The fall movie schedule is shaping up. We’ve just updated the movie trailer links (listed below and also to the right of the site, under Movies Based on Books), as well as our list of Upcoming Movies — with Tie-ins. Great browsing for the end of a Friday. Remember, it’s a professional responsibility to be familiar with these titles.

Homework assignment: which major director has TWO big movies coming out on the same day?

• 9/16  —  I Don’t Know How She Does It
• 9/16  —  Straw Dogs (based on The Siege of Trencher’s Farm)
• 9/23 —  Killer Elite (Based on Feather Men, Ranulph Fiennes)
• 9/23  —  Moneyball
• 9/30  —  What’s Your Number? (Based on 20 Times A Lady, Karyn Bosnak)
• 10/21 — The Three Musketeers
• 10/28 — Anonymous (Was Shakespeare a Fraud?) — not based on a specific book, but there are enough books on the subject to warrant an entire display. Tie-in are scheduled.
• 11/18 — Breaking Dawn (Part 1)
• 11/18 — Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• 11/23 — Hugo (Based on The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick)
• 11/23 — The Descendants
• 12/16 — Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows
• 12/16 — We Need to Talk about Kevin (limited; wide in Jan, 2012)
• 12/21 — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English-language version)
• 12/23 — The Adventures of Tintin
• 12/23 — War Horse

The New York Times has fun today investigating the story behind Untitled by Anonymous coming with a “massive media rollout” and a one-day laydown on Nov. 14 from Little, Brown.

Turns out the book is by a woman who lived with Bernard Madoff’s son, Andrew. Bookstores are ordering it through sales reps; we have searched wholesaler databases and the Hachette web site, but have not found ordering information.

USA Today quotes Kansas bookseller Vivien Jennings about Doubleday’s big debut novel of the fall, The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern (9/13),

Let’s say The Help and The Da Vinci Code were high-water marks in our bookselling history. My prediction is The Night Circus is the 200-year flood. I loved (those books), but this is better…It’s a whole different level of writing…this book is going to be a best seller right out of the shoot.

Hollywood is also a believer. Summit, which produced the Twilight movies, bought the rights in January and is in talks with David Heyman (Harry Potter) to produce. The over-the-top success of the final Harry Potter movie has studios rushing to find more fantasy titles; A Discovery of Witches, (Viking, Feb) last season’s big debut, has been signed by Warner Bros. Deadline reports that the studio plans to put a writer on it immediately. Discovery is the first in a trilogy. Author Deborah Harkness is at work on the second book, Shadow of Night, coming from Viking next summer (no ordering information available yet).

EarlyWord GalleyChatters have been excited about the The Night Circus since galleys began appearing in March (if you didn’t get one, digital copies are available through NetGalley or Edelweiss).

Will it be as big as The Help or The Da Vinci Code? Collection Development Coordinator Wendy Bartlett at Cuyahoga is dubious. While she thinks it will be a best seller, she’s putting her money on another major debut, The Language of Flowers, ordering ten times more copies of it than of The Night Circus.

The Language of Flowers: A Novel Vanessa Diffenbaugh Retail Price: $25.00 Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books – (2011-08-23) ISBN / EAN: 034552554X / 9780345525543

Large Print; Thorndike, ISBN: 9781410441713, $34.99, 9/7/2011

A debut dystopian YA title, Legend by Marie Lu (Putnam) arriving at the end of November, gets early attention from USA Today.

A movie is already in the works, with the producers who worked on the Twilight Saga. Author Marie Lu will appear at Comic-Con this week on a panel with several other women writers, about “kick-ass heroines” in science fiction and fantasy. Lu is the creator of a popular Facebook game, on which the book is based, also called Legend.

In the prepub media, the book has so far only been reviewed by Kirkus, which gave it a star. The first in a planned trilogy, it has an announced a 200,000 first printing.

Legend Marie Lu Retail Price: $17.99 Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Putnam Juvenile – (2011-11-29) ISBN / EAN: 039925675X / 9780399256752

Penguin Audio; 9781611760088

In yesterday’s post about the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, we said that Noomi Rapace, who will stars as Lisbeth Salander in the English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also appears in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. A comment pointed out that Rooney Mara is actually in the English-language version. Thinking we had the wrong actress, we made a correction.

Turns out we had the right girl, but the wrong movie. Rapace, starred in the Danish -Swedish language adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, and is also in Sherlock Holmes movie.

We’ve also learned that Penguin will release an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories in September that includes The Final Problem, which Holmes 2 is loosely based on. A burst on the cover reads, “Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture.”

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Conan Doyle Retail Price: $14.00 Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2011-09-27) ISBN / EAN: 0143120158 / 9780143120155

The top two books in the business category on Amazon’s sales rankings right now are not owned by most libraries.

The Lean Startup, coming in September, is by Eric Ries, who is called “the face of the lean startup movement.” He’s even trademarked the concept and promotes it constantly at tech conferences. Several blogs call the concept the “next big thing” in business (Fast Company’s Expert Blog, Forbes’s Rethink, SmartMoney’s Encore).

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Retail Price: $26.00 Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Crown Business – (2011-09-13) ISBN / EAN: 0307887898 / 9780307887894

Crown is a Random House imprint, so the book will also be available from OverDrive.

The number two book (number 1 last week), is also aimed at entrepreneurs. Anything You Want by CD Baby founder Derek Sivers is published by Seth Godin’s “cut out the middleman” Domino Project, which he launched with Amazon in December. It’s promoted with this engaging video, “I Miss the Mob,” sure to appeal to anyone who has dealt with MBA types or business consultants. Personally, I could watch it all day long.

Talk about a lean startup; Sives began CDBaby.com, a distributor of independent music, in 1998 with $500 and grew it with no outside investors. Ten years later, he sold it for $22 million. He didn’t pocket the money himself, however. It all went to a charitable trust for music education.

The book is available through library wholesalers. It is also on audio from Brilliance and downloadable from OverDrive.

Anything You Want Derek Sivers Retail Price: $14.99 Hardcover: 88 pages Publisher: The Domino Project – (2011-06-29) ISBN / EAN: 1936719118 / 9781936719112

DIY/interior design books rarely make it in to the Amazon Top 100 sales rankings, especially in advance of publication.

Grace Booney’s Design Sponge at Home, (Artisan, 9/6), is an exception. It just appeared at #73 and #1 on the Home & Garden list.

Booney’s Design Sponge blog attracts 75,000 unique visitors each day. She announced the book on the site yesterday, with a look at the contents and this upbeat trailer:

Design Sponge at Home (Official Book Trailer) from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.

Most libraries have not yet ordered it.

Design*Sponge at Home Grace Bonney Retail Price: $35.00 Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Artisan – (2011-09-06) ISBN / EAN: 1579654312 / 9781579654313

In our post-BEA GalleyChat, librarians shared tips about fall debuts and potential breakouts to look for at ALA. Below are their eleven top picks, plus two of my own (if you are not going, this list offers a look at what may be the next Help or Cutting for Stone).

Be sure to join us for the next GalleyChat — Tuesday, July 12, 4 to 5 p.m., Eastern

For a more exhaustive rundown of ARC’s at ALA, check out Barbara Hoffert’s Galley & Signing Guide.

Note: It is difficult for publishers to bring enough for everyone, so please be understanding if a title you want is no longer available.

Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, 9/13 (RH Audio)

We’ve heard so much about this debut, that it seems like it’s already been published, but it’s not coming until mid-September. It was all over BEA, recommended by several at the Shout ‘n’ Share panel and Multnomah County’s Stephanie Chase picked it for the Great Read Alike panel (listen to the podcast here), comparing it to Kate Morton’s Distant Hours and Dan Simmons Drood, among others.

Cuyahoga has taken a strong stand on it, based on enthusiasm from the staff, such as this from Joe Jones,

Atheneum is beating the drums for the fall release  of the first books in William Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood series. It’s a complex publishing program, featuring both picture books and chapter books (there are actually TWO titles listed as “Guardians of Childhood #1“) and a Dreamworks movie, called Rise of the Guardians, releasing in November, 2012.

In total there will be 7 picture books and 6 chapter books, with both series featuring the same characters. The “Guardians” are various childhood icons, the Man in the Moon, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman, who band together to thwart the evil Pitch, the Boogeyman, who plans to throw the world into darkness.

The first picture book, The Man in the Moon, releases on Sept. 6th and the first chapter book, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King on Oct. 4th. A special Web site features full-page spreads, and a video introducing The Guardians, (via the special publisher-supported issue of Shelf Awareness).

Kirkus gave the picture book a bit of a cold shoulder, “A visual feast cannot compensate for lackluster plotting …” (but, what a visual feast it is).

The animated film will feature the voices of Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Jude Law and Alec Baldwin. It will be in in 3-D (of course). Joyce is co-directing.

If you’re going to ALA, Joyce will be featured in the Auditorium Speaker Series.

Abrams just announced the title of the sixth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and it’s a perfect title for the winter, Cabin Fever. The laydown date is Tues., Nov 15, with a 6 million copy first printing.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6 Jeff Kinney Retail Price: $13.95 Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Amulet Books – (2011-11-01) ISBN / EAN: 1419702238 / 9781419702235

MICRO, (ISBN 9780060873028) a new book by Michael Crichton, who finished one third of it before his death in 2008, will be published on November 22. HarperCollins press release It is described as a hogh-concept thriller n the vein of Jurassic Park,” and says the story follows,

…a group of graduate students who are lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company specializing in micro-robotics. Conflict with the head of the company leaves the group fighting for their lives when they find themselves physically transformed and cast out into the rain forest, with only their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.

The book was completed by Richard Preston, known for his best-selling nonfiction title, The Hot Zone, about the Ebola virus. He has written suspense novels as well as narrative nonfiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

An earlier posthumous title by Chrichton, Pirate Latitudes, was published in 2009.

Former VP Dick Cheney’s memoir In My Time, will be released on August 30th, reports the AP. It is being published by Threshold Editions, S&S’s conservative imprint run by former Cheney aide Mary Matalin.

According to Cheney’s co-author, his daughter Liz Cheney, her father will make appearances to promote the book, despite his heart disease.

The book is now #92 on Amazon sales rankings.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir Dick Cheney Retail Price: $35.00 Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Threshold Editions – (2011-08-30) ISBN / EAN: 1439176191 / 9781439176191

Abridged Audio; S&S Audio — reader TBA

Just in time for BEA, Doubleday has announced that the next John Grisham legal thriller is The Litigators. On sale 10/25, It will also be available as an ebook for library lending. The cover below is just a placeholder; the final will be unveiled later.

THE LITIGATORS by John Grisham
Doubleday

On-Sale Date: 10/25/11
HC: 9780385535137
E-book: 9780385535250

There will be more Grisham this fall. He is co-producing a series for NBC, based on his first major success, The Firm. It was adapted as a movie, starring Tom Cruise, in 1993.

Just unveiled, the cover for Levi Johnston’s tell-all about his life with, and without, the Palin family (Touchstone/S&S, Sept 24) is providing a field day for the press (“illogical,” Vanity Fair; ditto, New York magazine; “hilarious,” Salon).

Besides the cover, a hint of the book’s tone came two years ago, in Johnston’s Vanity Fair story, “Me and Mrs. Palin.” But that was followed by an apology in People, which he later disavowed, saying, in a rare burst of insight, “The only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is put out that apology ’cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar.” Don’t worry, Levi, American memories are notoriously short.

Beating Johnston in the tell-all race to publication is former Palin aide Frank Baileys’s Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years, published by S&S’s Christian imprint, Howard, arriving in just two weeks.

Coming a week before the Johnston tome is journalist Joe McGinniss’s The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin (Crown, 9/20). The publisher promises a “a startling and penetrating examination of the illusion and reality of Palin.”

The librarian buzz on GalleyChat has made us a believer that S.J. Watson’s debut psychological thriller Before I Go To Sleep (Harper, 6/14) will be a hit.

As a result of the buzz, advance readers editions are now scarce, but the HarperCollins library marketing team has rounded up 25 copies for EarlyWord readers. Enter your name for a chance to win( Deadline: Wednesday, May 3, 11:59 p.m., Eastern; only open to librarians in the U.S.)

Watson, who lives in the UK, will make one of his few US appearances at the ALTAF Mystery and Horror program on Sunday, June 26, 10:30 to noon during ALA.

Before I Go to Sleep is also available as an ebook from NetGalley (one big advantage of eGalleys; everyone on your RA team can read the title at once — no passing around scarce print copies).

While you’re on NetGalley, Kayleigh George at HC Library Marketing suggests you also consider the following titles (quotes are from the publisher’s descriptions):

Long Gone, Alafair Burke, 9780061999185, July 1; Burke’s first stand-alone, “a dark and twisting psychological thriller with the intensity and depth of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know.”

Domestic Violets, Matthew Norman, 9780062065117, Sept 1; “In the tradition of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta … a darkly comic family drama about love, loss, and ambition.” Pbk Original.”

Miss Timmins School for Girls, Nayana Currimbhoy, 9780061997747, June 21; “a  debut novel set in India during the monsoon of 1974…the story of a conventional young girl who leaves her cloistered small town home to teach at a remote boarding school run by British Missionaries.” Pbk Original

The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill, 9780062060747, Aug 1; by the author of the Dalziel & Pascoe series, “a stand-alone psychological thriller that combines the macabre suspense of Thomas Harris and the brilliant narrative of P.D. James, in a story about a mysterious ex-con looking for vengeance in his hometown.”

Waiting for Robert Capa, Susan Fortes, 9780062000385, July 7; an “English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between the photojournalists Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.” Pbk Original