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Week of October 1, 2007

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Weekly RA Scan by Cindy Orr

Happy Banned Books Week. In your zeal to display banned books, make sure you don’t miss the other news of the week.

We have new books by Lisa Kleypas, Cornelia Funke, Mario Vargas Llosa, Iain Banks, M. C. Beaton, Ursula Hegi, Nick Hornby, Philip Roth and others. On the nonfiction side, there are memoirs by Clarence Thomas, Diana Ross, Suge Knight, 50 Cent and Dorothy Hamill, plus the journal of Joyce Carol Oates, several biographies, and more. Click here, or look to the right and scroll down for New This Week to see the full list of books hitting the shelves in the next few days.

Awards, Awards, Awards
It was a huge week for awards as well. The Anthony Awards for best mystery works were presented Saturday. And the winners are:

  • Best novel: Laura Lippman – No Good Deeds
  • Best first novel: Louise Penny – Still Life
  • Best Paperback Original: Dana Cameron – Ashes and Bones
  • Best short story: Simon Wood – “My Father’s Secret,â€? Crime Spree Magazine
  • Best nonfiction: Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, Editors – Mystery Muses
  • Contribution to the field: Jim Huang, Crum Creek Press and The Mystery Company

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    We also have the Macavity Awards from Mystery Readers International:

  • Best Novel: Nancy Pickard – The Virgin of Small Plains
  • Best First Novel: Nick Stone – Mr. Clarinet
  • Best Nonfiction: Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, eds. – Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers
  • Best Short Story: by Tim Maleeny – “Til Death Do Us Part” in MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben
  • Sue Feder Historical Mystery: Rhys Bowen – Oh Danny Boy

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    Then we have the Barry Awards, cosponsored by Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures, also announced at Bouchercon:

  • Best Novel: George Pelecanos – The Night Gardener
  • Best First Novel: Louise Penny – Still Life
  • Best British Mystery Novel: Ken Bruen – Priest
  • Best Thriller: Daniel Silva – The Messenger
  • Best Paperback Original: Sean Doolittle – The Cleanup
  • Best Short Story: Brendan DuBois – “The Right Call”
  • The Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Mystery Fandom: Beth Fedyn

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    and, of course, the Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers:

  • Best Novel: Ken Bruen – The Dramatist
  • Best Paperback Original: P.J. Parrish – An Unquiet Grave
  • Best First Novel: Declan Hughes – The Wrong Kind of Blood (William Morrow)
  • Best Short Story: O’Neil DeNoux, “The Heart Has Reasons” (AHMM, September 2006)
  • The Eye for Lifetime Achievement: Stuart Kaminsky
  • The Hammer for Best PI Series Character: Shell Scott, created by Richard Prather

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    The Financial Times has announced its shortlist for the Business Book of the Year Award. Nominees include The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan, The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Immigrants by Philippe Legrain, The Last Tycoons by William D. Cohan, Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, and Zoom by Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran. Details and book summaries here. These guys read fast! Greenspan’s book was just published, and Zoom is scheduled for October 1.

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    The National Book Foundation has chosen the winners of its 5 Under 35 Award. The Foundation asked well known authors to vote for writers under 35 who deserve to be recognized. The winners are:

  • Kirstin Allio – Garner
  • Dinaw Mengestu – The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
  • Asali Solomon – Get Down
  • Anya Ulinich – Petropolis
  • Charles Yu – Third Class Superhero

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    ALA’s RUSA CODES (Reference Users Services Association) has announced the establishment of The Reading List, a new genre award. The Reading List Council consists of twelve librarians who are experts in readers’ advisory and collection development.

    Eight genres are currently included in the Reading List: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Women’s Fiction and Adrenaline titles, which collectively encompass suspense, thrillers and action adventure works. The Council will adapt the list to include new genres and changes in reading interests as they occur. The first awards will be given during ALA’s Midwinter Conference in January, 2008.

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    Genre Bestsellers

    The following are the July bestsellers at Independent Mystery Booksellers Association member stores:

    Hardcover
    1. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews
    2. The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
    3. Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
    4. Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson
    5. Justice Denied by J.A. Jance
    5. Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak
    7. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
    8. Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
    9. Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
    9. Hard Row by Margaret Maron

    Paperbacks
    1. The Chocolate Jewel Case by JoAnna Carl
    2. A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
    3. Billy Boyle by James Benn
    4. A Brush with Death by Hailey Lind
    5. The Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby
    6. A Play of Lords by Margaret Frazer
    6. Ammunition by Ken Bruns
    6. The Tunnels by Michelle Gagnon
    9. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
    10. Saks and Violins by Mary Daheim

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    Religion Bestsellers

    Publishers Weekly has announced the Religion bestsellers from July as well:

    Hardcover
    Reposition Yourself by T.D. Jakes. Atria
    Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI. Doubleday
    God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve
    The God Delusionby Richard Dawkins. Houghton Mifflin
    Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen. FaithWords
    Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra. HarperOne
    Epicenter: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future by Joel C. Rosenberg. Tyndale
    Kingdom Come by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Tyndale
    Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell. Zondervan

    Paperback
    90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. Baker/Revell
    Sunrise by Karen Kingsbury. Tyndale
    The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. Moody/Northfield
    The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren. Zondervan
    Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Harper San Francisco
    A Sister’s Secret by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Barbour
    Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer. FaithWords
    Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Thomas Nelson
    Forever by Karen Kingsbury. Tyndale
    Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s SoulJohn Eldredge. Thomas Nelson

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    Author News
    Diana Gabaldon fans will be pleased to know that she has sold the second to last book in the Outlander Series to Bantam Dell for publication in Fall 2009.

    Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us and If Today Be Sweet, has sold a new novel called The Weight of Heaven to Harper. It is the story of a young American couple who travel to India to heal from the grief of the death of their son, and while there decide to adopt a child, but are forced to face their own cultural imperialism.

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    Sisters in Crime celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and Nancy Pickard, Rochelle Krich and Sara Paretsky reminisce here.

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    Romance Writers Vote for the Best Library Program
    The Romance Writers of America has opened voting for Libraries Love Romance. RWA members will vote on which library embodied excellence in library programs and promotions focusing on romance fiction.

    That’s all for this week.

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    Bestseller Mashup

    Saturday, September 29th, 2007
    Fiction
    1. Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
    2. James Patterson – You’ve Been Warned
    3. Garrison Keillor – Pontoon
    4. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – The Wheel of Darkness
    5. Dick and Felix Francis – Dead Heat
    6. Terry Pratchett – Making Money
    7. Kathy Reichs – Bones to Ashes
    8. Sarah Addison Allen – Garden Spells
    9. James Patterson – The Quickie
    10. Christine Feehan – Dark Possession
    11. Terry Brooks – The Elves of Cintra
    12. Stephen Hunter – The 47th Samurai
    13. Tess Gerritsen – The Bone Garden
    14. Amy Bloom – Away
    15. Julia London – Guiding Light: Jonathan’s Story

    Narrative Nonfiction
    1. Bill Clinton – Giving
    2. The Goldman Family – If I Did It
    3. Mother Teresa and Bill Kolodiejchuk – Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
    4. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns – The War
    5. Alan Alda – Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
    6. Alan Greenspan – The Age of Turbulence
    7. Laura Ingraham – Power to the People
    8. Jeffrey Toobin – The Nine
    9. Tony Dungy – Quiet Strength
    10. Marcus Luttrell – Lone Survivor
    11. Jenny McCarthy – Louder Than Words
    12. Alan Weisman – The World Without Us
    13. Pattie Boyd – Wonderful Tonight
    14. Christopher Hitchens – God Is Not Great
    15. Nikki Sixx – The Heroin Diaries

    And Keep Your Eye on These:
    • Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    • Jeffry P. Lindsay – Dexter in the Dark
    • Ann Packer – Songs Without Words
    • Mark J. Penn – Microtrends
    • Norman Podhoretz – World War IV
    • Gail Tsukiyama – The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
    • Jason F. Wright – The Wednesday Letters

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    New This Week

    Saturday, September 29th, 2007

      Fiction
    • Blue Christmas: Now With More Holiday Cheer by Mary Kay Andrews
    • The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
    • Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M. C. Beaton
    • The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
    • Jazz and Twelve O’Clock Tales by Wanda Coleman
    • Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
    • Down River by John Hart
    • The Worst Thing I’ve Done by Ursula Hegi
    • Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
    • 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
    • Slam by Nick Hornby
    • Eulalia! by Brian Jacques
    • Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas
    • The Parting by Beverly Lewis
    • Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber
    • Run by Ann Patchett
    • Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
    • Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
    • Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
    • The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

    • Nonfiction
    • 50 X 50 by 50 Cent
    • The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
    • Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
    • Beyond the White House by Jimmy Carter
    • If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
    • The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi
    • Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William Guarnere
    • A Skating Life by Dorothy Hamill
    • Dandelion by Catherine James
    • Stanley by Tim Jeal
    • Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh
    • America Nightmare/American Dream by Suge Knight
    • Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story by William C. Martin
    • Heirlooms by David Mas Masumoto
    • Life’s a Campaign by Chris Matthews
    • America in Space: NASA’s First Fifty Years
    • The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982 by Joyce Carol Oates
    • Cook With Jamie by Jamie Oliver
    • Kids Are Americans Too by Bill O’Reilly
    • Upside Down by Diana Ross
    • Emergence of Memory by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
    • Break Through by Michael Shellenberger
    • My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas
    • The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
    • Head and Heart by Garry Wills
    • Ronnie Wood by Ron Wood

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    On the Differences Between Truth and Fiction

    Saturday, September 29th, 2007

    By Cindy Orr

    James Frey has sold another book. Called Bright Shiny Morning, this one is clearly going to be marked fiction, unlike A Million Little Pieces, the “memoir” which led to his dressing down on the Oprah show and villification pretty much everywhere for writing fiction and selling it as the truth. A HarperCollins representative called Frey “an immensely talented writer,â€? and championed the new book as “truly extraordinary and original.â€?

    Some people may think that Frey took a bad rap, especially considering that other memoirists have admitted that not everything they wrote was exactly true, and some people believe that the emotional truths of memoirs are often better served by how they are remembered than by how they happened. Here’s an interesting take on how Frey is using the media to rebuild his career.

    Another interesting connection is this interview, in which Augusten Burroughs belittles Frey, saying he is like Milli Vanilli, the singing duo who turned out to be lip synching instead of singing. But now, as reported earlier here, Burroughs himself has settled a lawsuit with the family portrayed in his memoir Running With Scissors. Hmm.

    Burroughs and his publisher have agreed to call Running With Scissors a “book” rather than a “memoir” from now on. The Turcotte family, which filed the lawsuit issued a statement: “With this settlement, together with our settlement with Sony last year, we have achieved everything we set out to accomplish when we filed suit two years ago. We have always maintained that the book is fictionalized and defamatory. This settlement is the most powerful vindication of those sentiments that we can imagine.”

    Pat Holt has written an interesting column on Creative Nonfiction and the author’s duty to tell the truth.

    And then there’s “autofiction.” This is a term coined by Serge Doubrovsky in the 70s to describe his combination of fiction and autobiography.

    To make it even more complicated, J. G. Ballard’s next book will apparently be his memoir. Ballard, the author of Empire of the Sun, and The Kindness of Women , which are “autobiographical novels,” is one of the most respected contemporary British authors. His “memoir” will cover the same periods as his “autobiographical novels.”

    And Philip Roth’s new novel Exit Ghost tackles the fiction writer’s use of his own life in his books.

    My head is spinning.

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    Switching Things Up

    Thursday, September 27th, 2007

    By Sarah Statz Cords

    Does this sort of thing ever happen to you?

    As of late, I’ve been reading a lot of investigative and journalistic works about politics, the environment, and society (think, titles like Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry, or Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses). Normally, these are my very favorites types of books. But I’ve been reading so many of them, and so many of them tend to be, well, disheartening, that I have found myself becoming, well, disheartened. Frankly, I need (we’re beyond want) something different to read. Suggestions, anyone?

    Does this happen to you? What do you do when it does? Go for a genre that’s the complete opposite of what you’ve been reading? I’ve been trying to read a bit of history instead, and have been thinking about looking into some romances or mysteries, but I’m not quite sure where to start. So, I’m wondering, does anyone ever get this question from readers, and how do you answer it? We’re so used to asking “What’s the last thing you read?” and working on that; what do we do if a patron wants something different from what they have been reading?

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    New Issue of RA News Now Online

    Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

    The September issue of Readers’ Advisor News is now available. Articles in the free newsletter include:

    “Leapin’ Lizards! They’re Jumpin’ Genres!” by Jane Jorgenson Home Services Coordinator at Madison Public Library

    “Ten Reasons to Incorporate Nonfiction into Your Readers’ Advisory Class” by Robert Burgin, Professor at North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Sciences

    “Second Life Brings New Worlds to Readers’ Advisory” by Mack Lundy, Systems Librarian at The College of William and Mary and builder of Mystery Manor on Info Island.

    and

    “Connect with Readers and Patrons on Shelfari” by Dave Hanley, Vice President of Marketing for Shelfari.

    Click here to view the current issue, or for a free subscription to the e-newsletter, send an e-mail to: ranews@lu.com.

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    SF/Fantasy and Bestseller Lists

    Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

    By Diana Tixier Herald

    With so many bestseller lists out there what’s an RA librarian to do? Bestseller lists can be very helpful in collection development because if lots of people are buying a book, chances are lots of people are going to want to check it out from the library. Cindy’s weekly Bestseller Mashup is invaluable to me because I can glance at it quickly and have an idea about what someone may be looking for when they ask for a mangled title. I also like the mashup because it draws from several sources. I love the “Keep Your Eyes on These� section.

    Because I’m so focused on genre I love to see genre specific bestseller lists. It is hard to find bestseller lists for Science Fiction and Fantasy but Book Sense published one on September 19th. It covers an eight week period of books sold at independent Book Sense bookstores. Locus Online publishes a weekly bestseller list made up of SF and Fantasy titles that appear on general bestseller lists. Unlike most bestseller lists, it doesn’t rank them but instead lists them in alphabetical order by author last name and shows which lists they were on. It is in two sections; one for hardcover and one for paperback. The grid is pretty complex and uses color coding to identify books on “children’s bestseller� lists and books that have made the list via prepub orders.

    What I find interesting about it is the list of titles. They are the hot SF and Fantasy titles that readers advisors should know. I also like the fact that Locus doesn’t segregate adult and children’s titles from each other. Out of the 20 titles on the paperback list ten are “children’sâ€? books, but they are all books that are widely read by adults–the Harry Potter books, Christopher Paolini’s Eldest and Eragon, and Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. The adult list features sixteen titles, six of which appear on “children’sâ€? lists and includes books by Stephanie Meyer and J. K. Rowling that have big adult followings.

    I find the use of the term Children’s as a designation very unsatisfactory, as it encompasses YA or Teen books that are often intended for readers in their late teens. The intended readers and the books for them seem very un-childlike to me.

    But regardless of their shortcomings, RAs need to remember to check those genre bestseller lists as well as those in the New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

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    Free Training for Reader’s Advisor Online Oct 2 and Nov 1

    Monday, September 24th, 2007

    The next training sessions are Tuesday Oct 2 and Thursday Nov 1 2007 at 1PM ET (12PM CT, 11AM MT, 10 AM PT, for the mathematically challenged!) I will be driving, and the presenter will be Sarah Statz Cords, from Madison (WI) Public Library, author of The Real Story, associate editor for the Reader’s Advisor Online, and blogger extraordinaire. Attendees will view the product via the web and will call a conference number to enable full participation in the training. Spaces are limited — please register ASAP! Plus, we always have fun! You reserve a seat by emailing laura.calderone@lu.com. Confirmation of registration and access instructions will be sent by email.

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    Week of September 24, 2007

    Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

    Highlights of Our Weekly Scan for Readers’ Advisors:

    By Cindy Orr

    This week has another bumper crop of hot titles, both fiction and nonfiction. Take a look at the sidebar to the right, and you’ll see a New This Week list that includes titles by John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, Richard Russo, Charlaine Harris, John Grogan, John Sandford, Paul Theroux, Rita Mae Brown…let me stop and take a breath. This is shaping up to be a great Fall season for reading. How to choose? How to choose? I just finished Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. It was a quick read and a fascinating look at how other biographers have portrayed Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas over the years. I just picked up Away by Amy Bloom.

    The War by Ken Burns begins airing this week on PBS. The usual tie-in volume by Geoffrey C. Ward and Burns is working its way up the bestseller lists.

    The New York Times has expanded its bestseller lists to make more space for ad sales. Seems lots of people want their ads to run next to the list. Beginning this week, they’ve split the Paperback Bestseller List into two: one for trade and one for mass market. In addition, they’ve increased the number of titles on the paperback lists as well as in the Advice/How To/Miscellaneous section. A comparison in Publishers Marketplace found that there are a total of 110 spots on the lists this week compared to only 70 last week. Lots of new titles to fill up the display shelves in libraries!

    Another big change at the Times this past week was the decision to allow free access to some of its archives and columns. The explanation is that they underestimated how much traffic was driven to their site by Google and other search engines, and the amount of revenue they can receive through ads will outstrip the amount they could collect from people willing to pay for articles. This should open up many older book reviews.

    How’s this for a desperate attempt to control the To Be Read Shelf? Max over at The Millions may win the prize for the geekiest approach ever: He uses a Random Number Generator. No word on how he decides what goes on the shelf in the first place.

    Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve, couldn’t have picked a better week to publish his new book The Age of Turbulence, according to Publishers Weekly. This was a week of turbulence on Wall Street and speculation on whether the Fed will cut interest rates to keep it under control. The book was embargoed by the publisher Penguin, so there were no prepub reviews. Hope you ordered it anyway as it’s set to be a bestseller.

    And here’s an interesting tidbit from the New York Times–Alan Greenspan was highly influenced by Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. In fact, so were many business people. This is a book that, 50 years after its publication, still sells over 100,000 copies a year and shows up on many reader favorites list. If you haven’t read it, you really should. It’s one of the most influential books ever and readers’ advisors should know about it.

    Speaking of Nonfiction, there’s a great discussion going on over at Nonfiction Anonymous on whether nonfiction readers are as loyal to authors as fiction readers.

    Naomi Klein has the book trailer of all book trailers here for her new book The Shock Doctrine. Its director is Alfonso Cuaron, who did Children of Men. It will be very interesting to see if this helps push her book onto the bestseller lists.

    Speaking of bestsellers, Publishers Weekly announced today that Knopf will publish a new book by Philip Pullman in the spring. With the movie of The Golden Compass coming out in December, this new book should be an even bigger hit.

    On the physiological basis for reading
    Michael Dirda reviews Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf.

    It looks like the midlist may be in trouble in the Christian publishing sector as well as the mainstream. Christianity Today’s article “What’s Not Coming to a Bookstore Near You” discusses the bidding wars for big name Christian authors and links to an article on the subject written for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association by the president of Tyndale House. Huge advances to big name authors rarely make back their money, and he suggests just “pushing back from the table.”

    Walter Isaacson, Al Gore and Cormac McCarthy were winners of a Quill Award this week. Laura Lippman won in the Mystery/Suspense category, and Nora Roberts took the Romance award. This is the third year for the Quills, and sponsor Publisher Weekly changed the procedure so that 5,000 booksellers and librarians voted rather than the general public. Does this mean The Cult of the Amateur is correct?

    The Guardian lists Top Ten Kids’ Books with Kickass Heroines.

    But here’s a sobering bit of news: Whatever you like to read, you may want to be careful when you choose your airplane books. According to this article in Wired magazine, Homeland Security uses an algorithm to decide which passengers entering or leaving the US need extra screening. Privacy advocates recently found that one of the things noted during this extra screening is what books the person has packed.

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    Bestseller Mashup

    Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
    Fiction
    1. Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
    2. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – The Wheel of Darkness
    3. Kathy Reichs – Bones to Ashes
    4. James Patterson – You’ve Been Warned
    5. Garrison Keillor – Pontoon
    6. Christine Feehan – Dark Possession
    7. James Patterson – The Quickie
    8. Terry Brooks – The Elves of Cintra
    9. Sandra Brown – Play Dirty
    10. Chelsea Cain – HeartSick
    11. Amy Bloom – Away
    12. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    13. Denis Johnson – Tree of Smoke
    14. Ann Packer – Songs Without Words
    15. Sarah Addison Allen – Garden Spells

    Narrative Nonfiction
    1. Bill Clinton – Giving
    2. Mother Teresa and Bill Kolodiejchuk – Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
    3. Marcus Luttrell – Lone Survivor
    4. Alan Alda – Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
    5. Alan Weisman – The World Without Us
    6. Robert Draper – Dead Certain
    7. Rhonda Byrne – The Secret
    8. Tony Dungy – Quiet Strength
    9. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns – The War
    10. Christopher Hitchens – God Is Not Great
    11. Laura Ingraham – Power to the People
    12. The Goldman Family – If I Did It
    13. John J. Mearshimer and Stephen M. Walt – The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy
    14. Israel Beah – A Long Way Gone
    15. Sylvia Browne – Secret Societies

    And Keep Your Eye on These:
    • Diane Ackerman – The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
    • Christine Comaford-Lynch – Rules for Renegades
    • Stephen Hunter – The 47th Samurai
    • Steven Pinker – The Stuff of Thought
    • Gail Tsukiyama – The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
    • Jason F. Wright – The Wednesday Letters

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