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Sunday, May 29th, 2011

The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

By Cindy Orr

New Titles On the Bestseller Lists



Fiction
THE JEFFERSON KEY, by Steve Berry
THE FINAL STORM, by Jeff Shaara

Nonfiction
WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?, by Jerome R. Corsi
AREA 51, by Annie Jacobsen
THE PSYCHOPATH TEST, by Jon Ronson
ON CHINA, by Henry Kissinger
TO END ALL WARS, by Adam Hochschild

Original Paperbacks
NAKED HEAT, by Richard Castle
ONE SECOND AFTER, by William R. Forstchen
ONE MAGIC MOMENT, by Lynn Kurland
CLASSIFIED AS MURDER, by Miranda James
MURDER UNDER COVER, by Kate Carlisle

Graphic Books
BATMAN & ROBIN, VOL. 3, by Grant Morrison and others
PAYING FOR IT, by Chester Brown
PINOCCHIO, by Winshluss
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN, VOL. 2
NEGIMA! MAGISTER NEGI MAGI, VOL. 29
SHUGO CHARA!, VOL. 10, by Peach-Pit
FAIRY TAIL, VOL. 13, by Hiro Mashima
BIOMEGA, VOL. 6, by Tsutomu Nihei

For the best links to this week’s bestsellers broken down into formats and categories, Most Wanted: Bestseller Links look to the righthand column.

To Be Published This Week:

  • Lori Foster – Trace of Fever – 9780373775750 – 350,000
  • Christie Golden – The Shattering – 9781439172742 – 125,000
  • Steve Martini – Trader of Secrets (Paul Madriani) – 9780061930232 – 250,000 One-day laydown
  • Linda Lael Miller – Creed’s Honor – 9780373775804 – 768,800
  • Alexis Morgan – The Darkness Beyond (Paladin) – 9781439176054 – 150,000
  • Sharon Sala – Blood Ties (mass market) – 9780778312642 – 122,900
  • Lynsay Sands - The Reluctant Vampire (Argeneau Vampire Series #15)
  • Lisa See – Dreams of Joy – 9781400067121
  • Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow – 9780425242094 – 100,000
  • Karin Slaughter – Fallen – 9780345528209
  • Sherryl Woods – Beach Lane (mass market) – 9780778329893 – 555,000
  • Barbara Sinatra – Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank – 9780307382337 – 125,000
  • Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling) – 9780425242094
  • Gertrude Stein – To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays (picture book) – 9780300170979
  • Tim Tebow – Through My Eyes – 9780062007285 – 200,000
  • Kurt Vonnegut – Novels & Stories 1963-1973 – 9781598530988
  • Oscar Hijuelos – Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir – 9781592406296

    • This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list.

    Under the Radar List

    Look to the right hand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for our Under the Radar List. This week it’s New Celebrity Memoirs.

    News of the Week:

    Amazon hires veteran Time Warner publisher Larry Kirshbaum to build up its new publishing division

    Unbelievable: Disney applied for a trademark on the phrase “Seal Team 6″ two days after Osama bin Laden was killed by the US Navy’s Seal Team 6. The application covers clothing, toys, games, and much more; while a spokesperson from Disney says their intentions were misunderstood

    Publishers Weekly sets up firewall; digital version will be embargoed for nonsubscribers until 3 weeks after it appears in print; reviews available to subscribers only

    Google eBooks Now Sold at 250 Indie Bookstores

    Queens Library has stopped buying new books this year because of drastic budget cuts

    Barry Eisler won’t self-publish his next book as he first announced (and for which he turned down a $500K advance from his traditional publisher). Instead, he will be published by Amazon’s new publishing division.

    USA Today’s Top 150 gets a new look

    James Patterson to end Maximum Ride series

    Seems like Harper Lee did grant interviews to her biographer after all

    Librarians at BEA speak out about eBooks

    Literary authors jump on the supernatural band wagon

    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor receives a $1.174 million advance for a memoir from Knopf

    Sterling buys rights to out-of-print back list of books by Alistair Maclean and Len Deighton…a total of 57 titles

    Booksellers’ handselling dos and don’ts

    Oprah Winfrey will try to develop a show for books and authors on her new network OWN

    Editors’ BEA picks and Top 26 books at BEA plus The ten hottest prospects of BEA and
    The big books of BEA and PW’s version

    A country without libraries

    Five lessons I learned from mystery novels

    3M to launch library eBook program at ALA

    Books on Screen

    First trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

    Upcoming literary adaptations for summer: Mr. Popper’s Penguins and more

    Awards



    Nebula Award Winners

    UK Crime Fest Awards

    Gary Shteyngart is first American to win the Wodehouse Prize

    Audie Award winners

    Lambda Literary Award winners

    1st Annual Indie Booksellers Choice Awards Shortlist

    John Banville wins Kafka Prize–thought by some to be a precurson to a Nobel prize

    Authors

    Rick Riordan – on the next big book in his Heroes of Olympus series: The Son of Neptune

    Gil Scott-Heron – obituary

    Dick Wimmer – obituary

    Lists



    Beach Books of Summer

    Summer Reads

    Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestsellers List

    The 5 biggest-selling books in the movies

    Books to Bury Yourself In (summer reading)

    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    A Field Guide to the Flora and Fauna of BEA

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    Under the Radar: New Celebrity Memoirs

    Saturday, May 28th, 2011
    • Judi Dench–And Furthermore
    • Tina Fey–Bossypants
    • Sammy Hagar–Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
    • Ashley Judd–All That Is Bitter and Sweet
    • Rob Lowe–Stories I Only Tell My Friends
    • Shirley MacLaine–I’m Over All That: And Other Confessions
    • Steven Tyler–Does the Noise In My Head Bother You?
    • Shania Twain–From This Moment On
    • Dick Van Dyke–My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business
    • Betty White–If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)
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    New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer

    Saturday, May 28th, 2011
    SELECTED BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED THE WEEK OF MAY 30 – JUNE 5:

    TUESDAY FICTION

  • Ilona Andrews – Magic Slays (mass market) – 9780441020423
  • Marie Bostwick – Threading the Needle (Cobbled Quilt Series #4)(mass market) – 9780758232175
  • Jude Deveraux – Scarlet Nights (Edilean Novel) – 9781439107997
  • Kristina Douglas – Demon – 9781439191934
  • Lori Foster – Trace of Fever – 9780373775750 – 350,000
  • Christie Golden – The Shattering – 9781439172742 – 125,000
  • Michael Griffith – Trophy – 9780810152182
  • Stacey Jay – Dead on the Delta – 9781439189863
  • Tayari Jones – Silver Sparrow – 9781565129900
  • Christie Kelley – One Night Scandal – 9781420108781
  • Francois Lelord – Hector and the Secrets of Love – 9780143119470 – 100,000
  • Life Magazine – LIFE The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: Expanded, Commemorative Edition – 9781603202169
  • Steve Martini – Trader of Secrets (Paul Madriani) – 9780061930232 – 250,000 One-day laydown
  • Laurel McKee – Lady of Seduction – 9780446544771 – 80,000
  • Linda Lael Miller – Creed’s Honor – 9780373775804 – 768,800
  • Alexis Morgan – The Darkness Beyond (Paladin) – 9781439176054 – 150,000
  • Yvonne Navarro – Concrete Savior – 9781439191972
  • Julia Quinn – Just Like Heaven (mass market) – 9780061491900
  • Sharon Sala – Blood Ties (mass market) – 9780778312642 – 122,900
  • Lynsay Sands - The Reluctant Vampire (Argeneau Vampire Series #15)
  • Lisa See – Dreams of Joy – 9781400067121
  • Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow – 9780425242094 – 100,000
  • Karin Slaughter – Fallen – 9780345528209
  • Haley Tanner – Vaclav & Lena – 9781400069316
  • Sherryl Woods – Beach Lane (mass market) – 9780778329893 – 555,000

    • TUESDAY NONFICTION

  • Roberto Bolaño, Ignacio Echevarria, and Natasha Wimmer – Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 – 9780811218146
  • Andrew Bolton et al. – Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty – 9780300169782
  • David Browne - Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 – 9780306818509
  • Keith Donohue – Centuries of June – 9780307450289
  • David Eagleman – Incognito: The Brains Behind the Mind – 9780307377333
  • Wyclef Jean and Anthony Bozza – Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story – 9780061966866
  • Jeff Madrick – Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present – 9781400041718
  • Alice Ozma – The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared – 9780446583770
  • Willie Randolph – Rising Son: The Mets, the Yankees, and My Journey to the Big Leagues – 9780061450778
  • William C. Rempel – At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel – 9781400068371
  • Matt Richtel – Devil’s Plaything – 9780061999697
  • Barbara Sinatra – Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank – 9780307382337 – 125,000
  • Nalini Singh – Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling) – 9780425242094
  • Gertrude Stein – To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays (picture book) – 9780300170979
  • Tim Tebow – Through My Eyes – 9780062007285 – 200,000
  • Richard White – Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America – 9780393061260
  • Louisa Young – My Dear I Wanted to Tell You – 9780061997143
  • Fareed Zakaria – The Post-American World (Release 2.0) – 9780393081800

    • WEDNESDAY FICTION

  • Grace Burrowes – The Soldier (Mass Market) – 9781402245671
  • Peter Guttridge – The Last King of Brighton – 9780727880093
  • Barbara Hambly – The Shirt On His Back (Benjamin January Mysteries) – 9780727880109
  • Kate Sedley – The Midsummer Crown – 9780727880192
  • Kiki Swinson – Who’s Notorious Now – 9781934157312

    • WEDNESDAY NONFICTION

  • G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher – Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (poetry) – 9781934414484
  • Andrew Finkel – Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know – 978-0199733040
  • Robert Harvey – Bolivar: The Liberator of South America – 9781616083168
  • Alberto Herráiz – Paella – 9780714860824
  • Michael Hastings – The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan – 9780316176255
  • Madeline Walker – The Whale Whisperer: Healing Messages from the Animal Kingdom to Help Mankind and the Planet – 9781844095377

    • THURSDAY FICTION

  • Sara Gran – Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead – 9780547428499
  • Laura Harrington - Alice Bliss – 9780670022786
  • Patricia McArdle - Farishta – 9781594487965
  • Tom McNeal – To Be Sung Underwater – 9780316127394
  • Liane Moriarty – What Alice Forgot – 9780399157189
  • Darren Shan – City of the Snakes – 9780446573474 – 60,000
  • Kurt Vonnegut – Novels & Stories 1963-1973 – 9781598530988

    • THURSDAY NONFICTION

  • Oscar Hijuelos – Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir – 9781592406296
  • Louisa Thomas – Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family–a Test of Will and Faith in WWI – 9781594202940
  • Simon Tofield – Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence – 9780446560078

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

    The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr

    New Titles On the Bestseller Lists


    Fiction
    BURIED PREY, by John Sandford
    THE SNOWMAN, by Jo Nesbo
    THOSE IN PERIL, by Wilbur Smith
    2030, by Albert Brooks

    Nonfiction
    LIES THAT CHELSEA HANDLER TOLD ME, by Chelsea Handler, Glen Handler, Roy Handler and others.
    IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson
    SEAL TEAM SIX, by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
    THE NOTES, by Ronald Reagan

    Original Paperbacks
    CARRYING THE RANCHER’S HEIR, by Charlene Sands
    THE INHERITED BRIDE, by Maisey Yates
    BREAKING THE SHEIKH’S RULES, by Abby Green
    THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DRAGONS, by Katie MacAlister

    Graphic Books
    BRIGHTEST DAY, VOL. 2, by Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi
    X-MEN OMNIBUS, VOL. 2, by Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich
    UNCANNY X-FORCE: APOCALYPSE SOLUTION, by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena

    For the best links to this week’s bestsellers broken down into formats and categories, look to the righthand column for Most Wanted: Bestseller Links

    To Be Published This Week:

  • David McCullough – The Greater Journey – 9781416571766 – 2,000,000 copies
  • Brad Thor – Foreign Influence – 9781416586609 – 1,000,000
  • Karen Hawkins – Scandal in Scotland(mass market pb) – 9781439175934 – 400,000
  • Michael Scott – The Warlock (YA) – 9780385735339 – 200,000
  • James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales – Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN – 9780316043007 – 200,000
  • Jimmy Fallon – Thank You Notes – 9780892967414 – 150,000

    • This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list.

    Under the Radar List

    Look to the right hand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for our Under the Radar List. This week it’s by Sarah Statz Cords, and is called New Titles in Hot Series.

    News of the Week:



    Barbara Hoffert’s BEA Galley and Signing Guide

    Library Journal partners with NetGalley to review romance originals

    The cover of Dick Cheney’s new book shows Cheney in the same hallway that President Obama used to announce the death of Osama bin Laden…and he’s even wearing the same clothes, right down to the color of the suit, shirt, tie, and flag pin. Pathetic. The book will be out in August

    RA Quiz for kids

    UK study: high school boys can’t read past page 100…or 50…or the first few pages…or before they open the book

    The “wisdom of crowds” may be corrupted by too much information

    Traditional publishers released 5% more print books in 2010 than in 2009; on the other hand, “non-traditional sector,” mainly self-published works was up over a million titles from 2009 to a whopping 2,776,260 titles last year

    The Stockholm Syndrome theory of long novels

    Elaine’s, the favorite restaurant of many literary luminaries will close this week

    Atlantic Magazine launches one book, one Internet club

    The stars of modern SF pick their favorite SF works or authors—Ursula K. Le Guin chooses Virginia Woolf

    Borders needs a buyer, but it’s Barnes & Noble that has an offer

    Books on Screen



    A first look at Katniss Everdeen

    Cloud Atlas, the film based on the book by David Mitchell, will have an all star cast including Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving and Ben Whishaw

    The movie version of The Great Gatsby has another all star cast: Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Isla Fisher as Myrtle (Tom’s mistress)

    NBC will do a midseason adaptation of John Grisham’s The Firm

    Awards



    Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize; judge resigns in protest

    Roger Ebert wins Chicago Public Library’s Carl Sandburg Award

    James Beard Awards

    Locus Awards finalists

    Australian Commonwealth Prizes

    Authors

    Gerald Bordman – obituary

    George V. Higgins - court fight over rights to one of his books

    John Irving – moves from Random to S & S

    Ursula K. LeGuin – riding the avalanche

    Craig Thomas – obituary


    Lists



    LA Times Summer Reading List

    Top 10 Bestselling Oprah Picks

    10 Uplifting Books for Lonely Souls

    Best 5 Books on Skateboard Art

    10 Best Books Set in New York

    YALSA’s Teen Top 10

    Top 10 Scariest Books for Teens

    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    Nancy Pearl trains for BEA (video)

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    Most Wanted: Bestseller Links

    Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

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    Under the Radar: New Titles in Hot Series

    Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
    • Kate Atkinson–Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie)
    • Alan Bradley–A Red Herring without Mustard (Flavia de Luce)
    • Jim Butcher–Ghost Story (Dresden Files)
    • Anna Dean–A Gentleman of Fortune (Miss Dido Kent)
    • Terry Goodkind–The Omen Machine (Sword of Truth)
    • Charlaine Harris–Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse)
    • Sherrilynn Kenyon–Retribution (Dark Hunter)
    • Donna Leon–Drawing Conclusions (Commissario Guido Brunetti)
    • Eric Lustbader–Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Dominion (Jason Bourne)
    • Henning Mankell–The Troubled Man (Kurt Wallander)
    • Alexander McCall Smith–Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
    • Robert Parker–Sixkill (Spenser)
    • James Patterson–10th Anniversary (Women’s Murder Club)
    • Patrick Rothfuss–The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles)
    • John Sandford–Buried Prey (Lucas Davenport)
    • Jacqueline Winspear–A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs)
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    New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer

    Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

    MONDAY FICTION

  • António Lobo Antunes and Margaret Jull Costa – The Land at the End of the World: A Novel – 9780393077766

    • MONDAY NONFICTION

  • Jimmy Fallon – Thank You Notes – 9780892967414 – 150,000
  • Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld – The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media – 9780393077797 – 30,000

    • TUESDAY FICTION

  • Aaron Allston – Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction – 9780345509109
  • Karen Hawkins – Scandal in Scotland(mass market pb) – 9781439175934 – 400,000
  • Ursula Hegi – Children and Fire – 9781451608298 – 60,000
  • Bill Loehfelm – The Devil She Knows – 9780374136529
  • Daniel Orozco – Orientation: and Other Stories – 9780865478534
  • Stefanie Pintoff – Secret of the White Rose - 9780312583972
  • Mary Jo Putney – The Wedding of the Century & Other Stories – 9780373775507 – 110,000
  • Michael Scott – The Warlock (YA) – 9780385735339 – 200,000
  • Melanie Rae Thon – In This Light: New and Selected Stories – 9781555975852
  • Brad Thor – Foreign Influence – 9781416586609 – 1,000,000

    • TUESDAY NONFICTION

  • Frank Bailey, Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon – Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years – 9781451654400
  • Andrea Di Robilant – Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers - 9780307269850
  • Thomas C. Foster – Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity – 9780061834400 – 50,000 copies
  • Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce, and Daniel Paisner - Nobody’s Perfect: Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History – 9780802119889
  • Stephen Harrigan – Remember Ben Clayton – 9780307265814
  • Georgette Jones – The Three of Us: Understanding My Mother, Finding My Father, and Growing Up with Tammy and George – 9781439198575
  • Brock Lesnar – Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival – 9780062023124 – 125,000 copies
  • David McCullough – The Greater Journey – 9781416571766 – 2,000,000 copies
  • James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales – Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN – 9780316043007 – 200,000
  • Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner – Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon – 9780805091205
  • Michael Shermer – The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths – 9780805091250 – 50,000
  • James Van Praagh – Growing Up in Heaven: The Eternal Connection Between Parent and Child – 9780062024633 – 100,000

    • WEDNESDAY FICTION

  • Tessa Hadley – The London Train(trade paper) – 9780062011831

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    A look at what people are reading before the world ends Saturday

    Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

    A man named Harold Camping claims he has used mathematics to predict that the world will end this Saturday. Gina Barecca at The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a question on Facebook and in her blog asking what books people are reading before the world ends, and got some fascinating answers. How about you? What are you reading right now before it’s too late?

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, May 15th, 2011

    The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr

    New Titles On the Bestseller Lists


    Fiction
    DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris
    10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
    SIXKILL, by Robert B. Parker
    CALEB’S CROSSING, by Geraldine Brooks
    IF YOU WERE HERE, by Jen Lancaster

    Nonfiction
    DOES THE NOISE IN MY HEAD BOTHER YOU?, by Steven Tyler
    IF YOU ASK ME, by Betty White
    FROM THIS MOMENT ON, by Shania Twain
    A SINGULAR WOMAN, by Janny Scott
    THE HEART AND THE FIST, by Eric Greitens
    MY LUCKY LIFE IN AND OUT OF SHOW BUSINESS, by Dick Van Dyke
    PLAY LIKE YOU MEAN IT, by Rex Ryan
    THIS IS A BOOK, by Demetri Martin
    SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by Caroline Kennedy
    GUY FIERI FOOD, by Guy Fieri
    GET RICH CLICK!, by Marc Ostrofsky
    NO FEAR OF FAILURE, by Gary Burnison

    Original Paperbacks
    ONE MAGIC MOMENT, by Lynn Kurland
    THE FAMILY JENSEN: HELLTOWN MASSACRE, by William W. & J. A. Johnstone

    Graphic Books
    Y THE LAST MAN, BOOK 5, by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
    DELIRIUM’S PARTY: A LITTLE ENDLESS STORYBOOK, by Jill Thompson
    THOR: OMNIBUS, by Walter Simonson
    THE LITTLE ENDLESS STORYBOOK, by Jill Thompson
    THOR/IRON MAN: GOD COMPLEX, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
    SCREAMING PLANET, by Alexandro Jodorowsky and various
    HALO: FALL OF REACH BOOT CAMP, by Brian Reed and Felix Ruiz
    S. H. I. E. L. D.: ARCHITECTS OF FOREVER
    HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA: ON THE FLY, by Harvey Pekar
    BLACK BIRD, VOL. 8, by Kanoko Sakurakoji
    BAKUMAN, VOL. 4, by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
    OTOMEN, VOL. 10, by Aya Kanno
    KIMI NI TODOKE: FROM ME TO YOU, VOL. 8, by Karuho Shiina

    For the best links to this week’s bestsellers broken down into formats and categories, Most Wanted: Bestseller Links look to the righthand column.

    To Be Published This Week:

  • Steve Berry – The Jefferson Key – 9780345505514
  • Nafisa Haji – The Sweetness of Tears – 9780061780103 – 100,000 copies
  • Melissa Marr – Graveminder – 9780061826870 – 150,000 copies
  • Jennifer Mcmahon – Don’t Breathe a Word – 9780061689376 – 150,000 copies
  • China Miéville – Embassytown – 9780345524492
  • Scott Weiland – Not Dead & Not for Sale – 9780743297165 – 125,000 copies
  • Annie Jacobsen – Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base – 9780316132947 – 150,000
  • Henry Kissinger – On China – 9781594202711 – 100,000 copies
  • Andrew Morton – William & Catherine – 9780312643409
  • Scott Weiland – Not Dead & Not for Sale, The Earthling Papers: a Memoir – 9780743297165 – 125,000

    • This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list.

    Under the Radar List

    Look to the right hand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for our Under the Radar List. This week it’s New Historical Fiction.

    News of the Week:


    There’s a growing distinction between the book reader and the book owner

    Why women love fantasy, contrary to what was said in the NY Times

    Google’s on campus author series

    Slideshow – The public library: an American commons

    How Harlequin is revolutionizing the eBook market

    Boys don’t read, except when they do

    What is the role of the book reviewer?

    Older Adults and Readers’ Advisory by Alicia Ahlvers

    Meanwhile, the San Francisco Public Library

    Next new trend: mermaids?

    Facebook restricts authors’ ability to conduct contests

    Good resource for displays: Yale opens its entire collection of digital image collection for public use

    Authors protest Harper Collins 26 checkout limit on eBooks

    Akashic Books scores number 1 bestseller with Go the F**k to Sleep

    OverDrive adds another eBook publisher: Houghton Mifflin

    Why libraries still matter by Laura Miller

    Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Costco’s book buyer, has chosen Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Random House, $15, 9780812980530) as her pick of the month for May.

    Quiz: Science Fiction facts

    A guide to Scandinavian crime fiction

    Roundup of BEA events for librarians

    Books on Screen

    Sony Pictures gets rights to Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent

    Woody Harrelson cast as Haymitch in The Hunger Games

    Awards

    Anthony Award nominees

    New York Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Awards

    Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award

    2011 James Beard Awards

    Authors

    Colin Dexter – on the 10 greatest detective sidekicks

    Elizabeth Gilbert – is working on a book about 19th century botanists

    Newt Gingrich – analyzing his many Amazon reviews

    Charlaine Harris – joins Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts in the Kindle Million Seller Club

    Christopher Hitchens – cancer took his voice, leading him to ponder the connection between speech and prose

    Bel Kaufman – teaches humor class at age 100

    Greg Mortensen – is sued by Montana legislators

    David Foster Wallace – remembering his commencement address

    Chuck Wendig – where writers get their ideas

    Lists

    The Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2011 by Bill Ott

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    Under the Radar: New Historical Fiction

    Sunday, May 15th, 2011
    • Jean Auel–The Land of Painted Caves
    • Geraldine Brooks–Caleb’s Crossing
    • Michael Crummey–Galore
    • Margaret George–Elizabeth I
    • Amanda Hodgkinson–22 Britannia Road
    • Paula McLain–The Paris Wife
    • Elle Newmark–The Sandalwood Tree
    • Tea Obreht–The Tiger’s Wife
    • Lori Roy–Bent Road
    • Carol Wallace–Leaving Van Gogh
    • Michael Wallner–The Russian Affair
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