WASHINGTON A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some of the 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
WASHINGTON A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Even after 64 hours of interviews and months of editing, North Carolina coach Roy Williams says he still found himself tearing up the first two times he proof-read his autobiography, "Hard Work: A Life on and Off the Court" that was released on Tuesday.
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 31, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best-sellers for October 2009, plus descriptions of the Top 10.
"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot" by Craig Ferguson. HarperCollins. 268 pages.
MILWAUKEE Kohl's online customers would like to get free shipping on all their purchases. And the right people at Kohl's know it.
Can you recall which presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore? The phrase "We Just Like Rushmore" can give you a clue: it's Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. "Thirty Days Has September," by Chris Stevens, is filled with mnemonic tricks - phrases, rhymes, and silly songs - that help make it easier to memorize everything from the order of the planets (with or without Pluto!) to punctuation rules, multiplication tables, and more. Ages 8 and up, Scholastic, $10 - RUTH SPIRO
If they gave National Book Awards for public service, as they do with the Pulitzer Prize, "The Runner's Rule Book" (Rodale, $17.99, 166 pages) by Runner's World online editor Mark Remy would be a shoo-in simply by virtue of Rule 2.18:
"At Home In Stone Creek" by Linda Lael Miller; Silhouette (2009), 211 pages, $4.99 (paperback)
"Except for the stink and the heat and the mosquitoes, it was beautiful at night. Like being out in the country," says Barb Johnson of living on her balcony post-Hurricane Katrina and working on her collection of short stories, "More of This World or Maybe Another" (HarperCollins, October), often by the light of a headlamp.
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver; HarperCollins (507 pages, $26.99)
"Top Dogs and Their Pets," photography by David Woo and Richard Pruitt; Parapet Press (208 pages, $29.95)
"The Brutal Telling" by Louise Penny; Minotaur (372 pages, $24.99)
Foodies will naturally gravitate toward this book: "Tips Cooks Love" by Rick Rodgers and Sur La Table (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $15). In fact, unless they're food professionals, most cooks will appreciate the knowledge served up in this stubby (read: easily portable) book.
"The Devil's Punchbowl" by Greg Iles, read by Dick Hill; Brilliance Audio. Unabridged, 20 CDs, 24 hours, 14 minutes. $38.99. In print: Scribner. $26.99. 592 pp.
In John Irving's latest novel, the main character shares the author's profession, but that's not the most important similarity.
When browsing online or in a bookstore, one might easily conclude that every third person in the country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir.
"The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily" by Nancy Goldstone; Bloomsbury, NY (365 pages, $27)
SAN JOSE, Calif. Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.
"Last Night in Twisted River" by John Irving; Random (553 pages, $28)
PHILADELPHIA - If you were a newspaper editor, would you run a picture of a young woman and toddler falling from a fire escape? Of a man plunging to his death from the World Trade Center on 9-11?
"Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen"
"Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'N' Roll Music and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise"
If you've got a credit card, you've likely been zinged already.
WASHINGTON The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes an advance upward of $1.25 million, an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show the day before publication, and a print run of 1.5 million books for a memoir that already sits on bestseller lists.
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 24, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
Halloween falls on Saturday night this year - a scary thought in itself. To creep yourself out as you wait for trick-or-treaters, here's a list of recommended reading that may well keep you spellbound through the New Year's. Safety tip: Leave on the lights. All the lights.
WASHINGTON If you're looking to bone up on the causes of and solutions for the global financial crisis, you're in luck. A bevy of new books on the crisis - from fly-on-the-wall accounts to those that point a way forward - will keep you busy through the long nights of winter.
-"The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks" by Max Brooks and Ibraim Roberson. Three Rivers. $17.
"A Fiery Peace In The Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon" by Neil Sheehan; Random House (534 pages, $32)
"That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory" by John Eisenberg; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (292 pages, $25)
Nearly a million and a half angry Facebook users are protesting recent changes to the Web site. The leader of the furious online mob? A smiling eighth-grader from Apex, N.C., who wears his baseball cap backwards and likes to play FarmVille.
Amazon reported huge quarterly financial results yesterday, thanks in large part to sales of its Kindle e-reader:
"Kindred In Death" by J.D. Robb; Putnam (2009), 374 pages, $26.95 (hardcover)
Award-winning, international best-selling author Patricia Cornwell has seen her meticulously researched crime novels translated into 36 languages across more than 50 countries. The former police beat reporter scuba dives, rides motorcycles and flies helicopters - just like her characters do.
"The Leadership of George Bush" by Roman Popadiuk; Texas A&M University Press ($30)
Not many authors on their umpteenth bestseller would relish the idea of doing an interview from the back nine during a round of golf. But Michael Connelly was not only game, he was relieved.
The Great Depression has rolled off many a pundit's tongue of late as we strain to make sense of the current economic meltdown. This week marks the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the day the bottom fell out of the stock market. Roll the usual mental images. Cue the breadlines and itinerant farmers.
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Deluxe Heirloom Edition" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith; Quirk Books, Philadelphia (360 pages, $24.95)
"The Day of the Pelican" by Katherine Paterson; Clarion, $16, 160 pages; ages 10 and up
"Rizzo's War" by Lou Manfredo; Minotaur (290 pages, $24.99)
"The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" by Peter Ackroyd; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (353 pages; $26.95)
I'm a vampire, he's a vampire, won't you be a vampire too?
"Robert Altman: The Oral Biography" by Mitchell Zuckoff; Knopf (560 pages, $35)
The wildly popular vampire craze that has sunk its teeth into books, TV shows and movies started with Anne Rice. Long before Stephenie Miller's "Twilight" series hit the best-seller list, before there was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before "The Vampire Diaries" books and TV show, and before Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels formed the basis for the Showtime hit "True Blood," Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" made Lestat a household name. Her "Interview with the Vampire," published in 1976, is one of the best-selling books of all time.
Vampires - those who hunt and those who are hunted - plus zombies, werewolves, demons, pixies and other assorted supernatural types, have made monster strides in their invasion of popular culture niches.
