European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse I s i is i in is new York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley last week 1 weeks on list 13 2 needful things by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 12 a 3 no greater love by Danielle steel last week 3, weeks on list 7 4 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 4 weeks on list 20 5 night Over water by Ken Follett last week 8 weeks on list 14 6 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 9 weeks on list 17 7 the Polar express by Chris Vanallsburg last week 5 weeks on list 33 8 the Jolly Christmas postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg last week 6 weeks on list 3 9 the firm by John Grisham last week 11 weeks on list 43 10 wet by Garrison Keillor last week 7 weeks on list 5 11 Disney a Beauty and the beast by gallery books Penguin Usa last week 10 weeks on list 2 12 comeback by Dick Francis last week 14 weeks on list 10 13 gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell last week 13 weeks on list 8 14 remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 12 weeks on list 10 15 of the places you la Gol by or. Seuss last week 15 weeks on list 92 1non-fiction 1 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn last week 1 weeks on list 16 2 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 2 weeks on list 19 3 memories by Ralph Emery with Tom Carter last week 5 weeks on list 5 4 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week 3 weeks on list 12 5 under fire by Oliver l. North with William Novak last week 4 weeks on list 9 6 the Jordan rules by Sam Smith last week 6 weeks on list 5 7 childhood by Bill Cosby last week 7 weeks on list 9 8 the world is my Home by James Michener last week 9 weeks on list 3 9 when you look like your passport photo it s time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 8 weeks on list 20 10 brother Eagle sister sky a message from chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers first week on list 11 pair Perth by William least heat Moon last week 10 weeks on list 10 12 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 11 weeks on list 29 13 Molly Ivins can t say that can she by Molly Ivins last week 12 weeks on list 8 14 photographs Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz last week 14 weeks on list 3 15 backlash by Susan Faludi last week 15 weeks on list 7 paperback fiction 1 the waste lands by Stephen King weeks on list 3 2 the Prince of tides by Pat Conroy weeks on list 35 3 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton weeks on list 7 4 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 6 5 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel weeks on list 10 6 Coyote Walts by Tony Hillerman first week on list 7 Star trek i the undiscovered country by . Dillard weeks on list 3 8 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 28 9 four past Midnight by Stephen King weeks on list 19 10 prisoner of my desire by Johanna Lindsey weeks on list 6 paperback non fiction 1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 111 2 the cat who came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory weeks on list 31 3 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 41 4 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 25 5 you just Don t understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 33 6 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt weeks on list 9 7 on the Trail of the assassins by Garrison weeks on list 2 8 done to know much about history by Kenneth c. Davis weeks on list 26 9 a natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman weeks on list 10 10 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 426 paperback miscellaneous 1 life s Little instruction Book by h. Jackson Brownjr. Weeks on list 21 2 scientific Progress goes Quot Boink Quot by Bill Watterson. Weeks on list 14 3 unnatural selections by Gary Larson weeks on list 10 4 a Southern Belle primer by Maryln Schwarz weeks on list 6 5 an altogether new Book of top ten lists by David Letterman Steve o Donnell it Al. Weeks on list 2 at stars and stripes bookstores latest Avn Blablo list o Bost Sollors at stars and stripes shopping Contor bookstores fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley 2 no greater love by Danielle steel 3 needful things by Stephen King 4 the Sapphire Rose by David Eddings 5 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy 6 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 7 Majica by Clive Barker 8 Star trek the next generation a reunion by Michael Jan Friedman 9 grass Crown by Colleen Mccullough 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 8 Den of thieves by James Stewart 9 the Popcorn report by Faith Popcorn 10 America the Beautiful Cookbook by Philip Schulz Iii i w r1 i i r s vr1know the Delight of the Good stuff James j. Kilpatrick the Best learning it is said is by Way of example Good examples bad examples. Most of the year i teach by horrid examples. For one thing it is Good fun to cite the lyrical reporter who wanted to Quot Wax for another you readers Send me one example of the Good stuff for every 500 examples of the Blunder the boo boo and the Gaffe. There is an astonishing amount of the Good stuff out there. Find Delight today if you will in a piece that free Lancer William Ecenbarger wrote for to guide in october 1988. He was covering the making of a movie that entered upon an Amish Community. Ecenbarger captured the atmosphere of Statesville n.c., where the movie was being filmed. The Brick courthouse built in 1899, has a the color of a peeled on this july Day the Sun is blazing and the cast is wilting. In the air is the smell of hot tires and melting Asphalt. Ken Olin male Star of the show arrives wearing jeans and a faded red to shirt. A from behind the barricades female eyes crawl Over him like the executive producer Joan Barnett is worried about an impending storm. Someone tells her the weather Bureau expects rain within 30 minutes. Quot she receives the news with her the rain comes in torrents but if stops in time for work to resume. Everyone is hot and tired. One extra collapses in the heat. A another extra a 5-year-old boy sits precariously at the end of his mothers Mary Ann Claud columnist for the times news of Hendersonville n.c., turned out a Lovely piece in 1990 contrasting the big City with the Small town. Its a familiar theme. She developed it superbly. She had been to new York where a nobody smiles or makes Eye she could t seem to walk fast enough. In Manhattan a earrings grow bigger than butter plates and the Only decent water is but she goes to the big City for the museums the Glamour for live opera and the Many amenities a big City offers. Now and then she has guests from Metropolis. A the sounds of silence which Delight me make them fretful my Leisure translates into their boredom the crickets keep them she loves her Small town lifestyle and she worries about these aliens and exotic creatures. What if they catch on to what they have missed a what if they Trade their Urban alarm docks a the percussive pre Dawn Clatter of City garbage trucks a for the whistle of our train puffing up the Saluda Grade what if they invade our mountains in Masse and noise up our peace and Solitude a life in a Small town has its own pleasures. She touches them As if they were prayer beads a the sense of safety the closeness of Good friends. Its a personal comforting Way to live. A so Long As the Prospect of an occasional City trip remains that is Universal press Syndicate january 5. 1992 sunday a Page 9
