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Under the Radar: War, Behind the Scenes

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

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Most Wanted Mashup: Hottest Books of the Week

Sunday, June 13th, 2010
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Top 12 Novels of June by Print Run

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Summer has begun! Which new books will be the hottest? We can guess, based on publishers’ expectations. Here are the new novels (no reprints here) coming out in June, with at least a 450,000 copy print run.

FICTION

  • 1. Janet Evanovich – Sizzling Sixteen (St. Martin’s, $27.99. 9780312383305). 2,500,000 copies. June 22.
    Stephanie Plum, her grandmother, and her other companions struggle to outmaneuver a killer who is targeting Vinnie, a case that is further complicated by Lula’s involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme.
  • 2. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – Private (Little, Brown, $27.99; 9780316096157). 1,100,000 copies. June 28.
    In a thriller already in development as a major television series, former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father’s elite LA detective agency and along with it such cases as an NFL gambling scandal, 18 unsolved schoolgirl slayings and the murder of his best-friend’s wife.
  • 3. Nelson DeMille – The Lion (Grand Central, $27.99. 9780446580830). 1,000,000 copies. One-day laydown. June 8.
    In a sequel to the best-selling thriller The Lion’s Game, Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as “The Lion,” returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who can stop him is John Corey, a special agent for the NYPD’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force.
  • 4. Stephanie Laurens – The Brazen Bride (Avon, $7.99 pap. 9780061795176). 800,000 copies. June 29.
    Shipwrecked and wounded, an ex-officer of the Crown, on a mission to bring down a traitor known only as the Black Cobra, is rescued by a brazen beauty who is as daring as he.
  • 5. Glenn Beck – The Overton Window (Threshold Editions, $26; 9781439184301). 750,000 copies. One-day laydown. June 15.
    After a terrorist attack shakes the country to its core, public relations executive Noah Gardner and mailroom worker Molly Ross must expose a conspiracy by the powers that be to radically transform America.
  • 6. Clive Cussler and Justin Scott – The Spy: An Isaac Bell Novel (Putnam, $27.95. 9780399156434). 700,000 copies. June 1.
    Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America’s leading technological minds.
  • 7. Catherine Coulter – Whiplash: An FBI Thriller by (Putnam, $26.95; 9780399156533). 650,000 copies. June 15.
    Hired by a Yale professor to investigate the suspicious unavailability of a critical chemotherapy drug, Erin Pulaski discovers that its manufacturer is imposing a shortage to enable billions in windfall profits, a finding that is complicated by the brutal murder of a top employee.
  • 8. Dean Koontz – Frankenstein: Lost Souls (Bantam, $27; 9780553808018). 600,000 copies. June 15.
    As Victor Leben, formerly Frankenstein, begins his work to create a race of superhumans, five people, including Victor’s original creation, Deucalion, gather in a small Montana town to face dangers they have never known before in order to oppose Victor.
  • 9. Danielle Steel – Family Ties (Delacorte, $28; 9780385343169). 600,000 copies. June 22.
    Years after gaining unexpected custody of her sister’s three small children, a woman experiences emotional division when the grown children choose very different paths in life, in a tale set in Manhattan, Paris, and Tehran.
  • 10. Brad Thor – Foreign Influence (Atria, $26.99; 9781416586593). 550,000 copies. June 29.
    Recruited as a field operative for a new Department of Defense spy agency that reports only to a secret panel of military insiders, former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath investigates the bombing death of a group of American students in Rome, an act with possible ties to a past colleague.
  • 11. Allison Brennan – Carnal Sin (Ballantine, $7.99. original pap. 9780345511683). 500,000 copies. June 22.
    When yet another one of the Seven Deadly Sins is released from Hell by black magic, demon hunter Moira O’Donnel tracks Lust to Los Angeles where she becomes trapped in a supernatural war waged by her diabolical mother, the powerful witch Fiona.
  • 12. Eric Van Lustbader – Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective(Grand Central, $27.99; 9780446539814). 450,000 copies. One-day laydown. June 1.
    After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity.

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    Under the Radar: Books Dads Might Like

    Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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    Under the Radar: New Literary Fiction by Men

    Sunday, May 16th, 2010

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    Under the Radar: Jewish Memoirs

    Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

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    Under the Radar: Books for Horse Lovers

    Sunday, April 25th, 2010
    • Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
    • Carolyn Banks – Robin Vaughn mysteries
    • Bill Doolittle – The Kentucky Derby: Run for the Roses
    • Walter Farley – The Black Stallion
    • Dick Francis – any of his books
    • Marguerite Henry – Misty of Chincoteague
    • Laura Hillenbrand – Seabiscuit
    • Annette Israel – Horsepower: a Memoir
    • Will James – Smoky: the Cowhorse
    • Michael Korda – Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life
    • Jill Krementz – A Very Young Rider
    • Anne McCaffrey – The Lady
    • Mary O’Hara – My Friend Flicka
    • Theresa Peluso – Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover’s Soul
    • Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
    • Jane Smiley – Horse Heaven

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    Most Wanted Mashup: Hottest Books of the Week

    Sunday, April 4th, 2010
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    Most Wanted Mashup: Hottest Books of the Week

    Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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    Plains, Trains, and Lanes

    Friday, November 13th, 2009

    Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?

    20-Something Women

  • Marian Keyes – Angels

    • 20-Something Men

  • Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers
  • Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – SuperFreakonomics
  • Patrick O’Brian – Post Captain

    • 30-Something Women

  • Johanna Lindsey – Heart of a Warrior
  • David McCullough – 1776

    • 30-Something Men

  • Stephen Laws – Ferocity

    • Middle-Aged Women

  • Robin Cook – Chromosome 6
  • Anne Rice – Angel Time
  • Dani Shapiro, ed. – Best New American Voices 2010

    • Middle-Aged Men

  • Louis L’Amour – Last of the Breed
  • Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – Freakonomics
  • Vernor Vinge – A Deepness in the Sky


    • If you spot a title or two as you travel around, please share and we’ll include them in the column. Just send them to raoblog@lu.com

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