More Than Woodward in Nonfiction Next Week
We hardly need to tell you that Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward is the big nonfiction title arriving next week. The embargo has already been broken by the NYT, Politico has already explored how that happened (How Times stole Post‘s Thunder), and the book is #2 on Amazon.
Several memoirs are coming next week that may create their own buzz.
Jenny McCarthy turns from being an autism activist to the crassly funny persona of the best-selling Belly Laughs (Da Capo, 2004), Baby Laughs (Dutton, 2008) and Life Laughs (Dutton, 2006) in her new book, Love, Lust and Faking It. She is scheduled to appear on Oprah on Tuesday.
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Marlo Thomas has some laughter of her own to recount in Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny, excerpted in the current issue of People. Booklist calls it “an engaging, highly informative memoir…definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography.”
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Dogs are an ever-popular publishing theme. This week Steven Kotler’s A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life (Bloomsbury) arrives. Kotler treats dogs with special needs at his Rancho de Chihuahua in New Mexico.
We couldn’t help but notice a striking similarity between the cover for A Small Furry Prayer and a certain other successful book about an entirely different breed of dog.
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A Small Furry Prayer is also on audio from Tantor.
It’s worth watching the book trailer just to see all those chihuahuas hanging out together (click on the image below).
September 25th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Oh, you have to look at the cover of Coyote at the Kitchen Door! It completely fits with the Canine On Black theme. (It’s a really good read, by the way, about human and wildlife interactions in the suburbs. Author is Stephen DeStefano.)