Publishers Weekly articles from July 2011, page 4

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2011

Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre--How We Dignify the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre--How We Dignify the Dead Sarah Murray. St. Martin's, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-53302-1 Murray (Moveable Feasts) takes readers on a charming and informative tour of how different...

American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 William M. Fowler Jr. Walker, $27 (352p) ISBN: 978-0-8027-1706-1 Vivid descriptions of personalities from all camps and a spellbinding narrative...

PW Talks with Courtney E. Smith: a girl's guide to music.(Q&A)(Interview)
July 18, 2011... In Record Collecting for Girls (Reviews, June 20), Courtney E. Smith writes about love and coming-of-age through music. You talk about feeling strangely annoyed when a band that you loved--the Shins--hit it big in the film Garden State. Will...

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America David O. Stewart. Simon & Schuster, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5718-3 Eschewing recent attempts to rehabilitate Aaron Burr (1756-1836), a brilliant member of the...

Gallipoli.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Gallipoli Peter Hart. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-119-83686-4 Hart, oral historian of Britain's Imperial War Museum, focuses on the Gallipoli campaign. This book depends more on archival work and on recent Turkish--and French...

Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker Edited and intro. by Thomas Vinciguerra, foreword by RJ. O'Rourke. Bloomsbury, $18 trade paper (688p) ISBN 978-1-60819-550-3 He may be obscure now, but Wolcott Gibbs was...

South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery Lynne Cox. Knopf, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-3075-9340-5 As a teenager, Cox (Swimming to Antarctica) was enamored with Norwegian explorer Amundsen...

Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and the Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and the Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy Tyler Hamilton. ECW, $14.95 trade paper (225p) ISBN 978-1-77041-008-4 Hamilton, energy columnist for the Toronto Star, examines an array of ambitious ideas for...

Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan Edward Girardet. Chelsea Green, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-6035-8342-8 European-based journalist Girardet (Afghanistan: The Soviet War) shares his personal...

Star Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Star Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War John Stubbs. Norton, $39.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-393-06880-1 The 17th-century showdown between Charles I and Parliament is fought as much with rhymes as with muskets in this...

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Ezra F. Vogel. Harvard/Belknap, $39.95 (874p) ISBN 978-0-674-05544-5 This intensely researched doorstop delivers a step-by-step political biography of the man who gets most of the credit for...

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Assassins of the Turquoise Palace Roya Hakakian. Grove, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1911-7 Hakakian's first book, Journey from the Land of No, told the author's story of her years growing up in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. Her present...

The Intervention Book: Stories and Solutions from Addicts, Professionals, and Families.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Intervention Book: Stories and Solutions from Addicts, Professionals, and Families Kathy L. Conari, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-57324-495-4 In her first book, Kathy L., 12-step recovery editor for BellaOnline.com, focuses on...

Seduced by the Nazis.('Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma' and 'Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War')(Book review)
July 18, 2011... What could Gertrude Stein and Coco Chanel have in common? Nazi collaboration. * Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma Barbara Will. Columbia Univ., $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-231-15262-4 What was Gertrude...

Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom Catherine Hakim. Basic, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-465-02747-7 This enthusiastic but unpersuasive book succeeds in marrying economics with eros, but suffers from its...

Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography Barbara Traub, intro. by Les Blank, foreword and afterword by Larry Harvey, epilogue by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Immedium, $29.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59702-003-6 This expanded edition...

Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life In Food Jacques Pepin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40 (704p) ISBN 978-0-547-23279-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the great cookbook masters of the world, Pepin has...

The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook Josh Kilmer-Pureell and Brent Ridge, with Sandy Gluck. Sterling Epicure, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8709-6 The Beekman Boys, aka Kilmer-Purcell and Ridge, two former city dwellers who share tales of...

Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook Edited by Rachel Wharton. Sterling, Epicure, $18.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8554-2 By focusing on local foods, Edible Communities has stealthily grown into a national media venture. With an array of print and...

Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders Emeril Lagasse. HarpeCollins, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-174296-5 Celeb chef Lagasse's latest effort focuses on dishes that "come together" in a single pot while cooking "mostly unattended." If...

The Kosher Carnivore.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Kosher Carnivore June Hersh. St. Martin's, $27.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-69942-0 Hersh worked in the New York lighting fixture business before her recent career change to cookbook author. Giving up bulbs for blintzes, her first work,...

Beating Chronic Fatigue: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Complete Recovery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Beating Chronic Fatigue: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Complete Recovery. Kristina Downing-Orr. Piatkus (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (226p) ISBN 978-0-749-94098-0 U.K. psychotherapist Downing-Orr (Get the Life You Want; Wearing the Ruby...

Recently reviewed online.(Brief article)(List)
July 18, 2011... www.publishersweekly.com Nonfiction Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution Edited by John Brockman. Harper Perennial, Aug. Celtic Revival?: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of...

Talia and the Rude Vegetables.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Talia and the Rude Vegetables Linda Elovitz Marshall, illus, by Francesca Assirelli. Kar-Ben, $16.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7613-5217-4; $6.95 paper ISBN 978-0-7613-5218-1 This laugh-out-loud title keeps the little jokes coming. Young Talia, a city...

The Story of Hanukkah.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Story of Hanukkah David A. Adler, illus, by Jill Weber. Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2295-1 The events commemorated in the holiday of Hanukkah are retold simply for young ears by prolific children's author Adler (Cam...

Sketchy Behavior.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Sketchy Behavior Erynn Mangum. Zondervan, $9.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-310-72144-4 Sixteen-year-old Kate Carter sees her life as typical and unremarkable. Her days are filled with school, homework, and television viewing with her...

Torrent.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Torrent Lisa T. Bergren. David C. Cook, $9.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4347-6429-4 In this final book of Bergren's River of Time trilogy (Waterfall, Cascade), doughty heroine Gabriella returns through the time tunnel to 14th-century...

Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong Joan Steinau Lester. Zondervan, $15.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-310-72763-7 Like the current U.S. president, Nina Armstrong is biracial. Unlike him, the character is a teenager, and...

Is Everyone Ready for Fun?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Is Everyone Ready for Fun? Jan Thomas. S&S/Beach Lane, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2364-0 Like a Saturday morning cartoon, Thomas's (Let's Count Goats!) rowdy characters and simple plot unfold in a series of scenes that build up to...

Little Owl's Night.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Little Owl's Night Divya Srinivasan. Viking, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-01295-4 There's a surfeit of books about going to bed, but fewer about the beauty of night after all the humans have gone to sleep. In her debut, Srinivasan explores...

Dot.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Dot Patricia Intriago. FSG/Ferguson, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-31835-2 In her debut, graphic designer Intriago explores dots as a graphic designer might, crisply and systematically. The text begins like a P.D. Eastman classic ("Dot. Stop...

You Will Be My Friend!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... You Will Be My Friend! Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-07030-0 Lucy the bear, who adopted a stubborn boy in Brown's Children Make Terrible Pets, tends to come on a little strong. She wakes up with an optimistic plan...

Love Waves.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Love Waves Rosemary Wells. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4989-0 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wells addresses a familiar theme--familial love spanning distances--in a fresh and clever way that will feel innately true to readers of...

Read, play, learn!(children's books)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Interactive books that engage readers' hands and minds. The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book Rufus Butler Seder. Workman, $14.95 (11p) ISBN 978-0-7611-6373-2 With a glittery, ruby-red cover, this addition to the bestselling Scanimation...

My Rhinoceros.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... My Rhinoceros Jon Agee. Scholastic/di Capua, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-29441-6 Adopting a rhinoceros, in and of itself, would be absurd enough for most storytellers. For Agee (Milo's Hat Trick), it is simply the first in a series of...

The Emperor's Cool Clothes.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Emperor's Cool Clothes Lee Harper. Marshall Cavendish, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5948-4 Once Harper (Snow! Snow! Snow!) decides to set this familiar fairy tale in the polar regions (mixing up the penguins of Antarctica with the...

Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants Tony Johnston, illus, by Stacy Innerst. Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-206145-6 Using the scant facts available, Johnston (My Abuelita) offers a loose,...

The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece Anthony L. Manna and Soula Mitakidou, illus. by Giselle Potter. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86691-3 This retelling from the team behind Mr. Semolina-Semolinus: A Greek...

Poetry hour.(poetry books)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Kid-friendly poems on subjects like monsters, overflowing toilets, and dogs of all kinds. A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young Halfdan Rasmussen, trans, from the Danish by Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Espeland, illus, by Kevin...

Fall Mixed Up.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Fall Mixed Up Bob Raczka, illus, by Chad Cameron. Carolrhoda, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7613-4606-7 With giddy abandon, Cameron's (A Day with No Crayons) bustling, mixed-media artwork has fun with 'this story's gleefully wacky premise....

The Jewel Fish of Karnak.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * The Jewel Fish of Karnak Graeme Base. Abrams, $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0086-6 Set in ancient Egypt, Base's latest dynamic, clue-laden adventure stars two wily thieves, Jackal and Ibis; the Cat Pharaoh offers to pardon them if they...

Grandpa Green.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Grandpa Green Lane Smith. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-607-7 In this reflective tale, Smith (It's a Book) departs from his customary irony to muse on the memories, talents, and traditions passed down through generations....

The Flint Heart.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * The Flint Heart Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, illus. by John Rocco. Candlewick, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4712-4 A full century after the publication of Eden Philpotts's The Flint Heart (Dutton, 1910) the story resurfaces in...

The Unwanteds.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Unwanteds Lisa McMann. S&S/Aladdin, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0768-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her foray into middle-grade fiction, McMann (Cryer's Cross) delivers a fun mix of magic and science with a retro SF novel whose...

Wildwood.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Wildwood Colin Meloy, illus, by Carson Ellis. HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray, $16.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-202468-8 Meloy, the lead singer of the band the Decemberists, delves into middle-grade fiction with a story that pairs classic...

Floors.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Floors Patrick Carman. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-545-25519-6 Carman (the Skeleton Creek series) delivers a madcap mystery reminiscent of Roald Dahl and Ellen Raskin, complete with bizarre inventions, a mystery involving a...

The Bridge To Never Land.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Bridge To Never Land Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. Disney-Hyperion, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4231-3865-5 Pearson and Barry bring their Starcatchers series into the modern day, injecting it with a dose of metafiction in the process....

Down the Mysterly River.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... * Down the Mysterly River Bill Willingham, illus, by Mark Buckingham. Tor/Starscape, $15.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2792-5 Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the Fables series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and...

Envy.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... Envy Gregg Olsen. Sterling/Splinter, $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8957-1 Kicking off the Empty Coffin series, true crime writer Olsen (Closer Than Blood) makes his YA debut with a paranormally tinged thriller that doesn't read like it was...

The Yo-Yo Prophet.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Yo-Yo Prophet Karen Krossing. Orca, $12.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-55469-827-1 Ninth grade is anything but easy for Calvin Layne. His father disappeared after his mother died, and for the past six years Calvin has lived with his ill...

The Predicteds.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... The Predicteds Christine Seifert. Sourcebooks Fire, $9.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6049-0 In a near future when human behavior can be perfectly predicted by computer, Daphne Wright starts her junior year at the high school where...

You against Me.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 18, 2011... You Against Me Jenny Downham. Random/Fickling, $16.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-75160-5 After Mikey's 15-year-old younger sister Karyn accuses college student Tom Parker of raping her, Mikey plans to avenge her. But when he goes to the...

Contract headaches: ten clauses to give an agent pause.(Soapbox)
July 18, 2011... Back in May, when Harold Camping swore that the world would end, an agent I follow on Twitter said something to the effect of, "If I knew the rapture was coming I wouldn't have spent my last year on Earth negotiating the new [a certain Big Six...

Human curiosities.(Pick of the week)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... * Bright and Distant Shores Dominic Smith. Washington Square, $15 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-439-19886-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Smith's impressive third novel (after The Beautiful Miscellaneous) is an absorbing exploration of...

Print units drop 10% in first half of 2011: adult fiction, mass market paperback hardest hit.(News)(Statistical table)
July 11, 2011... Unit sales of print books sold through outlets measured by Nielsen BookScan fell 10.2%, to 307.1 million, in the first six months of 2011 ended July 3. The decline comes as no surprise as e-book sales continued to eat into sales of physical...

Amazon buys the Book Depository.(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Amazon has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the fast-growing U.K. e-tailer the Book Depository. Launched in 2004, the Book Depository offers about six million titles for sale and ships to more than 100 countries. The deal is subject to...

Najafi wants better terms.(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Whether Borders moves forward as a chain of 200 or so stores or is liquidated could come down to the same issue the current Borders management and publishers could never agree u port--terms. According to sources, Najafi CEO Jahm Najafi is...

Rosetta Books comes of age.(Growing Up)
July 11, 2011... As Arthur Klebanoff puts it, his 10-year-old company, Rosetta Books, "went eight years into the desert along with the rest of the e-book business, but the critical thing was, we didn't die." When Klebanoff, who also owns the Scott Meredith...

Connelly makes it two in a row.(Michael Connelly, Strand Awards)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last week at the presentation for the Strand Awards, Michael Connelly (r.) made it two in a row, winning Best Novel for The Reversal. Last year he won for Nine Dragons. In the Best First Novel category, Paul Doiron (l.)...

Kindle Singles gains traction.(New Platform)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... In the six months since the launch of Kindle Singles, Amazon's newest venture into short-form digital content, the e-tailer has published 75 titles to the platform an has worked to distinguish Singles titles from regular Kindle titles by making...

Gena Knox Media, wind publications step up.(SIBA Winners)
July 11, 2011... The Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) announced its 2011 Book Award winners on Independence Day (naturally), honoring two independent Southern presses as well: Wind Publications, which published poetry winner A House of...

Shteyngart at powerHouse.(Gary Shteyngart)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On June 28, Gary Shteyngart stopped by the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn to read from his comic dystopian romance novel, Super Sad True Love Story (Random House), which just came out in paperback. Shteyngart is pictured...

MHSP shut.(Minnesota Historical Society Press)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... The shutdown of Minnesota's state government forced the Minnesota Historical Society Press, housed at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, to cease daily operations indefinitely as of July 1. Sixteen MHS Press staffers are affected by the...

Larsons come 'Clean' for Berkley.(Deals)(Andy Larson and Ivy Larson to Berkley Books)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Denise Silvestro, executive editor at Berkley Books, took world English rights to Ivy Larson and Andy Larson's Clean Cuisine: An 8 Week Plan That Will Change the Way You Age. Look and Feel. Linda Konner at the Linda Konner Agency brokered the...

Dicks's 'Imaginary' lands at SMP.(Deals)(St. Martin's Press signs Matthew Dicks)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Matthew Dicks closed a two-book deal with Brenda Copeland at St. Martin's Press for his novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend and an untitled work. Agent Taryn Fagerness, of the Taryn Fagerness Agency, sold North American rights at auction for...

Two Dollar Radio lands on 'The Other Side'.(Deals)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Eric Obenauf at Two Dollar Radio bought world English rights to Jay Neugeboren's novel The Other Side of the World from agent Richard Parks. Neugeboren has written eight previous novels, two of which have been published by Two Dollar Radio. A...

Addition.(Deals)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... Last week's item about Thomas Fleming's book A Disease of the Public Mind being bought by Da Capo's Robert Pigeon neglected to mention that the title was acquired as part of a two-book deal. Pigeon also bought world rights to a currently...

Robert Well and the music of editing.(Literary Publishing)(Interview)(Biography)
July 11, 2011... Sitting in his small, light-filled office, Robert Well, W.W. Norton executive editor and newly appointed editor-in-chief and publishing director of Norton's recently revived Liveright & Company imprint, offers a quick list of what he...

HC kids does digital I Can read editions.(HarperCollins Children's Books)(Brief article)
July 11, 2011... HarperCollins Children's Books is teaming with the Apple iBookstore and Barnes & Noble's Nook Bookstore to launch digital editions of its popular I Can Read early reader picture book series. Harper will set up I Can Read digital boutiques at...

Jennie Turner-Collins, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, Ohio.(Galley Talk)(The Keeper of Lost Causes)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... For readers languishing after finishing Stieg Larsson's trilogy, Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen may prove to be the antidote. In The Keeper of Lost Causes (Dutton, Aug.), Carl Morck was wounded in a shootout that killed one of his partners and...

Bookstores as classrooms: more booksellers are using classes to draw customers.(Retail Nation)
July 11, 2011... As booksellers look for new services to attract customers, many are M increasingly turning to language I and writing classes, and are even teaching mah-jongg and tarot. "You name it, we'll do it if it has any relationship to being able to read,"...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As we reported June 27, Now You See Her (copies in print: 750,000) was one of two Patterson rifles published on that date--the first-ever dual laydown of two titles. (The second book is Middle School: The Worst Years of...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Is the aging process truly beyond your control? Or can you live younger longer?" Chang explores these topics and anti-aging technology, m The Aging Myth: Unlocking the Mysteries of Looking and Feeling Young. His...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hell's Corner is the fifth installment in Baldacci's Camel Club series, which launched in 2005. A new launch for the popular author took place July 5, when Touchstone debuted No Rest for the Dead, a unique collaboration...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Larson's widely praised Devil in the White City returns to our list (after a 64-week trade paper run) following the success of his current bestseller, In the Garden of Beasts, which debuted at #1 and has remained in the...

Faith words at 10: Hachette division now a major player in Christian market.(Religion Publishing)
July 11, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rolf Zettersten knew change was afoot more than a decade ago in his role as trade publisher bat Thomas Nelson. He'd been watching sales of religion books move increasingly into the general trade and club markets as...

Sounds of autumn.(Fall 2011 Audio)(List)
July 11, 2011... By now, the usual flurry of spring and summer conferences--replete with giveaway ARCs and advance audio samplers--have whet the appetites of audiobook buyers and listeners for new fall titles. We've sifted through the latest offerings from...

David Whitehouse: good in bed.(Author Profile)(Interview)(Biography)
July 11, 2011... David Whitehouse lounged on a sumptuous, oversized bed outdoors at the Southbank Centre in London on June 5 to launch his first novel, Bed (Scribner, Aug.) in an all-day stunt that drew hundreds of people curious to meet the 30-year-old former...

Tales of the New World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... Tales of the New World Sabrina Murray. Grove/Black Cat, $14.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7083-5 Most of PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Murray's new story collection (after her 2007 novel Forgery) delves into the psyches of historical...

The Wandering Falcon.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... * The Wandering Falcon Jamil Ahmad. Riverhead, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59448-827-6 To the nomadic tribes inhabiting the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Lands), a harsh border region between Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, "home and...

No More Mr. Nice Guy.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... No More Mr. Nice Guy Howard Jacobson. Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-60819-687-6 Published in England in 1998 but only now reaching the U.S., Jacobson's novel immediately plunges the reader into the rising discord between...

Vacation.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... Vacation Matthew Costello. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-68007-7 Patrolman Jack Murphy, forced to leave a besieged New York City where he battles feral cannibals, gathers his family and heads for the hills in this tense...

Lost Memory of Skin.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks. Ecco, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-185763-8 For his latest novel, the acclaimed author of Cloudsplitter and The Sweet Hereafter again takes inspiration from a sanctuary of sorts. "The Kid," a young sex...

Children of Paranoia.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 11, 2011... Children of Paranoia Trevor Shane. Dutton, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 9780-525-95237-4 In Shane's well-written if less than compelling debut, Joe, a 23-yea>old soldier, considers himself one of the good guys in a mysterious war that most of the...