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The New York Times Bestseller Highlights for the Week of August 23rd

Seven debuts on the New York Times bestseller list for the week of August 23rd: on the hardcover fiction list, Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (The Penguin Press) is #5, while The Traffickers by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam) is #7; The Battle for America, 2008 by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson (Viking) is #16 on the hardcover nonfiction list; Storm of Visions by Christina Dodd (Signet) is #5 on the mass market fiction list; The Reason for God by Timothy Keller (Riverhead) is #11 on the paperback nonfiction list; Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, edited by Leonard Maltin (Plume/ Signet) is #10 on the paperback advice, how-to, and miscellaneous list; and Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan (Philomel) is #6 on the children’s series list.

Here are more New York Times bestseller highlights:

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Attention bookclubs: We have SIX new reading group guides for our July titles.

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Reading Group Guide: The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin

Book: Paperback | ISBN 9781594483813 | 7/7/2009 | Riverhead | Add to Cart

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Reading Group Guide: Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird

Book: Hardcover | ISBN 9780670020973 | 7/9/2009 | Viking | Add to Cart

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Mike Rose is our guest blogger during the week of August 17th. If you have any questions for Mike Rose, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about The Mind at Work, Possible Lives, and Lives on the Boundary:

The Mind at Work

As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose's revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and electricians with their aesthetic and diagnostic acumen.  Rose, an educator who is himself the son of a waitress, explores the intellectual repertory of everyday workers and the terrible social cost of undervaluing the work they do. Deftly combining research, interviews, and personal history, this is one of those rare books that has the capacity both to shape public policy and to illuminate general readers.

Possible Lives

"This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."-The Los Angeles Times.

Penguin Books Online Digest, 8/10 - 8/14, 2009

AUTHOR Q&A

Q&A The Conversation Hill Harper (Gotham)

EXCERPT

EXCERPT Too Good to Be true Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio)

EXCERPT The Law of Nines Terry Goodkind (Putnam)

FEATURE 

FEATURE Learning to Breathe Alison Wright (Plume)

VIDEO 

VIDEO Reason for God Timothy Keller (Riverhead)