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: 2

THE TENTH INSIGHT: Holding the Vision by James Redfield. (Warner: $19.95.) An Appalachian journey, building on the discoveries in “The Celestine Prophecy.”(3)*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 5

SLOWNESS by Milan Kundera. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. (HarperCollins: $21.) A gallery of characters intrude on the author’s attempt to relax. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 3

MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster: $24.) Photographer hunts stepmother’s killer among Rhode Island’s elite.(4)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 8

HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry McMillan. (Viking Penguin: $22.95.) The latest from the author of “Waiting to Exhale.”(2)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4

FLOATERS by Joseph Wambaugh. (Bantam: $22.95.) A pair of patrol boat cops probe two murders on the eve of the America’s Cup. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

ROSE by Martin Cruz Smith. (Random: $25.95.) The search for a vanished cleric, set in a 19th century England.* Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 3

THE DEBT TO PLEASURE by John Lanchester (Henry Holt: $20.) A gourmet’s tale of murder and sibling jealousy.. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 6

NEANDERTHAL by John Darnton. (Random: $24.) Anthropologists discover the precursors to Homo sapiens (8)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 5

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) (11)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 18

Nonfiction

BAD AS I WANNA BE by Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown. (Delacorte: $22.95.) Growing up poor, playing in the NBA, dating Madonna and everything else a gossip wants to know.(1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 3

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.)(6). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 12

THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE: A Cubicle’s Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions by Scott Adams. (HarperBusiness: $20.)(3). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 2

IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 10

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.)(4)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 115

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95.)(2). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 8

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(9)*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 59

DREAMS INTO ACTION: Getting What You Want by Milton Katselas. (Dove: $19.95.) Turning invisible wishes into concrete realities.*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 7

FALLING UP by Shel Silverstein. (HarperCollins: $16.95.) 140 new poems about the mischievous, imaginative world that children inhabit. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel and Joanne Parrent. (Dove Books: $22.95.). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 18

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. GOOSEBUMPS #44: SAY CHEESE AND DIE, AGAIN! by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)

2. THE GREEN MILE PART THREE: Coffey’s Hands by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)*

3. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)*

4. THE GREEN MILE PART TWO: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)*

5. INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford. (Random: $13.)*

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*

2. 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.)*

3. MARTHA STUART’S BETTER THAN YOU AT ENTERTAINING: A Parody by Tom Connor and Jim Downey. (HarperCollins: $10.)

4. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 L.A./SO. CAL RESTAURANTS edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

5. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95.)*

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