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By Cindy Orr
Well, we’re into back-to-school mode all over the country, and that, along with the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, may just dictate which books to display in the next week or so.
Senator Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass will be released on September 14, one day before Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, but as you display books about the Kennedy family, don’t forget to add some fiction.
For instance, if you still have a copy of Taylor Caldwell’s Captains and the Kings, put it out there. When it was published, it was said that she based the story loosely on the life of family patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
Caldwell, being the character she was, said “no comment.” Either way, it’s a great story. Then there’s The Importance of Being Kennedy by Laurie Graham, or The Ambassador’s Son by Homer Hickam. You get the idea.
But I digress. On to the books of the week. We have four new titles on the bestseller lists…
Look to the right column for the complete Most Wanted Mashup for this week.
Our Under the Radar list this week is All in the Family: Biographies about Famous and Infamous Families. As always, you’ll find this list in the right column just under Most Wanted.
Our third weekly list is directly below this post, as usual. But here are some highlights from New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer, our list of notable books to be published in the next week:
Chelsea Cain – Evil at Heart
E.L. Doctorow – Homer & Langley
Christine Feehan – Dark Slayer
Richard North Patterson – The Spire
Jane Goodall – Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Don’t forget to check below for the complete list of titles you should expect in the next seven days.
And now, the news:
Q Does Jean Auel have any plans to release the long-awaited sixth book in her Earth’s Children series?
A “I think we can safely say she is close to finishing it,” says Jean Naggar, Auel’s longtime literary agent. “But I can’t guarantee it.” Writer’s block? No—pesky paleoanthropologists. “They’re all clamoring for her to come to their sites and find something that will inspire her.”
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