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Fiction

THE TENTH INSIGHT: Holding the Vision by James Redfield. (Warner: $19.95.) Building on the discovery of an ancient manuscript in “The Celestine Prophecy.”(2)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 2

HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry McMillan. (Viking Penguin: $22.95.) The latest from the author of “Waiting to Exhale.”. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster: $24.) Photographer hunts stepmother’s killer among Rhode Island’s elite.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 5

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A fictionalized account of ’92 Democratic primaries by an insider.(5)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 15

MALICE by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $24.95.) A young woman struggles with memories of incest and murder.(3)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4

ROSE by Martin Cruz Smith. (Random: $25.95.) The search for a vanished cleric, set in a 19th century English coal mining town.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE DEBT TO PLEASURE by John Lanchester (Henry Holt: $20.) A tale of murder and sibling jealousy.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 3

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.)(6)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 15

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Lane Smith. (Knopf: $16.) A child’s journey to the center of an immense peach.. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 2

THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS by Roddy Doyle. (Viking: $22.95.) The inner life of a battered wife in Dublin.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Nonfiction

THE AMERICAN FAMILY: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong by Dan Quayle and Diane Medved. (HarperCollins: $25.) Exploring the moral outlook of ordinary folk.. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.)(4). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 9

IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.)(1)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 7

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95.) A collection of self-discovery meditations for women.(2). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 5

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 56

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel and Joanne Parrent. (Dove Books: $22.95.). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 15

DREAMS INTO ACTION: Getting What You Want by Milton Katselas. (Dove: $19.95.) Turning invisible wishes into concrete realities.*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 4

DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles by Sandra Tsing Loh (Riverhead: $22.95.) The absurdities that Angelenos know so well. . Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 2

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.) (3)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 112

TESSIE AND PEARLIE: A Granddaughter’s Story by Joy Horowitz. (Scribner: $21.) Views on life, latkes and family from a dynamic pair of Jewish matriarchs.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Paperbacks

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. THE GREEN MILE PART TWO: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)

2. GOOSEBUMPS #43: THE BEAST FROM THE EAST by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)*

3. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)*

4. THE GREEN MILE PART ONE: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)*

5. LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler. (Fawcett: $12.)*

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 LOS ANGELES/SO. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANTS edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

2. A 3RD SERVING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)

3. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*

4. THERE’S TREASURE EVERYWHERE: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $12.95.)

5. THE LIARS’ CLUB by Mary Karr. (Penguin: $11.95.)

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National hardcover rankings (in parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. An asterisk (*) indicates that the book is also available in audio (source: Sound Audio Books Distributing, Agoura Hills). For early information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. Wednesdays.