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 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.

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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.

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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

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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)

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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.

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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.

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Awards

Man Asian Literary Prize long list

World Fantasy Awards winners

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Authors

Larry Haun – obituary

Gregory Maguire on winding up the Wicked series

Andy Rooney – obituary

J. K. Rowling – nearly killed off Ron Weasley

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Lists

The 10 Best Graphic Novels

December 2011 Indie Next List

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

10 Literary Trends That Need to Go Away

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

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.

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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

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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.

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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?

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Professional Development Opportunities:

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

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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

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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

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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

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Lists

The “Ist” List by David Wright

October 2011 Christian Marketplace Bestsellers

ABC Best Books for Children catalog

Top 10 One-Sit Reads

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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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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 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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Awards

Julian Barnes wins the Booker Prize

Javier Moro wins $833,800 Planeta Prize

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Authors

Kate Atkinson – interviewed by Nancy Pearl (video)

Piri Thomas – obituary

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Lists

October Indie Next List

Teens choose their top 10 favorite books

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Lighthearted Link of the Week

Top 10 Best Lines to Sell a Book to a Customer

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What Cindy’s Reading:

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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Authors

Barry Eisler’s Amazon experiment seems to be working

Terry Pratchett interviewed by Neil Gaiman

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Lists

10 Landmarks for lovers of Western literature

Indie October Baseball Bestseller List

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Lighthearted Links of the Week

Drinking with Fictional Characters – match the drink to the character

The Kama Sutra of Reading

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What Cindy’s Reading:

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Professional Development Opportunities:

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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What Cindy’s Reading: