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By Cindy Orr

This Week In Books

New Titles on the Week’s Most Wanted Mashup of Bestsellers:

Fiction

Frederick Forsyth – The Cobra

James Patterson and Liza Marklund – The Postcard Killers

Martin Cruz Smith – Three Stations

Lauren Weisberger – Last Night At Chateau Marmont

Nonfiction

Rhonda Byrne – The Power

Also, keep your eye on:

Robin Cook – The Cure

Felix and Dick Francis – Crossfire

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

Tommy Spaulding – It’s Not Just Who You Know

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:

Jennifer Crusie – Maybe This Time

Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood – Lost Empire: A Fargo Adventure

Loren D. Estleman – Frames

Jonathan Franzen – Freedom – one of the most anticipated books of the year

Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker – Howl: a Graphic Novel

Brenda Novak – Body Heat

Sara Paretsky – Body Work

Arturo Perez-Reverte – Pirates of The Levant

Steven Saylor – Empire

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 in honor of National Alcohol and Drug Recovery Month is Addiction Memoirs. 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:

PW says Mockingjay is the “best yet,” but LA Times not only breaks embargo by publishing their review early…it contains spoilers

Giving President Obama an ARC of Franzen’s Freedom early causes uproar and confusion

The 17 most innovative academic presses

More on Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner complaining that women don’t get their fair share of book reviews

Laura Lippman’s new book I’d Know You Anywhere sells 4,739 ebooks in the first week and 4,000 hardcovers

Could this be a replacement for ILL?

Random House and Wylie Agency call a truce over ebook rights

Are ebooks worth the money? (Finally a mainstream article at leasts mentions libraries.)

Are ereader devices changing reading habits?

10 reading revolutions before ebooks

Why Science Fiction?

Deep-fried Norman Mailer? Revisiting James Dickey’s Deliverance 40 years later

Publishers Weekly the latest to enter field of companies playing to self-publishers; and author J. A. Konrath thinks it’s a ripoff

So what’s this big behind-the-scenes brouhaha at Barnes & Noble all about?

Ebook readers encourage conversation

When is the last time you read fiction by a woman? (Real question put by the author…don’t know where the Atlantic headline came from.)

Canadian bookstore bans butt book

Keep your eye on The Long Ships by Frans G. Begtsson - rave review from Michael Chabon (“stands ready, given the chance, to bring lasting pleasure to every single human being on the face of the earth”) and Michael Dirda (ranks it right up there with “Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin naval adventures, Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances, the Flashman novels (and The Pyrates) of George MacDonald Fraser, Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander and its sequels, the Lymond Chronicles of Dorothy Dunnett, and, of course, the celebrated swashbucklers of Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini) Wow.

If you hear about the little 6-year-old who got a 23 book deal…well, read this

Banned Books grants available

Seth Godin becomes his own publisher

Art Garfunkle’s quite impressive Reading Log

The future of books according to science fiction

Sharper Image announces the Literati for October: a wireless color reader powered by Kobo for $159

Mystery Scene Magazine goes all color

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Books on Screen

Jim Carrey to star in Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Joe Hill’s comic book series Lock and Key to be a TV series developed by Stephen Spielberg

127 Hours…film version of Aron Ralston’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Awards

2009 World Fantasy Award Finalists

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

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Authors

Jose Luis Borges – who was he?

A. S. Byatt – women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural

Nancy Freedman – obituary

Jackson Gillis – obituary

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Lists

New York Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books for Fall

6 Books to Read After Mockingjay

Spy Novels by Real Spies (there are more than you think)

Books to Read After Checking Out the Egg Recall List

Science Fiction Books That Will Stand the Test of Time

The 10 Greatest Works of Christian Fiction

Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

Library justice: man clobbers thief with library books

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