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*--* 1 FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury (Ballantine: $6.99) An alternate future when government makes books the enemy 2 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon (Picador: $15) Cousins in the comics biz 3 A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT by Michael Connelly (Warner: $7.99) An ace detective is a prime murder suspect 4 FALL ON YOUR KNEES by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Scribner: $14) The travails of a family in coal-mining Nova Scotia 5 THE LAST TIME THEY MET by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown: $13.95) Two poets share a lifelong passion 6 A PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham (Dell Island: $7.99) Violence looms over a boyhood in rural Arkansas in 1952 7 TELL NO ONE by Harlan Coben (Dell: $6.99) A long-dead love affair is revived when a man receives a strange message 8 THE VILLA by Nora Roberts (Jove: $7.99) The merger of two Napa family wineries leads to romance and murder 9 DUST TO DUST by Tami Hoag (Bantam: $7.99) Did a young, gay internal affairs officer commit suicide or was it murder? 10 THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant (Picador USA: $14.95) The blossoming of Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter, in Genesis

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*--* 1 FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser (HarperCollins: $13.95) The unappetizing practices of the junk-food industry 2 A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar (Touchstone: $16) A brilliant mathematics professor’s battle with schizophrenia 3 THE WRINKLE CURE by Nicholas Perricone (Warner: $13.95) Using antioxidants to keep the skin looking young 4 RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Techpress: $15.95) Adventures in fiscal parenting 5 FOUNDING BROTHERS by Joseph Ellis (Vintage: $14) The genius, cunning and flaws of the nation’s architects 6 SEABISCUIT by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine: $15) How a thoroughbred horse went from also-ran to sports icon 7 9-11 by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories Press: $8.95) An alternative view of the U.S.-led war on terrorism 8 YOGA by Rodney Yee with Nina Zolotow (St. Martin’s: $21.95) Instruction and inspiration for beginners and devotees 9 WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE ... AND YOUNG by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway (Harper: $7.99) Against all odds 10 THE O’REILLY FACTOR by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway Books: $14) The pundit sounds off on politics, sex and the media

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