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Week of November 2ndNext Monday, Oprah.com, CNN.com and Facebook will present a live Oprah's Book Club webcast for the current selection, SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM by Uwem Akpan. During the 90-minute event, readers will be able to submit questions for the author and may be featured during the live discussion. The proceedings will be streamed live simultaneously from CNN.com's video player on

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Week of October 26th:A Strange Coincidence: Michael Connelly comes across a real-life missing persons case while researching NINE DRAGONS, which is #3 on this week's New York Times Bestseller list.Unbridled Books hosted a Twitter author event during which Masha Hamilton will field readers' questions about her new novel, 31 HOURS. You can read a transcript of the event here.The "Today Show" has

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Here is a roundup of some of the topics that were posted on the Bookreporter.com Facebook Page the week of October 5th:Publisher Weekly interviewed John Connolly, whose new novel, THE GATES, was published by Atria on October 6.USA Today says Margaret Atwood's THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD is a timely and gripping story and goes behind the scenes with Mitch Albom, the sports columnist turned best selling

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Here is a roundup of some of the topics that were posted on the Bookreporter.com Facebook Page the week of September 21st:AJ Jacobs, author of THE GUINEA PIG DIARIES, appeared on Fox News Channel on Fox & Friends where he talks abt outsourcing his life and living like George Washington.From Garth Stein's newsletter: "Universal Studios has optioned THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN. Patrick Dempsey

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Here is a quick roundup of some of the topics that were posted on the Bookreporter.com Facebook Page this week, for those not on Facebook:On Tuesday, we announced the winners of the 2009 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Books of the Year Awards.On Wednesday, John Krakauer appeared on the Diane Rehm show on NPR to discuss his new book, WHERE MEN WIN GLORY.On Tuesday, Dan

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I have certain beach vacation habits and one is reading Sandra Brown's latest summer book while floating in the pool. Thus as soon as we got settled in the house I made my way with a large tube to read SMASH CUT. It was everything I wanted in a book to kick off vacation --- good plot, great pacing, lots of twists and turns, some hot romance and in this one some fun references to a number of

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Thirteen years ago today we launched Bookreporter.com. We started out with a site on AOL called The Book Report that morphed into Bookreporter.com a few years later.Over these last very lucky 13 years I have had the pleasure of watching this website build and become a place where readers connect with authors and books --- with about half a million unique visitors each month, a far cry from 13

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Last night I was watching the NBC Nightly News and their last story of the evening was about the return of vinyl records and how they are hot sellers in music stores. Yes, as publishing is working to digitize everything and e-reader commentary is in the publishing trades everyday, this was the wrap-up story on the news ---- how old-fashioned vinyl records are making a comeback.A 25-year-old man

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Here's a look at what freshman entering college in fall 2009 have been asked to read by their respective schools. Lots of nonfiction and memoirs, some fiction and even a few graphic novels. How many of these books have YOU read?Adams State College: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahAgnes Scott College: Einstein's Dreams by Alan LightmanAlbion College: Dreams from My Father by Barack ObamaAmerican

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We received an email from Marjane Satrapi, the author of PERSEPOLIS, whose memoir is set in Iran and tells the story of Satrapi's early childhood, with its main focus on her life from age ten through fourteen, from 1980 through 1984. As our review on Bookreporter.com says,"Those were particularly turbulent years for Satrapi's native country of Iran, encompassing the overthrow of Mohammed Reza

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And to prove my point about the fact that reading is not contingent upon the weather I heard that Lucas Glover, who won the U.S. Open today reads three books a week. And that this weekend during all the rain delays, he read. Now, I am wondering WHAT he read. If anyone finds out, let me know!

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A few weeks ago when I was buying items for our Bookreporter.com Mother's Day Contest, I clicked over to one of my favorite sites for gift items, Illuminations.com, and got this message:"We want to thank you for your interest in the Illuminations brand and your loyalty over the years. We recently made the difficult decision to close our business in response to the unprecedented economic

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For a bit of irony this Christmas, today's guest blogger is M. J. Rose --- author of THE MEMORIST --- who grew up Jewish the remaining 364 days of the year. Here, she reminisces about a very special present she received from her father, and describes what she's given him in return, albeit decades later. I'm Jewish but we celebrated Christmas growing up. My dad was in the toy business, and to

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Today's guest blogger is Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maisie Dobbs novels, including AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE. Here, she describes a very special tradition she shares with her friends each holiday season, and reminisces on the very first book she ever owned."We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. " -- Harry EdwardsAs a book lover, whenever it's time to give a gift, I turn to

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Adriana Trigiani's upcoming book, VERY VALENTINE (to be released this February), may be named for a different holiday, but she still knows how to jump right into the Christmas spirit. Here, she recalls fond memories of her grandparents, and how she shares them with her young daughter through the pages of a favorite book. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I'm a huge fan of old movies. I

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Today's guest blogger Joni Rendon, co-author of NOVEL DESTINATIONS, comes clean about her lack of skill in the kitchen, and shares how she's tackling this challenge with the help of Mark Bittman's HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING. I'm sure my in-laws meant well when they gifted me with Mark Bittman's HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING a few years back. Coming on the heels of one too many culinary meltdowns, I suppose

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It isn't always easy to find the perfect Christmas present for a loved one. Today's guest blogger, Shannon McKenna Schmidt --- co-author of the literary travel guide NOVEL DESTINATIONS --- reveals her secret to holiday gift giving, which sometimes benefits her just as much as the recipient. I have a bad habit. When buying books to give as holiday gifts, I sometimes keep myself in mind --- like

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Mark Sullivan, author of the upcoming novel TRIPLE CROSS (to be released in April), reminisces about a particularly memorable Christmas that perhaps laid the groundwork for him to become the kind of writer he is today. My mother taught me to read when I was four and we didn't have a television until I was nine, so books were right up there with toys, skis and hockey sticks at Christmas when I was

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Brad Meltzer, author of THE BOOK OF LIES, shows us how sometimes the little things make all the difference in the world, as he describes a very special present given to him after a momentous event.The best book present I ever got was the one my Mom gave me after my first novel was published. It was an old leather journal, with one of those cool old-book-tie thingies on it. And it had just the

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Sometimes life doesn't quite work out the way we plan. However, today's guest blogger, Carolyn Jourdan --- author of HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE --- proves that isn't necessarily always a bad thing. When I was 17 years old, I was given a book for Christmas that --- before I'd finished the first page --- I knew was going to change the direction of my life in a big way. I was a senior in high

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Life lessons abound in any great book, and Garth Stein --- author of THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN --- shares a poignant one his young son learned through the pages of a collection of sports photography.It's been a crazy December for us. My son, who plays on a U-11 soccer team (there's some terminology that will separate the soccer folks from the non-soccer folks), was on a juggernaut with his

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Today's guest blogger, Susan Meissner --- author of THE SHAPE OF MERCY --- recalls the touching gift she was given by her parents one Christmas to encourage the budding writer in her, and gives us a taste of some of her earliest "masterpieces."When I was eight, and just beginning to grasp that I had restless urge to write that would define me for the rest of my days, I began writing poems in a

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While books often make the perfect gift, sometimes we just aren't so lucky when it comes to the titles we're given. Today's guest blogger, Adrienne Barbeau --- author of VAMPYRES OF HOLLYWOOD --- shares a couple of downers she's received over the years, and reminisces about the touching present she received after a particularly tough year.I started this piece with the sentence "I love getting

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Today's guest blogger, Clyde Forde, is the author of several books, including the nautical thriller, PRECIOUS CARGO. Here, he traces his particular style of writing back to a gift he received many years ago, which sparked his interest on the subjects of mythology and folklore, which play a major role in his work.My gift's long, rectangular shape, less than an inch thick, made the guessing easy.

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That old saying "One man's rags are another man's riches" is certainly true for today's guest blogger, Karen Robards. Here, she recalls the sympathy her brothers would feel for her every Christmas when they were children as they opened their presents, clueless to the fact that she was given exactly what she wanted. When I think back on childhood Christmases, two images immediately come to mind:

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