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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books:

Booksellers open till midnight Monday for Mockingjay

New Titles on This Week’s Most Wanted Mashup

Fiction

Sandra Brown – Tough Customer

W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV – The Vigilantes

Linda Howard - Veil of Night

Nonfiction

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker – The Mentor Leader

Mass Market Originals

Lorna Barrett – Chapter & Hearse (A Booktown Mystery)

Suzanne Brockmann – Infamous

Jeaniene Frost – Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress)

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:

Terry Brooks – Bearers of the Black Staff

Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay

Kathy Reichs – Spider Bones

Elie Wiesel – The Sonderberg Case

James Baldwin – The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

Scott Simon – Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

And many 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 History Titles 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:

Why should we celebrate Jonathan Franzen? Because books matter

The chart of fantasy cover art subjects

This year’s 10 highest paid authors

A Man’s Guide to Eat, Pray, Love

Reading Group Guides big 10th anniversary contest for book groups

Authors to go on USO tour

Jodi Picoult thinks the New York Times favors “white male literary darlings”, and Jennifer Weiner says “Carl Hiassen doesn’t have to choose between getting a Times review and being a bestseller. Why should I? Oh, right. #girlparts,” meanwhile… Fairiness and Accuracy in Reporting says the NY Times has “an exceedingly narrow view of who’s books deserve review and who is fit to discuss them.”

How do you read? In sips, or gulps?

Okay…is the choice really between going catatonic or reading something difficult?

When book recommendations go wrong

Man Booker longlist author thinks current European fiction is dry and academic

What prisoners are reading in Guantanamo—including Dan Brown and Harry Potter in Arabic

Choose Your Own Adventure gets a makeover

USA Today disses Rhonda Byrne’s The Power while the Wall Street Journal wonders if the book can sell as many copies as The Secret in this economy

Love and Magic: Trends in Romance—free webinar Wednesday September 8

ebook summit: Libraries At the Tipping Point September 29 $29.95

RUSA online course: RA 101 by Joyce Saricks – $130

Check your copies of Eat, Pray, Love…sales are soaring again because of the movie

New Indian library appropriately named after S. R. Ranganathan

Farewell Libraries?

The guy behind Goodreads.com

Was Quasimodo a real person?

Average of public libraries providing ebooks – 65.9%

Into the Wild fan dies trying to reach the bus where McCandless died

The personal approach is what will keep independent bookstores alive

Statistical profile of book buyers

Censorship flack in Texas has YA authors boycotting festival

A real Percy Jackson-like summer camp

Dorothy Seymour Mills finally gets author credit for baseball books published by Oxford University Press

Will there be a <$100 ebook reader for Christmas? Looks like Kobo may have one

The futures of the book

Kansas City Public Library’s awesome parking garage

Emma Thompson to write new Peter Rabbit book set in Scotland

Deadline November 15 for the Pimp My Bookcart competition

Speaking up for the print book

Barnes & Noble is in trouble because it didn’t evolve quickly enough

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Books on Screen

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie: Lisbeth Salander cast

James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Howl (trailer)

Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams to star in On the Road

Ellen Burstyn, True Blood’s Ellen Ann Woll cast in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Idris Elba to play Alex Cross

Movie The Switch is a safe version of Eugenides short story

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Awards

Nevada Barr receives National Parks Conservation Society Award

Geraldine Brooks wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Thurber Award Finalists

James Tait Memorial Prizes

German Book Prize Longlist

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Authors

Margaret Atwood - interview (she freely admits to writing “speculative fiction,” which she calls a subset of science fiction)

Ray Bradbury – how to live to be 90 (video)

Robert A. Heinlein – Tor is hosting an online symposium in his honor

Frank Kermode – obituary

Ludvik Kundera – obituary

Laura Lippman – interview

Rick Moody – “Writers are more desperate than any time since I’ve been watching what’s been happening closely.” (video)

Edwin Morgan – obituary

Ian Rankin – criticizes his own early works

J. D. Salinger’s toilet is for sale for $1 million

Kurt Vonnegut – museum to open in Indianapolis

Betty White – signs a 2-book deal at age 88

Jeanette Winterson – hits out at threats to libraries

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Lists

Back to Reality: Nonfiction for Summer’s End

8 Great Literary Love Affairs

The Winners: NPR’s Listeners Choose the Top 100 Thrillers

Best Books on Pakistan

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

11 great librarian movies

Outrage builds over plans to build library next to Sarah Palin

Find a date based on your reading tastes

Better Book Titles

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