicole Brown Simpson to take the No. 1 spot on the nonfiction best-seller list. The 1.25 million copies in print are going fast, and one can't help but suspect divine intervention. Of course, the simultaneously released Spanish-language and large-print editions have helped too. Weeks on Fiction List 1 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 37 2 Insomnia Stephen King, Viking, $27.95 4 3 Taltos Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 6 4 Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan, Tor, $25.95 3 5 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales For Our Life And Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 18 6 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy, Putnam, $25.95 11 7 Spencerville Nelson DeMille, Warner, $23.95 3 8 The Bridges Of Madison County Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 115 9 The Lottery Winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $22 1 10 Nothing Lasts Forever Sidney Sheldon, William Morrow, $23 8
Nonfiction 1 Crossing The Threshold of Hope Pope John Paul II, Knopf, $20 2 2 Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary Of A Life Interrupted Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker, Dove, $14.95 2 3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 84 4 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure In American Life Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Free Press, $30 2 5 The Hot Zone Richard Preston, Random House, $23 5 6 Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man Tim Allen, Hyperion, $19.95 4 7 James Herriot's Cat Stories James Herriot, St. Martin's, $16.95 6 8 In The Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 29 9 Couplehood Paul Reiser, Bantam, $19.95 10 10 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $30 6
Mass-Market Paperbacks 1 Interview With The Vampire Anne Rice, Ballantine, $6.99 19 2 Disclosure Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $6.99 9 3 Mr. Murder Dean Koontz, Berkley, $6.99 2 4 Embraced by the light Betty J. Eadie, Bantam, $5.99 8 5 Door To December Dean Koontz, Signet, $6.99 7 6 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquivel, Anchor, $5.99 13 7 Vanished Danielle Steel, Dell, $6.99 7 8 A Holiday of Love Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Arnette Lamb, and Jill Barnett, Pocket Books, $5.99 3 9 Honor Bound W.E.B. Griffin, Jove, $6.50 1 10 Without Remorse Tom Clancy, Berkley, $6.99 20
