Best Sellers in Hardcover Fiction and More
Publisher weekly lists top 10 hardcover fiction nonfiction mass market and trade paperback titles. Notable entries include Skipping Christmas by John Grisham and The No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly among fiction and nonfiction picks, with mass market and trade paperbacks featuring Tolkien works and The Fellowship of the Ring.
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John Grisham
Doubleday
James Patterson
Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
David Baldacci
Warner
Heaven
Dean R. Koontz
Bantam
Ken Follett
Dutton
Mary Higgins Clark
Carol Higgins Clark
S&s and Scribner
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Caroline Kennedy
Hyperion
Black House
Stephen King
Peter Straub
Random House
Tim LaHaye
Jerry Jenkins
Tyndale
John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Tiger Woods
Phillip C
Dean Koontz
Brad Meltzer
Warner Vision
J.R.R. Tolkien
Heaven and Earth
Nora Roberts
Jove
Mark Bowden
Signet
Houghton Mifflin
Don Miguel Ruiz
Amber-Allen
Anita Diamant
Picador
Rohinton Mistry
Vintage
Ken Park
Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Touchstone
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Tracy Chavalier
Dutton/Plume
Mattie Stepanek
Vacation Spot
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperTrade
Generations and libraries shaping future services
A discussion on how Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials influence library needs. Richard Sweeney analyzes Millennials traits, tech use, and values, with a panel of young readers. Ottawa Library adds Millennials Rising and Hicks guides to illuminate generational shifts.
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Northeast
Kansas Library System
Richard Sweeney
Ta . Jast
Ottawa
Neil Howe
William Strauss
Nials
Focus On the Family
Rick and
Kathy Hicks
TALK series explores rural youth in four book discussions
Ottawa Library presents a four part TALK series on growing up rural in America. Topics cover Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Good Land by Bruce Bair, Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry, and Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes. Sessions begin January 17 and run through February 28 at City Hall Library.
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America
Ottawa Library
Amy Fleury
Washburn University
Bruce Bair
Kansas
Nathan Coulter
Wendell Berry
Port William
of Jesus
Hele
Na Maria Viramontes
California
Barbara Dew
At 96, Nancy Drew author still cranks out copy for Blade
Millie Benson, age 96, the original author behind Nancy Drew, writes a weekly Blade column on everyday life and older folks. She penned 23 of 30 early Nancy Drew novels as Carolyn Keene, guided by Edward Stratemeyer, a secrecy pact left her unpaid royalties, yet she views her work as a lifelong contribution to American children.
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Toledo
Ohio
Millie Benson
The
Blade
Nancy Drew
Carolyn Keene
Benson
Edward Stratemeyer
Bobbsey Twins
Hardy Boys
Nancy
Carolyn Dyer
University of Iowa
Children of America
Ladora
Iowa
Penny Parker
Ron Royhab
Millie
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