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Abebooks.com Bestsellers: King Makes Gardiner Queen

Shades of The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. The AbeBooks.com bestseller list for the week ended Sunday, February 18, was headed by a book that hasn't been published in the U.S. But the thriller's spot atop the list is no mystery, it turns out. Stephen King plugged China Lake by Meg Gardiner in his Entertainment Weekly column and on his Web site. (In EW, he wrote about the 2002 novel: "I mean, this woman is as good as Michael Connelly and far better than Janet Evanovich." Another Gardiner novel ranked No. 6.

1. China Lake by Meg Gardiner
2. The Secret by Rhonda Bryne
3. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
4. Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers by Chap Clark
5. Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods by Rick Warren
6. Jericho Point by Meg Gardiner
7. Rediscovering the Kingdom by Myles Munroe
8. Leadership and the One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
9. Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever
10. How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour by Dr. Gordon D. Fee