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• Big Titles; Week of 11/23
  When Michael Chrichton died last year, he left two books, Pirate Latitudes, which releases next week and an unfinished thriller. Of the titles coming out next week, those by Chrichton, Koontz, & Butcher lead in holds. Butcher has the highest holds to copies ratios. Fiction 11/24 Butcher, Jim, First Lord’s Fury Chrichton, Michael, Pirate Latitudes Pirate Latitudes Michael Crichton Retail Price: $27.99 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Harper – (2009-12-01) ISBN / [...] [Fri, Nov. 20]

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• Say It Isn’t So, Oprah!
  It looks like it may be real this time. Oprah told her staff yesterday that her last show will be on Sept 9, 2011. She will make an official announcement on her show today. According to reports, she wants to concentrate on her cable network, OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network, natch), planned for launch in January, [...] [Fri, Nov. 20]

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• More Best Books
  Library Journal has just released its Best Books list. As we’ve come to expect, there are few overlaps with the other lists that have appeared to date. But, perhaps with a business a diverse as book publishing, we should be more interested in differences than similarities. In the list intro, LJ’s Book Review editor, [...] [Thu, Nov. 19]

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• National Book Award Winners
  In case you haven’t heard already, the National Book Award Winners were announced last night. In the L.A. Times “Jacket Copy” blog, Carolyn Kellogg reports on the event; the dinner was “dwonsized” from last year’s lamb to chicken. The New York Times‘ book beat reporter Motoko Rich not only tweeted as the NBA was in progress, [...] [Thu, Nov. 19]

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• Strange Feline Tricks
  A shoutout out to the 14 libraries who, according to WorldCat discovered Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs before we spied it in the new issue of People (thank heaven; it’s a welcome relief from all those photos of the 110 Hottest Guys on the Planet). Sadly, it seems the book is currently out of stock. Glamourpuss: [...] [Wed, Nov. 18]

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