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Mega-selling author Pat Conroy is best known for blockbuster novels that tug at the heart. Beach Music, The Prince of Tides and a very long list of others have instructed us that this name goes with big fiction. All of this makes My Losing Season all the more of a surprise. This is Conroy's first work of book-length non-fiction since The Water Is Wide in 1972. As the title suggests, Conroy's latest book is about his losing season: as a point guard playing college basketball. A season that, Conroy writes, has left reverberations throughout his life.

What's the difference between this White Oleander and the version Oprah picked for her book club back in 1999? Just one thing: this time the cover of Janet Fitch's bestseller is graced by some serious Hollywood royalty including Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn and Renée Zellweger. The movie opened last weekend, pushing Fitch's torrid tale back onto the bestseller lists.

In his latest thriller, Michael Connelly (Blood Work, City of Bones) sends high tech entrepreneur Henry Pierce down a rabbit hole. Once again, Connelly's well-loved hero Harry Bosch is nowhere in sight and Pierce has to find his own way through the myriad boobytraps in Chasing the Dime.

Does James Patterson ever sleep? An ever-lengthening string of bestsellers suggests not. In Four Blind Mice readers get reacquainted with Alex Cross (Along Came A Spider, Violets Are Blue). This time Alex postpones his retirement to help the friend-of-a-friend whose murder rap could lead to execution.

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The January Magazine Online Bestseller List is reflective of book sales of international online booksellers.
This list was compiled for the week of October 15, 2002.

	The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
	Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton
	From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
	Blessings by Anna Quindlen
	Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani
	My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
	I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
	White Oleander by Janet Fitch
	Stupid White Men... by Michael Moore
	Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson
	The Death of Me by Paul Vincent	book jacket unavailable
	Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver
	The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
	Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
	Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
	Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
	Let's Roll! by Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham
	Good to Great by James C. Collins
	The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
	A Life God Rewards by Bruce Wilkinson

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