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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week

Fiction

Joanne Fluke – The Apple Turnover Murder

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – 4th of July

J. D. Robb – Fantasy in Death

Danielle Steel – Big Girl

Nonfiction

Robert Rosenberg – Making Toast

To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup of this week’s top bestsellers, look to the righthand column.
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Lots of New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week including:

Clive Cussler – The Silent Sea

Linda A. Fairstein – Hell Gate

Sebastian Faulks – A Week in December

Chang-rae Lee – The Surrendered

Jo Nesbo – The Devil’s Star

Lionel Shriver – So Much for That

And many more…there’s a long list this week. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of hot titles to be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is Discussable Women’s Fiction: New Titles Good for Book Clubs. 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:

Holt Stops Production of Last Train to Hiroshima, Will Accept Returns

USA Today on Classic Mashups

Pennie Picks Aryn Kyle’s The God of Animals for Costco

ALA Conference Preliminary Program

Jon Stewart Returns to BEA, Will Introduce Condoleezza Rice

Karl Rove Memoir Contents Leaked Early

The Power of Staff Picks

Teenage Novelist Prides Herself on Plagiarism

Wal-Mart’s Huge Children’s Book Sale

Latest Entry in the Obama Book Club: The Life of Pi

Chicago Picks Brooklyn

Katie Couric Interviews Book Club Members About The Help

Freelance Writers Get Long Delayed Court Decision On Electronic Rights

Abu Dhabi Thinks It Has the Future Library Concept

Sarah Palin Will Do Second Book

Laura Bush Memoir Due in Early May

Barnes & Noble to Test Bundling E-Book with Print Book

Self-Publishing Still a Growth Industry

“Wall to Wall Gray,” an Addicted Readers Gives Up Books for a Week

Lambda Literary Foundations Launches Website

Writers Pick Favorite Books of the Decade

Judging Books By Their Covers

Borders to Lay Off 742

LJ Survey: Mysteries in Libraries

Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History

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Books on Screen

Pet Sematary Remake

Robert De Niro to Star in The Dark Fields

Film Adaptation of Headhunters by Jules Bass

Starz Nabs Pillars of the Earth

Tim Burton May Do Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Oprah to Take Precious to TV

Incarceron Goes to Fox in Bidding War

HBO Confirms Game of Thrones for Pilot and Nine Episodes Next Spring

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Awards

The Story Prize Goes to Daniyal Mueenuddin

Ellery Queen Mystery Awards

Barnes & Noble Discover Awards

Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award Finalists

International Prize for Arabic Fiction

American History Book Prize

Indies Choice Book Awards Voting Opens

NAACP Image Awards

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Authors

Arnold Beichman – obituary

Terry Brooks – sells three more Shannara novels

Clive Cussler - strange legal battle…did he win or lose?

Dave Eggers – why do so many hate him?

Rose Gray – obituary

Barry Hannah and writers remember him – obituary

Mervyn Jones – obituary

Ursula K. Le Guin – interview

Sam Lipsyte – interview

Carlos Montemayor – obituary

R. A. Scotti – obituary

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Lists

April Indie Next List

Atlantic Book Awards Finalists

Classic Steampunk Titles

LJ Best Business Books of 2009

27 Graphic Novels for Women’s History Month

The 100 Best Crime Books Ever Written

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

Books Marketed in Cigarette Packaging

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