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The New York Times Bestseller List
October 18, 2009
Hardcover Fiction

THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories.
THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett.  A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker. Rich women are turning up [...]

I had no idea what Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman was about when I put it on hold at the library.  It was chosen for my Children’s Literature Book Club (we were reading all Beehive Award nominees) and being the dutiful member that I am put it on hold but failed to actually look [...]

The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo is in the same magical vein as The Tale of Despereaux. Although the book doesn’t start out with the words “Once Upon a Time,” it certainly has that fairy tale feeling with the first line, “At the end of the century before last, in the market square of the [...]

The National Book Award finalists were announced today.
Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Non-Fiction

David M. Carroll, Following the Water: [...]

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One of my favorite types of books to read are books that take place around World War II and the Holocaust.  There will never be a drought of stories to tell from this horrific part of history.  But I was shocked when I picked up Someone Named Eva [...]