New York Times Best-Sellers, February 25

The Kansas City Star
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Fiction:
1. Step on a Crack by James Patterson
2. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
3. Natural Born Charmers by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. High Profile by Robert B. Parker
5. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Nonfiction:
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
2. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
3. Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
4. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
5. Marley & Me by John Grogan

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous:
1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
3. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.
4. The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage by Laura C. Schlessinger
5. It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh

New York Times Best-Sellers, February 18

The Kansas City Star

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Fiction:
1. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
2. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
3. The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
4. Cross by James Patterson
5. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Nonfiction:
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
2. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
3. Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
4. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
5. Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous:
1. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
2. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.
3. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
4. The South Beach Heart Program by Arthur Agatston
5. Platinum Workout by LL Cool J and Dave Honig with Jeff O'Connell

Christine Feehan - Bestselling Author

The man in the shadows is handsome, strong, but there is something dark or scary about him. Is he watching me?... Who or what is he?

He is Carpathian, a race of shapshifters who have to ingest blood to live. If they turn to evil they become what they hunt, vampire.

Christine Feehan writes compelling stories that are suspenseful and full of romance. This is just one of the four series that Feehan writes.

1. Dark Series - Carpathians, or a blood sucking race
2. Leopard Series - shapeshift into large cats
3. GhostWalkers - humans with paranormal abilites (e.g. telekinesis)
4. Drake Sisters - magical sisters

Check out Christine Feehan's website for more information. http://www.christinefeehan.com/

March BestSeller Watch

Release dates from some of the blockbusters hitting the shelves this month:

March 1
The Watchman by Robert Crais

March 6
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

March 20
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier


from BookPage, February 2007

New York Times Best-Sellers, February 11

The Kansas City Star
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Fiction:
1. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
2. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
3. Cross by James Patterson
4. White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz
5. The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer

Nonfiction:
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
2. Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
3. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
4. Marley & Me by John Grogan
5. What a Party! by Terry McAuliffe with Steve Kettman

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous:
1. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
2. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.
3. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
4. Younger You by Eric R. Braverman
5. What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter

Kansas Poet Laureate, 2007-2009

Denise Low, a fifth-generation Kansan, will assume the post of Kansas poet laureate on July 1. Low is a poet, writer, and college professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. She grew up in Emporia, Kansas, and says "the freedom and wide-open spaces of her childhood defined her sensibilities and her verses."

Low's plan for her two-year term includes e-mailing a poem by a Kansas poet each week to libraries, schools and subscribers as well as have it published at kansaspoets.com, as state poetry site created by Jonathan Holden (our present poet laureate), and to create an Internet and print anthology of Kansas poets.

"Poetry holds our communities together and sustains or spirits," she writes in her blog, deniselow.blogspot.com. "It celebrates the land, and our loves, and it mourns our losses. Words create our ability to survive."

Source: Star Magazine, February 4, 2007

New York Times Best-Sellers, February 4

The Kansas City Star

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Fiction:
1. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
2. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
3. Cross by James Patterson
4. The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin
5. Exile by Richard North Patterson

Nonfiction:
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
2. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
3. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
4. Marley & Me by John Grogan
5. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous:
1. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
2. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.
3. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
4. The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage by Laura C. Schlessinger
5. Younger You by Eric R. Braverman