European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ehi s i is i i i renew York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripe fit last week 1 weeks on list 11 2 no greater love by Danielle steel last week 2 weeks on a list 5 3 needful things by Stephen King last week 3 weeks on list 10 4 the sum of Alt fears by Tom Clancy last week 4 weeks on list 18 5 the Jolly Christmas postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg first week on list 6 night Over Waler by Ken fallen last week 6 weeks on list 12 7 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 10 weeks on list 15 8 the Polar express by Chris Vanallsburg first week on list 9 wet by Garrison Keillor last week 7, weeks on list. 3 10 comeback by Dick Francis last week 8 weeks on Lisi 8 11 the Sapphire Rose by David Eddings last week 5, weeks on list 5 12 the firm by John Grisham last week 9 weeks on list 41 13 remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 11, weeks on list b 14 gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell weeks on list 6 15 maus ii by Art Spiegelman last week 15 weeks on list 2 non fiction 1 me stories of my Lite by Katharine Hepburn last week 1 weeks on list 14 2 under fire by Oliver l. North with William Novak Las a week 3 weeks on list 7 3 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 4 weeks on list 17 4 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week 2 weeks on list 10 5 memories by Ralph Emery with Tom Carter last week. 5, weeks on list 3 8 the Jordan rules by Sam Smith last week 8 weeks on list 3 7 childhood by Bill Cosby last week 6 weeks on Lisi 7 8 pair Perth by William least heal Moon last week 10 weeks on list 8 9 Molly Ivins can t say that can she by Molly Ivins last week 12 weeks on list 6 10 who you look like your passport photo its time to go Homo of Erma Bombeck last week 13 weeks on list. 1811 backlash by Susan Faludi last week 7 weeks on list 5 12 parliament of whores by p j. O Rourke last week 9, weeks on list 27 13 the world is my Home by James Michener first week on list 14 photographs Annie Liebovitz by Annie Leibovitz first week on list 15 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 11 weeks on list 57 paperback fiction 1 the waste lands by Stephen King first week on list 2 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton weeks on list 5 3 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 4 4 Star trek i the undiscovered country by . Dillard first week on list 5 the Prince of tides by Pat Conroy weeks on list 33 6 the Plains at passage by Jean m. Auel weeks on list. 8 7 prisoner of my desire by Johanna Lindsey weeks on list 4 i the fourth k by Mario Puzo weeks on list 2 9 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 26 10 perchance to dream by Howard Weinstein weeks on list 3 paperback non fiction 1 a year in Provence by Peter Mayie Miks on list 23 2 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 31 3 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 109 4 the cat who came Lor Christmas by Cleveland Amory weeks on list 29 5 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 39 6 a Lite on the Road by Charles Kurali weeks on list 7 7 Don t know much about history by Kennelh c Davis weeks on list 24 b a natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman weeks on list 8 9 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 424 10 in a child s name by Peter Maas weeks on list 2 paperback miscellaneous 1 Lite a Little instruction Book by h. Jackson Brownjr weeks on list 19 2 scientific Progress goes Quot Boink by Bill Watterson weeks on list 12 3 unnatural selections by Gary Larson weeks on list 8 4 the world almanac and Book of facts 1992 weeks on list 2 5 a Southern Belle primer by Maryln Schwarz weeks on list 4 at stars and stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at stars and stripes shopping Center bookstores Ficklen 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley 2 no greater love by Danielle steel 3 needful things by Stephen King 4 the Sapphire Hose by David Eddings 5 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy 6 Star wars heir to he Empire by Timothy Zahn 7 i Matici by Clive Barker 8 grass Crown by Colleen Mccullough 9 Lila by Robert m. Pirsig 10 Saint maybe by Anne Tyler non fiction 1 us of by Robert Fulghum 2 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn 3 pair Perth by William least heat Moon 4 final exit by Derek Humphry 5 the Samson option by Seymour Hersh 6 More wealth without risk by Charles Givens 7 whereas Waldo by Martin Handford b Columbus and the age of discovery by Zvi Dor Ner and . Schneller 9 the Popcorn report by Faith Popcorn 10 America the Beautiful Cookbook by Philip Schulz i Iii  i iks a feeling around for the right touch at the right time Jami s j Kilpatrick the Christmas spirit has me by the  instead of regaling you Vilh i lon Ihle examples of How Noi to write the English language Lei me Otter a Tew presents to Pul beneath a writer s Fri slams tree. These Are examples of the Good stuff. Sometimes a single word can lift a piece of writing out of the pedestrian and into the sub Lime. This happened in the Washington Post in september. Marjorie Williams a rising Star in the Post s remarkable Galaxy covered a hearing before the House banking committee the venerable Clark Clifford had testified clog Cunt by on the role he had not played in the scandal of the Xcvi. Some committee members were not impressed. This was a paragraph far Down in Williams Story Quot it pains me to say this said rep. Toby Roth r-wis., painlessly but others May believe your Story hut i must say i Don t believe a word of  stand Back and Admire that Deadpan adverb  Marjorie Williams dropped it into the sentence As smoothly As an Olive into a Martini. It was perfect. Andrew Ferguson of the Wall Street journal turned out a Gem in his review last april of Kitty Kelley a biography of Nancy Reagan. He began in Friendly fashion by saying that As a biographer Kelley has the ethics of a sewer rat. He praised her for a Superb Job of marketing. Then he spit on his hands and went to work a her efforts Are studded with unavoidable ironies. There a something Odd about excoriating read Antic greed after being paid $4 million to retail  allegations about private lives. And Kitty s breathless revelation that a 70-year-old Man dyed his hair Only draws unwanted attention to her own coif which has been redone to resemble a Spray of electrical wiring. Her voluptuous accounts of Nancy s physical re furnishings arc likewise hard to credit. Old Man times Chariot has clearly dealt a few mean Hrus backs to the once Perky and Petite is. Kelley too who looks like an ice Cream Cone trying not to  Lovely a Lovely in a different vein savor a Little from a thanksgiving Day column that Steve Duin of the Portland oregonian wrote three years ago. He recalled a morning in Early november when he had been awakened by a cry from his infant daughter Christina. A she was waiting at cribs Edge reaching first for me and then for the bottle of warm milk in my Bathrobe pocket. In a few moments we were All wrapped up in one another in the rocking chair coasting in the  i cannot read those two sentences without being moved to the Edge of tears. Universal press sync scale december 22, 1991 sunday