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Penguin Group USA's Weekly Update - 9/10

Mon, 09/10/2007

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Penguin Group (USA) Wins Four 2007 Quill Awards

The 2007 Quill Awards winners were announced on NBC's "Today Show" this morning and Penguin Group (USA) won four Quill Awards, in the following categories:

Romance
Angels Fall
Written by Nora Roberts (who also won the 2006 Quill Award in this category for Blue Smoke)
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons

History/Current Events/Politics

The Assault on Reason
Written by Al Gore
Published by The Penguin Press

Sports
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team
Written by Michael Weinreb
Published by Gotham Books

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)
Written by Patrick Rothfuss

View the the winners and other Penguin nominations.

The Quills Book of the Year winner will be announced at the Quill Awards at Lincoln Center on October 22. The Quill Awards television special airs Saturday, October 27, 2007 on NBC stations across the U.S.

To view the complete list of 2007 Quill Awards winners, go to: http://www.wnbc.com/thequills/index.html

An Ordinary Man Selected for Middle Tennessee State University Summer Reading

Paul Rusesabagina's autobiography, An Ordinary Man, was Middle Tennessee State University's 2007 Summer Reading Selection, where the book was read by over 6,000 individuals. The Summer Reading Program, created in 2002, aims to provide a unifying experience for entering freshmen, give them the opportunity to read and interact with acclaimed authors and affirm the importance of reading for a successful and fulfilling life. Sidney A. McPhee, president of MTSU, said: "For our university community to have the opportunity to hear Mr. Rusesabagina, an 'ordinary man' with an extraordinary heart, at our annual Convocation is a blessing indeed. This ceremony is an assemblage and a celebration of who we are as a university and what we can accomplish together, and I can think of few people who epitomize that spirit of determination - of one person whose choices can help change the world - than this good man."

My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen Nominated for Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award

My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes And Life Lessons (Home Hardcover, January 2007) by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo is a finalist in Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards in the category of best hardcover recipe book under $30. This is a prestigious, bi-annual, international award, and there are only a handful of United States finalists. Past award winners have included Martha Stewart, Jamie Oliver, and Antonio Carluccio. The winners will be announced in October.

The New York Times Bestseller Highlights for the Week of September 16th

Five new debuts for Penguin Group (USA) on The New York Times bestseller list for the week of September 16th: Dark Possession by Christine Feehan (Berkley) appears at #3 on the hardcover fiction list; Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb (Berkley) hits at #8 on the paperback fiction list; Silver Master by Jayne Castle (Jove) debuts at #10 on that same list; The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Penguin) is at #5 on the paperback nonfiction list; and finally, This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitan (Plume) appears at #15, also on the paperback nonfiction list.

In addition, Penguin Group (USA) once again holds two #1 positions for the seventh week in a row: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) continues at #1 on the hardcover fiction list in its fifteenth week; and on the paperback nonfiction list, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) extends its run at #1 to 18 weeks in a row in its 32nd overall week.

Here are more bestseller highlights for the week of September 16th:

The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury (Dutton) is at #12 on the hardcover fiction list in its second week, while The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva (G. P. Putnam's Sons) is at #15 in its sixth week.

On the paperback fiction list, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) is at #5 in its 130th week; while The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin) is at #11 in its 63rd week.

On the paperback nonfiction list, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) is at #8 in its 31st week.

In the young readers sector, Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor (Dial Books for Young Readers) holds at #4 on the children's chapter book list in its second week; while Hairspray by Tracey West (Price Stern Sloan) is at #10 on the children's paperback list in its sixth week.