*--* Southern CaliforniaRating FICTION Last Week Weeks...

*--* Southern CaliforniaRating FICTION Last Week Weeks on List *--*

*--* 1 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26) A 4 2 haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 2 2nd CHANCE by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $26.95) The 2 3 Women’s Murder Club is back on the case, looking to stop a racist killer who doesn’t like cops 3 THE SUMMONS by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A man 1 6 discovers $3 million in his dead father’s house and hides it from his prodigal brother and a mysterious extortioner 4 THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & 3 29 Giroux: $26) The saga of a dysfunctional Midwestern family living at the end of the 20th century 5 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 9 3 (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 6 THE COTTAGE by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press: $26.95) 8 3 An aging movie star encounters a whole new world when money troubles force him to rent out part of his Bel-Air estate 7 BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS by Daj Sijie 5 12 (Alfred A. Knopf: $18) Two Chinese youths use classic Western literature to free their minds in the face of Communist re-education 8 THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN by Daniel Silva (Putnam: $25.95) An 6 3 art restorer and spy finds himself framed for the murder of a client. (See review, p. 12) 9 SOUTHAMPTON ROW by Anne Perry (Ballantine: $25) A 7 2 spiritualist’s murder in 1890s England threatens to derail a candidate’s Parliament bid, unless Thomas Pitt can find the killer 10 THE STONE MONKEY by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster: -- 1 $25) A smuggler sabotages a ship full of Chinese immigrants and then tries to evade the survivors 11 UP COUNTRY by Nelson DeMille (Warner: $26.95) A U.S. Army -- 6 investigator travels to Vietnam to probe a 30-year-old murder in which the only living eyewitness is an enemy soldier 12 THE GOOD MEN by Charmaine Craig (Riverhead: $24.95) A 10 6 village rector and the women he loves cope with their desires as inquisitors hunt for heretics in 14th century France 13 HUNTING SEASON by Nevada Barr (Putnam: $24.95) When a 12 4 body turns up on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace Parkway, a ranger finds her investigation sabotaged at every turn 14 THREE WEEKS IN PARIS by Barbara Taylor Bradford -- 3 (Doubleday: $24.95) Alumni of a Parisian art school return to honor a beloved teacher and confront their stormy pasts 15 BASKET CASE by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf: $25.95) 14 8 Once a hotshot reporter, an obituary writer for a small paper unravels the bizarre causes of a rock star’s death *--*

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*--* 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE 1 4 STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (Regan Books: $24.95) Lampooning the president. Reviewed on Page 7 2 SHAKEDOWN by Kenneth R. Timmerman (Regnery: $29.95) An 14 3 investigative reporter contends that Jesse Jackson has used the race issue for personal gain 3 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: 4 9 $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 4 BIAS by Bernard Goldberg (Regnery: $27.95) A veteran CBS 3 13 reporter argues that the mainstream media have been seriously damaged by a liberal, closed-minded worldview 5 THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE by Christiane Northrup (Bantam: 2 5 $27.95) A physician sees menopause, its symptoms and treatments as an opportunity for personal growth 6 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) 10 104 The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 7 10 STUPID THINGS COUPLES DO TO MESS UP THEIR -- 2 RELATIONSHIPS by Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) Blunt talk from the radio personality 8 SACRED CONTRACTS by Caroline Myss (Harmony: $25) Lessons 8 7 in decoding symbols, myths, intuition and coincidences to understand your purpose in life 9 SATISFACTION by Kim Cattrall and Mark Levinson (Warner: 7 7 $24.95) A star of HBO’s “Sex and the City” and her husband draw on viewer feedback for this guide to pleasing women 10 LOVE, GREG & LAUREN by Greg Manning (Bantam: $24.95) A -- 1 husband’s daily account as his wife recovers from harrowing burns sustained in the World Trade Center attacks 11 BODY FOR LIFE by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso -- 1 (HarperCollins: $26) A 12-week program of weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise, along with nutrition and motivation tips 12 THE CONTRARIAN’S GUIDE TO LEADERSHIP by Steven B. Sample -- 5 (Jossey-Bass: $24) Lessons in managing people, gleaned from Sample’s record as the president of USC 13 NIGGER by Randall Kennedy (Pantheon: $22) The evolution 6 2 of an explosive word and its shifting meanings in the history of American race relations 14 JOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS by Mattie J.T. Stepanek -- 6 (Hyperion: $14.95) A new collection of poetry from a boy struggling with a rare form of muscular dystrophy 15 SHADOW WARRIORS by Tom Clancy with Gen. Carl Stiner 9 6 (Putnam: $29.95) The recent history of the U.S. military’s Special Forces and their usefulness when conventional tactics fail *--*