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• "Star Wars: Episode I"
  by Terry Brooks
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  (Anakin Skywalker cover)

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  (Darth Maul cover)

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  (Obi-Wan Kenobi cover)

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  (Queen Amidala cover)
  Every Darth has his day. Read about Vader's humble beginnings as the young slave Anakin Skywalker, who helps Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) battle a phantom menace. Get your copy of "Star Wars: Episode I" quick--four different covers make this book a collector's item. (Note: the content of each book is the same.)

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• "White Oleander"
  by Janet Fitch
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  When teenage Astrid Magnussen's boyfriend dumps her, her mom poisons him with oleander flowers and gets a life sentence. How Astrid survives her own life is the subject of this riveting first novel. Oprah's book club picked a winner in Janet Fitch.

• "Management Challenges for the 21st Century"
  by Peter F. Drucker
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  Around the time Bill Gates was born, Peter Drucker pretty much invented the discipline of business management. In his brilliant new book, Drucker explains the "New Information Revolution" and gives a driving lesson for the tricky road ahead.

• "Body for Life"
  by Bill Phillips
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  Phillips is like an Andrew Weil with muscle, and he's got a 12-week program to mental and physical strength that's working for plenty of people.

• "We'll Meet Again"
  by Mary Higgins Clark
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  Higgins Clark's 18th suspense novel features plucky crime reporter Fran Simmons, who discovers the dark side of the medical establishment when she investigates the murder of an HMO director whose wife was convicted of bashing his skull in.

• "Bag of Bones" (paperback)
  by Stephen King
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  In "Bag of Bones," Stephen King proves himself once again the master of supernatural suspense--but he adds a whole new tone of romantic yearning. If you've got the heart, join King's hero Mike Noonan at the haunted Maine cabin Sara Laughs, as he tries to solve his wife's death and figure out who keeps spelling clues with the magnets on the fridge.

• "Prayers for Rain"
  by Dennis Lehane
  REVIEW
  Boston detectives (and ex-lovers) Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro try to tackle a murderer who actually seems able to induce suicide in his victims by some uncanny means. On sale May 19.

• "L.A. Requiem"
  by Robert Crais
  REVIEW
  Joe Pike is one of the most intriguing gumshoes to sleuth out devilry in the City of Angels since Chandler.

• "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
  by J.K. Rowling
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  Harry Potter of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry crashes his magical flying car into a Whomping Willow in the most eagerly awaited children's-literature sequel of the season.

• "The Falcon at the Portal"
  by Elizabeth Peters
  REVIEW
  Egypt, excavation, and her husband, Emerson, are the three loves of Amelia Peabody's life--and all feature prominently in Elizabeth Peters's 11th Victorian mystery.

• "Hannibal"
  by Thomas Harris
  REVIEW
  Seven years after Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter escaped in "The Silence of the Lambs," he's back--and we doubt he's gone vegetarian. Is there a more wildly anticipated horror sequel this year? We doubt that, too.

• "Black Notice"
  by Patricia Cornwell
  REVIEW
  Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds a stowaway cadaver that sends her to the Paris morgue and back to Virginia on a mission she just might not survive. On sale July 12.

• "Bridget Jones's Diary" (Paperback)
  by Helen Fielding
  REVIEW
  Read the smashingly funny confessions of a single woman who spends a year gaining 74 pounds, losing 72, and coping with love, cigarettes, and "Smug Marrieds."

• "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" (Paperback)
  by Frank McCourt
  REVIEW
  Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to Irish immigrants, McCourt grew up in Limerick after he returned to Ireland with his mother and chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic father. Abject poverty and frequent death and illness made for a truly difficult early life--and, in McCourt's able hands, a compelling memoir.

• "Protein Power" (Paperback)
  by Dr. Michael R. Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades
  REVIEW
  How can you eat salmon and cream cheese omelets, sauteed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers and lose weight? By cutting carbohydrates and reading and heeding this bestselling book.

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