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RA Run Down

The reader’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

Fiction:

  • David Baldacci – True Blue
  • Charlaine Harris – Grave Secret
  • John Irving – Last Night in Twisted River
  • Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson – The Gathering Storm

    • Nonfiction:

  • Timothy Egan – The Big Burn
  • Chuck Klosterman – Eating the Dinosaur
  • Bill Simmons – The Book of Basketball

    • To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup list of the titles new to this week’s bestseller lists, look to the righthand column.
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    Lots of New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week including:

  • Linda Howard – Ice
  • Stephen King – Under the Dome
  • Wally Lamb – Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story
  • Edward Rutherfurd – New York
  • Andre Agassi – Open
  • George Carlin – Last Words
  • Zadie Smith – Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

    • And many more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the our list of titles that will be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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    Our Under the Radar list this week is There’s a Book about That? New and Offbeat Nonfiction. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list, or click here.

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    And now on to the news of the week:

  • Eloise Moves from The Plaza to New York Public Library
  • Sarah Palin’s Unconventional Book Tour
  • The State of the Crime Novel
  • Is the Hardcover in Its Last Days?
  • LJ Christian Fiction Webcast
  • Price Wars in Context: What If You Could Buy New Movies for $5? No One Could Afford to Make New Movies
  • Comic Books Are Good for Children’s Learning
  • Booklist Romance Fiction in the Library Webinar
  • Brewster Kahle’s Bookserver: Universal Access to Digital Books
  • Price Wars, New Wrinkle: Prices Varying by the Hour
  • Is Glenn Beck the New Oprah for Thrillers?
  • Brad Thor Says Glenn Beck Is the Oprah of Thrillers
  • Is The Boss Working on His Autobiography?
  • Obama’s Half-Brothers Working on Books
  • Books on the iPhone
  • Borders to Close 200 Waldenbooks and Borders Outlet Stores
  • USA Today Guide to Publishing Your Own Book
  • NY Times Editor Compares Print Media to the Titanic
  • How Exactly Do Writers Write—Anecdotes from Hilary Mantel, Orhan Pamuk, Michael Ondaatje and Others
  • Triumph Rushes Yankee/World Series Book to Print
  • When the Store Doesn’t Have the Book, Borders Will Ship It for Free
  • As the Book Form Changes, Libraries Must Champion Their Power Base – The Reader
  • Borrowing from Bookstores Makes Libraries More Usable
  • Barnes and Noble’s Nook eBook Reader
  • Internet Archive Introduces BookServer eBook System

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    Books on Screen

  • Director of High Fidelity to Make Upcoming Memoir Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog
  • Patricia Highsmith’s Cry of the Owl Goes to the Screen in 2010
  • Hemingway and Fuentes, the Movie
  • All Star Coriolanus
  • YA novel The Secret History of Tom Trueheart To Be Feature Film
  • Bret Easton Ellis To Pen Series Adaptation of Jason Starr’s The Follower For HBO

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    Awards

  • IMPAC Dublin Award Longlist
  • Australia’s 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
  • World Fantasy Awards

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    Authors

  • Roberto Bolano – is not the next Gabriel Garcia Marquez, says his former friend and fellow novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya
  • John Irving - says his early works wouldn’t be published in today’s climate; worries about young writers
  • Lorrie Moore – “a lot of writers are watching musicians and the way they’ve bypassed the sinking music industry and struck out on their own”
  • Marie NDiaye – is the first woman in a decade and the first black woman ever to win the Prix Goncourt
  • Twitter Chats for Authors and Publishers
  • Rick Riordan – announces new series, The Kane Chronicles
  • Annie Proulx – donates papers to New York Public Library

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    Lists

  • NY Times Best Illustrated Children’s Picture Books of 2009
  • PW’s Best Children’s Books of 2009
  • NPR’s What We’re Reading
  • December Indie Next List
  • Bookmunch’s 50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2010
  • Amazon’s Top 100 Editors’ Picks
  • PW’s Best Books of 2009
  • All In: Poker Books

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    Lighthearted Link of the Week

  • 10 Coolest Bookends

    • and

  • Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest Results

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