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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week
No new nonfiction titles on the bestsellers lists this week.
In fiction, two new titles debuted this week:

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott – The Wrecker

James Patterson – I, Alex Cross

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:

Fiction:

Steve Berry – The Paris Vendetta

Sue Grafton – U is for Undertow

J.A. Jance – Trial By Fire

Colleen McCullough – Too Many Murders

Harry Turtledove - Liberating Atlantis

Nonfiction:

Lance Armstrong – Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal

Greg Mortenson – Stones Into Schools

Julie Powell – Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession

And many more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of noteworthy titles to be published this week, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is the first of our best of the year lists, Best Short Stories of 2009. 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:

A Guide to the Revised Google Books Settlement

National Book Award Winner Paperback to Be Released December 4

Some Readers Mix Up Palin Books Going Rogue and Going Rouge, As Intended By Authors of the Latter

Next David Sedaris Audio Release Will Be on Vinyl with No Corresponding Print Book

More Genre Wars: When Mystery Becomes Literary Fiction and Vice Versa

Al Roker Launches Mystery Series with Dick Lochte

Our Hunger for Cookbooks

Bathroom Book Sells for $171,000

The Tournament of Cookbooks

How Our Brains Learned to Read

How to Run a Short Story Book Club

Checking Out Graphic Novel Circulation

Borders UK On the Verge of Bankruptcy

Publishers Fight the Web With Behemoth Cookbooks

Entrepreneur Ushered in Renaissance of Pop-Up Books in the 1960s

Author Suggests We Boycott Books Until Publishers Stop With the Celebrity “Authors” Already, or, in the alternative, MediaBistro Offers Its Celebrity Book Toolkit

President Obama’s Mother’s Dissertation To Be Published

Bloomberg Press Closes

Will Oprah’s Hiatus Be a Huge Blow for Publishing?

Rupert Murdoch Will Likely Block Google’s Spiders from Indexing His News Sites

Forge Still Has Elmer Kelton Titles to Publish

It’s Not the End of the World: The Similarity Between E-Books and Mass Market Paperbacks As Emerging Formats

Roz Reisner’s Read On: Life Stories

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Books on Screen

FX Captures Cable Rights to Twilight Series

Tommy Lee Jones Leaves Lincoln Lawyer Team

New Moon Sets All-Time Record for Opening Day Sales

Kindle vs. Sony Reader: Do Library Checkouts Give Sony an Edge?

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Awards

Costa Book Awards

Booktrust Teenage Prize Goes to Gaiman’s Graveyard Book

While Fantasy Is Popular with Teens, Many Read Much Stronger Stuff

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Authors

Raymond Carver – reviewed by Stephen King; you’ll never think of Carver the same way again

Bernice McFadden – talks about “seg-book-gation” in publishing

Bill Moyers – will leave his weekly show

Alice Munro – podcast interview

Jim Sutton – obituary

Jeffrey Zaslow – writes books about humble heroes

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Lists

Janet Maslin’s Top Ten Books of 2009

Globe & Mail – Margaret Cannon’s Top 11 Crime Books

Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books

NPR’s 11 Best Cookbooks of 2009

Blackwell’s Top Ten Books of the Decade

IndieNext December Notables

Indie Comics & Graphic Works Bestseller List

New York Times Gift Book Suggestions

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009

Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2009

Dwight Garner’s Top 10 Books of 2009

Cuyahoga County Public Library Great Books for Kids

New York Times Best 2009 Graphic Novels

Telegraph Books of the Year

New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009

Hudson Booksellers 2009 Best Airport Books

Horn Book Best New Holiday Books

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

Best You Tube Librarian Videos

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