Bestseller Watch - September

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

September 4
Giving by Bill Clinton

September 10
You've Been Warned by James Patterson

September 11
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

September 22
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham


from BookPage, September 2007

New York Times Best-Sellers, August 12

The Kansas City Star

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva.
3. The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
4. High Noon by Nora Roberts
5. The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke

Nonfiction
1. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
2. Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
3. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
4. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
5. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous
1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
3. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz et al.
4. The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
5. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Feriss

William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominees

6th - 8th Grade

2007-2008 Master List

• Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael Winerip
• Airball: My Life in Briefs by L.D. Harkrander
• Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson
• Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
• The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse by Audrey Coulombix
• The Naked Mole Rat Letters by Mary Amato
• On Etruscan Time by Tracy Barrett
• Out of Order by Betty Hicks
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
• The Sacrifice by Kathleeen Benner Duble
• Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
• Wing Nut by Mary Jane Auch

William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominees

3rd - 5th Grade

2007-2008 Master List

• A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin
• Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
• The Flag With Fifty-Six Stars: A Gift From the Survivors of Mauthausen by Susan Goldman Rubin
• The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey by Louise Borden
• Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven
• Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming
• The Missing Manatee by Cynthia DeFlice
• Moon Runner by Carolyn Marsden
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
• The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney
• Shanghai Messenger by Andrea Cheng
• Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo

New York Times Best-Sellers, August 5

Kansas City Star

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
3. High Noon by Nora Roberts
4. The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
5. Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

Nonfiction
1. Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
2. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
3. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
4. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
5. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Advice, how-to and miscellaneous
1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
3. The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
4. 21 Pounds in 21 Days by Roni DeLuz with James Hester
5. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Feriss