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By Cindy Orr
This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup
There are five titles new to the bestseller lists this week:
Fiction:
Michael Connelly – Nine Dragons
Vince Flynn – Pursuit of Honor
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
Non-Fiction:
Michael Jackson – Moonwalk
Chesley B. Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow – Highest Duty
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup look to the righthand column.
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There are some really big names among our New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week, including several biographies:
Paul Auster – Invisible
David Baldacci – True Blue
John Irving – Last Night in Twisted River
Penelope Lively- Family Album
Gregory Maguire – Matchless: A Christmas Story
Anne Rice – Angel Time
Nora Roberts – Bed of Roses
Augusten Burroughs – You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Anne C. Heller – Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Harriet Reisen – Louisa May Alcott – The Woman Behind Little Women
Jean Sasson, Omar bin Laden, & Najwa bin Laden – Growing Up bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
William Shawcross – The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
And 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 Sail Away. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list of really good reads about sailing—fiction and nonfiction.
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And now on to the news of the week:
Going Rogue or Going Rouge? There’s a Big Difference
Sarah Palin to Appear on Oprah’s Show
Wal-Mart Starts Price War on Books–Joined by Amazon and Target and Still Ongoing. . . Independent Booksellers Try to Stay Above the Fray. . . ABA Asks Justice Department to Investigate
ALA Not Pleased with Proposed Changes to Patriot Act
First 2500 Copies of Gregory Maguire’s New Book Will Be Free
Best Practices for Your Large Print Collection
Patricia Cornwell Sues Accountant for Stealing $40 Million
E-Books Sell More Than Audio
Lynda La Plante Pleads With Publishers to Stop Publishing Celebrity Books
The Next J. K. Rowling Discovered Down Under?
Will There Be Book Publishers in 10 Years?
How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
Don’t Miss Read.gov, the New Site from the Center for the Book
What Comes After Vampires and Zombies? Postapocalypse
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Books on Screen
DreamWorks Picks Up Wicked Series by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
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Awards
T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist
Anthony Award Winners
Man Asian Literary Award Shortlist
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Authors
Judy Blume – honored by National Coalition Against Censorship
Scott Brick – on his new company and forthcoming novel
A. S. Byatt – interview
Jonathan Safran Foer – interview
Ursula K. LeGuin – happy 85th birthday
Federico Garcia Lorca – have they finally found his body?
Norma Fox Mazer – obituary
Stephenie Meyer – webcast
Philip Roth – video interview with Tina Brown
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Lists
Indie Book Stores Science Fiction and Fantasy Bestsellers
Library Journal’s First Look At New Books
Top 10 Polish Novels
Forgotten Books
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Lighthearted Link of the Week
Library Stacks Humor
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