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So loyal is Alice Walker's following that her new novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, is already No. 11 on the list, even though it has as yet had few reviews and little exposure in bookstores. The story of Tashi, a minor character in The Color Purple and a woman who undergoes female circumcision during her youth in Africa and lives to regret it, the book will no doubt have detractors among those who disliked the feminist tone of the earlier novel. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 Jewels 6 Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $23 2 Sahara 5 Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $23 3 Star Wars, Vol. 2: Dark Force Rising 3 Timothy Zahn, Bantam, $18.50 4 The Pelican Brief 15 John Grisham, Doubleday, $22.50 5 All Around The Town 9 Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $22 6 Jazz 10 Toni Morrison, Knopf, $21 7 Waiting To Exhale 3 Terry McMillan, Viking, $22 8 ''I'' Is For Innocent 9 Sue Grafton, Henry Holt, $18.95 9 Turtle Moon 6 Alice Hoffman, Putnam, $21.95 10 All The Pretty Horses 5 Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, $21
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1 The Silent Passage: Menopause 3 Gail Sheehy, Random House, $16 2 A Return To Love 18 Marianne Williamson, HarperCollins, $22.50 3 Head To Head 5 Lester Thurow, Morrow, $25 4 The Juiceman's Power Of Juicing 10 Jay Kordich, William Morrow, $14.50 5 How To Satisfy A Woman Every Time... 20 Naura Hayden, Bibli O'Phile, $14.95 6 Who Will Tell The People 7 William Greider, Simon & Schuster, $25 7 Eleanor Roosevelt 6 Blanche Wiesen Cook, Viking, $27.50 8 Perot: An Unauthorized Biography 2 Todd Mason, Business One Irwin, $16.95 9 Two Nations: Black And White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal 11 Andrew Hacker, Scribners, $24.95 10 Chief: My Life In The LAPD 3 Daryl F. Gates with Diane K. Shah, Bantam, $22.50
