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Bridget Jones's Diary became a best-seller in 1996 and the character has featured in three more books and three film adaptations, with a fourth film due to be released early next year.

Bridget Jones has remained popular - the first two novels featured in a recent chart of the 100 books that have spent the most weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list over the past 50 years.

In 1940, his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, published a pamphlet entitled ”The Wave of the Future: A Confession of Faith,” which quickly became a best-seller with the America First crowd.

The book, which has spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, was panned in the journal Nature by Candice L. Odgers, a professor of psychological science in informatics at the University of California, Irvine.

Terens, who is participating in a longevity study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said his life has been deeply influenced by the work of the late Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote the 1952 best-seller, “The Power of Positive Thinking.”