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Based on four weeks of sales ended September 28, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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Hard-boiled noir, taboo lesbian romances, radical science fiction, and other forms of pulp fiction written by women can be found in a new series called Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp, which was recently launched by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

The second pick of the revived Oprah's Book Club is Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Scribner). The announcement was made on Monday, September 29.

The September/October Book Sense 76 includes The Oath: The Remarkable Story of a Surgeon's Life Under Fire in Chechnya, by Khassan Baiev with Ruth and Nicholas Daniloff (Walker), a powerful book suited for a graying season with shorter, darker days. Most Western readers know of Chechnya through fleeting, horrific, and often confusing news headlines.

On Thursday, September 18, USA Today announced the selection of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (Avon/Dark Alley/HarperAudio) as its next book club title.

Based on four weeks of sales ended September 14, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

On Wednesday, September 17, author Scott Turow recommended The Time Traveler’s Wife: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage) as the next selection to be read by NBC News' Today Show Today Book Club.

Born "a mid-century baby" in Albany, New York, to a family of readers and writers, Gregory Maguire, author of Mirror Mirror, to be published this October by Regan Books, grew up in a world of vivid language and colorful stories.