Book Sense Hardcover Fiction Bestseller Lists (w/e 11.05.06):
Thirst:
Poems, by Mary Oliver, cloth October 2006 $22.00, 0-8070-6896-9
#9 New England Independent Booksellers Association (fifth appearance)
#15 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (first appearance)
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-0308-5
Publishers Weekly 100 Best Books issue, listed in the nonfiction
section in the November 6th issue: “A first-rate and update-to-date historical
and political analysis of the Palestinian predicament.”
Wednesday, November 8th; 11:40-12pm EST; Midday Utah/KPCW Radio, live by
phone.
Wednesday, November 8th; 5:30 pm; Foreign Policy Association, NYC
Wednesday, November 8th; 8:20-8:45pm; Arab Voices/KPFT Radio (Pacifica out
of Houston); live by phone
Thursday, November 9th; 6:30pm; Houston World Affairs Council Saturday,
? ? November 11th;12:00 - 1:00 pm; Chicago Humanities Festival
Wednesday, November 15th; 11:05-11:40am; Brian Lehrer Show/WNYC Radio (NYC),
live in-studio
Wednesday, November 15th; 12:00 – 1:00pm EST; Focus 580/WILL Radio
(NPR out of Urbana, IL); live by phone
Thursday, November 16th; 7:00pm; Princeton University Bookstore
Big-Box Swindle,
Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9
Now on display as a November Book Sense Pick!
Chicago Reader, review in the Fall Books Special November 1st issue:
“…she raises issues that Chicago’s big-box debate hasn’t
touched.”
RoundTable with Susan Arbetter (Northeast Public Radio) 15 minute interview,
air-date TK
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, interview in 11/10 issue
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, interview to run before 11/11 event
Midday Utah (KCPW-public radio) live morning interview, 11/13
Austin Chronicle, planning article
Portland (ME) Phoenix, running 500 word excerpt and interview in
11/15 issue
Author appearances in:
Chicago, November 8, Women & Children First
St. Paul, November 11, Macalester College
Boulder, November 13, Boulder Bookstore
Salt Lake City, November 14, Salt Lake City Public Library and Westminster
College
Austin, November 15, Book People
With Speed
and Violence, Fred Pearce, March 2007, $24.95, 0-8070-8576-6
(10), 978-0-8070-8576-9 (13)
Kirkus, starred review in the November 15th issue: “Well-documented
and terrifying review of the scientific evidence supporting claims that Earth
teeters on the edge of climactic precipice… important reading for policymakers,
climate-change skeptics and anyone planning a future beyond the next decade.”
On the Courthouse
Lawn, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, February 2007, $25.95, 0-8070-0987-3
(10), 978-0-8070-0987-1 (13)
Kirkus, starred review in the February 15th issue: “An intriguing,
immodest proposal that itself warrants discussion—and action.”
ColorLines, excerpt from book in the January/February issue
San Francisco Chronicle, op-ed in the November 12th issue
The Gay and Lesbian Review, review in the November/December issue:
“This thoroughly researched but slender volume…is more readable
than many similar books.”
History News Network, essay by Foster forthcoming in November
57th Street Books, Chicago, author appearance November 14th at 7 pm
Courting Equality, Patricia A. Gozemba, Karen Kahn, and Marilyn
Humphries, May 2007, $35.00, 978-0-8070-6620-1
"Courting Equality is a very important book on several levels.
First, it chronicles the events that led up to same sex marriage in Massachusetts,
an historic event in our country’s move towards making the wonderful
principles of the Constitution applicable to all of our citizens. Second,
it shows how political support in the elected Legislature grew rapidly as
the reality of allowing same sex couples to love each other demolished the
prejudices that prevented same sex marriage previously. Finally, it reinforces
the point—which was no surprise to those of us fighting for equal treatment
for all people—that same sex marriage has been an entirely positive thing
for thousands of men and women in Massachusetts, and has had zero negative
consequences at all. Too often, political literature focuses on the bad news,
Courting Equality tells some very good news very well." —Congressman
Barney Frank
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