Barack Obama mentioned his respect for Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book TEAM OF RIVALS: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln many times as a candidate, and now it looks as if the President-elect has promoted his first bestseller (by another author). With the title theme dominating media discussion of Obama’s potential Cabinet selections, Goodwin’s book has […]
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Keep Knitting
Putnam has announced that Kate Jacobs’ The Friday Night Knitting Club has over 1 million copies in print after 38 straight weeks on the NYT trade paperback fiction list, with a sequel volume KNIT TWO now setfor publication on November 25. It was just about a year ago that Jacobs’ former agent Barbara Zitwer announced […]
USA Today's Q2 Bestsellers
Randy Pausch’s LAST LECTURE was No. 1 and Eckhart Tolle stayed at No. 2–but Stephenie Meyer took four of the next five slots, and BREAKING DAWN, the fourth in the Twilight series, doesn’t land until August 2. (A Twilight film is set for December.)USAT