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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of January 27, 1980

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CRUEL SHOES
Steve Martin
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CRUEL SHOES

by Steve Martin · Putnam's

35 wks on list

A collection of short humorous pieces including "Women Without Bones," "The Day the Dopes Came Over," "How to Fold Soup," Dogs in My Nose," "Cruel Shoes," and "What to Say When the Ducks Show up."

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THE AMERICANS
Alistair Cooke

THE AMERICANS

by Alistair Cooke · Knopf

6 wks on list

Breve sendt til BBC's lyttere

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ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS
Norman Cousins
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ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS

by Norman Cousins · Norton

10 wks on list

This bestselling classic, which started the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humor to boost their bodies' capacity for healing, is back in this new, updated edition.

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SERPENTINE
Thomas Thompson
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SERPENTINE

by Thomas Thompson · Doubleday

11 wks on list

Tells the story of the crimes of a handsome young man and his accomplice, whose victims were tourists in Hong Kong, France, Greece, and Italy and whose methods were poisoning, burying, and burning

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CONNECTIONS
James Burke
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CONNECTIONS

by James Burke · Little, Brown

6 wks on list

Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.