European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I s i is i i i is new York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley last week 1 weeks on list 3 2 needful things by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 2 3 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 3 weeks on list 10 4 night Over water by Ken Follett last week 4 weeks on list 4 5 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 5 weeks on list 7 6 All the wears of pern by Anne Mccaffrey first week on list 7 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 6 weeks on list 83 8 the firm by John Grisham last week. 8 weeks on list 33 9 the deceiver by Frederick Forsyth last week 7 weeks on list 5 a 10 a int maybe by Anne Tyler last week 10 weeks on list 8 11 the dragon reborn by Robert Jordan last week 11 weeks on list 4 12 Flowers in the rain by Rosamunde Pilcher last week. 9 weeks on list 8 13 sleeping Beauty by Judith Michael first week on list 14 harlots ghost by Norman Mailer last week 14 weeks on list 2 15 the Kitchen gods wife by Amy Tan last week 12 weeks on list 18 non fiction 1 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn last week 1 weeks on list 6 2 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week 9 weeks on list 2 3 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 2 weeks on list 9 4 la Toya by la Toya Jackson with Patricia Romanowski last week 3 weeks on list 6 5 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 4 weeks on list 49 6 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week. 6 weeks on list 247 parliament of whores by . 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Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook last week 15 weeks on list 8 14 when you look Liko your passport photo it s time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 13 weeks on list 14 15 three Blind mice by Ken Auletta last week 16 weeks on list 4 paperback fiction 1 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon weeks on list 7 2 the Mummy by Anne Rice weeks on list 14 3 four past Midnight by Stephen King weeks on list 9 4 rendezvous by Amanda Quick weeks on list 2 5 Buffalo girls by Larry Mcmurtry weeks on list 5 6 question quest by piers Anthony weeks on list 4 7 Circle of friends by Maeve Bitchy first week on list 8 the women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford weeks on list 10 9 the Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on list. 40 10 season of the Sun by Catherine Coulter weeks on list 3 i Iii Fri l l r s a paperback non fiction 1 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 19 2 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 23 3 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 15 4 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey weeks on list 5 5 when Rabbit howls by the troops for Truddie Chase weeks on list 24 6 the Road less travelled by m. 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Covey weeks on list 45 5 the to Factor diet by Martin Natahn weeks on list. 23 at stars and stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at stars and stripes shopping Center bookstores fiction 1 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy 2 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley 3 needful things by Stephen king4 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 5 night Over water by Ken Follett 6 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon 7 the Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks 8 firebreak by Richard Herman or. 9 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings 10 Flowers in the rain amp other stories by Rosamunde Pil Chernon fiction 1 us of by Robert fulghum2 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck 3 Boss of Bosses by Joseph f. O Brien and Andris kurins4 frugal gourmet Cooks three ancient cuisines by Jeff Smith 5 silent coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin 6 wealth without risk by Charles Givens 7 Day in the life of America by Rick Smolan 8 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz9 Betty crockery a Cookbook 40th anniversary edition 10 parliament of whores by  o Rourke Here Are ways to avoid More grammar trouble James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate a couple of Tough Calls recently have conic along. Suppose you arc a copy editor in Alabama. Your task is to write a caption for a photo. As a doubles team Peter Curtis and Mark Cox made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1973. Now curits has opened a travel Agency in Montgomery. This was the caption a Curtis examines painting of he and Tennis partner Cox. Left playing at  there is no Way 1 submit to make that construction come out right. If you leave out a and Tennis partner Cox left Quot you wind up with a caption that has Curtis examining a painting of he playing at Wimbledon. Surely that can t be right. But the alternative is Quot Curtis examines painting of him playing at  that does no to sound right either. In this dilemma As in so Many others the soundest advice is to Retreat and Start Over a Curtis holds a painting of a match in 1973 at Wimbledon where he and Cox played together. Cox is at  that is longer hut it works. English grammar is a minefield. It is a fortunate writer indeed who can traverse the yield without disaster. Consider this line from an and for the  Quot All we make is great  reverse the subject and predicate nominative and you get Quot great copiers is All we  Yucca in the same vein at least 50 of you puzzled readers have sent me clippings of the Jaguar and the one that asks a need a reason to buy a Jaguar now Here a three. Quot what do you do with a a Here a three if you Are a miss Thistl Bot Tom you Amend it to read a there Are  All the foam vanishes from the Beer. There is no such contraction As a a Here  to say a there is three seems manifestly lacking in agreement. We  say a three is  a mystified Reader could go out and buy a Ferrari instead but that would Hurt the feelings of the Jaguar people. What to do Tell me. A different difficulty lies in ambush in the singular antecedent and the plural referent. The Greenville . News carried a piece by a Law professor. He wrote about the idea of patriotism a anyone opposing the idea has their own patriotism  pit Nev bowls advertised in february a ii you found someone who had an excellent resume Cut costs and worked for pennies a Day you a hire them in a  in each instance the writer or editor was paralysed by the horrid Prospect of being labelled a sexist. If Pitney Bowes said a a you a hire him in a second a the feminist pickets would have been marching in the morning. There Are ways around this risk. Instead of a grammatically hiring  Pitney Bowes could hire a that  october 27, 1991 sunday