Big Titles Landing Next Week
Below are titles that have been featured in the fall previews.
Childrens
10/19 Paterson, Katherine; Day of the Pelican
Lisa Von Drasek said here, ” you should be uncharacteristically selfish and grab this one first. It is a story of the Kosovo civil war, a refugee story, and a post-9/11 story. Because it is Paterson, the parts add up to more than the whole. Read it.”
The official pub date is 10/19, but most libraries have received their copies.
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Audio: Brilliance; 9781441802064; Read by Tavia Gilbert; $24.99
Audio downloadable from OverDrive.
Graphic Books
10/19 Crumb, R. Book of Genesis Illustrated
L.A Times — “An honest, powerful, violent rendering of the Bible’s first book.”
Featured on NPR’s All things Considered — an “Awesome, Affecting Take On Genesis”
Many libraries don’t have it on their catalogs — Hennepin shows it on order, with 33 holds.
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Fiction
10/20 Cornwell, Patricia; The Scarpetta Factor
Unsurprisingly, of the titles coming out this week, this one has the highest number of holds. Libraries have also ordered the most copies, so holds are running 2 to 1.
10/20 Klosterman, Chuck; Eating the Dinosaur
While Kirkus found this to be “Klosterman at his best” since his bestselling Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs, Entertainment Weekly gives it just a B+, saying Klosterman is “stuck a bit too much in his own head” this time out, although he is still “witty and clever.”
10/20 Pamuk, Orhan; Museum of Innocence
10/20 Kingsbury, Karen; Shades of Blue
10/20 Pearlman, Ann; The Christmas Cookie Club
One of the few big commercial debuts this fall. Variety reported in May that film rights were sold to the two-year-old CBS Films, which has been set up to release “mid-range films” (costing $50 million or less). Wendy Finerman (The Devil Wears Prada; Forrest Gump) is producing.
Entertainment Weekly gives it the first consumer review, rating it a C+
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Audio: S&S Audio; 9780743598286; $29.99
Large Print: Wheeler Publishing; 9781410420329; $34.95
10/20 Steel, Danielle; Southern Lights
10/20 Mayle, Peter; The Vintage Caper
10/20 Vonnegut, Kurt; Look at the Birdie
A collection of Vonnegut’s early stories, never before published. The Huffington Post reviewer says, “Usually, I’m wary of posthumous collections of an author’s early work, it seems like they’d just be scraping the bottom of the barrel, but this collection is really a work of art.”
Nonfiction
10/20 Gladwell, Malcolm; What the Dog Saw
10/20 Keegan, John; American Civil War; Just reviewed in the NYT
10/20 Keller, Timothy; Counterfeit Gods
10/20 Levitt, Steven; SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
The authors of the bestselling Freakonomics are raising hackles because of their take on global warming; Paul Krugman, in today’s “Conscience of a Liberal” column, takes them to task, calling their ideas dangerous and “just plain wrong.”
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HarperAudio: 9780060889357; $34.99
HarperLuxe: 9780061927577; $29.99
Audio and eBook downloadable from OverDrive
Biography
10/19 Egan, Timothy; The Big Burn:Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Most libraries have received this title. Author was winner of the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Time.
Christian Science Monitor — “what makes The Big Burn particularly impressive is Egan’s skill as an equal-opportunity storyteller… he recounts the stories of men and women completely unknown to most of us with the same fervor he uses to report the stories of historic figures.”
Seattle Post Intelligencer also writes about it.
10/19 Gordon, Linda; Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
10/20 Shawcross, William; The Queen Mother
The British Press desperately tried to find news in this 1,000 page authorized biography, running headlines like “TV Sit-Coms Tickled Queen Mum.” British reviewers found it too full of detail and too short on interest.
Telegraph — “…in [Shawcross’] zeal for comprehensiveness, he has created a text awash with details of menus consumed, clothes embroidered, presents received, places visited, and foundation stones laid that only a reader with a Queen Mother-sized sense of duty is likely to wade through to the finish line.
Guardian — “indulgent and overlong.”
10/21 Mann, William J, How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
The British press found this Elizabeth much more interesting than the Queen Mum:
The Times of London:…wisely eschews the blow-by-blow approach and many of the time-honoured anecdotes about Taylor and Burton, instead “zooming in on key periods,” drawing on new interviews with the star’s colleagues and friends, and meticulous research in the MGM archives. While hardly earth-shattering, what emerges is a richly enjoyable biography.
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