Friday, August 28, 2009

Book TV

Here are some highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

K Blows Top: A Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel

Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox

And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees by David Faber

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

New York Times Best Sellers

Check out the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

A Modern Take on the Classics

From the Wall Street Journal, modern reviewers consider the classics.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Abraham Lincoln by George McGovern

How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them by Daniel Wolff

Nine Lives: Life and Death in New Orleans by Dan Baum

The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert Novak

A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert Mrazek

Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television by Don Hewitt

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

New York Times Best Sellers

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

New York Times Best Sellers

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Indie Next List

Check out some of the recommendations from independent booksellers in the August Indie Next List.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook - a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich and A. J. Jacobs

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution by Lars Schoultz

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent

September Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming titles:

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Rough Country by John Sanford
There Goes the Bride by M.C. Beaton
Hardball by Sara Paretsky
Hothouse Orchid by Stuart Woods
A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson