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By Cindy Orr
This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week
There are three fiction titles that made it to the top of the bestseller lists this week for the first time…big names all, so that’s no surprise. Patrons may be surprised though to find that John Grisham’s new book is a collection of short stories rather than a novel.
Pat Conroy, in a review of Grisham’s Ford County, says “The modern world punishes the short story writer with inattention. The literary reviews keep the short story alive and finger-popping in America today, while the New Yorker tries to strangle the form with its bare hands.” Conroy goes on to say that Grisham’s stories are good enough to be considered for inclusion in the best short stories of the year anthologies. Quite the praise!
New to the bestseller lists this week:
Fiction:
Nonfiction:
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup of the most popular books this week, look to the righthand column.
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Our New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week include a new Alex Cross book by James Patterson (with no co-author), and new books by Barbara Kingsolver and Alic Munro among others. There’s the original version of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov, and, of course, the huge news is the Sarah Palin book Going Rogue. Coverage should continue on that one for awhile as fact checkers from the media—whom Palin accuses of getting it all wrong—work to prove that they were right. Will this translate into patron demand? We’ll have to see, I guess.
Scroll down to the next entry to see our list of books hitting the shelves this week, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is Books to Howl About, a few good werewolf books in honor of the movie release of New Moon. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list.
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And now on to the news:
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Books on Screen
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Authors
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Lists
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Lighthearted Link of the Week
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