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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. for the four-week period ending July 11, 2004.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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"It's a mistake," cautions one of the characters in Ward Just's 14th novel, An Unfinished Season (Houghton Mifflin), "to infer the author's life from the author's fiction."
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1. DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER: A Novel, by Jeff Lindsay (Doubleday, $22.95, 038551123X) "Dexter is a highly respected lab technician for the Miami Police Department. Though he appears to be an ordinary guy, Dexter has a secret. He is a serial killer, but not just any serial killer -- Dexter only kills bad people. With an amazing twist, this is a highly recommended book for all mystery lovers." --Linda Zehender, Full Circle Bookstore, Oklahoma City, OK
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As materials promoting the Best Books: The Best of Book Sense From the First Five Years wing their way to bookstores, booksellers are reminded that now is the time to put together displays featuring the 10 Adult Fiction, 5 Adult Nonfiction, and 10 Children's titles, selected by more than one thousand booksellers as the best of the Book Sense lists.
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