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Bay Area rankings are based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week ending Oct. 18. Rankings are provided by the American Booksellers Association and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.









For the week of Sunday, 10/18/09





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the lost symbol, by Dan Brown (Doubleday; 509 pages; $29.95)


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the girl who [...:]

Book Reviews at Clare County Library

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Fiction:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Ripening Seed by Colette
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
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Author's Book Recommendation – Three Cups of Tea

Title: Three Cups of Tea
Authors: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Penguin (3 Jan 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141034262
ISBN-13: 978-0141034263
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
Product Description
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, [...:]

Spaghetti Bookclub

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book reviews for kids by kids
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1,2,3 Music (2 reviews)


10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster


1001 Questions and Answers About Animals


101 Dalmations (2 reviews)


101 Facts About the Ocean


102 Dalmations


20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea


20000 Leagues Under the [...:]

Boston Book Review

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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement Review by Robert Briscoe 


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From the Window Seat: Children's Books Reviews by Erik P. Kraft 


 
 



The Bitch is Back Review by Hannah Sullivan [...:]

Author's Book Recommendation – Loving Frank

Title: Loving Frank
Author:  Nancy Horan
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Sceptre (2 Oct 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0340919442
ISBN-13: 978-0340919446
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
Product Description
In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible scandal as renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, ran off with Mamah Cheney, a client's wife.Abandoning their families and reputations, the lovers fled to [...:]

The Dublin Quarterly

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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!

Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Diane Awerbuck: Gardening At Night
Damon Galgut: The Good Doctor




The Known World by Edward P. Jones: Harper Perennial, London/2004
Available at: Amazon.co.uk





What makes The Known World by Edward P. Jones unique is not its treatment of slavery because this is the aesthetic core of many novels [...:]

The Guardian Book Reviews

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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist

Michel Faber asks if a graphic biography of Johnny Cash has a responsibility to the facts


The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

Patrick Ness finds the novelisation of a revered picture book sends him back to the original
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Finding the plot
'I'm interested in the slightly dumb and obvious'
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Author's Book Recommendation – The Bolter

Title:  The Bolter: Idina Sackville – The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress 
Author: Frances Osborne
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (29 Dec 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844084809
ISBN-13: 978-1844084807
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
Product Description
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet [...:]

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