hot new teen and j fiction downloads

Fresh today

Most of the print copies have hold queues, so point customers to these downloads.

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Carter Finally Gets It (unabridged)

Carter Finally Gets It

Brent Crawford, Nick Podehl

The Demigod Files (unabridged)

The Demigod files

coming May 12th

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, Book 6
Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein

The Forest of Hands and Teeth (unabridged)

coming May 12th

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan, Vane Millon

If I Stay (unabridged)

If I Stay

Gayle Forman, Kirsten Potter

The Last Olympian (unabridged)

The Last Olympian

coming May 12th

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, Book 5
Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein

The London Eye Mystery (unabridged)

The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd, Paul Chequer

The Secret Life of Prince Charming (unabridged)

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

coming May 1st

Deb Caletti, Jeannie Stith

The Soldiers of Halla (unabridged)

The Soldiers of Halla

coming May 12th

Pendragon Series, Book 10
D. J. MacHale, William Dufris

The Sorceress (unabridged)

The Sorceress

coming May 26th

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series, Book 3
Michael Scott, Paul Boehmer

Wintergirls (unabridged)

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson, Jeannie Stith

NEW! must read mystery downloads

Fresh today

Must Read Mysteries or, is that must listen since their audio books?   Anyway you know what I mean.  Enjoy

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Title	Author(s)
Stone’s Fall	Iain Pears
The 8th Confession	James Patterson
Women’s Murder Club Box Set, Volume 2	James Patterson
Women’s Murder Club Box Set, Volume 1	James Patterson
Endangered Species	Nevada Barr
Blood Lure	Nevada Barr
Borderline	Nevada Barr
Flashback	Nevada Barr
Hard Truth	Nevada Barr
High Country	Nevada Barr
Hunting Season	Nevada Barr
2 Bodies for the Price of 1	Stephanie Bond
3 Men and a Body	Stephanie Bond
4 Bodies and a Funeral	Stephanie Bond
5 Bodies to Die For	Stephanie Bond
6 Killer Bodies	Stephanie Bond
Body Movers	Stephanie Bond
Hot Mahogany	Stuart Woods
Loitering With Intent	Stuart Woods
The Long Fall	Walter Mosley

drum roll please…

for the 2008 Nebulas in which a young adult novel takes the top prize – congrats Ursula Le Guin!

2008 Nebula Awards

Best Novel: “Powers” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Novella: “The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro
Best Novelette: “Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel
Best Short Story: “Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Script: WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Andre Norton Award: Flora’s  Dare:  How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Solstice Award: Kate Wilhelm, A.J. Budrys and Martin H. Greenberg.

SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss

Bradbury Award: Joss Whedon

Grand Master Award: Harry Harrison

Author Emerita: M.J. Engh

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the LA Times book prizes handed out

Biography
Paula J. Giddings, “Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching” (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Current Interest
Barton Gellman, “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency“
(The Penguin Press)

Fiction
Marilynne Robinson, “Home” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Zoë Ferraris, “Finding Nouf” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

History
Mark Mazower, “Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe”
(The Penguin Press)

Mystery/Thriller
Michael Koryta, “Envy the Night” (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Poetry
Frank Bidart, “Watching the Spring Festival: Poems”
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Science and Technology
Leonard Susskind, “The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics” (Little, Brown and Co.)

Young Adult Literature
Terry Pratchett, “Nation” (HarperCollins)

more details available here.

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author rumble

thriller authors on the other side of the pond, Jeffrey Archer, Matt Lynn, Martin Baker, and Alan Clements, want to take on the American “production-line” authors who churn out the page-turners.  calling themselves the “Curzon group,” their intention is to restore the prestige of the British thriller in the face of books written by John Grisham, James Patterson, and Dan Brown with Archer claiming that “we [the Brits] are better at it than anyone else in the world.”  humble much?

(via bookshelves of doom)

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Toxic Lead Levels in Children’s Books found by Kiro TV

KIRO TV states that they are certain that “children’s books at your local library contain toxic levels of lead” in Toxic Lead Levels Found in Children’s Library Books.

They checked out some older books from Seattle Public Library’s main branch and had them tested by a lab.

The lab report shows 546 parts per million of lead in a book called Poems of Childhood. Another report shows 456 parts per million in a book entitled Japanese Children’s Stories. We picked up both inside the assigned children’s section inside Seattle’s main downtown library.

Kiro also states that they know that the 18 books they checked out isn’t large enough to qualify as a real study, but they feel that their findings could be significant.

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The Lost Symbol hasn’t even been published…

Columbia Pictures is preparing for the release of “Angels and Demons” based on the book by the same name by Dan Brown on May 15th.  Brown’s next book about Robert Landgon has been announced for publication on September 15th.  Variety writes that the studio is getting the ball rolling for the third “Da Vinci” picture.

(via Shelf Awareness)

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Trade paperbacks thrive in our current economy

A growing number of authors are being published in trade paperback rather than hardcover.  USA Today writes that the cheaper format is a smarter business model during our current economy.

“If we want to appeal to a twentysomething audience, we have to do it at an affordable price,” says Carrie Kania of HarperPerennial, which will publish a record 100 or so paperback originals this year. “And a trade paperback is the price of a new CD.”

Paperbacks are a way to get people to try something new.

(via Shelf Awareness)

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Dan Brown – at last!

Publication of Dan Brown’s long-awaited new novel was announced this morning. The Lost Symbol will be available in September. The order record should appear in the Sno-Isle catalog later today so holds can be placed. This book was originally to be titled The Solomon Key.

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Pulitzer Prize announced

April 20th, 2009 By: Nora Rawlinson

Pulitzer Prize Winners

The winners in Letters, Drama and Music are:

Fiction – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage

History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)

Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)

Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)

General Nonfiction – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)

Music – Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes)

For further information and the journalism winners go to http://www.pulitzer.org/

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