FictionTHE RUNAWAY JURY by John Grisham. (Doubleday:...
Fiction
THE RUNAWAY JURY by John Grisham. (Doubleday: $26.95) Tampering and paranoia plague a jury during a landmark tobacco trial in the South.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 6
A LITTLE YELLOW DOG by Walter Mosley. (W.W. Norton: $23.) Corpses and heroin smugglers invade reluctant detective Easy Rawlins’ tranquil life as a school custodian in Watts. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
THE TENTH INSIGHT: Holding the Vision by James Redfield. (Warner: $19.95.) An Appalachian journey, building on the discoveries in “The Celestine Prophecy.â€(4)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 9
HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry McMillan. (Viking Penguin: $22.95.) A middle-aged woman gets a new lease on life with a younger man.(3)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 8
A CROWN OF SWORDS by Robert Jordan. (Tor: $27.95.) Psychics try to halt a weather catastrophe in this seventh book in “The Wheel of Time†series.(2). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 3
THE FOURTH ESTATE by Jeffrey Archer. (HarperCollins: $26.) Two media tycoons fight for domination of the global market.(5)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 4
LILY WHITE by Susan Isaacs. (HarperCollins: $25.) While defending a love’em and leave’em murder suspect, a Long Island attorney faces deceptions in her own life. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
I WAS AMELIA EARHART by Jane Mendelsohn. (Knopf: $18.) A fictional account of the famous flier who vanished in the Pacific.(6). Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 3
ANYTHING CONSIDERED by Peter Mayle. (Knopf: $23.) A comedy of errors featuring a roguish epicure, mobsters and, as always, a Provencal landscape.(12). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
ACCORDION CRIMES by E. Annie Proulx. (Scribners: $25.) An exquisite accordion travels through the lives of struggling immigrants in America.(8). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 2
Nonfiction
HIT AND RUN: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters. (Simon & Schuster: $25.) Former hairdresser and movie exec reach pinnacle of greed and scandal in Tinsel Town.*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 4
OUTRAGE: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder by Vincent Bugliosi. (W.W. Norton: $25.)(3). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 3
THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.)(4). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 16
BAD GOLF MY WAY by Leslie Nielsen and Henry Beard. (Doubleday: $19.95.) A spoof on the links classic by Jack Nicklaus. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 2
BAD AS I WANNA BE by Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown. (Delacorte: $22.95.)(1). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 5
THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE: A Cubicle’s Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions by Scott Adams. (HarperBusiness: $20.)(2). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 6
FALLING UP by Shel Silverstein. (HarperCollins: $16.95.) 140 new poems about the mischievous, imaginative world that children inhabit. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 5
THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(9)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 62
DREAMS INTO ACTION: Getting What You Want by Milton Katselas. (Dove: $19.95.) A simple, direct approach to turning invisible dreams into concrete realities. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 8
MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.)(3)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 119
Paperbacks: FICTION
1. GOOSEBUMPS #45: GHOST CAMP by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)
2. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)*
3. BEACH MUSIC by Pat Conroy. (Bantam: $7.99.)
4. THE GREEN MILE PART THREE: Coffey’s Hands by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)*
5. INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford. (Random: $13.)
Paperbacks: NONFICTION
1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 L.A./SO. CAL RESTAURANTS edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)
2. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95.)*
3. THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey. (Fireside/Simon and Schuster: $12.)*
4. A 3RD SERVING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*
5. REVIVING OPHELIA by Mary Pipher. (Ballantine: $12.50.)
Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National hardcover rankings (in parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. Asterisk (*) indicates book also available on audio (source: Sound Audio Books Distributing, Agoura Hills).
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