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After a typically hectic working day in September, Jacquelyn Mitchard returned from her journalism job to her Madison, Wisconsin, house and found a phone message from Oprah Winfrey. Mitchard, a recently widowed mother of five, ages 1 to 21, did what any sensible person would do: she erased the obvious prank. "I have a friend who calls and says he's Richard Nixon," she explains. Two days later came another taped call from Oprah, followed by another erasure. Then a third, a day or so later, with the sign-off "This really is Oprah Winfrey...
...disputes the power of OPRAH WINFREY to move merchandise. But is Oprah powerful enough to get people to turn off their TVs and read? She may be. The talk-show host recently announced that her show would conduct "the biggest book club in the whole world," and that Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean would be her first discussion subject. That alone sent the novel to the top of bestseller lists around the country. And even though her semiannual book shows get low ratings, Oprah told the Washington Post, "I always feel if you do right, right...