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Sunday, November 6th, 2011

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By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

FICTION

NONFICTION

GRAPHIC BOOKS

Yotsuba&!, Vol. 10
By: Kiyohiko Azuma

THE UNWRITTEN, VOL. 4
By: Mike Carey and Peter Gross

To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, click here for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.

To Be Published Week of Nov 7-13, 2011:

FICTION

Eco, Umberto – The Prague Cemetery – 9780547577531 – 200,000

Gingrich, Newt, William R. Forstchen and Albert S. Hanser – The Battle of the Crater – 9780312607104 – 250,000

King, Stephen – 11/22/1963 – 1,000,000

Paolini, Christopher – Inheritance (YA)- 9780375856112 – 2,500,000

Sanderson, Brandon – The Alloy of Law – 9780765330420 – 150,000

NONFICTION

Clinton, Bill – Back to Work – 9780307959751 – 300,000

Gresh, Lois – The Hunger Games Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series – 9780312617936 – 150,000

Massie, Robert – Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman – 9780679456728

Pfarrer, Chuck – SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden – 9781250006356

Wills, David – Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis – 9780062036193

This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

Best Books of 2011

It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.

News of the Week:

LJ survey shows that library users are some of the publishing industry’s best customers

HarperCollins buys Thomas Nelson, already owns Zondervan

Amazon Publishing picks up Deepak Chopra and Penny Marshall

Costco Pick for November: Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation

Read this article by a National Book Awards judge and substitute librarian for bookseller

Booklist Online’s Corner Shelf

Joyce Saricks: Valuing Paperbacks

John Wood’s Room to Read has opened more libraries than Andrew Carnegie

Here we go again. The old “genre is trash” argument. But poor Glen Duncan made a fool of himself with his transparently self-referent article in the NY Times: “A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star.” Huh? Glen, you want to try that again? But then he gets taken down by Charlie Jane Anders on io9. “Are you aware that ‘porn star’ is a job, not a class of person?” Ouch. Poor Glen.

Roundup of links on Amazon’s new “lending library”:

Christian Science Monitor – It’s a good deal—for Amazon

Wall Street Journal – the big six publishers won’t participate

C|Net – another salvo in the digital readers war

Huffington Post – commentators don’t see it as a threat to public libraries

Professional Development Opportunities:

Nominate colleagues for nine PLA awards and grants

New book: Life Stories: a Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries by Maureen O’Connor

Handouts from the Topeka and Shawnee County Library’s recent Readers’ Advisory Conference

Notes on Nancy Pearl’s presentation from the same conference (courtesy of Sharon Moreland the lybrarian)

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.

Books on Screen

The Lorax trailer

Martin Scorsese may direct The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Steve Carell to star in The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

Scott Rudin, the producer who has two book-related movies for the upcoming Oscar season–The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close–now has rights to The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Awards

Man Asian Literary Prize long list

World Fantasy Awards winners

Authors

Larry Haun – obituary

Gregory Maguire on winding up the Wicked series

Andy Rooney – obituary

J. K. Rowling – nearly killed off Ron Weasley

Lists

The 10 Best Graphic Novels

December 2011 Indie Next List

Lighthearted Link of the Week

10 Literary Trends That Need to Go Away

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RA Run Down

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

By Cindy Orr

New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

FICTION

NONFICTION

GRAPHIC BOOKS

Black Jack, Volume 16, by Osamu Tezuka.

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 October 31 – November 6, 2011:

FICTION

Baldacci, David – Zero Day – 9780446573016 – 750,000

Coulter, Catherine – The Prince of Ravenscar – 9780399158070

Evans, Richard Paul – Lost December – 9781451628005 – 400,000

Feehan, Christine – Darkest at Dawn (trade paper) – 9780425243251 – 100,000

Hannah, Kristin – Comfort and Joy – 9780345483676

Horowitz, Anthony – The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel – 9780316196994 – 200,000

Kenyon, Sherrilyn – The Guardian (Dark-Hunter Series #22)(mass market) – 9780312550059

Maguire, Gregory – Out of Oz (Wicked Years #4) – 9780060548940 – 400,000

Oates, Joyce Carol – The Corn Maiden – 9780802126023

Roberts, Nora – The Next Always (Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy #1) – 9780425243213 – 1,000,000

Steel, Danielle – Hotel Vendome – 9780385343176

NONFICTION

Cosby, Bill – I Didn’t Ask to Be Born, But I’m Glad I Was – 9780892969203

Didion, Joan – Blue Nights – 9780307267672

Fisher, Carrie – Shockaholic – 9780743264822 – 250,000

Matthews, Chris – John Kennedy: Elusive Hero – 9781451635089

Pollan, Michael – Food Rules: an Eater’s Handbook – 9781594203084

Rice, Condoleezza – No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington – 9780307587862

Sandell, Laurie – Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family – 9780316198936 – 200,000

Notable Fall Books

News of the Week:

New book on the death of Bin Laden challenges the official version

Need a costume for tonight? Literary Halloween costume ideas

Michelle Obama writes her first book to be published in April: American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities

Warner Brothers pulls a Disney: buy extra copies of Harry Potter films by December 29, when they go into the vault for an unspecified period

Why Books?

The life of a Man Booker Prize judge: read 138 novels in 7 months
Ebooks or print books—which are better for you?

Books-A-Million to open 41 new stores in November–some in former Borders buildings

Got any materials money left over? You might want to think about more ebooks. Barnes & Noble is doubling the size of their Nook sales sections in stores in anticipation of the holidays.

How The Joy of Sex was illustrated

Will Amazon kill off publishers?

Steampunk bookstore makes profit in its first year

Why do young adults love dystopian fiction?

Occupy Wall Street poetry anthology

Remembering the original Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi: It’s not the Disney version “The moral of the film is that if you are brave and truthful, and you listen to your conscience, you will find salvation. Collodi’s moral is that you if you behave badly and do not obey adults, you will be bound, tortured, and killed.”

What makes a children’s book a classic?

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo clothing line

In praise of easy reads

The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Street Literature by Vanessa Irvin Morris

Profanity in book titles: a trend that’s just beginning?

Professional Development Opportunities:

Library Journal free webinar Thursday, November 8: Latest Trends and Hot Titles in Graphic Novels

Books on Screen

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss coming to the big screen in March will reveal the Once-ler

Stephen King’s Dark Tower to air on HBO

ABC to adapt Why You’re Not Married by Tracy McMillan

Links to photos of official posters from The Hunger Games movie

Awards

Charles Foran is the first author to win Canada’s newest and largest prize for nonfiction. His biography of one of Canada’s most famous writers, Mordecai Richler, won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

2011 Whiting Writers’ Award Winners

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Finalists

Authors

John M. Blum – obituary

Barbara Freethy – sold over 1 million copies of her backlist in self-published ebook form in 2011

Florence Parry Heide – obituary

James Hillman – obituary

Lists

The “Ist” List by David Wright

October 2011 Christian Marketplace Bestsellers

ABC Best Books for Children catalog

Top 10 One-Sit Reads

Lighthearted Links of the Week

Stephen Colbert on the Steve Jobs biography (video)

The Confusing Library (video)

It’s Your Fault We Nominated Your Book by Accident (video)

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RA Run Down

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

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 October 23-29, 2011:

FICTION

Beck, Glenn and Nicole Baart – The Snow Angel – 9781439187203

Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast – Destined (House of Night #9) – 9780312650254

Grisham, John – The Litigators – 9780385535137

King, Laurie R., Leslie S. Klinger, Lee Child & Neil Gaiman – A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon – 9780812982466

Muller, Marcia – City of Whispers (Sharon McCone) – 9780446573337

Murakami, Haruki – 1Q84 – 978030759331

Perry, Anne – A Christmas Homecoming: A Novel – 9780345524638

Pierce, Tamora – Mastiff (Beka Cooper Series #3)(YA) – 9780375814709

Sands, Lynsay & Jeaniene Frost – The Bite Before Christmas – 9780062014078

Van Alsburg, Chris, and more – The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket (ages 9-12) – 9780547548104

NONFICTION

Harrison, Kim – The Hollows Insider: New Fiction, Facts, Maps, Murders, and More in the World of Rachel Morgan – 9780061974335

Hemingway, Mariel & Boris Vejdovsky – Hemingway: A Life in Pictures

Isaacson, Walter – Steve Jobs – 9781451648539

Notable Fall Books

News of the Week:

Urban fantasy authors on weird and wonderful cities

How I was un-nominated for the National Book Award by Lauren Myracle; a roundup of coverage from PW, and another take from Xtranormal video

USA Today has a good looking new design for its book pages

Herman Cain’s campaign buys $64,000 worth of his new book from his motivational speaking company

Speaking of digital design, Google Books is experimenting with an infinite bookcase; they recommend using their Chrome web browser

And Avon Books has a new digital slush pile

At 105, Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who invented Pinyin and translated the Encylopaedia Britannica into Chinese, is considered a dissident. It doesn’t seem to bother him—he says “I really like people cursing me,” and has written 10 books since he turned 100. Oh, and his blog Centenarian Scholar is here.

Appalachian prison project seeks book donations

Sacramento Public Library gets Espresso Book Machine

Verifying authors who want to sign the Occupy Writers statement is growing difficult

The big hush-hush book at the Frankfurt Book Fair was Masha Gessen’s Vladimir Putin biography, The Man Without a Face. Riverhead, which will publish the book in March, says it’s tricky publishing a book when you have concerns about its author’s safety.

The British Library has come under attack for linking to Amazon’s UK site through its public catalog.

Nancy Pearl on the importance of book reviewing and books everyone should read before they die

Crime Fiction Academy will launch in 2012

Amazon taught readers that they didn’t need bookstores, now they’re encouraging writers to throw aside their publishers and are publishing 122 books this fall

Gabrielle Giffords reads the last chapter of the audio version of her memoir

Barnes & Noble.com has added five new categories to its online store: Home and Gift, Consumer Electronics, Arts and Crafts, Toys and Games and Baby

Convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is out of jail now, and his new book will be published by World Net Daily next month, but a court has garnished money from the income, saying he still owes about $22.7 million of the $23 million dollars awarded to his victims

USA Today has a new blog for romance readers and writers

Lost C. S. Forester book to be published

Saddam Hussein’s daughter looking for a publisher for his memoirs

HarperPerennial’s new model has cool young writers, sharp design, and low author advances

“Little Free Libraries” pop up throughout the midwest

Open Road Media forms new ebook imprint called Iconic Books for influential books in any subject; first title: Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying

Professional Development Opportunities:

Free Booklist webinar: What’s New in Audiobooks Fall 2011 – Tuesday, October 25

PLA is looking for two columnists for Public Libraries magazine, and contributing writers to an issue on ebooks

Books on Screen

Scandinavian crime hot in Hollywood

HBO picks up series based on Swamplandia by Karen Russell

Stephen King’s ‘Bag of Bones’ Heads to A&E With Pierce Brosnan Starring

Videogame-like, steampunk movie version of The Three Musketeers stars Christopher Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich

Awards

Julian Barnes wins the Booker Prize

Javier Moro wins $833,800 Planeta Prize

Authors

Kate Atkinson – interviewed by Nancy Pearl (video)

Piri Thomas – obituary

Lists

October Indie Next List

Teens choose their top 10 favorite books

Lighthearted Link of the Week

Top 10 Best Lines to Sell a Book to a Customer

What Cindy’s Reading:

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New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

To be published October 24 – October 30, 2011

MONDAY FICTION

Hoyt, Elizabeth – Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane #3) – 9780446558938

Millet, Lydia – Ghost Lights – 9780393081718

MONDAY NONFICTION

Isaacson, Walter – Steve Jobs – 9781451648539

TUESDAY FICTION

Alexander, Tasha – A Crimson Warning: A Novel of Suspense – 9780312661755

Banks, Maya – Never Love a Highlander (McCabe Trilogy #3)(mass market) – 9780345519511

Beck, Glenn and Nicole Baart – The Snow Angel – 9781439187203

Benison, C. C. – Twelve Drummers Drumming – 9780385344456

Carr, Robyn, – Bring Me Home for Christmas (mass market) – 9780778312710

Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast – Destined (House of Night #9) – 9780312650254

Del Toro, Guillermo – The Night Eternal – 9780061558269

Frank, Jacqueline – Adam (Nightwalkers #6) – 9781420109863

George, Jessica Day – Tuesdays at the Castle – 9781599906447

Grisham, John – The Litigators – 9780385535137

Kagawa, Julie – The Iron Knight (Iron Fey #4) – 9780373210367

King, Laurie R., Leslie S. Klinger, Lee Child & Neil Gaiman – A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon – 9780812982466

Machart, Bruce – Men in the Making – 9780156034449

Muller, Marcia – City of Whispers (Sharon McCone) – 9780446573337

Murakami, Haruki – 1Q84 – 978030759331

Nádas, Péter – Parallel Stories: A Novel – 9780374229764

Palmer, Diana – Wyoming Tough (mass market) – 9780373776290

Perry, Anne – A Christmas Homecoming: A Novel – 9780345524638

Pierce, Tamora – Mastiff (Beka Cooper Series #3)(YA) – 9780375814709

Rector, John – Already Gone – 9781612180878

Sands, Lynsay & Jeaniene Frost – The Bite Before Christmas – 9780062014078

Smith, L. J. – Phantom (The Vampire Diaries Series: The Hunters)(YA) – 9780062017680

Van Alsburg, Chris, and more – The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket (ages 9-12) – 9780547548104

VanLiere, Donna – The Christmas Note – 9780312658960

Williams, Sandy – The Shadow Reader (McKenzie Lewis #1)

TUESDAY NONFICTION

Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio – Lidia’s Italy in America – 9780307595676

Feinstein, Andrew – The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade – 9780374208387

Greenwald, Glenn – With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful – 9780805092059 – 60,000 copies

Harrison, Kim – The Hollows Insider: New Fiction, Facts, Maps, Murders, and More in the World of Rachel Morgan – 9780061974335

Hemingway, Mariel & Boris Vejdovsky – Hemingway: A Life in Pictures

Horwitz, Tony – Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War – 9780805091533

Kahneman, Daniel – Thinking, Fast and Slow – 9780374275631

Levine, Robert – Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back – 9780385533768

Montefiore, Simon Sebag – Jerusalem: a Biography – 9780307266514 – 60,000

Peres, Shimon and David Landau – Ben-Gurion: A Political Life – 9780805242829 – 60,000

Stewart, David O. – American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America – 9781439157183

Wertheim, Margaret – Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything – 9780802715135

Wilson, A. N. – Dante in Love – 9780374134686

THURSDAY NONFICTION

Cussler, Clive – Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt – 9780399158100

MacGregor, Neil – A History of the World in 100 Objects – 9780670022700

McRaney, David – You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 65 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself – 9781592406593

Sis, Peter – The Conference of the Birds – 9781594203060

Tomalin, Claire – Charles Dickens: A Life – 9781594203091

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RA Run Down

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

By Cindy Orr

New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

FICTION

NONFICTION

GRAPHIC BOOKS

Green Lantern Corps: The
Weaponer by Tony Bedard

Definitive Irredeemable
by Mark Waid & Peter Krause

Justice Society
of America: Supertown
by Marc Guggenheim

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 October 16-22, 2011:

FICTION

Patterson, James - The Christmas Wedding – 9780316097390

Child, Lee - The Affair (Jack Reacher) - 9780385344326

Gregory, Philippa - The Lady of the Rivers (The Cousins’ War #3) - 9780316123525

Guterson, David - Ed King – 9780307271068

Jin, Ha – Nanjing Requiem – 9780307379764

Johansen, Iris - Bonnie – 9780312651220

Lindsay, Jeffry P. - Double Dexter - 9780385532372

Palahniuk, Chuck - Damned – 9780385533027

Rosenberg, Joel C. - The Tehran Initiative - 9780849948329

Whitehead, Colson - Zone One – 9780385528078

NONFICTION

Atwood, Margaret – In Other Worlds – 9780385533966

Collins, Judy - Sweet Judy Blue Eyes My Life in Music – 9780307717344

Graham, Billy - Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well – 9780849948329

This is just a sample. Scroll down or CLICK HERE for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

Notable Fall Books

News of the Week:

Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Myla Goldberg, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, Rick Moody, Ann Patchett, Salman Rushdie, Michael Cunningham, Lemony Snickett, Scott Spencer, Donna Tartt, Alice Walker, and over 200 other authors have joined in support of Occupy Wall Street

Children’s Graphic Novel core collection

The Occupy Wall Street Library has a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter page, and an online catalog through Library Thing

Warner Home Video will no longer distribute theatrical releases to libraries or home video rental stores until 28 days after they release the movies for sale at retailers

In response to an exclusive ebook deal between DC Comics and Amazon, Barnes & Noble removes DC Comics graphic novels from its stores saying “Regardless of the publisher, we will not stock physical books in our stores if we are not offered the available digital format.” Same for Books-a-Million

The Horror Book Review Collective Presents: Halloween Horrors 2011

Why teens should read adult books

Putting down the iPad so my kids can see me read

Guess it was too good to be true: when the Booker Prize went to Wolf Hall, a lowly historical fiction book, and other “accessible” and “readable” authors were nominated, some applauded; but now “prominent authors” want a brand new prize to honor “literature” that “is unsurpassed in quality and ambition.” Translation: no genres allowed. And the reaction from the Booker chair? “It’s pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me. They live in such an insular world they can’t stand their domain being intruded upon.”

In the 80s when David Foster Wallace, William T. Vollmann, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mary Karr, Mark Costello, Jonathan Franzen, Rick Moody, and Donald Antrim were hanging around together…

OverDrive Reports Ebook Checkouts Already Up 200 Percent Versus 2010

Currently free to Kindle owners on Amazon: The Reading Group Insider

Why Margaret Atwood’s new book is made of straw: and the implications for book publishing (and trees)

Odd story of the week: playwright Joe Orton’s stint as a creative library book defacer landed him in jail, and may have led to his murder

Taylor Swift donates thousands of books to the Reading (PA) Public Library

French accuser of Dominique Strauss-Kahn publishes book
Do you know about: You Must Read This from NPR?

Amazon launches science fiction and horror imprint called 47North

Secretive PAC that placed lawn signs saying “Vote to Close Troy Library — Book Burning Party, Aug. 5″ was funded by the major Detroit ad agency Leo Burnett

Dennis Lehane gets his own line at HarperCollins

NPR blog: Do libraries really destroy books?

Following series fiction by Joyce Saricks

The invasion of the robot books

Call for Nominations: The Zora Neale Hurston Award

The Zora Neale Hurston Award from RUSA/CODES honors ALA members who have demonstrated leadership in promoting African American literature through projects such as a program, display, collection building efforts, a special readers’ advisory focus, or innovation in service.

The winner will receive $1250.00 in funds to attend the ALA Annual Conference, tickets to the Literary Tastes breakfast and the FOLUSA Author tea, and a set of the Zora Neale Hurston books published by Harper Perennial.

To nominate yourself or someone you know, please download the nomination form located on the award web page at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/znh/index.cfm

In addition to the form you need to send the following:

**A nomination letter that describes the project

**Photos, booklists, screen captures, or other forms of illustration of the project

**A brief essay—approximately 250 words—explaining how attending the ALA Annual Conference will help further the nominee’s efforts to support and promote African American literature.

The deadline for nominations is December 15th.

Please email, fax, or mail the nomination packet to Cynthia Crosser, Chair, Zora Neale Hurston Award Committee.

Email: cynthia.crosser@umit.maine.edu
Fax: (207) 581-1653.

Social Science and Humanities Reference Librarian
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library,
Orono, ME 04469-5729
Voice: (207) 581-3612

Books on Screen

Behind the scenes look at Scorsese’s Hugo

Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters optioned for movie by Summit Entertainment

The Raven trailer

John Sandford’s Certain Prey will be a USA original movie Sunday November 6

Awards

National Book Award Finalists

Dagger Award winners

Ellis Peters Award shortlist

Governor General’s Award nominees

German Book Prize

Are the National Book Awards irrelevant?

Authors

Barry Eisler’s Amazon experiment seems to be working

Terry Pratchett interviewed by Neil Gaiman

Lists

10 Landmarks for lovers of Western literature

Indie October Baseball Bestseller List

Lighthearted Links of the Week

Drinking with Fictional Characters – match the drink to the character

The Kama Sutra of Reading

What Cindy’s Reading:

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RA Run Down

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

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

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:

Like Talking About Nonfiction? Ever Thought About Writing a Book?

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)

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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

By Cindy Orr

New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

FICTION

NONFICTION

GRAPHIC BOOKS

Ozma of Oz

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 3 – 9, 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

Davidson, MaryJanice – Wolf at the Door (trade paper) – 9780425243114 – 100,000

Hoffman, Alice – The Dovekeepers – 9781451617474 – 150,000

Hunter, Jillian – A Bride Unveiled (mass market) – 9780451413116 – 200,000

Ondaatje, Michael – The Cat’s Table – 9780307700117 – 100,000

Riordan, Rick – The Son of Neptune (Percy Jackson)(juvenile) – 3 million copies – 978-1410441225

Sandford, John – Shock Wave – 9780399157691 – 400,000

Sierra, Javier – The Lost Angel – 9781451632798 – 150,000

NONFICTION

Lewis, Michael – Boomerang – 200,000 – 9780393081817

Dawkins, Richard – The Magic of Reality How We Know What’s Really True (graphic book) – 9781439192818 – 150,000

Degeneres, Ellen – Seriously…I’m Kidding – 9780446585026 – 750,000

Orlean, Susan – Rin Tin Tin The Life and the Legend – 9781439190135 – 150,000

Pinker, Steven – The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined – 9780670022953 – 100,000

Notable Fall Books

News of the Week:

HarperCollins pulls the ebook version of Reamde by Neal Stephenson after many consumer complaints about errors in the text

Everything you always wanted to know about Google: in three book reviews

Barnes & Noble acquires Borders brand and will redirect Borders.com to its own website

Knopf announces new Bill Clinton book for November

British Library to publish Arthur Conan Doyle’s first novel

Courtney Love working on a tell-all book for Morrow to be published next Fall

How helpful are your library signs and policies? Find out that and more if you participate in Work Like a Patron Day 2011

Books that deserve to be banned…from middle school reading lists

October is National Reading Group Month! (Via Book Group Buzz)

Moby relaunches Oct. 3

Booker Prize short list titles selling well

Audible hires major actors to do audiobooks

Rebecca Vnuk joins Booklist as editor

Where did all the newspaper novels go?

The last words of 25 famous writers

Do you think bookstores will still be around by 2018?

Odds on who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Amazon really gets around

Beyond Relevance to Literary Merit: Young Adult Literature As “Literature”

American Christian Fiction Writers Conference report

LJ/SLJ Second Annual eBook Summit October 12: Ebooks, the New Normal: How Libraries Are Leveraging the Ebook Opportunity

Books on Screen

Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money movie trailer

Trailer for Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

ABC to produce series based on 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls

Michael Lewis writing screen version of Liar’s Poker

Gossip Girl to Austen Spoof Girl?

First teaser for Season 2 of Game of Thrones

Roald Dahl’s The BFG to be made into film

David Baldacci on the small screen?

Walking Dead now web series, to help viewers while away the wait to Season 2

Awards

Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner: Chang-Rae Lee

2011 Booker Prize shortlist the bestselling/most popular ever

Stephen King accepts Mason Prize;

H.W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize shortlist

Winners of National Leadership Grants

Authors

Are these siblings the new “it” fiction writers?

Stephen King reads from his forthcoming sequel to The Shining

John Lithgow’s new memoir: review

Wangari Maathai – obituary

Colin Powell to publish a book next May

Interview (from 1958) with Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler

Andrea Cremer will write steampunk YA series

Colm Toibin and Jeffrey Eugenidies talk writing.

Lists

Twisted fairytales for the modern reader

The Top 10 Books Lost to Time

The best new graphic novels

One-day novels

Very Bad Things: a reading list all pessimists can love

September 2011 Christian Bestsellers list

Lighthearted Links of the Week

Shakespeare into modern English

Drowning in donated encyclopedias? Make furniture!

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Sunday, September 25th, 2011

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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Sunday, September 18th, 2011

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

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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Sunday, September 11th, 2011

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

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