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FROM: Renee Patterson <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 6/11/03, 1:16 PM

Does anyone have suggestions for books they expect will be 'hot' this fall?

I haven't heard much that people are buzzing about, and would love some
suggestions.

We've got a list of authors with new titles for the fall, but haven't seen
much in the way of reviews - to see if they're going to be good releases.
:) Also, these are just the expected releases by popular authors - not
something like the next Da Vinci Code.

If anyone's heard about any books due out this fall that everyone will be
talking about, please pass the titles along. -Preferably books coming out
Sep/Oct/Nov, and a mix of genres.

A few we're looking at so far - and most of these may just be hot to their
pre-existing rabid fan base (Asaro, Bujold):

Patricia Cornwell/ Blow Fly
Toni Morrison/ Love
J.D. Robb/IMITATION IN DEATH
Diana Gabaldon/Lord John and the Private Matter Nov. 4th
Dana Stabenow/A GRAVE DENIED (Sep) [Kate Shugak]
Iris Johansen/FATAL TIDE (Sep)
Anne McCaffrey/Dragon's Kin
Lois McMaster Bujold/PALADIN OF SOULS (hardcover)
Catherine Asaro/SKYFALL

Thanks!
Renee Patterson
Librarian
High Springs, FL

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 6/11/03, 1:27 PM

John Grisham has a book coming out in September called "Bleachers." It's
not a legal thriller. See latest Publishers Weekly for a blurb about it--
I recall it was a coming of age novel about a football player in a small
Texas town.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Baxter, Barbara" <[removed]@aclibrary.org>
REC'D: 6/11/03, 1:54 PM

I was lucky enough to be able to go to BEA in Los Angeles. They had a forum
called "BEA Editor and Bookseller Buzz" promoting books these insiders are
excited about. Some of them are not fall releases, but out now. Here's the
presenters and their selections:

Julie Grau from Riverhead Books:
KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini.(fiction about Afghanistan
BLUE BLOOD by Edward Conlon Fiction, NYPD

Susan Kamil, Dial Press
EASTER ISLAND by Jennifer Vanderbes (fiction, two storylines, one contemp,
one early 20th cent)
ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN ROMANTIC INTERACTION by Karl Iagnemma (short
stories)

Starling Lawrence, WW Norton
CRUELEST MILES by Gay Salisbury. Non-fiction. The relay to get diptheria
serum to Nome Alaska in 1925, the basis for the Iditarod race.
GREAT UNRAVELING by Paul Krugman. Collected columns from NYTimes writer

Alice Mayhew, Simon and Schuster
JOHN PAUL JONES by Evan Thomas. Biog
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by Walter Isaacson. Biog
THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT by David Mariniss. Non fiction. America and
Vietnam 1967

Sonny Mehta, Knopf
THE CLEARING by Tim Gautreaux. Fiction
HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER by Julie Orringer. Short stories

Claire Wachtel, William Morrow
STRANGER AND THE STATESMAN: JAMES SMITHSON, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND THE MAKING
OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MUSEUM by Nina Burleigh
LOS ANGELES DIARIES by James Brown. Memoir.

Admitedly these folks are promoting their own products, but there might be a
sleeper or two here.

BArbara Baxter
Collection Development Manager
Alameda County Library System
2450 Stevenson Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538

-----Original Message-----
From: Renee Patterson [[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:12 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Hot for fall

Does anyone have suggestions for books they expect will be 'hot' this fall?

I haven't heard much that people are buzzing about, and would love some
suggestions.

We've got a list of authors with new titles for the fall, but haven't seen
much in the way of reviews - to see if they're going to be good releases.
:) Also, these are just the expected releases by popular authors - not
something like the next Da Vinci Code.

If anyone's heard about any books due out this fall that everyone will be
talking about, please pass the titles along. -Preferably books coming out
Sep/Oct/Nov, and a mix of genres.

A few we're looking at so far - and most of these may just be hot to their
pre-existing rabid fan base (Asaro, Bujold):

Patricia Cornwell/ Blow Fly
Toni Morrison/ Love
J.D. Robb/IMITATION IN DEATH
Diana Gabaldon/Lord John and the Private Matter Nov. 4th
Dana Stabenow/A GRAVE DENIED (Sep) [Kate Shugak]
Iris Johansen/FATAL TIDE (Sep)
Anne McCaffrey/Dragon's Kin
Lois McMaster Bujold/PALADIN OF SOULS (hardcover)
Catherine Asaro/SKYFALL

Thanks!
Renee Patterson
Librarian
High Springs, FL

FROM: "Baxter, Barbara" <[removed]@aclibrary.org>
REC'D: 6/11/03, 1:54 PM

I was lucky enough to be able to go to BEA in Los Angeles. They had a forum
called "BEA Editor and Bookseller Buzz" promoting books these insiders are
excited about. Some of them are not fall releases, but out now. Here's the
presenters and their selections:

Julie Grau from Riverhead Books:
KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini.(fiction about Afghanistan
BLUE BLOOD by Edward Conlon Fiction, NYPD

Susan Kamil, Dial Press
EASTER ISLAND by Jennifer Vanderbes (fiction, two storylines, one contemp,
one early 20th cent)
ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN ROMANTIC INTERACTION by Karl Iagnemma (short
stories)

Starling Lawrence, WW Norton
CRUELEST MILES by Gay Salisbury. Non-fiction. The relay to get diptheria
serum to Nome Alaska in 1925, the basis for the Iditarod race.
GREAT UNRAVELING by Paul Krugman. Collected columns from NYTimes writer

Alice Mayhew, Simon and Schuster
JOHN PAUL JONES by Evan Thomas. Biog
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by Walter Isaacson. Biog
THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT by David Mariniss. Non fiction. America and
Vietnam 1967

Sonny Mehta, Knopf
THE CLEARING by Tim Gautreaux. Fiction
HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER by Julie Orringer. Short stories

Claire Wachtel, William Morrow
STRANGER AND THE STATESMAN: JAMES SMITHSON, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND THE MAKING
OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MUSEUM by Nina Burleigh
LOS ANGELES DIARIES by James Brown. Memoir.

Admitedly these folks are promoting their own products, but there might be a
sleeper or two here.

BArbara Baxter
Collection Development Manager
Alameda County Library System
2450 Stevenson Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538

-----Original Message-----
From: Renee Patterson [[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:12 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Hot for fall

Does anyone have suggestions for books they expect will be 'hot' this fall?

I haven't heard much that people are buzzing about, and would love some
suggestions.

We've got a list of authors with new titles for the fall, but haven't seen
much in the way of reviews - to see if they're going to be good releases.
:) Also, these are just the expected releases by popular authors - not
something like the next Da Vinci Code.

If anyone's heard about any books due out this fall that everyone will be
talking about, please pass the titles along. -Preferably books coming out
Sep/Oct/Nov, and a mix of genres.

A few we're looking at so far - and most of these may just be hot to their
pre-existing rabid fan base (Asaro, Bujold):

Patricia Cornwell/ Blow Fly
Toni Morrison/ Love
J.D. Robb/IMITATION IN DEATH
Diana Gabaldon/Lord John and the Private Matter Nov. 4th
Dana Stabenow/A GRAVE DENIED (Sep) [Kate Shugak]
Iris Johansen/FATAL TIDE (Sep)
Anne McCaffrey/Dragon's Kin
Lois McMaster Bujold/PALADIN OF SOULS (hardcover)
Catherine Asaro/SKYFALL

Thanks!
Renee Patterson
Librarian
High Springs, FL

FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 6/11/03, 9:35 PM

Thanks for asking, I've been meaning to do this. It's almost impossible to
figure out what little known book/author will become the next Lovely Bones
or Da Vinci Code, and this probably isn't exactly what you wanted because
most on this list are best selling authors, but these are the books that are
getting the biggest printings and the most publicity, which tends to
translate to sales, which translates to long reserve lists...

No Graves Yet by Anne Perry (Aug)
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin - new book from A Song of Ice &
Fire series(Aug)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom - first novel by the
author of Tuesdays With Morrie (Sept)
Hello, Darkness by Sandra Brown (Sept)
Babylon Rising by Tim Lahaye & Greg Dinallo - first of a new series by
Lahaye(Sept)
The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks (Sept)
Split Second by David Baldacci (Sept)

The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin - another novella like Shopgirl
(Oct)
Balance of Power by Richard North Patterson (Oct)
Remember When by -get this- Nora Roberts & J.D. Robb - "a thrill-ride of a
novel that blends present-day romance and futuristic suspense" (Oct)
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky
Capital Crimes by Stuart Woods - a Will Lee novel (Oct)
Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker (Oct)
Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman (Oct)
The Private Life of the Cat Who by Lilian Jackson Braun (Oct)

Cry No More by Linda Howard (Nov)
The Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman - new Alex Delaware (Nov)
Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel - can you believe novel #59!?! (Nov)
A Christmas Tale by Jude Deveraux (Nov)
Wolves of Calla by Stephen King - 5th installment of the Dark Tower series
(Nov)
The Cove by Catherine Coulter (Nov)
The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson (Nov)

and there will another reissue of the hardcover version of Grisham's
Skipping Christmas & Baldacci's The Christmas Train in November

Nonfiction

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer - true
crime from the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air (Sept)
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins (Sept)
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan - the novelist's first book of nonfiction
Flyboys by James Bradley (Sept)
Who's Looking Out for You by Bill O'Reilly - more spin from the spinmaster
(Sept)
Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong - Tour de France 4 time winner &
author of It's Not About the Bike (Oct)
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Right
by Al Franken (Oct)
Michael Moore Untitled - don't know if this is actually the title or it
really is untitled but comes out in Oct
Ty's Tricks of the Trade by Ty Pennington - of the enormously popular
Trading Spaces TV series (Oct)

A few dark horses:

The Program by Rachel Greenwald (nonfiction) "a Harvard MBA shares her
revolutionary program for using marketing tactics to find a husband in one
year" - aimed at the over 35 market - Ballantine is hoping this will be the
new RULES (Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider) book
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem - author of Motherless Brooklyn,
Doubleday is hoping this will be his big breakout novel (Sept)
Sixty-Six by Barry Levinson - first novel by the director of Diner and Rain
Man

Not til Jan 2004 -
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth
Robinson - Little Brown hasn't been this excited over a first novel since
The Lovely Bones
Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman - Putnam's dark horse, a legal thriller by a
first time novelist, foreign & film rights already sold

And if I may, a little BSP (blatant self promotion) - there is a Hot List on
my website (http://www.bookbitch.com/hot_list.htm) of upcoming titles that
sound good to me.

That was fun.

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
www.pbclibrary.org

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com <http://www.bookbitch.com/>
BLOOD IS THE SKY * A CRUEL SEASON FOR DYING
Two ways to win * June 1-30, 2003

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 6/12/03, 6:16 AM

In a message dated 6/11/2003 2:12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us writes:

A few we're looking at so far - and most of these may just be hot to their
pre-existing rabid fan base (Asaro, Bujold):

Catherine Asaro fans (rabid or not) will want to take note of her new fantasy
novella, "Moonglow," in the Silhouette anthology CHARMED DESTINIES. Other
authors in the anthology are Rachel Lee and Merecedes Lackey. Due out in
September. Another novella will be in the anthology, IRRESISTIBLE FORCES, due out
from ROC in trade paper in Februrary, 2004. Among the other 5 authors are Mary
Jo Putney, Deb Stover, and Lois McMaster Bujold. Asaro's next fantasy novel
is THE CHARMED SPHERE, which features one of the characters from "Moonglow,"
and is one of the newest titles in Silhouette's fantasy line, Luna.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nsls.info>
REC'D: 6/12/03, 9:25 AM

I got the impression from this review that this was just a tidbit for
Gabaldon readers until the next full book in the series comes along, but I
know she is popular.

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

----- Original Message -----
Subject: Hot for fall

> Diana Gabaldon/Lord John and the Private Matter Nov. 4th

FROM: "Teresa Pennington" <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
REC'D: 6/12/03, 9:37 AM

You mentioned Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin as an August release. That's pretty unlikely since according to the June 10, 2003 update of his website he's "still not done yet." But I guess stranger things have happened.
-Teresa Pennington
Landa Branch
San Antonio Public Library
San Antonio, TX
[removed]@sanantonio.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: BookBitch [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Hot for fall

Thanks for asking, I've been meaning to do this. It's almost impossible to
figure out what little known book/author will become the next Lovely Bones
or Da Vinci Code, and this probably isn't exactly what you wanted because
most on this list are best selling authors, but these are the books that are
getting the biggest printings and the most publicity, which tends to
translate to sales, which translates to long reserve lists...

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin - new book from A Song of Ice &
Fire series(Aug)

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
www.pbclibrary.org

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com <http://www.bookbitch.com/>
BLOOD IS THE SKY * A CRUEL SEASON FOR DYING
Two ways to win * June 1-30, 2003

FROM: BookBitch <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 6/12/03, 2:12 PM

Teresa,

You're right. While Random House has it in their
fall catalog, Amazon has updated the publication
date to April 2004. My apologies.

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
www.pbclibrary.org

--- Teresa Pennington <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
wrote:
> You mentioned Feast for Crows by George R.R.
> Martin as an August release. That's pretty
> unlikely since according to the June 10, 2003
> update of his website he's "still not done
> yet." But I guess stranger things have
> happened.
> -Teresa Pennington
> Landa Branch
> San Antonio Public Library
> San Antonio, TX
> [removed]@sanantonio.gov

=====
I am the BookBitch
http://www.bookbitch.com
BLOOD IS THE SKY * A CRUEL SEASON FOR DYING
Two ways to win * June 1-30, 2003

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