Fiction

        This week/Last week

        1. (1) A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (Vintage Books: $12.95) Race, injustice and bravery in the face of hopelessness are the basis of this Cincinnati On the Same Page book selection.

        2. (2) The Summons, John Grisham (Doubleday; $27.95) A clear-cut will, hidden fortune, blackmail and estranged siblings drive Mr. Grisham's return to the legal thriller.

        3. (—) Time and Chance, Sharon Kay Penman (Putnam Publishing Group; $27.95) Second entry in trilogy covering Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

        4. (8) Scarlet Feather, Maeve Binchy (Signet; $7.99). Family epic centers on two working-class chums.

        5. (—) The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (Picador; $14) New view of Dinah, who appears briefly in the book of Genesis.

        6. (—) The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve (Little, Brown; $24.95) How a passionate love affair between two poets changes their lives.

        7. (—) A Painted House, John Grisham (Dell Island Books; $7.99) A story of sharecroppers set in 1952 rural Arkansas where there's tension between migrant Mexicans and “hill people.”

        8. (—) A Darkness More Than Night, Michael Connelly (Warner Vision; $7.99) The thrill of the hunt lures a retired FBI agent back into the investigative game.

        9. (—) The Cottage, Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press; $26.95) A fading movie star gains a new lease on his life when he takes in tenants to make ends meet.

        10.(—) One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd, Jim Fergus (St. Martin's Press; $13.95) One thousand brides for one thousand braves, women and Indians are exploited by ongoing machinations to achieve manifest destiny.

Nonfiction

        1. (—) We Are Not Afraid, Homer Hickam (Health Communications; $12.95) subtitled “Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie October Sky.”

        2. (—) The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2002, Ken Park (World Almanac; $11.95).

        3. (3) Wisdom of Menopause, Christiane Northrup, M.D. (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers; $27.95) subtitled “Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change.”

        4. (—) The Ohio Nature Almanac, Stephen Ostrander (Editor) (Orange Frazer Press; $24.95) subtitled “An Encyclopedia of Indispensable Information About the Natural Buckeye Universe.”

        5. (—) 8 Minutes in the Morning, Jorge Cruise, Anthony Robbins (Rodale Press; $24.95) subtitled “A Simple Way to Start Your Day That Burns Fat and Sheds the Pounds.”

        6. (—) Meaning & Memory, Gary Pacernick (Ohio State University Press; $60) subtitled “Interviews With Fourteen Jewish Poets.”

        7. (—) Bias, Bernard Goldberg (Regnery Publishing; $27.95) subtitled “A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.”

        8. (—) Curly Girl, Lorraine Massey, Deborah Chiel (Workman Publishing; $9.95) How to manifesto on how to embrace and care for curly locks.

        9. (—) Gung Ho!, Kenneth H. Blanchard (William Morrow & Co.; $20) Turn On the People in Any Organization.

        10. (—) Self Matters, Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster; $25) subtitled “Creating Your Life From Inside Out.”

        About the list: Participants: Books & Co. Joseph Beth Booksellers and Montgomery Book Co. Based on sales ending week of March 17. (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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