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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books

New Titles on This Week’s Most Wanted Mashup of Bestsellers

Fiction

Christina Dodd – Chains of Ice: The Chosen Ones (mass market)

Nora Roberts – The Search

Nonfiction

Drew Brees – Coming Back Stronger

Kendra Wilkinson – Sliding Into Home

To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup of this week’s bestselling titles, look to the righthand column.
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The New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries for the upcoming week include:

Cherry Adair – Black Magic (mass market)

Janet and Alex Evanovich – Troublemaker

Daniel Silva – The Rembrandt Affair

And just a few more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of noteworthy titles to be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is New Fantasy Books You May Have Missed. 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:

Setting of fourth Stieg Larsson book revealed

St. Martin’s reportedly losing Janet Evanovich over demand for $50 million for the next four books

Comic book publishers need to support libraries

How The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo got its cover…after 50 tries

Zondervan delays Palin biography for tweens indefinitely

Luxury Lit: $75,000 a title anyone? Oh yeah, and the ink contains real blood from the author. Oops. Sorry. Sold out.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux launches new newsletter with Susan Sontag archives, Jeffrey Eugenides interviewed by Jonathan Galassi, and much more

$1 Million in grant money available for Big Read projects

The Nanny Novel lives on

Beware: PublishAmerica changes its name

The Midlist: located between the “Brobdingnagian head (an increasing number of purchasers buying the same few lead titles)” and the “enormously attenuated tail (a tiny number of customers buying from a huge range of titles)”

Leading British historian admits faking reviews on Amazon, settles out of court

Another lawsuit claiming Harry Potter plagiarized another’s novel

See who you write like—for Margaret Atwood it was Stephen King; for me? Either H. P. Lovecraft (an article) or Vladimir Nabokov (a blog post). Okaaay. . .

The Picture Book Report has illustrations for artists’ favorite books including The Giver, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and others

BBC sells majority stake in BBC Audiobooks to AudioGo

New daily site: writers’ houses

Adult hardcover sales up 43.2% in May compared to last year

Vote for the best thrillers ever

Warren Buffett sends 1975 book up the charts

Deadline July 30 for Louisa May Alcott grant application

Billy Collins – “The critical difference between prose and poetry is that prose is kind of like water and will become the shape of any vessel you pour it into to. Poetry is like a piece of sculpture and can easily break.”

Lawsuits tie up royalties for The Shack

One-Upsmanship at the Patent Office: Microsoft filed secret patent that might affect Apple’s iPad and the Amazon Kindle, Amazon has one aimed at Barnes & Noble’s Nook

Library school student gets funding for video book reviews

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Books on Screen

Creator of TV version of True Blood to do HBO series based on Charlie Huston’s The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.

Starz Network’s 8-part miniseries of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth begins July 23

Kitty Kelley sells the rights to her Oprah biography to TV

Jack Black to turn My Life As an Experiment into sitcom

West Wing creator to turn Andrew Young’s The Politician into a John Edwards biopick

Ben Affleck to direct and star in The Town by Chuck Hogan

Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky to finally be a movie

Trying to read on the iPad at the beach

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Awards

Mythopoeic Awards

Shirley Jackson Awards

Japanese Akutagawa Award and Naoki Prize

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Authors

Samuel R. Delany – a preview of his next book

William Faulkner - his lectures at the University of Virginia are now online

Tess Gerritsen – blogs about libraries for Lesa’s Book Critiques

James P. Hogan – obituary

Shirley Jackson – why she was great

P. D. James – on the enduring appeal of detective fiction

Franz Kafka – lawyers open safety deposit boxes…hoping to find manuscripts

Juan Hernandez Luna – obituary

Iris Murdoch - her works released in e-book format

Harvey Pekar – obituary

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Lists

5 Best Summer Science Books

6 Great Novels on Work

Mismatched Duos for Summer Reading

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Lighthearted Links of the Week

The Old Spice Guy Talks About Libraries How it got started and The New Spice Guy library video

Flash Mob at the Seattle Public Library (video)

The Beverly Cleary Quiz

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