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It seems a famous name on the cover doesn’t always win over readers.
Al Roker, book lover and Today Show’s seemingly irrepressible weatherperson, releases his first work of fiction today; The Morning Show Murders. Library users are not jumping on it; holds are light. Selectors have ...
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The Blessing
If one of the functions of book awards is to bring attention to books that may not have received it otherwise, then the National Book Awards achieved that goal with one of the nonfiction nominees, The Poison King. In the Washington Post, Carolyn See reviewed it, saying,
I read this biography as ...
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Stephen King
I had an interesting reference question today from a school administrator of an inner city school with a high percentage of ESL families.
A generous donor is going to buy a book for every child in the the school, K through 5th grade, to take home to keep. The donor wants the books to be ...
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The NYT reviews a book that has been a best seller in Isreal and France and was recently released in English here and in the UK, where it has sparked heated debate. In The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, a professor at Tel Aviv University, says the NYT, “resurrects a theory ...
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Simon Schama
Sunday’s NYT features their “Holiday Gift Guide,” which includes a “Books” section (Art and Architecture, Books About Antiques, Gift Books and, for the first time Graphic Novels — another indicator that the genre is now mainstream). Selected New Cookbooks are ...
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Tis
The Gift
A tearful Oprah explained her decision to say “goodbye” live on her show Friday.
Well, not goodbye quite yet — the show continues through September 9, 2011; quite a long goodbye. The Oprah site is already featuring her “Top Twenty Moments” (a lot of weeping and, ...
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The Twenty
When Michael Chrichton died last year, he left two books, Pirate Latitudes, which releases next week and an unfinished thriller.
Of the titles coming out next week, those by Chrichton, Koontz, & Butcher lead in holds. Butcher has the highest reserve ratio.
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Butcher, Jim, First ...
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The Butcher
The Pirate
It looks like it may be real this time. Oprah told her staff yesterday that her last show will be on Sept 9, 2011. She will make an official announcement on her show today.
According to reports, she wants to concentrate on her cable network, OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network, natch), planned for ...
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In case you haven’t heard already, the National Book Award Winners were announced last night.
In the L.A. Times “Jacket Copy” blog, Carolyn Kellogg reports on the event; the dinner was “dwonsized” from last year’s lamb to chicken.
Claudette Colvin, the subject ...
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National Book Award
A shoutout out to the 14 libraries who, according to WorldCat discovered Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs before we spied it in the new issue of People (thank heaven; it’s a welcome relief from all those photos of the 110 Hottest Guys on the Planet).
Sadly, it seems the book ...
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How many times has Gossip Girl been called “Sex and the City for Teens”?
Come May, there will be an actual S&TC for teens, when Candace Busnell publishes The Carrie Diaries, the first of two fictional diaries supposedly written by Carrie Bradshaw as a teenager.
The grownup ...
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Sex and the City
A recipe for spicy caramel corn from The Craft of Baking featured in the “Cooking with Dexter” column in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine was all it took to send the book rising on Amazon.
Who could resist that cover?
The Craft of Baking: Cakes, Cookies, and Other ...
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First there was Captain Chesley Sullenberger’s autobiography, Highest Duty, with his acoount of the miraculous landing on the Hudson that brought him to fame. In it, Sullenberger says, as he has from the beginning, that the credit does not go to him alone, but to the teamwork of everyone ...
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Has everyone seen The Little Dump Truck by Margery Cuyler?
I could shout from the rooftops. It’s not just another truck book with bold graphic child-friendly pictures, you can sing it (think “I’m a little teapot”);
I’m a little dump truck
Run by Hard Hat ...
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Hold the presses! When I did my recent round-up of holiday craft books, I let one slip through the cracks.
My favorite cookie baking book of all time has been Rose’s Christmas Cookies by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Really; it was all that anyone needed for the holidays.
Rose’s ...
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On NPR’s Fresh Air last night, Joshua Kosman, author of The Buyout of America, spoke to Terry Gross about how private equity companies work. Kosman believes that their practices are leading to another credit crisis.
The book rose to #117 (from #4,194). Libraries own modest quantities, with ...
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When you make Jon Stewart laugh this much, it’s great for book sales. Jake Edelstein’s Tokyo Vice went to #95 (from #201) on Amazon after this appearance last night.
As we noted earlier, Edelstein was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air last week. Tokyo Vice was reviewed in the ...
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The Atlantic magazine’s literary editor wades into the fraught waters of best books lists, selecting the Top Five, plus 20 runners up.
As we have come to expect, there is little agreement with other list. Of the 25 titles, just four also appear on Amazon’s Top 100 and one on ...
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If you go into the 600’s at my library looking for books on HIV/AIDs, you are unlikely to find any. I patiently explain to faculty that the research in this area is changing quickly and I have weeded most of the dated titles, keeping only memoirs like Pedro and Me. I recommend websites and ...
