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    Edward the vampire a hit with girls  Sep 7, 2008
    The titles are already topping bestseller lists and winning recommendations for the Book of the Month slot. All this, however, will not impress the legions of diehard Potter fans who point to the mindboggling sales and the iconic status enjoyed by the boy wizard. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Exclusive: Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans left fighting for ...  Sep 2, 2008
    It has sold more than 15million copies worldwide, topped the bestseller lists in 20 countries and been translated into 36 languages. Worcestershire-born Nicholas got a first-class law degree at Oxford and worked as a journalist on ITV's Weekend World and The South Bank Show before becoming an author. (Glasgow Daily Record)

    Short? Yes. Sweet? Not even sort of  Aug 28, 2008
    And finally, the sheer pleasure of reading so many brilliant and exciting pieces of fiction, along with their analyses, may turn you off the bestseller lists forever. Recommend this article. (Globe and Mail)

    Sharon Osbourne turns novelist  Aug 23, 2008
    She will be hoping to emulate the success of glamour model-turned-author Katie Price, who moved into fiction in 2006 with her novel Angel ("When Angel is discovered by a modelling agent, her life changes for ever") after her autobiography Being Jordan shot to the top of the bestseller lists in 2004. Price has written two further autobiographies, and her total non-fiction sales top 1. (guardian.co.uk)

    Finding forgiveness through God the Papa  Aug 16, 2008
    Over the past year, America's appetite for a redemption story has proved stronger than Penguin's seal of approval, earning The Shack a spot on both Globe and Mail and New York Times bestseller lists and the praise of country singer Wynona Judd. In centring his plot on a despicable crime, the kidnapping of Mackenzie Allen Phillips's daughter Missy during a camping trip in the Oregon wilds, Young creates the setting for his homily on the strength it takes to forgive. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Japan economy angst boosts sales of Marxist novel  Aug 12, 2008
    Furuya is one of the many Japanese readers who have put Kanikosen, or A Crab-Canning Boat, on bestseller lists in recent months. It is near the top of several of Japan's leading bestseller lists, almost unheard of for a book of this genre. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)

    Democrats on edge as Obama's high profile fails to deliver big ...  Aug 9, 2008
    Two anti-Obama biographies published this week, the first such books, shot to the top of bestseller lists. The Obama team remains outwardly calm. (guardian.co.uk)

    Newsweek: The pitfalls of picking a campaign song  Aug 7, 2008
    Now on Bestseller Lists. THE OBAMA NATION by Dr. Jerome Corsi. (MSNBC -- Music)

    Vampire's dawn sets readers' pulses racing  Aug 2, 2008
    Twilight's two sequels, New Moon and Eclipse, stormed the bestseller lists again. Now the fourth and what Meyer says is the last novel of the series, Breaking Dawn, is to be published on Monday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Thousands of fans celebrate the long awaited launch of Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn at Indigo and Chapters stores nationally  Aug 2, 2008
    The groundswell of Twilight fan support and Breaking Dawn frenzy has catapulted Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga to the top of bestseller lists around the world. About Indigo Books Inc. Indigo Books Inc. (TSX:IDG) is a publicly traded Canadian company and the largest book retailer in Canada, operating bookstores in all provinces under the names Indigo Books Music Chapters, The World's Biggest Bookstore and Coles. (Canada Newswire)

    * [BOOK REVIEW] Chasing thrills with Elvis Cole, private eye  Jul 27, 2008
    That should not come as any great shock since the Los Angeles writer has become a regular on the bestseller lists and this is his 11th thriller starring Elvis Cole, an unstoppable force operating in the guise of a yoga-practicing Los Angeles private eye. Chasing Darkness starts, at many thrillers do, with what seems a cut-and-dried case before unspooling into all sorts of unexpected, tight and untidy corners. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    ‘Last lecture' professor dies  Jul 26, 2008
    The book The Last Lecture, written with Jeffrey Zaslow, leaped to the top of the nonfiction bestseller lists after its publication in April and remains there this week. Pausch said he dictated the book to Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer, by cellphone. (Globe and Mail)

    Author Of Last Lecture Loses Battle With Cancer  Jul 26, 2008
    The book "The Last Lecture" jumped to the top of nonfiction bestseller lists after its publication in April, and remains there. Pausch said he dictated the book to Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal by cell phone. (KWTX.com, TX)

    Stephenie Meyer: Mormon who put new life into vampires  Jul 22, 2008
    Now that 'cheesy' dream, in the words of dreamer-turned-author Stephenie Meyer, has spawned a series of novels that is dominating bestseller lists around the world. Meyer has joined the illustrious line-up of authors who have tapped into the obsessive adolescent market, by luck or design. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    The perfect lunch spot in Paris? For David Sedaris, it's a food court of course  Jul 19, 2008
    His just-released collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, currently climbing the bestseller lists, also offers his own take of the fabled city. This interview is part of an ongoing series on people inspired by place. (Globe and Mail -- Business)

    America's self-publishing 'miracle'  Jul 17, 2008
    The Shack was blogged and hyped by Christian radio into the bestseller lists. Its American sales are verging on 2m. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    Unknown novelist hits chord with epic 'Edgar Sawtelle'  Jul 16, 2008
    In a woeful time for book publishing, when sales are stagnant and reading for pleasure is declining, an unlikely first novel is climbing bestseller lists and causing a sensation. To the astonishment of writers, editors, and booksellers, David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" is proving that readers can still fall hard for an old-fashioned literary epic by someone they've never heard of. (Boston Globe)

    "TWILIGHT" VAMPS IT UP  Jul 13, 2008
    But quietly, Meyer's vampire young-adult series, has captured multiple spots in Amazon's charts and other bestseller lists. The fourth and final tome, "Breaking Dawn," has held the No. 1 pre-order slot on Amazon for months, even though it doesn't hit shelves until Aug. 2. (New York Post -- Opinions)

    FLDS sect's fashions now available online  Jul 2, 2008
    " FLDSDress.com has dispatched packages to California, Iowa, New York, Washington, and even Arizona, Maggie Jessop said, and not just the FLDS-heavy Colorado City area, either. The FLDS wardrobe puzzled and captivated America as events unfolded in Texas. The poufed hairstyles, long dresses and buttoned-up shirts are mandated by jailed FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, who disallows patterned fabric and the color red. The FLDS members wear the clothing as a symbol of their faith. The Fundamentalist... (AZCentral)

    Still Friends  Jul 1, 2008
    She was also honored by the Radiation and Public Health Organization for her contribution to the "Tooth Fairy Project, which is part of a study on children s baby teeth to see the level of radioactivity. By the way, a lot of people are asking who s doing the leaking about the details of Cook s financial arrangements with his former 18-year-old lover, Diana Bianchi. Only Cook, Bianchi and her stepfather would have been privy to those details. Even Brinkley, they say, was surprised to hear all... (Fox News)

    Supreme Court Justices end term with a growl  Jun 29, 2008
    Thomas memoir, My Grandfather s Son, was on bestseller lists last year, while Scalia co-wrote a book on lawyering. Scalia even got to repeat, to viewers of CBS 60 Minutes, his favorite piece of advice to Democrats still upset over the court s decision in Bush v. Gore in 2000. (Montana Standard, MT)

    On This Rock  Jun 24, 2008
    Christian books regularly top bestseller lists when they are counted; Christian rock increasingly winds up on pop charts; polls consistently show that various forms of creationism are believed by a majority of the public. The question then arises: Who is really out of touch. (The American Conservative)

    * Generation Z hits the shelves in bookstores  Jun 17, 2008
    Tang Chaos () paperback, Give Me Back the Dream (), a dark tale of unrequited teenage love, conflict with parents and adolescent suicide, reached the top of the bestseller lists last week, a success confirming the coming of age of what has been dubbed the countrys Generation Z.. I just tell the story of people I know, Tang said in a telephone interview from his home in the central Chinese city of Chengdu. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Unaccumstomed Earth  Jun 16, 2008
    THE upper reaches of The New York Times bestseller lists are usually reserved for the sorts of authors whose books get advertised on the backs of buses. But in April, the James Pattersons and Jodi Picoults were elbowed aside by the first-week-out, No. 1 debut of Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri's second collection of short stories. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Paul ends his presidential campaign  Jun 13, 2008
    His new book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," zoomed to the top of bestseller lists. Paul confirmed plans yesterday to hold a counter-rally at an arena in neighboring Minneapolis on Sept. 2, the second day of the Republican National Convention. (Boston Globe)

    Ron Paul ends campaign, praises Barr  Jun 13, 2008
    His new book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," zoomed to the top of bestseller lists. Supporters, staging uprisings at state and county GOP conventions across the country, have pushed for a speaking role for Paul at the Republican National Convention in September in St. Paul. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Stories Project is horribly flawed  Jun 13, 2008
    When books written by UI graduates appear on bestseller lists, it becomes evident why the writing program is so special: University writers go out into the world with the skills and knowledge required to become great. Page 1 of 2. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    Murder, war tales, horse saga: Former resident writes 2nd entry in WWII trilogy  Jun 9, 2008
    Former Missoula resident Jeff Shaara is en route back to the bestseller lists with "The Steel Wave," the second volume of his World War II trilogy - this a dramatization of D-Day and the battle for Normandy. Now living in Sarasota, Fla. (Missoulian, MT)

    McClellan Says Book's Tone Evolved  Jun 9, 2008
    The book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," is a scathing critique of the Bush presidency that vaulted this week to the top of the bestseller lists. It has also prompted many of McClellan's oldest friends and colleagues to brand him, among other things, a turncoat and a fraud. (Yahoo News -- Bush Administration)

    Roger Cohen: The good American and Monsieur Obama  Jun 8, 2008
    His book, "The Audacity of Hope," is on bestseller lists. His face is everywhere, sometimes in socialist realist images evoking Che Guevara. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)

    He's putting up numbers for the Celtics  Jun 7, 2008
    Author Michael Lewis put sabremetrics, as the statistical analysis of baseball is called, on the map and on bestseller lists with his entertaining portrait of numbers-driven Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, in "Moneyball.". What about basketball. (Boston Globe)

    Ten video games for 2008  May 31, 2008
    EA Sports' football franchise may be the only game in town, but there's a reason that it hits bestseller lists every year. 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the game, which features quarterback Brett Favre on the cover. (CNN -- Tech)

    With pointed wit, Chelsea jabs at celebs  May 27, 2008
    called "Chelsea Lately" and, right now, riding bestseller lists with a new book of racy personal essays, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea." She is the raunchy 2008 antidote to nicey-nice celebrity infotainment, a fierce cultural observer who doesn't bother to pretend, like Mary Hart, that tabloid characters are real. Like Sandra Bernhard 20 years ago, Chelsea Handler is the diuretic to Hollywood's chronic case of bloat. (Boston Globe)

    Jeffery Archer pens new bestseller: A Prisoner of Birth  May 25, 2008
    BACK WITH A BANG: Jeffrey Archer stormed back onto bestseller lists in India and worldwide, with his latest book, A Prisoner of Birth ... New Delhi: Jeffrey Archer stormed back onto bestseller lists in India and worldwide, with his latest book, A Prisoner of Birth. (CNN-IBN)

    Cannes 2008: Alchemist Announcend : Laurence Fishburne to star in Paulo Coelho a...  May 18, 2008
    Over the last twenty years The Alchemist has sold more than 30 million copies and hit bestseller lists in 18 countries. Despite releasing in 1988, the book has spent 34 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and currently rests at number six - evidence, Weinstein says, of its renewed popularity. (IGN FilmForce)

    Unlikely bestseller who changed the future of the American novel  May 18, 2008
    London-born Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories went straight to number 1 in the American bestseller lists. Now her tales of immigrant life are being hailed as a new direction in US literature. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)

    Parents wring hands over controversial book (4)  May 17, 2008
    Wednesday, March 22, 2006 Edition. " asked parent Barry Schoenbrun at a Parent Teacher Student Association meeting at the school last week. The hour-long exchange in the school library was described by participants as calm, respectful and deliberate.School principal Mark Kelly said he would take the messages he heard to a meeting with the school's English teachers this week. A decision on whether to continue with the planned assignment will come after that, Kelly said."I would like to point out... (Malibu Times, CA)

    Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain...  May 13, 2008
    Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain : Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times. Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there. (The Drudge Report)

    Best of both worlds  May 8, 2008
    Books denouncing religion as superstition have enjoyed lofty positions on bestseller lists recently. The authors, the so-called "new" atheists, would like us to believe that science and religion are mutually exclusive. (Ottawa Citizen)

    Shook’s prayer breakfast message: ‘Live for Today’  May 8, 2008
    One Month To Live hit New York Times bestseller lists almost immediately after its February release by Random House in February. At the end of the prayer breakfast, Shook sold and signed copies of One Month to Live. (Woodlands Villager, TX)

    Silhouette Launches Nocturne Bites  May 2, 2008
    Already an industry front-list leader in eBooks, Harlequin is at the leading edge of digital publishing, offering approximately 100 new titles every month in eBook format and regularly topping the eBook bestseller lists. Silhouette Nocturne began publishing in October 2006 and releases two titles monthly. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Patrick's book pitch didn't tell the whole story  Apr 5, 2008
    "I believe that I can partner with my publisher to develop widely followed book signing events that will generate the sorts of crowds at readings or lines at book signings that translate into a book's ascent to the top of bestseller lists.". Obama's campaign said the October rally drew 9,500 people to the Common. (Boston Globe)

    Scientist: Time Travel Not Only Possible But Likely  Apr 3, 2008
    "The Physics of the Impossible," released March 11 in the U.S., is currently No. 123 on the Amazon bestseller lists. It comes out Thursday in Britain, though without the "Doctor Who"-themed cover of the U.S. version. (Fox News)

    Colorado honors Gov. Carrs courage  Mar 24, 2008
    It was released this month and has been on local bestseller lists. (All the details of Carr's life in this article come from the book. (Durango Herald)

    Mis Lit: The Facts and Fictions  Mar 18, 2008
    Misery memoirs have found a place on bestseller lists. However, doubts of authenticity and elements of prurience cast a shadow over the boom of this new genre. (Suite101.com)

    Aspiring authors turn to Internet to find help and publishers  Mar 17, 2008
    The websites operate far afield from the big East Coast publishing houses that dominate The bestseller lists. But they are still in their infancy, and they see themselves setting the stage for publishing's next phase: Books, they say, will move slowly but surely away from paper and find their way to readers' computers, e-books, and iPods, diminishing the influence of the big publishing houses just as the online distribution of music altered the role of the major music labels. (Boston Globe)

    How to write ...  Mar 6, 2008
    The bestseller lists beckoned ... The book sold well over a million copies, staying in the US bestseller lists for months on end, and publishers took note. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Favre From Heaven  Mar 5, 2008
    As Favre's tome shot to the top of the bestseller lists, Terrell Owens' autobiography, Catch This. failed to find an audience. (Slate)

    Oprah's First-Ever Live Interactive Webcast Class Enrollment for the #1 Bestselling 'A New Earth' Surpasses Half a Million in Four Weeks  Feb 29, 2008
    It currently also tops the USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Book Sense bestseller lists, among others. Plume, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), initially shipped 776,000 copies and -- after only four weeks on sale -- has more than 4. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    RRSP mortgages  Feb 21, 2008
    Gordon Pape's new book is climbing the bestseller lists. Sleep-Easy Investing: Your Stress-Free Guide to Financial Success is showing thousands of Canadians how they can take the worry out of money management. (Sympatico MSN Finance)

    The Daring Book for Girls  Feb 19, 2008
    After The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden soared up the bestseller lists in 2006, it was inevitable that HarperCollins would release an equivalent book for girls that is also popular with adults. Published in 2007, The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz is reminiscent of the Girls Own Annuals and Rainy Day Books that were popular in the 1940s and 50s. (Suite101.com)

    Grave concerns  Feb 16, 2008
    Her stories of Adamsberg negotiating his rural Pyrenees roots with his job in a Parisian murder squad - in the latest novel, he places a pebble from a village stream on the desks of his wearily perplexed staff after a trip home - have not only topped the French bestseller lists, but stormed the English-speaking world. Her 1999 novel L'Homme ; l'envers, published in English as Seeking Whom He May Devour in 2004, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Books lost and found  Feb 8, 2008
    " Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson, is the tale of a governess's friendship with a glitzy nightclub singer in 1930s London. (A screen adaptation with Frances McDormand in the title role is due for release in the US next month.)Though Beauman admits that running Persephone will never make her a multimillionaire, the company is thriving. It has 10,000 fans on its mailing list (until now, its books were only sold through mail order and the shop) and this April sees the release of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    'The Appeal' by John Grisham  Jan 29, 2008
    Grisham remains the only author to have written a novel that topped the bestseller lists for seven consecutive years ... "The Appeal" is his 20th novel, and it's as angry, dark and urgent a piece of social realism as you're likely to find on the bestseller lists any time soon. (Los Angeles Times)

    Revolution By The Book  Jan 19, 2008
    One of them has even made it to bestseller lists across the globe. Amid the hype over these books, a silent revolution has virtually gone unnoticed - the publication of a new set of text-books by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under the 2005 National Curriculum Framework. (India Times, India)

    Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Good Writing  Jan 15, 2008
    It's hard to argue with this master of the craft who started publishing in the mid-1950s and whose books soar to the top of bestseller lists. A few of his rules won't stir up trouble: Avoid the word "suddenly," use regional dialect sparingly, write in scenes from the point of view of the character whose view can best bring the scene to life. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)

    The best of 2007, readers' edition  Jan 14, 2008
    But a great one that didn't hit the bestseller lists that I keep thinking back to - mark of a good read, right. - is Arnold Steinhardt's "Violin Dreams," published by Houghton Mifflin. (Missoulian, MT)

    A look into Pakistan's political future  Jan 4, 2008
    His latest book, Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror (M E Sharpe) has been on bestseller lists in India and Pakistan and widely reviewed internationally. His forthcoming book is titled: Sovereignty Belongs to Allah: Constitutionalism and Human Rights in the Islamic States. (Asia Times Online)

    Old lions, overseas talents eye '08 bestseller lists  Dec 31, 2007
    Old lions, overseas talents eye bestseller lists. Print| Text size + By David Mehegan Globe Staff / December 31, 2007. (Boston Globe)

    Bestsellers and agents of change  Dec 29, 2007
    It was the year Australian writer Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, a largely unheralded self-help book, came to dominate the North American non-fiction bestseller lists; when veteran Canadian author Elizabeth Hay got to take home the $40,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Late Nights on Air; and when another seasoned vet, 65-year-old Don McKay, won the $50,000 Griffin Canadian Poetry Prize. In any other 12-month span, such successes would have had pride of place in the year-end survey of... (Globe and Mail)

    Publishers will hit the campaign trail  Dec 24, 2007
    As 2007 ends, bestseller lists are topped by TV comedian Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (and So Can You!)." And as McClellan's experience shows, titles don't even have to be on the shelves to generate publicity. The book biz is buzzing over news that Sen. (Los Angeles Times)

    Bruckheimer, MTV pact for games  Dec 19, 2007
    Though limited supplies have kept "Rock Band" off the bestseller lists so far, Yapp said the title has essentially sold out at retail outlets, and MTV believes it's well positioned to sell strongly throughout next year. A version for PlayStation 2 was just released this week. (Variety)

    Best of 2007 in books  Dec 19, 2007
    Best 976-page novel you ll ever read: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Follett s masterpiece, the 12th-century thriller, has been propelled back onto the bestseller lists through Oprah s wise intervention. Intrigue and politics surround the building of a cathedral in the fictional English town of Kingsbridge, and the balance of power between religion and monarchy is precarious and fascinating. (Newton Tab, MA)

    An open discussion of an illness kept behind closed doors  Dec 18, 2007
    It's a book about maternal depression whose virtues have been communicated not by bestseller lists, but by conversations between women friends, after one confides that she's had an unshakable sense of malaise since the baby was born. When the book was published in hardcover last year, author Tracy Thompson didn't head out on any massive book tours. (Boston Globe)

    Wex's success is nothing to kvetch about  Dec 18, 2007
    Born to Kvetch, which made bestseller lists in Canada and the U.S., sold about 90,000 copies. Just Say Nu was released this fall. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    An unusual flurry of rock books this winter offers fans a behind-the-music intimacy  Dec 16, 2007
    Joining him on bestseller lists is "Slash," "Ronnie" and Sixx's "The Heroin Diaries.". Why would rockers ---- those near-mythical gods of sex, drugs and general excess ---- turn to that most stodgy of storytelling modes, the written word. (North County Times)

    10 terrific tales  Dec 16, 2007
    Looking at the kind of fiction that consistently hits the heights of the bestseller lists, we could say that the year began with Ian McEwan's widely acclaimed On Chesil Beach, peaked with the final Harry Potter and drew to a close with Robert Harris's cheeky roman a clef, The Ghost, and Alan Bennett's quirky recasting of the royals, The Uncommon Reader. But along the way we were also given Anne Enright's Booker-winning The Gathering - a case of a much-admired writer finally reaping her reward -... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    'He saw 6-foot-8 in my eyes'  Dec 11, 2007
    The film, in theatres this Friday, is highly anticipated by the legion of fans of Hosseini's debut novel, which came out of nowhere in 2004 to shoot to the top of bestseller lists around the globe. Continued on. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Culture: Liars And Kidnappers  Dec 5, 2007
    The Catholic League, which is leading a boycott of the film, says what makes Pullman special "is that this 'atheist with a mission' has targeted children to spread his message." But in fact, the atheist nonfiction authors in vogue on bestseller lists lately have themselves advocated kidnapping the minds of children from their parents. In his book published this year, "god is not Great," atheist Christopher Hitchens (Peter's estranged brother) entitles an entire chapter "Is Religion Child Abuse?"... (Investors Business Daily)

    Author charged 'Da Vinci Code' was plagiarized  Dec 1, 2007
    The prominent court case sent "Holy Blood" back up the bestseller lists, but Baigent and Leigh were left with a bill estimated at almost $6. 2 million after Smith ordered them to pay 85% of Random House's legal costs. (Los Angeles Times)

    Author who sued Dan Brown dies  Nov 30, 2007
    The high-profile case sent Holy Blood back up the bestseller lists, but Baigent and Leigh were left with a bill estimated at almost 3m after the judge ordered them to pay 85% of Random House's legal costs. "We lost on the letter of the law. I think we won on the spirit of the law, to that extent we feel vindicated," Leigh said after the verdict. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    More than just fun and games  Nov 30, 2007
    Serious games are now beginning to find their way into stores and onto the bestseller lists. One timely example is the recently released My Word Coach from Ubisoft, a game publisher and developer with a large studio operation in Montreal. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)

    Writer hits the film jackpot  Nov 30, 2007
    Dennis Lehane has become a mainstay on bestseller lists with his Boston-set crime fiction. So count Dennis Lehane among the doubly fortunate few. (CNN -- Showbiz)

    An e-book reader that just might catch on  Nov 23, 2007
    The Kindle store offers bestseller lists, Most Popular lists and a Search box. The catalogue includes 90,000 books so far, including 101 of the 112 current New York Times best-sellers. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)

    Ireland: Peter Cameron  Nov 23, 2007
    My last two books -- "The City of Your Final Destination" and "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You" -- have both been on the bestseller lists there. It is, of course, extremely gratifying when so many people respond to and value one's work. (Zmag.org)

    Mulroney plans book on fracas, publisher says  Nov 14, 2007
    The Mulroney book has been on the national bestseller lists for eight consecutive weeks, including two consecutive weeks, Sept. 22 and 29, at No. 1 on The Globe and Mail charts. M & S reportedly printed 50,000 copies for its initial run and yesterday the company confirmed it has since reprinted the book twice to bring its total print run to just over 70,000. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Mad about the boy  Nov 10, 2007
    It was like male monkeys presenting rumps to their superiors (This was also a time when Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape and its sequels were topping international bestseller lists). The only difference was that these human apes had taken this universal gesture of sexual domination a little further than their primate cousins. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    "Survivor" All-Stars Ready for Battle  Nov 8, 2007
    Nov. 08, 2007 4:50 a.m. PT. Paste the code below into your fave news reader. (Yahoo News -- Survivor)

    Comic chameleons rewrite the book  Nov 3, 2007
    Their books have some hilarious passages, and both should sell well (Colbert's already has shot to No. 1 on most bestseller lists). The problem is that the material created for TV and film just doesn't play as well on the printed page. (Variety)

    United States  Nov 3, 2007
    The book remained on the bestseller lists for weeks. Rhett Butler's People is further testimony, as if any were needed, to the hold Mitchell's novel has on the popular imagination. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Why every woman needs a guy like this  Nov 1, 2007
    Since it was published three years ago, He's Just Not That Into You has sold more than three million copies, and earned the No. 1 slot on bestseller lists worldwide, including that of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It also boosted the American comic's profile to a whole new level. (Globe and Mail)

    Controversy Mounts Over 'Golden Compass'  Oct 30, 2007
    The series has soared to the top of bestseller lists in the U.K. and other countries but has not caught on in the United States. The Catholic League has mounted a PR campaign against the movie after researching Pullman's own writings about his series. (Fox News)

    Cookbook is health risk, says nutritionist  Oct 30, 2007
    Her traditional recipes - complete with bacon and egg pie; tablet, a sweet made from sugar and condensed milk; and Forfar bridies heavy in suet - have been published for the first time, hitting the top three in Scotland's bestseller lists. It is an imagined version of Maw Broon's famous recipe book, complete with food stains, annotations, newer recipes clipped from make-believe newspapers and cheeky cartoons scribbled in by the young Broons - the Twins and the Bairn. (Guardian Unlimited)

    ‘In the dark is where you find the light'  Oct 27, 2007
    It feels good to have beaten the cynics who resented a first novel staying on the bestseller lists for so long. I do have to say, the publishing world is a vengeful, nasty little place. She laughs, and there is a sense of nerves being shaken off. (Globe and Mail)

    Is she for real?  Oct 27, 2007
    Thanks to Montel, Sylvia Browne's books - such as Adventures Of A Psychic - are forever on the bestseller lists. She is the queen of psychics, but there are scores of pretenders out there. (Guardian Unlimited)

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