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RA Run Down

The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at rablog@lu.com.

By Cindy Orr

New on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week:

  • Dick and Felix Francis – Even Money
  • James Patterson and Richard DiLallo – Alex Cross’s Trial
  • Kathy Reichs – 206 Bones
  • Tracy Kidder – Strength in What Remains
  • T.R. Reid – The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

    • As you can see, we have a few titles new to the bestseller lists this week. As always, look to the right to see the complete list of the most popular books this week.

    In addition to that, some really exciting new titles will published in the next seven days including novels by Nicholas Sparks, Nicholson Baker, Anita Diamant, David Olen Butler, Lorrie Moore, and a new Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay. The talk of the BEA conference this summer was the graphic memoir Stitches by David Small. This one will be released in the next week as well.

    Then we have Shooting Stars by LeBron James the basketball superstar, and Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission John Farmer has written a book called The Ground Truth. Drawing on updated reports and information, he concludes that the failure to detect and prevent 9/11 lay in the dysfunctional bureaucratic government that was (and still is) a huge problem for the country.

    There you have just a sampling. For the complete New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer list of titles you should know about this week, scroll down to the next entry.

    For our Under the Radar list this week, Sarah Statz Cords, author of The Real Story, has a list called Take Me Away: Offbeat New Travel Titles. You’ll find that list in the right hand column just below the Most Wanted Mashup.

    And now, on to the news:

  • Hachette’s Embargo on Ted Kennedy’s Memoir Broken By the New York Times
  • Clues To Locations in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol Begin on Tuesday
  • Pennie Picks Linda Olsson’s Astrid & Veronika for Costco
  • Disney Buys Marvel
  • The One Book/One Community Phenomenon
  • Denver Picks To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Cover Makeovers Give New Life to Older Books
  • Stock Photos Result in Look-Alike Book Covers
  • FaceBook Quizzes Not As Private As You Might Think–The ACLU Will Show You
  • New Yorkers: Reading on the Subway (Full Disclosure, Our Friday Feature Planes, Trains, and Lanes Contributors Include At Least One New Yorker
  • Madoff Books Disappoint
  • Wikipedia to Color Code Trusted Entries
  • Malice Domestic Convention, Arlington, VA, April 30-May 2
  • ALA Advises Libraries About Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act on Lead Contained in Children’s Books
  • ALA and YALSA Accepting Applications for Great Stories CLUB Grants for Underserved Teens
  • Study Says Retail Store Closings to Double This Year, With Bookstores Hit Harder Than Most Categories
  • Free Panel Discussion: The Making and Dissemination of an Audiobook, September 15
  • Hollywood Studios Discuss How to Rent Movies on You Tube
  • Authors Guild: Amazon Accuses Someone Else of a Monopoly? Really?
  • Arizona Prison Sued for Denying Prisoners Books
  • NetFlix Offers Million Dollar Prize to Improve Their View-Alikes Algorithm

    • Books on Screen

  • New Movies in the Works for Nicholas Sparks
  • As Popular Actors Fail to Draw Crowds for Movies, Hollywood Turns to Favorite Books with Their Built-In Fan Base
  • Shutter Island Trailer
  • Amazon Will Replace Or Send a Check To Those Who Had Orwell’s Books Deleted from Their Kindles

    • Awards

  • PEN American Center Beyond Margins Awards
  • Guardian First Book Award Longlist

    • Authors

  • Raymond Carver – unpublished stories included in Library of America volume
  • E. L. Doctorow – at home
  • Celia Fremlin – obituary
  • Sheila Lukins – obituary
  • Joyce Carol Oates – on Ted Kennedy

  • Lindsay Patterson – obituary
  • Tom Ridge – backpedals on his own book
  • Guillermo Rosales - tragic Cuban writer
  • William G. Tapply – obituary

    • Lists

  • Wall Street Journal’s Fall Books Preview
  • October Indie Next List
  • What USA Today Critics Can’t Wait to Read
  • USA Today Interactive Calendar of Fall Books
  • 10 Graphic Novels for Labor Day
  • Diana Gabaldon Outlander Read-Alikes
  • LJ’s Fall Books Preview

    • Lighthearted Link of the Week

    MegaBeth, the Roller Derby Librarian—Number 796.21

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