Shelf Awareness for Friday, December 16, 2005


William Morrow & Company: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Del Rey Books: Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Peachtree Teen: Romantic YA Novels Coming Soon From Peachtree Teen!

Watkins Publishing: She Fights Back: Using Self-Defence Psychology to Reclaim Your Power by Joanna Ziobronowicz

Dial Press: Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

Pantheon Books: The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera

Peachtree Publishers: Leo and the Pink Marker by Mariyka Foster

Wednesday Books: Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber

News

Notes: Holiday Titles; Helping the New Orleans P.L.

Cool idea of the day: Labyrinth Books, which has stores in New York City and New Haven, Conn., hosts a "holiday wine tasting" next Thursday 7-9 p.m. at its New York store. The event is free and sponsored by Martin Bros. Wines and Domaine Select Wine Estate. Martin Bros., a neighborhood store, will sell wine at a discount and deliver for free within the area.

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Book Sense has a list of the bestsellers of 2005 in six categories, each of which is available as a PDF download that can be displayed on its own or combined with others to make a kind of poster.

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On Morning Edition Wednesday, Susan Stamberg interviewed three independent booksellers about holiday titles. Click here to read what's being recommended by Chuck Robinson of Village Books, Bellingham, Wash., Rona Brinlee of the Book Mark in Atlantic Beach, Fla., and Lucia Silva of Portrait of a Bookstore, Studio City, Calif.

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When the supply chain and evidence chain are the same: police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested a man Wednesday at the Fair Oaks Mall who was seen allegedly stealing books from Borders Express and the Family Christian Books store to fill orders taken on his online bookstore, according to the Washington Post. Sultan M. Ferozi, 29, of Springfield, Va., sold books on eBay via Premier Book, which he ran from his parents' home.

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Striking employees of Renaud-Bray, which has 26 bookstores in Quebec, have ratified a contract and return to work today, according to Canadian Business. The 350 employees, who have been on strike since December 1 and in contentious negotiations for months (Shelf Awareness, November 22), agreed to salary increases of 8.5% over four years and improvements in the severance system.

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Harry N. Abrams and its various imprints, including Stewart, Tabori & Chang, are collecting books to send to the New Orleans Public Library, which lost eight branches in the devastation following Hurricane Katrina. The company, which has gathered hundreds of books and hopes to send more than 1,000, is also urging others in the book world to make donations to the library. Hardcovers and paperbacks for adults and children are welcomed. The library will decide whether books will be added to its collection, given to destitute families or sold to raise money.

Titles may be dropped off at Abrams offices at 115 W. 18th St. in New York City or sent directly to:

Rica A. Trigs
Public Relations Department
New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112

Contact: 504-421-7055 or rtrigs@gno.lib.la.us.

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One of the bestsellers this season at Bethany Beach Books is Remember This Titan: The Bill Yoast Story, about the assistant coach featured in the movie Remember the Titans, the Delaware Wave reported. Yoast, who lives in Bethany Beach, did a signing at the store.

Harry Potter titles are still popular among boys and girls, according to DeeDee Manuel, the store's author liaison. Girls have been enjoying Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books while teen boys have been clamoring for sports almanacs, Jarhead, Into Thin Air, Eragon, Eldest and Bringing Down the House.

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A week ago the New York Times trashed trivia books, which it called "so what" books. Today the Times surveys gifts books and condemns a few, such as PostSecret and The Complete New Yorker on CDs as "gimmicky books," but finds a range of worthy titles, including The Timetables of History, Jazz Life, Marley and Me and the deluxe edition of Oxford's Atlas of the World.

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This Week talks with John Gaylord, the former Little Professor franchisee who once had a small bookselling empire and who just opened Liberty Books & News in the site of one of his old Little Professor stores in Columbus, Ohio. Gaylord, who a year ago opened a store in Huntington, W.Va., called Empire Books, told the paper: "It's been very gratifying to see so many people who go out of their way to say, 'We miss the Little Professor and we're glad to have you back.' "

Besides selling books, Liberty gives customers the freedom to print more than 350 newspapers from around the world on demand.

Gaylord's father, sisters and son are involved in the stores.

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Olsson's is shutting its 17-year-old store in the Woodmont Corner shopping center in Bethesda, Md., because the building is being turned into luxury condos. The company is looking for another site in Bethesda or neighboring Silver Spring but hasn't found a suitable location.

The store announcement noted that several key employees, including head buyer Joe Murphy and remainder book buyer Bill Lloyd, got their starts at Olsson's in the Bethesda store. In addition, Olsson's classical music specialist Cate Hagman and National Geographic staffer Bob Attardi work there parttime.

Olsson's has five other stores in Washington, D.C., and the Virginia suburbs.

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Half Price Books has opened a store in the Village Crossing Shopping Center in Niles, Ill., the used book chain's 87th store and first in the Chicago area. Get the full story on the latest Half Price outlet in the Niles Herald-Spectator.

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The Ellsworth American speaks with Bill Reeve, who has opened a used and antique bookstore, Apple Tree Books, in Ellsworth, Me. Reeve has sold books online and in a booth at J&B Atlantic for eight years but "books have been overtaking the Reeve household," leading his wife to suggest he find a storefront--fast.

Apple Tree Books specializes in Maine books and includes titles by May Sarton, Stephen King, Elisabeth Ogilvie, Henry David Thoreau and E.B. White, among others.

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The Seattle Times mourns the impending closing of David Ishii, Bookseller, the small used bookstore that opened in Pioneer Square in 1972 and is distinguished, among other things, by its lack of a computer and by its cash- and check-only policies.

The Times called Ishii, who is 70, "not just to a bookseller, but a baseball fan, opera buff, patron of the arts, wide-ranging conversationalist, patient listener and unofficial neighborhood ambassador."

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Next spring Barnes & Noble plans to open a store in the Promenade at Natomas shopping center in Sacramento, Calif. The store will stock the usual almost 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles.

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The Capital Times profiles the 14-year-old Prairie Bookshop, Mount Horeb, Wis. Owner John Stowe commented: "I have to say the community has been very supportive of a local bookstore. As I wrote my business plan, I estimated two thirds of my customers would be tourists, with one third locals. My actual experience is the exact opposite."

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During Christmas week, Lanham Bible Bookstore, Chattanooga, Tenn., is moving into a new location after 18 years in the Brainerd Village shopping center, according to the Chattanoogan. The store will open on Lee Highway and East Brainerd Road on January 2.


Now Streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME: A Gentleman in Moscow


Media and Movies

Media Heat: Vineyard-Hopping wtih Robert M. Parker

This morning on the Today Show, the Scotto family discusses Christmas cookies during the Holiday Kitchen segment.

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This morning on Good Morning America: Sam Saboura, author of Real Style: Style Secrets for Real Women (Clarkson Potter, $17.95, 1400097711).

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Today All Things Considered interviews Elise Paschen, editor of Poetry Speaks to Children (Sourcebooks, $19.95, 1402203292), an illustrated children's poetry anthology that includes a CD with some poems on it. The book is also being featured this morning on Good Morning America: it's one of Diane Sawyer's coffee table book picks.

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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Robert M. Parker, author of what might be called a wine coffee table book, World's Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective (S&S, $75, 0743237714).

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:

  • Clifford Connor, author of A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and 'Low Mechanicks' (Nation Books, $17.95, 1560257482), on the often overlooked people who helped scientific advances.
  • Piers Vitebsky, author of The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia (HarperCollins, $28, 0007133626).
  • Suki Schorer, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, current teacher at the School of American Ballet and author of Put Your Best Foot Forward: A Young Dancer's Guide to Life (Workman, $9.95, 0761137955).
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Tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman:
  • Dr. Phil McGraw whose new book is Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got (Free Press, $26, 0743272099).
  • Bill Scheft, author of Time Won't Let Me (HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060797088).

GLOW: Greystone Books: brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe, illustrated by Reuben Coe


Book Review

Mandahla: Fatal As a Fallen Woman Reviewed

Fatal as a Fallen Woman: A Diana Spaulding Mystery by Kathy Lynn Emerson (Pemberley Press, $24.95 Hardcover, 9780970272799, September 2005)



Set in 1888, this is the second in a hopefully long mystery series featuring Diana Spaulding, crime reporter for the New York Independent Intelligencer. Actually, she is now a former reporter, having resigned her job in order to marry a handsome doctor. But her romantic plans have been put on hold while she travels to Denver after her estranged father has been killed and her equally-distant mother is charged with his murder. Arriving in the raucous western city, she discovers her mother has chosen a surprising profession after being divorced by her silver-baron father. Combining the occasional "thunderation" and "nefarious purpose" with a Denver society and brothel setting, this sassy story delights with historical detail and intricate plot.


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The Bestsellers

The Book Sense/Heartland List

The following are the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday, December 11, at Great Lakes Booksellers Association and Midwest Booksellers Association stores as reported to Book Sense:

Hardcover Fiction

1. Light From Heaven by Jan Karon (Viking, $26.95, 0670034533)
2. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152970)
3. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X)
4. Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou (Random House, $9.95, 1400065585)
5. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $26.95, 0060548932)
6. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95, 0446532428)
7. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow (FSG, $25, 0374184216)
8. Mary, Mary by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95, 031615976X)
9. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446577383)
10. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $24.95, 074327248X)
11. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
12. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $21.95, 1400060281)
13. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018)
14. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
15. The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (S&S, $18.95, 074328657X)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
2. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26, 0743243773)
3. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
4. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089)
5. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
6. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
7. The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062)
8. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
9. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
10. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
11. Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary by Jeff Foxworthy, illustrated by Layron DeJarnette (Villard, $16.95, 1400064651)
12. Guinness World Records 2006 (Guinness, $27.95, 1904994024)
13. Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss (Gotham, $20, 1592401716)
14. The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk et al. (Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696)
15. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda (Random House, $24.95, 1400064090)

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $15, 0060987103)
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95, 0307275167)
4. The Chronicles of Narnia (adult movie tie-in edition) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060765453)
5. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
7. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
8. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95, 081297235X)
9. Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915)
10. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454553)
11. The Best American Short Stories 2005 edited by Michael Chabon (Houghton Mifflin, $14, 0618427058)
12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
13. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $16, 0743227441)
14. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
15. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (Grove, $13, 0802142109)

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. 365: No Repeats by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $19.95, 1400082544)
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
4. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
5. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
6. Bad Dog by R.D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
7. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman, $18.95, 0761104844)
8. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006 edited by Ken Park (World Almanac, $12.95, 0886879647)
9. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2006 (Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 1571983678)
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
11. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
12. Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $18.95, 1400082536)
13. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
14. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (Back Bay, $8.95, 0316779237)
15. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)

Mass Market

1. Red Lily by Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99, 0515139408)
2. The Broker by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 0440241588)
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 0877799296)
4. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
5. A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg (Fawcett, $6.99, 0345480260)
6. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Warner, $6.99, 0446310786)
8. Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (Warner, $7.99, 0446616621)
9. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor, $6.99, 0812550706)
10. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary edited by Edy G. Schaffer (Avon, $7.50, 0380724251)

Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in edition) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
2. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
3. Winter's Tale by Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $26.95, 0689853637)
4. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
5. Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated Mark Buehner (Dial, $16.99, 0803729952)
6. Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick (Carl R. Sams II Photography, $19.95, 0967174805)
7. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin, $18.95, 0395389496)
8. Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May) by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $11.95, 0375828087)
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
10. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
11. The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown, $14.99, 031611488X)
12. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
13. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
14. Lost in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick (Carl R. Sams II Photography, $19.95, 0967174880)
15. Dog Train by Sandra Boynton (Workman, $17.95, 0761139664)

[Many thanks to Book Sense, the GLBA and MBA!]


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