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RA Run Down

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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, but no new nonfiction:

Fiction

  • Joe Hill – Horns
  • Henning Mankell – The Man from Beijing
  • Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport

    • To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup for this week, look to the righthand column.
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    The Spring flood of books is starting, with a huge list of new New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries for this week including:

  • Robert Coover – Noir
  • Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  • John McPhee – Silk Parachute
  • Jodi Picoult – House Rules
  • Mitt Romney – No Apology
  • Kate White – Hush

    • … 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. And for those who use this list as a double check on purchasing, we’ve added ISBN for your convenience.
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    Our Under the Radar list this week is Historical Novels, Strong Women. 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:

  • Book by Mark McGwire’s Brother Says He Took Steroids for Strength, Not Health
  • Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer…First Children’s Book by John Grisham
  • April Bio on Obama to Have 200,000 Print Run
  • Arianna Huffington’s Theory of Book Reviews
  • Will Dustjackets Disappear?
  • The Components of a Novel That Readers Care About, In Order, Are Story, Characters, Theme, Atmosphere/Setting
  • Casanova’s Uncensored Diaries Sell for £4 Million
  • Who Is the Next Face of Boston Crime Fiction?
  • Library Journal Mystery Survey for Librarians
  • The Joy of Browsing
  • Conservative Scandalized by “Socialist Books” in White House Library Told They Were Added by Jackie Kennedy, Not Michelle Obama
  • Three Days Before the Shooting . . . The Unfinished Second Novel by Ralph Ellison
  • Finalists for Oddest Book Title Award
  • Last Train from Hiroshima Author Duped; Book to Be Corrected
  • E-Book Sales Up 176.6% in 2009
  • Nintendo’s New Handheld to Include 100 Classic Books for $20
  • Has Genre Become Irrelevant?
  • PLA Leadership Fellows Program
  • Ratings by Common Sense on Barnes and Noble Site Raises Questions
  • The Most Amazing Libraries
  • Penguin’s Tattoo-Inspired Book Covers

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    Books on Screen

  • The 39 Steps on PBS
  • Ethan Hawke to Star in Douglas Kennedy’s The Woman in the Fifth
  • PBS Reinventing Sherlock Holmes
  • Peony in Love Screenwriter Signed
  • True Grit Remake
  • Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks Goes to Fox
  • Movie Version of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Novels Pushes Books to Top of US Today’s Bestseller List
  • The Little Prince to be a Movie
  • Anthony Hopkins to Star in The Rite
  • HBO’s The Pacific Based on Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie and With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

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    Awards

  • PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees
  • Nebula Awards Final Ballot
  • Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

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    Authors

  • James Frey – now writing under many pseudonyms
  • Seth Grahame-Smith – “the luckiest freelancer in the world”
  • Jim Harmon - obituary
  • Edward G. Holley – obituary
  • Rex Nettleford – obituary
  • Patrick O’Connor – obituary
  • Salman Rushdie – gets closer to writing about his life in hiding
  • Tasha Tudor’s Children Fight Over Her Estate
  • Colin Ward – obituary
  • Herman Wouk – will release his first nonfiction book in over a decade
  • 39 Steps on Masterpiece Theater
  • Harriet the Spy in a Blog War?

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    Lists

  • LJ Spring Picks
  • Margo Adler’s Top 75 Vampire Books (and why we read them)
  • College Bestsellers
  • Independent Booksellers Biography and Memoir Bestseller List
  • Top Ten Jobs in Fiction

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    Lighthearted Link of the Week

  • LitKicks Mystery: Can You Identify This Site from a Famous Book?

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