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By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords
New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:
FICTION
NONFICTION
GRAPHIC BOOKS
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 Oct 10 – 16, 2011:
FICTION
Eugenides, Jeffrey – The Marriage Plot – 9780374203054
McCall Smith, Alexander – The Forgotten Affairs of Youth – 9780307379184
Pratchett, Terry – Snuff – 9780062011848
Sparks, Nicholas – The Best of Me – 9780446547659
NONFICTION
Belafonte, Harry – My Song: a Memoir – 9780307272263
Deen, Paula – Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes With More Than 300 Recipes – 9781416564072
Philbrick, Nathaniel – Why Read Moby-Dick? – 9780670022991
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:
Walter Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs moved up to October 24
Pennie Picks City of Thieves by David Benioff for Costco
Readers Advisory programs at Philadelphia PLA conference in March (preliminary program) include:
- Providing Effective RA Service Preconference by Nancy Pearl;
- RA Toolkit IV: RA Training Makes It Happen by Joyce Saricks, Neal Wyatt, and Georgine Olson;
- Meeting Teen Demand for Street Lit by Megan Honig;
- Leaders As Readers: What Happens When Directors Choose Reading as a Core Value by Sari Feldman, Craig Buthod, Bill Ptacek, and Ike Pulver;
- Beyond Booktalking: Innovative Approaches to RA with Teens and Younger Adults by Hayden Bass and Abigail Bass;
- Good Reading You May Have Missed (for Yourself, Your Patrons, and Your Book Groups) by Jessica Moyer, Kaite Stover, and Naphtali Faris;
- Isn’t It Romantic by John Charles, Nicole Burnham, Deanna Raybourn, Madeline Hunter, Judi McCoy, Elizabeth Boyle, Leanna Renee Hieber, and Kate Smith;
- Under the Covers: Collecting Erotic Fiction and Erotica in Public Libraries by Terri Clark and Katie Dunneback;
(Unfortunately, as usual, at least 3 of the sessions are scheduled at the same time.)
Third Annual Austin Teen Books Festival a success
Flow chart for NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction books poll results
Open Road and Book Movement launch an ebook club
Article “Our Ebook Future” at Library Journal: Interviews with publishing industry leaders reveal interesting quotes: “[F]or us, the heart of what makes a library important is defined by physical books, in a physical space….” “The notion that fewer people wanted to buy print books because they love ebooks was a much sexier trend story, and most media ran with it. But the fact is that Borders was a real estate story. It had a greedy but nincompoopish management team that took on too much overpriced real estate in the boom of the Nineties and had no money to deal with a changing marketplace. All of which was exacerbated by incredibly bad management decisions.”
Prediction: a US market that is 80% digital within 2 to 5 years (Hmm, is that part of the reason some publishers don’t want to sell digital to libraries? See above quote, though thankfully the person who said it is from a publisher that DOES sell ebooks to libraries.)
Steampunk Week at Tor
YA lit comes of age
They don’t want to be part of the “Aren’t you sick of robots telling you what you want?” GoodReads and its book recommender
Using award lists as an RA tool by Becky Spratford
Get ready for the Charles Dickens Bicentennial celebration in February
National Book Foundation announces 5 Under 35 for 2011
Nancy Pearl picks her favorite books of the Fall season (audio)
An update on the Three Cups of Tea lawsuit
Was child’s death by abuse linked to a book?
Professional Development Opportunities:
Call for Papers/Presentations:
The Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012.
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.
Notification of acceptance will be made by February 27, 2012.
Louis Shores Award Committee Seeking Nominations
Established in 1990, this award recognizes an individual reviewer, group, editor, review medium or organization for excellence in book reviewing and other media for libraries. Award winners receive a citation.
The son of politically progressive German-Jewish immigrants, Louis Shores taught English at traditionally black Fisk University. In 1933 he became dean of the library school at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., where he received his Ph.D. (1934) and pioneered courses in audio-visual materials. Later, he worked concurrently as dean of the library school at Florida State University (1941–67) and as consultant to Collier’s Encyclopedia.
To nominate a candidate for the Louis Shores Award, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/shores/index.cfm and click the link for the nomination form. Fill out the form and submit it with appropriate attachments to the committee chair, Barry Trott.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2011.
Submissions can be made by mail to:
Barry Trott, Adult Services Director
Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Rd.
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
Or via email to:
btrott@wrl.org
Books on Screen
Steve Jobs: the Movie – Walter Isaacson sells film rights for over $1 million
Johnny Depp will play Dr. Seuss in biopic
Warner Brothers plans to develop Don Winslow’s novel Satori as a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio
HBO working on Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
Newest trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse
Awards
Swedish Poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the Nobel Prize for Literature And click here for the Complete Review’s rundown of all the info you need to know about him
Rohinton Mistry wins the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
David Rakoff has won the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor for Half Empty
Giller Prize Shortlist
Wellcome Prize shortlist
Authors
George Condon – obituary
Vince Flynn – next book delayed while he fights prostate cancer
Joe Hill – speech at Cuyahoga County Public Library
Walter Mosley – two new Easy Rawlins novels coming
Terry Pratchett – sues over film rights to his book Mort
Lists
November 2011 Indie Next Preview
Fall First Novels
9 Books That Began Life Self-Published
Top 10 Horror Fiction of 2011
Lighthearted Links of the Week
For those who’ve read Moneyball…what if it were about the Yankees instead? (video: Too Much Moneyball)
What Cindy’s Reading:
Ozma of Oz
