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BOOK
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September 26, 2006 |
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Alexander McCall Smith is coming
to Canada on Oct. 2 and 3 to promote his latest releases -- The
Right Attitude to Rain (Book Three in the Sunday
Philosophy Club series) and his contribution to The
Myths series, Dream
Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams (on-sale Oct. 10).
While here, he will tape syndicated radio's BookBits and
the Dini Petty Radio Show, CBC Radio's Definitely
Not the Opera and Writers & Co.
with Eleanor Wachtel, plus Bravo! TV's Writers’ Confessions.
If you can't wait until he gets to Canada, you can watch him
on CBS-TV's The Late Show with Craig Ferguson on
Sept. 28.
The
Right Attitude to Rain: Knopf Canada | Hardcover, 288 pages
| September 2006 | $29.95 | 978-0-676-97691-5 (0-676-97691-3)
Dream
Angus: Knopf Canada | Hardcover, 192 pages | October 2006
| : $25.00 | 978-0-676-97873-5 (0-676-97873-8) |
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Mary Lawson, author of
the newly released The
Other Side of the Bridge, as well as the bestselling
and award-winning Crow
Lake, will also be in Canada on Oct. 2 and 3. She
will be talking to the Canadian Press, BookBits, The
Globe and Mail, Toronto Star,
Bravo!'s Writers’ Confessions,
CBC Radio's Sunday Edition, plus
she's already spoken to CanWest News
Wire for a profile, as well as Elle
Canada and Wish magazines.
Knopf Canada | Hardcover, 368 pages | September
2006 | $34.95 | 978-0-676-97746-2 (0-676-97746-4) |
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The lovely Nigella Lawson will
be in Toronto on Sept. 29 to promote her new TV show, Nigella
Feasts (which airs on Food Network Canada in October) and
the paperback edition of her cookbook, Feast.
She will be appearing live on CTV's Canada
AM, taping The Gill Deacon Show on
CBC-TV, as well as doing interviews with The
Toronto Sun (nationally syndicated), The
Globe and Mail, Chatelaine Magazine,
the National Post, Hello
Magazine and the Toronto Star.
Knopf Canada | Trade Paperback, 480 pages
| September 2006 | $39.95 | 978-0-676-97413-3 (0-676-97413-9) |
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And speaking of lovely, Suzanne
Somers is coming to Canada on Oct. 3 and 4 to discuss her new book Ageless:
The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones (on-sale
Oct. 10). She will be appearing live on CTV's Canada
AM, as well as on ET Canada, Star!
Daily and Life Network's Three Takes,
with more media to be confirmed. In the US, she will be live
on The View and The
Today Show on Oct. 10, Martha and The
Early Show on Oct. 11 and Larry
King Live on Oct. 14.
Crown | Hardcover, 464 pages | October 2006
| $33.00 | 978-0-307-23724-8 (0-307-23724-9) |
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Things
I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert
Hughes went on sale on Sept. 19, and he will be
visiting Canada on Oct. 2. He is scheduled to do CBC Radio's Sunday
Edition and Writers & Co., The
Globe and Mail and BRAVO!
TV.
Knopf | Hardcover, 416 pages | September
2006 | $36.95 | 978-1-4000-4444-3 (1-4000-4444-8)
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Cancer
Vixen: A True Story, the graphic memoir by New
Yorker and Glamour cartoonist Marisa
Acocella Marchetto, goes on-sale on Sept. 26 and the
media is already lined up. The author will be on CBS-TV's The
Early Show on Sept. 27, plus reviews and interviews
will be in People Magazine, Harpers
Bazaar, O Magazine, W, Bon
Appetit, Vanity
Fair and Glamour.
Visit www.CancerVixen.com for
more information.
Knopf Canada | Hardcover, 224 pages |
September 2006 | $29.95 | 978-0-676-97824-7 |
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Canadian Media Hits:
- Watch for a review of The
Ruins by Scott Smith on www.canoe.ca
- Nora Ephron's I
Feel Bad About My Neck will be featured in
an upcoming article by Marion Kane for The
Toronto Star.
- The National Post is running
a profile of Irvine Welsh, discussing his
new novel, Bedroom
Secrets of the Master Chefs, on Sept. 26.
- Ron Rosenbaum, author of The
Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace
Coups, will be featured in The
Toronto Star.
- Terry Brooks, author of twenty-three international
bestsellers, is coming to Canada on Oct. 2 to promote his latest
book, Armageddon's
Children. He will be taping interviews with Space:
The Imagination Station and syndicated radio's BookBits.
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Marcello
di Cintio, author of Poets
and Pahlevans: A Journey into the Heart of Iran,
will tape syndicated radio's BookBits,
TSN's Off the Record and CBC
Radio syndication on Sept. 26 and 27.
Knopf Canada | Hardcover, 304 pages | August
2006 | $32.00 | 978-0-676-97732-5 (0-676-97732-4) |
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Morning
show/Late night TV round-up:
- Elizabeth
Edwards, author of Saving
Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers,
will be on Oprah on
Sept. 27, NBC's Today Show and Nightly
News on Oct. 2, NBC's Weekend
Today on Oct. 7 and ABC's The
View on Oct. 19
- Marisa
Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer
Vixen: A True Story, will be on CBS-TV's Early
Show on Sept. 27
- Jean
Chatzky, author of Make
Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome
Your Financial Fears Forever, will be on NBC's Today
Show on Sept. 27 and 28
- Daniel
Goleman, author of Social
Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships,
will be on ABC-TV's Good
Morning America on Sept. 27, NBC-TV's Weekend
Today on Oct. 8 and CNN's American
Morning on Oct. 9
- John
Robbins, author of Healthy
at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's
Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, will
be on CBS-TV's The Early
Show on Sept. 28
- Nora Eprhon, author of I
Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman,
will be live on Martha Stewart on
Sept. 29, Charlie Rose on
Oct. 9 and Comedy Central’s The
Colbert Report in November (exact date to come)
- Bill
O'Reilly, author of Culture
Warrior, will be on The
Tonight Show on Sept. 29, The
View on Oct. 17 and The
Today Show on Nov. 7
- Luann
Brizendine, M.D., author of The
Female Brain, was originally scheduled to
be on ABC’s 20/20 on
Aug. 4, but the feature has been postponed until Sept.
29, and has been expanded to two segments in a show on
gender differences
- Mark
Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., authors of Why
Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?, will be on
ABC’s 20/20 on
Sept. 29 and ABC-TV's Good
Morning America on Oct. 9 (back by popular
demand!)
- Jon Katz, author of A
Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life (on-sale
Sept. 26), will be on CBS-TV's The
Saturday Early Show on Sept. 30
- Pamela
Serure, author of Take
It to Heart: The Real Deal On Women and Heart Disease,
will be on NBC's Weekend
Today on Sept. 30
- Mark Halperin and John F. Harris,
authors of The
Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 (on-sale
Oct. 3), will be on PBS-TV's Charlie
Rose and ABC's Good Morning
America on Oct. 3 and MSNBC's Hardball on
Oct. 4
- Bill Buford, author
of Heat:
An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker,
and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany,
will be doing a live cooking demo with Mario Batali on
NBC's The
Today Show on Oct. 5
- Laura Stack, author
of Find
More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your
Life, and Feel Great About It, will be on
NBC-TV's Weekend
Today on Oct. 8
- Annie
Leibovitz, author of A
Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005 (on-sale
Oct. 3), will be on NBC-TV's Today
Show on Oct. 9, as well as CBS-TV's The
Late Show with David Letterman (air
date to come)
- Suzanne
Somers, author of Ageless:
The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones(on-sale
Oct. 10), will be on The
Today Show and The
View on Oct. 10 and The
Early Show on Oct. 11
- Karen DeYoung, author of Soldier:
The Life of Colin Powell (on-sale Oct. 10),
will be on ABC's Good
Morning America on Oct. 11
- Marc Eliot, author of Jimmy
Stewart: A Biography (on-sale Oct. 10), will
be on NBC's Weekend
Today on Oct. 14
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The Globe and Mail Book Section on September 23
contained reviews of:
A
Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (read
the review here)
Consumption by Kevin
Patterson (read the review here) |
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The New York Times Book Review on September
24 contained reviews of:
Creationists:
Selected Essays, 1993 - 2006 by E.L.
Doctorow (read the review here)
The
Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara
Pease and Allan Pease (read the review here)
Things
I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes (read
the review here)
The
Theocons: Secular America Under Siege by Damon
Linker (read the review here)
Plus, in the daily edition, click
here to read a review of Half
of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie and here to
read a review of The
Road by Cormac McCarthy. |
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MOVIE/TV
NEWS
Reality-TV creator Mark Burnett (Survivor)
is embarking on a new film adventure, buying feature film
rights to the children's fantasy book series The Secrets
of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. The first volume in
author Michael Scott's six-part series,
called The
Alchemyst, will be published by Random House
Children's Books in May, 2007.
Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Hardcover
| May 2007 | $21.99 | 978-0-385-73357-1 (0-385-73357-7)
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The trailer for the film version
of Eragon has
finally been released, and it looks great -- watch it here!
Based on the bestselling book by Christopher Paolini,
the film stars Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Sienna Guillory,
Djimon Hounsou, Robert Carlyle and newcomer Edward Speleers as
Eragon. The film opens Dec. 15.
We have several tie-in versions of the book
available on Oct. 24, including a trade
paperback, mass
market, and Mythic
Vision: The Making of the Movie Eragon. Visit the
official movie site at www.eragonmovie.com.
Trade
Paperback: Knopf Books for Young Readers | Trade Paperback,
528 pages | October 2006 | $14.50 | 978-0-375-84054-8 (0-375-84054-0)
Mass
Market: Laurel Leaf | Paperback, 768 pages | October 2006
| $9.99 | 978-0-440-23848-5 (0-440-23848-X)
Mythic
Vision: Knopf Books for Young Readers | Trade Paperback,
144 pages | October 2006 | $17.95 | 978-0-375-83917-7 (0-375-83917-8) |
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Ocean's
Thirteen writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien have
been hired to adapt Don Winslow's forthcoming
novel, The
Winter of Frankie Machine (on-sale Sept. 26),
for Paramount Pictures. Robert De Niro is attached to star
in the pic and is producing with partner Jane Rosenthal through
Tribeca Films. Winslow is also the author of The
Death and Life of Bobby Z.
Knopf | Hardcover, 320 pages | September 2006 | $29.95 | 978-1-4000-4498-6 (1-4000-4498-7) |
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