Archive for September, 2011

RA Run Down

Sunday, September 25th, 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. 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 To the Bestseller Lists This Week:


FICTION

  • David B. – The Armed Garden and Other Stories
  • Brandman, Michael – Robert Parker’s Killing the Blues
  • Brusha, Joe – Neverland
  • Collins, Jackie – Goddess of Vengeance
  • Hill, Joe, and Gabriel Rodriguez – Locke and Key vol. 1
  • Johns, Geoff, and Peter Tomasi – Brightest Day Vol. 3
  • Jordan, Robert, Chuck Dixon, and Chase Conley – Eye of the World vol. 1
  • Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus
  • Robb, J.D. – New York to Dallas
  • Savage, Michael – Abuse of Power
  • Weber, David – How Firm a Foundation

    • NONFICTION

  • Ebert, Roger – Life Itself
  • Kennedy, Jacqueline – Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
  • Moore, Michael – Here Comes Trouble
  • Nasar, Sylvia – A Grand Pursuit
  • Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam Twenty
  • Soufan, Ali H. – The Black Banners

    • MANGA

  • Clamp – Xxxholic vol. 17
  • Oda, Eiichiro – One Piece vol. 58
  • Peach-Pit – Shugo Chara! vol. 12
  • Takeuchi, Naoko – Codename: Sailor V, Vol. 1

    • To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, look to the righthand column for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.


    To Be Published Week of Sep 19-25, 2011:

    This is just a sample of some of this week’s new titles. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

    FICTION

  • Burke, James Lee – Feast Day of Fools – 9781451643114
  • Child, Lee – The Affair (Jack Reacher Series #16) – 9780385344326
  • Dr. Seuss – The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories – 9780375864353
  • Ghosh, Amitav – River of Smoke – 9780374174231 – 60,000
  • Kennedy, William – Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes – 9780670022977 – 75,000
  • Matheson, Richard – Steel (trade paper) – 9780765329424 – 150,000

    • NONFICTION

  • Branca, Ralph, David Ritz – A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Healing – 9781451636871 – 150,000
  • Greenblatt, Stephen – The Swerve – 80,000 – 9780393064476
  • Indridason, Arnaldur – Operation Napoleon – 50,000 – 978-0312659103
  • Kennedy, David M. – Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-city America – 9781608192649 – 100,000
  • Lithgow, John – Drama An Actor’s Education – 9780061734977 – 100,000
  • O’Reilly, Bill – Killing Lincoln – 9780805093070
  • Sobel, Dava – A More Perfect Heaven – 9780802717931 – 100,000

    • Notable Fall Books

    Look to the right hand column for our Notable Fall Books Lists links. The Fall publishing season has started, and we’ve collected lists of some of the hot picks. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column. We’ll leave the Summer Reading Lists up for a little while in case you haven’t had a chance to finish those..

    News of the Week:

    Banned Books Week, Sep. 24-Oct. 1

    Still more Kindle news from Amazon; Kindle titles through libraries

    Is the biography in decline? (Via RickLibrarian.)

    Call for RA Papers/Presentations for ALA 2012

    The Borders story continues: Barnes and Noble bids on the company’s intellectual property

    Trade publishers ramping up ebook production; and here’s why: more Americans reading ebooks than ever

    The New York Times considers the career arcs of the anti-James Pattersons (i.e., those less prolific)

    Happy Book Season! (It’s the most wonderful time of the year)

    USA Today’s take on novelists writing YA novels

    Even Christopher Robin’s bookshop can’t make it?

    Free educational videos from YouTube

    Brooklyn Book Festival is a crowdpleaser

    George R. R. Martin joins the “Kindle Million Club”

    Creating the world’s largest spanish-language ebook catalogue

    E-reading app for kids

    Simon & Schuster to publish Country Life titles (based on the magazine)

    More book sculptures pop up in Edinburgh

    Facebook to introduce “Read” button?

    Bookstores monetize events

    NYPL to forgive fines for patrons under 17


    Books on Screen

    First trailer for Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

    Moneyball (based on the book by Michael Lewis) and Killer Elite (based on a Ranulph Fiennes novel) open


    Awards

    Best of Brooklyn, Inc. Award (Jhumpa Lahiri)

    Polari Prize

    Emmy Award winners

    2011’s Genius Grant Winners announced


    Authors

    Lee Goldberg’s 12-book deal

    Roddy Doyle: interview

    A. Richard Turner: obituary

    James Patterson and College Book Bucks

    Marian Keyes to write food book

    Books coming from Bill Clinton; Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Information wants to be free: Julian Assange autobiography published

    Fans of P.D. James and Jane Austen, prepare to get very happy.

    Alice Walker publishes e-books

    Neil Young to publish memoir

    Tom Wilson, creator of Ziggy comic: obituary

    Free George Pelecanos download

    New James Cain novel found

    Lists

    Most exciting fall books

    Best of the Art of Google Books

    10 literary road trips


    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    Literary mixtapes

    Everyone who’s worked in customer service will appreciate this bitter, bitter Borders Ode

    Does a book commit suicide every time you watch Jersey Shore?


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    Call for papers/presentations: The Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum

    Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

    Looking for a great opportunity to present at the 2012 Annual ALA Conference in Anaheim, CA?

    Look no further! We’ve heard the following from the RUSA/CODES committee:

    “The RUSA/CODES Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Committee invites submissions of presentations and/or papers for the 5th Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum to be held in Anaheim, CA during ALA’s Annual Conference. The Forum will take place on Saturday, June 23rd from 10:30-12:00.

    We invite papers or presentations on various responses to:

    Browsing for Pleasure Reading in the Digital Age

    All aspects of the topic, including information encountering, 2.0 applications, the intersection of human/computer guidance, ILS integration, the impact of ebook sites, and the implications for cataloging, reviewing, organizing, and searching data are welcome. As are other interpretations and approaches to the topic.

    The committee employs a blind review process and will select three projects for 20-minute presentations.

    To submit: Send an abstract of your paper or description of your presentation (up to 350 words) to: rusa.raforum@gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Please include on a separate cover sheet your name, title of presentation/paper, institutional affiliation, full contact information, and any technological needs. Include on your abstract ONLY the title of your presentation/paper.

    The deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 27, 2012.”

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, September 18th, 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. 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 To the Bestseller Lists This Week:


    FICTION

  • Coben, Harlan – Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel – 9780399256509
  • Cussler, Clive, and Justin Scott – The Race (Isaac Bell series) – 9780399157813
  • Dodd, Christina – Revenge at Bella Terra (mass market) – 9780451413109
  • Feehan, Christine – Dark Predator (Dark Series 322) – 9780425241974
  • Fraction, Matt, and Pasqual Ferry – Thor: World Eaters – 9780785148388
  • Harbach, Chad – The Art of Fielding – 9780316126694
  • Hitchens, Christopher – Arguably: Essays – 9781455502776
  • Howard, Linda – Prey – 9780345506917
  • Kibuishi, Kazu – Amulet: The Last Council, Vol. 4 – 9780545208871
  • King, Laurie R. – Pirate King (Mary Russell Series #11) – 9780553807981
  • Singh, Nalini – Archangel’s Blade (Guild Hunter Series #4) – 9780425243916
  • Stirling, S. M. – The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change – 9780451464156
  • Ward, J. R. – Envy (The Fallen Angels Series) (mass market) – 9780451229458

    • NONFICTION

  • Baumeister, Roy F., and John Tierney – Willpower – 9781594203077
  • Friedman, Thomas L., and Michael Mandelbaum – That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back – 9780374288907
  • Priest, Dana, and William Arkin – Top Secret America – 9780316182218

    • MANGA

  • Arikawa, Hiro – Library Wars: Love and War, Vol. 6 – 9781421539775
  • Kishimoto, Masashi – Naruto, Vol. 52 – 9781421539577
  • Kubo, Tite – Bleach, Vol. 36 – 9781421533131
  • Motomi, Kyousuke – Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 6 – 9781421538266
  • Ohba, Tsugumi – Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 5 – 9781421539683
  • Sakurakoji, Kanoko – Black Bird, Vol. 10 – 9781421538433
  • Shiina, Karuho – Kimi ni todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 10 – 9781421538228
  • Takei, Hiroyuki – Ultimo, Vol. 6 – 9781421541211
  • Yoshihara, Yuki – Butterflies, Flowers, Vol. 8 – 9781421535814

    • To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, look to the righthand column for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.


    To Be Published Week of Sep 19-25, 2011:

    This is just a sample of some of this week’s new titles. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

    FICTION

  • Roberts, Nora – Western Skies – 9780373281527
  • Stephenson, Neal – Reamde – 9780061977961
  • Thompson, Craig – Habibi (graphic novel) – 9780375424144

    • NONFICTION

  • Cannon, Dyan – Dear Cary: My Life With Cary Grant – 9780061961403
  • Dent, Harry S. – The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down – 978-1451641547
  • Johnston, Levi – Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs – 9781451651652
  • McGinniss, Joe – The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin – 9780307718921
  • Millard, Candice – The Destiny of the Republic – 9780385526265
  • Yergin, Daniel – The Quest: The Global Race for Energy, Money, and Power – 9781594202834

    • Notable Fall Books

    Look to the right hand column for our Notable Fall Books Lists links. The Fall publishing season has started, and we’ve collected lists of some of the hot picks. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column. We’ll leave the Summer Reading Lists up for a little while in case you haven’t had a chance to finish those..

    News of the Week:

    GoodReads launches book recommender based on collaborative filtering of all their members’ lists and recommendations

    Not quite sure what Steampunk is? Watch this video.

    Amazon wants to create a Netflix-like service for books—publishers, not so much; in fact Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch reports hearing something about pigs and wings and ice in the underworld

    (In related but not necessarily book news, Netflix itself has had a rocky week, with a significant number of subscribers canceling their service in the face of raised subscription prices)

    Authors Guild sues Hathi Trust over library book scanning and they suspend the project

    Starbucks chooses The Night Circus for its first “ebook of the week”

    How the crowd is influencing the future of storytelling

    Register for the next Hunger Games; Citizen IDs must be up-to-date

    Companies using computers to write copy

    OverDrive expects libraries to continue to show astronomical growth in ebook demand in the next few weeks. See their checklist to determine if you’re ready

    Big name pastry chefs sue Ulysses Publishing for saying their new cookbook is by them when it’s not

    Yet another local bookstore is…expanding??!

    Can you stand another article on how ebooks are changing the book publishing and buying worlds? Try this one, if so

    The Digital Shift: Ebooks, the New Normal – this year’s LJ/SLJ virtual ebook summit will be October 12. Last year’s summit got rave reviews.

    Even bookmobiles are on the e-bandwagon

    The revolution will be read out loud: Banned Books Week is Sep. 24-Oct. 1.

    A good idea gets bigger: The U.S. will join in World Book Night (April 23, 2012)

    Reading scores going in the wrong direction


    Books on Screen

    James Franco can’t decide which Cormac McCarthy book to adapt for the screen

    Boom! Alex Cross movie if filming in Cleveland (photos from the set)

    Twilight: Breaking Dawn official trailer

    Hugh Grant joins cast of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

    Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries (a prequel to Sex in the City) will be adapted for the CW

    I Don’t Know How She Does It, based on the book by Allison Pearson, stars Sarah Jessica Parker

    Drive, based on the book by James Sallis, stars Ryan Gosling

    Okay, it didn’t start life as a book, but it seems like it did: Downton Abbey sets Guinness Book record for highest critical reviews.

    The ABC Family show The State of Georgia, produced by author Jennifer Weiner, has been canceled


    Awards

    The Booker Prize is still good for business: sales have been good for the shortlisted titles

    The Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards

    Rona Jaffe Award Winners


    Authors

    Susan Andersen – Shifted! I wrote shifted, not shitted—even though I said his muscles loosened, I…oh, just forget it.

    Anthony Bourdain – gets his own imprint at HarperCollins

    Penguin releases an app for Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged–John Galt would approve its bold $14.99 price

    Noah Boyd, novelist, has died

    Celebrity Masterchef winner Lisa Faulkner will have a cookbook published

    Fans of both Jane Austen and Joanna Trollope, prepare to get very happy.

    Join your favorite authors in a Short Story Tweetathon!

    Even Salinger’s dashed-off notes are big moneymakers

    A chat with Ann Beattie

    Susan Orlean on her latest book, about Rin Tin Tin

    Michel Houellebecq was lost; now is found

    Emma Thompson to write new Peter Rabbit book

    Lists

    Best examples of the British spy novel

    What ARE some of the best books of the year?

    Tina Brown’s must-reads of the week: Strong women

    Essential reading from the world’s top cities

    Great Fall Mysteries

    Niall Ferguson really thinks this list of books will get teenagers to stop texting? (Robert Crum’s list is a bit more accessible)

    Ten Incomprehensible classics


    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    Another way to dress up shop windows: the novelists themselves

    Stieg Larsson, meet The Muppets


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    Display Idea: Is There a Doctor in the House?

    Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

    by Nancy M. Henkel

    from Ready-Made Book Displays. Libraries Unlimited, 2011.

    Since the early days of television, medical dramas have captivated audiences. Shows like Marcus Welby MD, Emergency!, St. Elsewhere, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, House, and even General Hospital have all enjoyed substantial audiences. Undoubtedly, it is the life-and-death decisions being made, the smart and hunky actors heroically saving lives, and of course, the dramatic and romantic exploits of the characters.

    Medical fiction has the same allure. In the hands of a talented writer, the reader can almost feel the pulse of the patient and hear the beep of the life-support system. Authors such as Robin Cook, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Palmer are all staples in this category. You could also add some of the great nonfiction books published by and about doctors, hospitals, and illness, including My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital by Audrey Young, and Paradise General: Riding the Surge in a Combat Hospital in Iraq by Dave Hnida.

    Prop Ideas

    Stethoscope
    Medical bag
    Scrubs
    Photos of famous fictional physicians (Dr. Killdare, Dr. Quinn, Dr. McDreamy, etc. from Google images)

    Related Dewey Subject List

    Medical history (610.9)
    Anatomy (611)
    Hospitals (362.1109)

    Booklist

    Lauren Belfer. A Fierce Radiance. Harper, 2010.
    Part historical thriller, part romance, part pharmaceutical espionage. Claire Shipley is a reporter for Life in 1941 who is sent to cover a story about an experimental drug breakthrough: penicillin.

    Ben Bova. The Immortality Factor. Tor, 2009.
    Stem cell research is a polarizing topic, and never more so than when it suddenly presents the opportunity for immortality and it puts two physician brothers on opposite sides of the argument.

    Geraldine Brooks. Year of Wonders. Viking, 2001.
    In 1666, an English mountain village called Eyam, dubbed the “Plague Village” decides to quarantine itself to stop the spread of the disease. This is a test of faith and endurance that many villagers fail.

    Candace Calvert. Critical Care. Tyndale House Publishers, 2009.
    A nurse-counselor and a hard-headed ER doctor disagree about the nurse’s role in counseling trauma personnel. But faith and compromise might bring a meeting of the minds.

    David Carnoy. Knife Music. Overlook Press, 2010.
    Emergency Room surgeon Ted Cogan may be in big trouble. The teenage accident victim whose life he recently saved has committed suicide, and the police think he may be involved in her death.

    Dianne Day. Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War. Doubleday, 2002.
    This meticulously researched novel brings Red Cross founder and Civil War nurse Clara Barton to life, including the prejudice she faced and the private battles she fought.

    Ken Follett. The Third Twin. Crown Publishers, 1996.
    A researcher stumbles onto a Cold War experiment involving genetics and twins. When she falls in love with one of a set of twins, she begins to worry if he shares traits with his criminal twin.

    Frank Huyler. Right of Thirst. Harper Perennial, 2009.
    After his wife’s death, cardiologist Charles Anderson goes to an Islamic country to help with earthquake relief, in hopes of forgetting his own troubles.

    C. J. Lyons. Lifelines. Berkley Publishing Group, 2008.
    On her first day at Pittsburgh’s Angels of Mercy Medical Center, attending physician Lydia Fiore loses a patient under suspicious circumstances. With the help of a few other women working at the hospital, she may figure out what is going on, and she just might hook up with that cute paramedic.

    Robin Oliveira. My Name Is Mary Sutter. Viking, 2010.
    Young midwife Mary Sutter travels to Washington, D.C., during the Civil War to help tend the wounded. Ignoring pressure to return home, she ends up as the assistant to a well-known physician.

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, September 11th, 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. 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 To the Bestseller Lists This Week:



    To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, look to the righthand column for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.


    To Be Published Week of Sep 12-18, 2011:


    This is just a sample of some of this week’s new titles. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

    Notable Fall Books

    Look to the right hand column for our Notable Fall Books Lists links. The Fall publishing season has started, and we’ve collected lists of some of the hot picks. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.

    News of the Week:

    Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg dies at age 64, 37,000 texts after he typed up The Declaration of Independence in 1971

    British bookstore drops label “Women’s Fiction” after customers complain

    Gabrielle Giffords/Mark Kelly joint memoir coming in November

    Borders employee sues company based on getting no notice of layoff, while severance pay is requested for executives; and NextJump has accused Borders of “duping” them into taking blame for their messed up Rewards program

    Paperbacks declining

    British study on reading by kids

    PLA Preliminary Program

    Don’t forget Teen Read Week is coming October 16-22

    YALSA seeks proposals for next year’s Symposium—The Future of Young Adult Literature: Hit Me with the Next Big Thing

    RUSA RA Course Oct 10-Nov 27

    Booklist webinar: Ready for Romance? New Novels and Hot Trends

    LJ Webinar: Tomorrow! Fall Mystery
    Announcements

    September 22 School Library Journal free webinar: YA Fall Announcements


    Books on Screen

    CBS will develop program based on the April Woo series by Leslie Glass

    Jennifer Garner developing comedy based on The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins

    Candace Bushnell’s One Fifth Avenue will be on ABC


    Awards

    Booker Prize short list

    Toronto Book Awards short list

    PEN Center USA Awards

    Rona Jaffe Writers Awards

    Ned Kelly Awards

    Giller Prize long list


    Authors

    Noah Boyd (Paul Lindsay) – obituary

    Shirley Eskapa – obituary

    Dennis Lehane – “In Greek tragedy they fall from great heights. In noir they fall from the curb.”


    Lists

    10 Coolest Book Apps for Fall

    20 Most Iconic Book Covers Ever

    15 Great Novels Set at Real-Life Colleges

    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    When a Republican is President, it’s all about zombies; for Democratic Presidents, it’s vampires



    What Cindy Is Reading:

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    Most Wanted: Bestseller Links

    Sunday, September 11th, 2011

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, September 4th, 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. 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 To the Bestseller Lists This Week:



    To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, look to the righthand column for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.


    To Be Published Week of Sep 5-11, 2011:


    This is just a sample of some of this week’s new titles. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

    Notable Fall Books

    Look to the right hand column for our Notable Fall Books Lists links. The Fall publishing season has started, and we’ve collected lists of some of the hot picks. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column. We’ll leave the Summer Reading Lists up for a little while in case you haven’t had a chance to finish those..

    News of the Week:

    Prosecutor on Casey Anthony case writing a book

    Sony announces first ereader to provide wireless access and downloading of library ebooks with the OverDrive system and a valid library card—no computer necessary

    Response to NY Times Writes to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly

    Soundtracks for books: “alongside digital, represents the largest advancement in reading.”

    New economics rewrites the book business as print runs drop, warehouses close

    Small town Vermont library hit hard by flooding (includes photos)

    Yikes–shelving nightmare at the University of Maryland library after the earthquake

    8 reasons to let your kid read comics

    Library Journal Fall Mystery Announcements Webinar September 13 12pm EDT

    Books for Boys School Library Journal webinar with Jon Scieszka September 15

    Books on Screen

    Sneak Peek: The Hunger Games (video)

    Craig Johnson’s Longmire gets 10 episodes on A & E

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film will be “incredibly true” to Jane Austen

    Johnny Depp in Hunter Thompson’s The Rum Diary (video)


    Awards

    Guardian First Book Awards longlist


    Authors

    Stetson Kennedy – obituary

    Laura Lippman – interview

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer – obituary

    Connie Willis – interviewed by Nancy Pearl (video)

    Lists

    August 2011 Christian Marketplace Booksellers

    10 Novels That We Dare You to Finish

    October 2011 Indie Next Preview

    Bookfinder: Top 100 Most Sought After Out of Print Books

    Independent Booksellers’ Lists of Their Top Books

    The 50 Most Influential Books of the Past 50 Years

    OverDrive’s August Most Downloaded Titles from Libraries

    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    Hitler’s Kindle loses power during Hurricane Irene (video)



    What Cindy Is Reading:

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    New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer

    Thursday, September 1st, 2011

    To be published September 5-11, 2011

    MONDAY NONFICTION

  • Friedman, Thomas L. – That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back – 9780374288907

    • TUESDAY FICTION

  • Aiken, G. A. – The Dragon Who Loved Me (mass market) – 9781420108897
  • Bick, Ilsa – Ashes (YA) – 125,000 copies
  • Bowen, Rhys – Naughty in Nice (Royal Spyness Series) – 9780425243497
  • Brunstetter, Wanda E. – The Healing (Kentucky Brothers Series #2) – 9781410438782
  • Coben, Harlan – Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel – 9780399256509
  • Coel, Margaret – The Perfect Suspect (Catherine McLeod) – 9780425243480
  • Connolly, John – The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker) – 9781439165270
  • Cussler, Clive – The Race (Isaac Bell Series) – 9780399157813
  • Dane, Lauren – Never Enough (Brown Siblings Series #4)(mass market) – 978-0425243008
  • Davis, Krista – The Diva Haunts the House (Domestic Diva Series #5) (mass market) – 9780425243787
  • Dodd, Christina – Revenge at Bella Terra (mass market) – 9780451413109
  • Dunmore, Helen – The Betrayal: A Novel – 9780802170880
  • Feehan, Christine – Dark Predator (Dark Series 322) – 9780425241974
  • Gerst, Angela – A Crack in Everything – 9781590589441
  • Goodman, Jo – Kissing Comfort
  • Grozni, Nikolai – Wunderkind: A Novel – 9781451616910
  • Hamilton, Denise – Damage Control – 9780743296748
  • Howard, Linda – Prey – 9780345506917
  • Hossein, Khaled. illustrated by Fabio Celoni and Mirka AndolfoThe Kite Runner Graphic Novel – 9781594485473
  • James, Lorelie – Cowgirls Don’t Cry (Rough Riders Series #10) (mass market) – 9781609282912
  • Kelly, Sophie – Sleight of Paw (Magical Cats Series) – 9780451234537
  • Kilmer, Nicholas – A Paradise for Fools – 9781590589342
  • King, Laurie R. – Pirate King (Mary Russell Series #11) – 9780553807981
  • Lewis, Beverly – The Mercy (Rose Trilogy Series #3) (trade paper) – 9780764206016
  • McGuire, Seanan – One Salt Sea (October Daye sEries #5) – 9780756406837
  • Meyer, Deon – Tracker – 9780802119933
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard – Second Nature: A Love Story – 9781400067756
  • Parshall, Sandra – Under the Dog Star – 9781590588789
  • Quinn, Spencer – The Dog Who Knew Too Much (Chet and Bernie Mysteries) – 9781439157091
  • Roby, Kimberla Lawson – Secret Obsession – 978-0446572422
  • Schappell, Elissa – Blueprints for Building Better Girls – 9780743276702
  • Singh, Nalini – Archangel’s Blade (Guild Hunter Series #4) – 9780425243916
  • Sniegoski, Thomas, E. – The End of Days (Fallen Series #5) – 9781442423497 (YA)
  • Stirling, S. M. – The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change – 9780451464156
  • Toyne, Simon – Sanctus – 9780062038302 – 100,000 copies
  • Tuck, Lily – I Married You for Happiness – 9780802119919
  • Ward, J. R. – Envy (The Fallen Angels Series) (mass market) – 9780451229458
  • Zahn, Timothy – Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – 9780345528292

    • TUESDAY NONFICTION

  • Bosworth, Patricia – Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman – 9780547152578
  • Cliff, Nigel – Holy War: How Vasco da Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – 9780061735127
  • Courtney E. Smith’s Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time
  • Klein, Aaron, and Brenda J. Elliott – Red Army: The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated To Save America – 9780062069245 – 50,000 copies
  • Lucette Lagnado – The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn- 9780061803673
  • Marlantes, Karl – What It’s Like to Go to War – 9780802119926
  • Moore, Geoffrey A. – Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past – 9780062040893
  • Priest, Dana, and William Arkin – Top Secret America – 9780316182218
  • Smith, Amanda – Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson – 9780375411007

    • WEDNESDAY FICTION

  • Harbach, Chad – The Art of Fielding – 9780316126694

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