Shelf Awareness - Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade

Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for March 7, 2014

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From My Shelf

• Powerful Images of Women

Book Candy

• Book-Related Movies; Most Influential Authors

The Writer's Life

• Dave Barry: Peanut Butter Sandwiches and No Complaints

Book Review

• Fiction
• Redeployment
• All Our Names
• The Orchard of Lost Souls
• Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time
• Mystery & Thriller
• Why Kings Confess
• The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band
• Food & Wine
• The Italian Vegetable Cookbook: 200 Favorite Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Pasta, Main Dishes, and Dessert
• Biography & Memoir
• His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir
• Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
• History
• The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
• Children's & Young Adult
• The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life
• The Miniature World of Marvin & James
• A Home for Mr. Emerson

Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for March 7, 2014

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News

• Indies to L.A. Times Festival of Books: Can We Talk?
• General Retail Sales in February: Slight Gain, Modest Optimism
• D.C. Snowstorm Hits Sales Tax Fairness Advocacy Day
• Obituary Note: Buzz Johnson

Notes

• Image of the Day: Story Prize Winner
• Saturn Booksellers' Jill Miner: 'Woman Making History'
• Bookshop Window Display of the Day: Book Soup
• Kris Kleindienst on 40 Years of Bookselling
• 'Indies for Indies': Author's Partnership with Village Books
• Personnel Changes at Little, Brown
• Book Trailer of the Day: Bunnies & Kitties

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Fresh Air
• TV: Martin Luther King HBO Series
• Movies: Under the Skin; Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Books & Authors

• Awards: American History Book; Hognander; Lambdas; Blue Peter
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Book Brahmin: Mary Anne Radmacher

Book Review

• Review: The Ogallala Road

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: Serendipity & the Festival Internacional de Poesía

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

Wednesday, March 5, 2014: Maximum Shelf: The Good Spy

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Maximum Review

• The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

The Writer's Life

• Kai Bird: The Spy Who Lived Next Door

Tuesday, February 24, 2014: Dedicated Issue: Grand Central Publishing

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Editors' Note

• Grand Central Publishing

Books & Authors

• A Trio of Tantalizing Tales
• Elise Juska: Family Ties
• Susan Jane Gilman: Sweet Dreams
• Book Brahmin: Jean Hanff Korelitz