21.   Many bookstore owners were reluctant even to acknowledge theft.

22.   Many local bookstore owners report that practical technology-oriented advice is still selling.

23.   Now, bookstore owners salivate at the prospect of a Rice appearance.

24.   Not bookstore owners, whose computers now tell them exactly how much shelf space they wasted on you last time.

25.   Publishers and bookstore owners emphasize that movie tickets have gone up, too.

26.   Riviere, playing a chic bookstore owner, exudes an endearing poise mixed with sensitivity and a genuine caring for her friend.

27.   SEX Several passionate kisses and one steamy bedroom scene between the nearly nude mariachi and the bare-breasted bookstore owner.

28.   She bullies agents and publishers and cajoles and flatters bookstore owners to carry her merchandise.

29.   Sonny Brewer, a bookstore owner in Fairhope, Ala., on Mobile Bay, never had a love affair with the Oldsmobile, but his father did.

30.   The American Booksellers Association, the leading industry trade group, now offers pointers on starting up a website in the informational mailing it sends prospective bookstore owners.