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Tolle topples from US charts

12.05.08 Philip Stone

After twelve consecutive weeks atop the US bestseller charts, Eckhart Tolle's reign has come to an end. A New Earth (Plume) fell two places to third overall during the seven days ending 4th May. It came as the Oprah Book Club pick's 10-week webcast series at Oprah.com came to a close with a two-hour special early last week.

The manual to a spiritual awakening has sold 2,579,373 copies through BookScan's US Consumer Market thus far in 2008, almost three times as many copies as its nearest rival, John Grisham's The Appeal (Doubleday), on 865,301.

James Patterson's latest romantic drama, Sundays at Tiffany's (Little, Brown), débuted in second position overall with a 74,802 weekly sale while Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture (Hyperion), which had spent three consecutive weeks in second position, scored a belated number one, with a 100,450 weekly sale.

Pausch, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September, 2006. A year later, he received a standing ovation before delivering an emotional "Last Lecture" to a packed CMU audience, entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". The book is based on that lecture.

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