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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

This Week In Books

New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week

There are three novels new to the bestseller lists this week, and three nonfiction books.

Fiction:

  • Richard Castle – Heat Wave
  • Patricia Cornwell – The Scarpetta Factor
  • Danielle Steel - Southern Lights

    • Nonfiction:

  • Malcolm Gladwell – What the Dog Saw
  • Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - Superfreakonomics
  • Andrew Ross Sorkin – Too Big to Fail

    • To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup listing the books your patrons will be asking for this week, look to the righthand column.
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    Lots of New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week. Get these books on the shelf, folks. They’ll be in the bookstores this week.

  • Sandra Brown – Rainwater
  • Jennifer Chiaverini – A Quilter’s Holiday
  • John Grisham – Ford County: Stories
  • Sue Henry – The End of the Road
  • Barbara Kingsolver – The Lacuna
  • J.D. Robb – Kindred in Death
  • Jeff Shaara - No Less Than Victory
  • Ken Auletta - Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
  • Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals
  • Annie Leibovitz - A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005
  • Joel Osteen - It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams, and Increase in God’s Favor
  • David Plouffe – The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory

    • And many more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list, or click here.
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    Our Under the Radar list this week is Words of Wisdom? Presidential Speeches. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this week’s list.

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    And now on to the news of the week:

  • Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Set for March
  • What the Book Price War Means and How Powell’s Books Sees It
  • Oprah Book Club Discusses Say You’re One of Them in Simulcast Monday November 9
  • Random House Cancels Book by Imprisoned NBA Referee
  • Library Patron Crosses Out Naughty Words
  • What Do Teens Want to Read?
  • Follow Newberry and Caldecott Awards Live Online
  • Fans Line Up to Buy Next Installment of Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series
  • Roker Picks Where the Mountain Meets the Moon for His Children’s Book Club
  • The Rise of the Neuronovel
  • Tribune Owner Says Newspapers Can’t Survive but Daniel Gross Says, “Chillax, Folks!”
  • Pennie Picks Kingsolver’s The Lacuna for Costco
  • Webinar: The State of the Romance Genre in Libraries
  • Japan to Create Manga Library
  • Barnes and Noble Will Likely Close Stores
  • Introduction of E-Books in British Libraries Leads to Surge in Memberships
  • The Short Story Faces a Difficult Future
  • Castro’s Sister Says in New Book That She Worked for the CIA Against Her Brother
  • Hyperion Postpones December Books After Sweat Lodge Deaths

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    Books on Screen

  • Eggers Zeitoun Heads to Animation
  • Ang Lee Takes Life of Pi to the Big Screen—Hmm, Will It Be a Crouching Tiger?
  • Dry by Augusten Burroughs Will Be a Movie

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    Awards

  • Goldman Business Book Award
  • Whiting Writers’ Awards
  • Dagger Awards
  • Ellis Peters Historical Award

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    Authors

  • Margaret Atwood – goes totally green on her book tour
  • Bourdain vs. Foer – guess who wins?
  • Lionel Davidson – obituary
  • Charles de Lint – interview
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald – a peek at his tax returns
  • John Grisham – excerpt from his new book
  • Ernest Hemingway – Kennedy Library gets his papers from Cuba
  • John Keats – his horrible death, thanks to the doctor
  • Stephen King – pens a comic book
  • Alice Munro – talks about her cancer
  • Ayn Rand – more relevant than ever—according to Mark Sanford—yes, the Mark Sanford from the old Appalachian Trail
  • Maurice Sendak - to parents worried about Where the Wild Things Are: “Go to hell.”
  • J. R. R. Tolkien – makes Forbes list of top earning dead celebrities
  • E. B. White – “I hate the guts of English grammar.”
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder – surprising editorial change to Little House on the Prairie

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    Lists

  • Ten Years of Great November Reads
  • IndieBound November Notables
  • PW’s Top Ten Books of 2009
  • Amazon’s Best Books of 2009 Countdown
  • Hair-Raising Reads
  • Christian Marketplace Bestsellers
  • Five Best Books About New York Society

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    Lighthearted Link of the Week

  • Ten Surprising Former Librarians

    • and

  • Critterati Pet Literary Costume Contest Winners

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