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By Cindy Orr
This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week
Fiction:
Charlaine Harris – A Touch of Dead
Jonathan Kellerman – Evidence
Robert B. Parker – The Professional
Jeannette Walls – Half Broke Horses
Nonfiction: Nothing new this week
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup look to the righthand column.
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Lots of New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries again this week including:
Patricia Cornwell – The Scarpetta Factor
Iris Johansen – Blood Game
Karen Kingsbury – Shades of Blue
Orhan Pamuk – The Museum of Innocence
Danielle Steel – Southern Lights
Timothy Egan – The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
William J. Mann – How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
And many more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of noteworthy books to be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is Rainy Day Comfort Reads. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list.
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And now on to the news of the week:
Dean Koontz Signs for Three More Frankenstein Novels, This Time in Hardcover
The Hottest Book At the Frankfurt Book Fair—Nelson Mandela’s Diaries
Random Settles Lawsuit With Christie’s Wine Expert and Apologizes for Billionaire’s Vinegar, But the Author Is Unrepentant
New York Times Discovers Digital Lending in Libraries—Just a Few Years Late and here
Burglar Steals Proof Copy of The Lost Symbol in Icelandic
The Battle of Two Viet Nam Books Affects Decisions on the Afghan War
Neil Gaiman Will Be Honorary Chairman of National Library Week
PLA Announces All Star Line-Up for 2010 Conference
New Cover Art Trend: Crouching Heroine, Hidden Midriff
Interview With RWA Librarian of the Year
Dominican University Library School Established Ph.D Program
6-Country Simultaneous Laydown Planned for Ken Follett’s Next Book
Beware: Just Because It’s a Thomas Nelson Book Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Self-Published more here and another view here
Redefining RA: the Ideal Tool
The Story of Poisoned Pen Bookstore and Press
Afghanistan’s Completely Virtual Museum
Google Books from the Viewpoint of Sergey Brin, Co-Founder
Is David Small’s Stitches Really a YA Book?
Wal-Mart Starts Price War on Books, Amazon Responds
The Kakutani Two-Step
Hope for the Midlist: Little Brown to Launch a New Crime Imprint in Paperback
Mr. Rochester vs. Mr. Darcy
Is Browsing a Dying Art?
Huffington Post Book Editor Explains What the New Section Is and Is Not: It Isn’t a Book Review Section; It’s a Place for Authors and Publicists to Blog About Books and Start Conversation With HufPo Readers
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Books on Screen
Why E-Books Are Hot and Getting Hotter
Disney’s A Christmas Carol Has Started Promotional Blitz
Tommie Lee Jones Wants to Direct and Star in The Lincoln Lawyer
Roman Polanski Continues to Work on the Film Version of Robert Harris’s Ghost from Prison
Ridley Scott/Columbia Pictures to Remake David Peace’s Red Riding
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Awards
Annabel Lyon and Alice Munro Vie for Governor’s Prize Along with Others
McCavity Awards Announced At Bouchercon, Winners Include Deborah Crombie, Stieg Larsson, Rhys Bowen and Others
Shamus Awards
Anthony Awards
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Authors
Margaret Atwood – interview
Nevada Barr - interview
Raymond Federman – obituary
Jonathan Safran Foer – on his new book
Ken Follett – starts new series next fall following five interrelated families from different countries through WWI and the Russian Revolution
John Irving – interview
Jon Krakauer - on how his first publisher tried to brand him as a mountaineering writer
Harvey Pekar – happy 70th birthday
Ruth Reichl – on the end of Gourmet
Damon Runyon – tribute
Maurice Sendak, Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze – on Where the Wild Things Are – exclusive
Sully Sullenberger – relives that awful day and talks about life after fame
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Lists
USA Today’s Top 20 Sellers for the Third Quarter
LJ: 19 Christmas Reads by Rebecca Vnuk
Top 6 Vampire Books
Top 10 Romantic Fiction
Top 10 Most Pirated Books of 2009
Bookmarks Magazine 101 Crackerjack Sea Books_____________________________________________
Lighthearted Link of the Week
Enter Your Pet In the Critterati Literary Character Costume Contest
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