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Show Th Ms Daily Herald Knjflht-Rjdd- , er Tribunal Nw Strvice Here are the best sellers for the week ending Apr. 5 compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores. rxxk. wholesalers and j independent distributors Ly MSffGaQDODOQ Monday. April 8, 1996 10. And This Too Shall Pass. E. nn Harris. Doubledav. $23.95 NON-FICTIO- N In Contempt. Christopher A. Darden with Jess Walter. Regan-Book- s. 1. $26 nation- Sport. James 2. Blood wide. B. Stew- art. Simon & Schuster. $25 3. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. John Gray. HarperCollins. $23 4. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Deepak Chopra. New World Library Amber-Alle$14 5. The Way of the Wizard. Deepak Chopra. M.D. Harmon v. $15.95 6. Rush Limhaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. Al Franken. Delacorte. $21.95 7. Undaunted Courage. Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster. FICTION HARDCOVER BESTSELLERS 1. Primary Colors. Anonymous. Random House. S24 2. In the Presence of the Enemv. Elizabeth George. Bantam. S23 95 3. The Celestine Prophecv. 'James Redfield. Warner. $17.95 4. First King of Shannara. Terry Brooks. Ballantine. $23.50 - 5. Spring Collection. Judith Krant. Crown. $24 6. Guilty as Sin. Tami Ha-- i Bantam. $21.95 7. The Horse W;nrterer. Nicholas Evans. Delacorte. $23 95 8. Montana Sky Nora Roberts. Putnam. $23.95 9. Absolute Power Duid i. Warner. $22.95 n. $27.50 8 Simple Abundance. Sara Ban Breathnach. Warner. $17.95 9. How Could You Do That?! Laura Schlessinser. HarperCollins. $22 Bal-dacc- Emotional 10. Dav id Guterson. Vintage. $ 1 2 2. There's Treasure Everywhere. Bill Watterson. Andrews & McMeel. $14 95 3. Chicken Soup for the Soul. Jack Canfield & Mark HartMfn. editors. Health Communications. $12.95 4. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Stephen R. Covev. $12 5. We're Right. They're Wrong Intelligence. Daniel Goleman Bantam. $23.95 PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS MASS MARKET 1. The Two Dead Girls (Green Mile No. I ). Stephen Kins. Signet. $2.99 2. The Rainmaker. John Gnham. Deli. $7.99 Glass Lake. Maeve Bine-hDell. $7.50 4. Mind Prey. John Sandford. Berkley. $6.99 5. The Cove. Catherine Coulter. Jove. $6.99 6. Sleepers. Loreno Carcaterra. Ballantine. $6.99 7. Sophie's World. JoMein Gaarder. Berkley. $6.99 8. Thin Air Robert B Parker Berkley. $6.99 9. Autumn Lover. Elizabeth Lowell. Avon. $6.50 3. The y. The Weatherman. 10. James Carville. Random and Simon & Schuster. $10 6. Moo. Jane Smiley. Columbine. $12 Eliabeth II is a uniquely woman who thanigh powerful odd circumstance is more closely observed these days as mother-in-law than monarch. But here we have a thoroughly satisfying biography as well as a responsible book that doesn't peek through the keyhole. No. author Sarah Bradford actually picks the lock, swinging the Palace door wide to reveal all within Well, maybe nH all. but a lot Viscountess Bangor, as Bradford is also known, spent 10 Hvmjm; Faw-ce- tt Man Walking. Sister Helen Prejean. Vintage. $12 8. Reviving Ophelia. Marv Pipher. Ballantine. $12.50 9. Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess L'p Their Lives. Laura Schlesinger. HarperPerennial. $10 7. Dead 10. What to Expect When You're Expecting. A. Eisenberc. H Murkoff & S. Hathawav Work- years researching "Elizabeth." gaining access, she claims, to private papers. The Palace denies that Other reports say that Buckingham insiders came to v iew Bradford as one of their own and were then less discreet The Palace doesn't comment on man. $10 95 that. Steve TRADE Fallins on Cedjrs. side and her duty first, she w as no less so What follows is a profound explof ation of Elizabeth's reign and the dominion she ruled, which dwindled with the disintegration of the Common- By SHERRYL CONNELLY New York Daily News S&S-Firesid- Thaver. Sienet. $6.50 I. Snow Queen's bio satisfying wealth Constitutionally hobbled though she may be. Elizabeth is shown to have a sophisticated grasp of all things political Others may dismiss her as a mere figurehead, but the influence to queen's power events is a frequent factor in national policy In her research. Bradford became something of a student of the royal family's finances anJ is quite illuminating as to the Windsor" actual wealth versus the public's perception of the queen as the richest woman in the world She s plenty rich, but a sizable portion of her assets is tied up in prpenies like Balmoral Castle The Scottish estate would likely fetch a gotxJ bit. but public indignation at its sale would be fierce. '"Elizabeth"' is an earnest biography, but thankfully not without titillation. The account of Princess Diana slapping her lather full in the face on being told he intended to remarry, or sending her stepmother crashing down a set of stone stairs in view of the staff", is lurid and Nevertheless. Elizabeth'' is not just about the Oueen Mother's jealousy of her daughter. Prince Philip's adulteries or Pnncess Diana's smacking her dad about They are. properly, mere subjects in this, the queen's story Here we have the woman, compleat Elizabeth wife, mother, but foremost, ruler Bradford draws a detailed portrait, beginning with the child who was raised royal but " Stephen King takes on the serial novel By JENNIFER WEINER r Newspapers help but admire the sheer perversity of this endeavor. "At this point." King writes in his chatty introduction. "I'm driving through thick fog w ith the pedal to Knight-Ridde- Stephen King's latest effort gets an A for concept and a B- - for execution but that could change by next month. For the three of you who haven't heard already.' the whose book copy now includes the slightly unsettling information that he's the world's novelist has undertaken a kind of writing that hasn't been dusted off since the heyday of Dickens: the serial novel. "The Green Mile'" will be best-sellin- best-selle- r. 'check. " ' somewhere in the Deep South, where "King Cotton had been deposed ... 70 years before all these things happened, and would never be kins acain." this point, I'm driving through thick fog with the pedal to the metal." Stephen King, author But because "The Green Mile" and because King isn't done yet has let it be known that he doesn't readeven know how it will end er and author alike get to share in Hie sense of expectation, the "w here's he going with this?" that keeps you reading into the wee hours even though you've got a staff meeting at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Anyone w ho works w ith words, deadlines or both for a living can't the metal." How exciting How anarchic! Best of all. he must he giving his editors fits!" While the idea of a serial novel, fusing reader and author with the same sense of the desperate is worthy, sweaty pal med. panic, the first segment poses a problem. There's just not much of a story here. Or. rather, there's loo much of a story, all rendered in King's familiar, serviceable pase too many threads, too many characters, too many portentous moments where you can practically hear that ominous organ music, swelling in the background, too many leads that don't pan out in the 90-plpages of "The Two IX'ad Girls," What have we got? Death row the eponymous Green Mile, a "w ide comdor up the center of E Block ... floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes." At the end of the Green Mile are two turns. "A left turn meant life if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did. ... A right turn though that was different." It's 1932. tried to take it back, but it was too -- little worried about Paul. Oh. he seems like a nice enough guy. a quintessential King heai. which is to say plainspoken. hardworking, devoted to his wife and as kind as he can be to the collection of rapists, sadists and murderers in his charge. But instead of giving Edgecombe a unique character. King instead has given him a uri"not bad enough nary infection to put me in the hospital." Paul muses, in one of the frequent mentions of his condition, "but almost bad enough to make me w ish I was dead myself ..." Frankly. I'm noi sure I can put up with six installments of Paul praying for relief. Here's hoping for a cure by Book Three at the latest. Into this world Kins introduces f.!r. Wren j 74 jdt 1:30 3:40 SGT W T BABE ,PG, MUPPET TREASURE ) OUH LIFELINE IS TOLL-FRE- E to Ito crJ GrcS 1:1 (ALL SHOWS $1.S0 ALL DAY) is teb yea. 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Did Coffey, who serenely answers Paul's questions, murder the two girls of bis own free will, or was he icue organ music) manipulated by some mysterious, dark force? And what's up with Delacroix, two cells down, and his preternatural! personable pet mouse Mr. Jingles, who may or may not be some rodent variation of a guardian angel? Or w ith Percy Wetmore. the nastiest of the guards? Or Warden Moores. the kindest of the prison l. officials? Is ev il specific to an or will a man's demons "jump to someone else and leave us to kill husks that aren't really alive anyway?" Where's King "going" w ith all of this1 We don't know. and. thus far. the author ain't telling. But. hey a story that ends with a slew of unanswered questions is a story that we almost have to keep reading. Wherever King winds up driving this unlikely crew of men. mice and murderers, you can bet that this Constant Reader will be alone for the ride. CINEMAS AUiAXBAA THEATER Sat Mat lovely But though these revelations can stand alone as choice bits the queen mother found it very difficult to allow her daughter, the newly crowned queen, precedence; yes. Philip did enjoy the pleasures of other women they are better enjoyed in context of Bradford's fully developed portrayal of an essentially ordinary famiin ly common, almost extraordinary circumstances. In the end. " Elizabeth" is a royal read certainly mx horn to rule. Elizabeth, of course, came into direct line of ascension only when her late." Our tour guide through this cheerful world is Paul Edgecombe, the superintendent of the Green Mile, who has watched over 78 deaths in the electric chair that stands at the end of the Mile. I'm a For more detail and additional hours sm the weekly TV Magazine in our Saturday edition. Monday I' John Coffey, a gentle giant of a man who has been found guilty of the murder of twins. After Paul's initial interview. Coffey utters the same sad. single sentence that he said to the deputy who caught him with the girls' mutilated bodies in his arms: "I "At g written in six short volumes, the first of which. "The Two Dead Girls." hits the shelves this month. It's an exciting idea for a few reasons. One is economics. Instead of paying $25 or more for a hardcover tome, the weighty installments sell for $2 99. so you can get an entire King novel for $18 and tax hey. a bargain! The other reason is excitement. By doing his latest work in pieces. King gets to enjoy the kind of tension that has to be a rarity for authors of his ilk. Think of it this way. 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