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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books

New on the Most Wanted Mashup
In our usual Monday take on the bestseller lists, we have three novels and three nonfiction books making their first appearance this week. Look to the right for the full list as always.

In Fiction:

James Lee Burke – Rain Gods

Steve Martini – Guardian of Lies

Jennifer Weiner – Best Friends Forever

In Nonfiction:

Ian Halperin – Unmasked

C. David Heymann – Bobby and Jackie

Ben Mezrich – The Accidental Billionaires

Our Under the Radar list this week is a companion list to last week’s Tribute Novels. This time we have Perspective Flip—Classics from Another Point of View. Look to the right, just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list.

Directly below this post you’ll find our weekly New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer list of titles that will be published in the next seven days. Stieg Larsson’s eagerly awaited The Girl Who Played with Fire, which follows his bestselling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, comes out on Tuesday. There’s a new Suzanne Brockmann, Larry McMurtry’s Rhino Ranch, and believe it or not, the James Patterson factory has another new one even though the last one is still on the bestseller lists. Then there’s Mary Jane Clark’s Dying for Mercy and Mary B. Morrison’s Unconditionally Single, and that’s only a selection. Scroll down for the complete list of new titles you should watch for this week..

Highlight Headlines
The news highlights seem to be getting longer each week, so I’m experimenting with just headlines to make it faster for busy RAs to get through the news each Monday. Please let me know if you like this approach or hate it!

Michael Jackson’s Autobiography Moonwalk, OP for a Decade, To Be Reprinted by Random House

Growing Controversy Over Justine Larbalestier’s Liar—Why a White Girl On the Cover of Novel About an African-American Girl? Author’s Reaction Here

Great Novel Publishing Season Coming This Fall

Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret—Teen Version

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Husband Working on Flip Side of Eat, Pray, Love—He Took a Trip Too Apparently

Basketball League for Literature Junkies Booked Solid (full disclosure: my daughter plays on the Virginia Wolves)

How To Arrange Your Personal Bookshelves

Jeff Bezos Personally Apologizes for Deleting 1984 from Amazon Kindles and How Their Technological Ability To Do So Paves the Way for Future Censorship

Frank McCourt and His Influence on the American Memoir

Edgy Christian Fiction Is Here to Stay

Who Controls African Literature?

For Many, Reading Remains a Passion Despite Distractions

Never Before Published Donald Westlake Title Coming in April

Dropping the Dewey Decimal System

Target’s Influence On the Best Seller Lists

Check Out Bibliotarian—a Book Price Comparison Engine Which Gives Profits To Charity

A Taxonomy of Book Bloggers

SAT Vocabulary Guide Uses Examples from Twilight to Teach

Books on Screen

Sean Bean Will Play Lord Eddard Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones

Paco Ahlgren’s Discipline Will Be a Movie

Coming October 16 – Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (trailer)

Charlize Theron To Play Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged?

Lifetime To Release Two Movies in 2010 Based on Patricia Cornwell’s Win Garano Series

Uma Thurman To Star in Movie Based On Kathy Cook’s Stolen Angels

Plastic Logic’s Forthcoming E-Book Reader Will Have the AT & T 3G Network, Wireless and the Barnes & Noble Electronic Store

Barnes & Noble Unveils Largest E-Book Store and here

Previously Unpublished Vonnegut Short Stories To Be Released On E-Book

How Amazon’s Remote Deletion of Orwell’s Work Paves the Way for Digital Book Banning

USA Today’s Best Selling List Now Includes Kindle Data

Authors

Gordon Burn – obituary

Stephen L. Carter – loves to keep his readers guessing

Eoin Colfer – video interview on how he’s approaching writing the 6th book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Walter Cronkite – obituary and LJ interview from 1996

E. Lynn Harris – obituary

Anne Graham Lotz – interview

Margaret McElderry – and cooking lobsters

Vladimir Nabokov – discusses Lolita (video)

Jack Vance – the genre artist, with devoted fans such as Michael Chabon and Ursula K. Le Guin

Randy Wayne White’s Florida

Teri Woods – interview

Lists

2009 Mythopoeic Awards

July Catholic Bestsellers

Indie Travel Literature Bestseller List

RITA Awards

Summer Reading—Historic Romances by Neal Wyatt

Summer, Not Dumber

Lighthearted Link of the Week

Jeff Stahler Cartoon

and another one here

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