Book and author listings from Cedar Rapids booksellers
The Cedar Rapids Waldenbooks display a mix of New York Times bestsellers across hardback and mass market, with titles by Grisham, King, Rowling, Irving, Koontz, and McCourt. Prairie Lights and UI events note author readings by Chen, Morrow, Joy Williams, Wheeler, and Armitage at Iowa City venues and libraries in the coming days.
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Prairie Lights
Iowa City
da Chen
James Morrow
University of Iowa
Joy Williams
Susan Wheeler
Simon Armitage
Shambaugh Auditorium
UI Main Library
Wills
Bill Bryson
Broadway
Australia
Bryson
Paul Theroux
Jamestown
Scarpetta
Books return to print with year round releases
Favorite characters come back as publishers drop old seasonal strategy. Major authors including Butler Grisham Toobin Hiaasen Updike Doctorow Smiley Puzo Roth and Bryson headline titles from March through September with David Shrake Hoff man Shaara Cornwell Evanovich Clancy and Kennedy biographies among others.
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Knight Ridder
Barnes & Noble and
Borders
Kellie Lutz
New York
Robert Olen Butler
Mr. Spaceman
John Grisham
Jeffrey Toobin
Carl Hiaasen
John Updike
Gertrude
Claudius
E.L. Doctorow
Hannibal
Thomas Harris
Edmund Morris
Ronald Reagan
Susan Faludi
Harry Potter
Kay Scarpetta
Jack Ryan
Kobe Bryant Bio and the Lakers Rise in a Stacked Era
Kobe Bryant entered the NBA in 1996 straight from high school and joined the Los Angeles Lakers. The review notes his talent and potential but argues the Kobe story lacks depth and the Lakers failed to win when it counted, with friction noted between Bryant and teammates Shaquille O Neal and others.
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Jim Arnold Gazette
Ken Michael Jordan
NBA
Jordan
Chicago Bulls
Harold Miner
Grant Hill
Jerry Stackhouse
Kobe Bryant
Pennsylvania
Bryant
Los Angeles Lakers
Lakers
Bulls
Roland Lazenby
Masters Press
Lazenby
Triangle
Michael Jordan
Jerry West
Joe
Jelly Bean” Bryant
Kobe
United States
Philadelphia
Lower Merion High School
Los Angeles
Shaquille O'Neil
Tales of Resistance by Larry Leach awakens downtrodden voices
Larry Leach’s first story collection Tales of Resistance from Texas Review Press uses ten first person narrators on the outs with society. The voices range from a convicted murderer to a coal miner and a struggling explorer, all rendered with sharp vernacular and vivid empathy.
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Leach
Least Likely Bride Finds Dream of Pirate Romance
Annette M. Schulte reviews Jane Feather’s historical romance The Least Likely Bride where Lady Olivia Granville wakes on a pirate ship and falls for Anthony. The tale concludes the trilogy with Olivia choosing family duties over romance, amid melodramatic but touching writing and steamy sexual content.
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Anthony
Bantam
Jane Feather
Olivia
Portia
Phoebe
New Yorker Book Awards Spotlight UI Ties
Iowa City notes that the New Yorker Book Awards honor authors with University of Iowa links. Louise Gluck won the poetry prize for Vita Nova while UI alumni Bob Shacochis and Kent Haruf were finalists in non fiction and fiction respectively. Shacochis was nominated for The Immaculate Invasion and Haruf for Plainsong.
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Iowa City
New Yorker
University of Iowa
UI Writers’ Workshop
Louise Gluck
Bob Shacochis
Kent Haruf
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Dark Tide
Onslaught
Michael A. Stackpole
del Rey
Doubleday
J.K. Rowling
Scholastic
Gary Zukav
Simon & Schuster
Rowling
Stephen King
Testament
Dell
First Lady
Susan Elizabeth
John Iving
Ballantin
Tom Gordon
Pocket
Waldenbooks
Cedar Rapids
Ational
St-Sellers
Nelson DeMille
Ner
Robert Morgan
Allende
HarperCol
Dan
Haces
Isabelles
Crichton
Knopf
Jansen
Nicholas
Dear Koontz Bant
Atlantis
Clive Cuser
Puin
the Attorney
Steve Martin
Jackson Braun
Tracy Neuter
Secret Honor
Griffin Putnam
Ghost Moon
Karen Robards Delacorte
Morrie
Mitch
Spencer Ae
Phillip C. VicGraw
Hyperion
Phillips
D’orso
Mick Foley
Regan Books
Carlson and Carlson
Cokie
Steve Roberts
Morrow
Tom Brokaw
Random House
The
Girl
Post
Dr. Atkins
Robert C. Atkins
M.D
Avon
Susan Elizabeth Dojiline Oa
Angela
Frank McCourtey
Stephen King Peck
John Irving
Ballantine
Clancy
Greenberg
Heller and Heller
Signet
Sullivan's Island
Dorothea Benton Frank
Jove
Amanda Quick
Robert Crais
Lisa Scottoline
Harper Paperbacks
Joan Johnston
S&s
Fireside
Phillip C. McGraw
Jane Hamilton
Michael Cunningham
Stanley Ranta
Analone
A Warnovenes
Cedars
David Suterson
Vintage
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial
Susanna Kaysen Vintag
Mtvy Iyvuliouwi
Golden Soul
Canfield
Hansen, Meyer, Seeger & Chesser
Health Communications
Dave Pelzer
Apollyon
LaHaye and
Jenkins
Tyndale
By Jeff Guinn
March
Colin Dexter
Crown
Inspector Morse
Jonathan Kozol
America
Bleeding Heart
South Bronx
Kozol
Pontius Pilate
Anne Wroe
England
Jane Smiley
Edwin
Bud”’ Shrake
Texas
Shrake
Ted Gup
May
CIA
Mario Puzo
Jeff Shaara
Mexico
Buzz
Shaara
Father Michael
Killer Angels
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
Roth
Thomas Sanchez
Sanchez
Alice Hoffman
Putnam
Massachusetts
Hoffman
Garry Wills
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's
Stephanie Plum
Evanovich
Tom Clancy
Ryan
Robert Kennedy
Evan Thomas
RFK
Mario Puzoweet
Book Review
Ichure
By Larry Johnson
By Annette M. Schulte
Pear
Rubies
Kirkwood
C. Leslie Charles
Leslie Charles
Gale Mote
Mary Kay Mueller
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