Top 25: What corporate America is reading, October 2008
McClatchy Newspapers
11/6/2008
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - 800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for October 2008, plus descriptions of the Top 10. 1. ...
John Lennon bio uncovers his seamy side
McClatchy Newspapers
10/29/2008, by Glenn Garvin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "John Lennon: The Life," by Philip Norman (822 pages, $34.95) Everybody from Bill Clinton to Fidel Castro loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of "Imagine":" Imagine there's no countries/It isn't hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion, too." ...
With 'Driftless,' Rhodes finds his way back to rural Wisconsin
McClatchy Newspapers
10/28/2008, by Geeta Sharma Jensen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - The road to novelist David Rhodes' farmhouse in southwestern Wisconsin meanders through some of the most beautiful countryside anywhere. Spruce and aspen grow thick, and the rolling hills offer spectacular views of lush grasslands ribboned with twisting streams. ...
`The Jewel of Medina,' isn't as incendiary as furor might indicate
McClatchy Newspapers
10/28/2008, by Carlin Romano
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "The Jewel of Medina," By Sherry Jones; Beaufort Books ($24.95) "The Jewel of Medina," Sherry Jones' hot-potato novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child-bride Aisha, comes not from a field of spuds, but a Mideast quarry some consider bedrock-hard in its ...
`What Happened to Anna K.,' recasts `Anna Karenina' with skill, resonance
McClatchy Newspapers
10/28/2008, by Carlin Romano
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "What Happened to Anna K.," by Irina Reyn; Touchstone ($24) Poor Anna K. She "frittered her twenties away, dating schmucks who were always leaving the country, men who could barely pay for themselves, who wore frayed T-shirts to fancy restaurants."
Swept up by ...
Do You Believe? Reviewing
Catholic Online
10/20/2008, by Julie Davis
Justin Catanos discovered that he is actually related to an honest-to-goodness, canonized Catholic saint. This begins a journey that takes him not only to a discovery of family and heritage, but also on the exploration of a faith that had long fallen by the wayside. "Tell me about the miracles," ...
‘The Field Guide to Cookies' is one sweet read
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "The Field Guide to Cookies" by Anita Chu; Quirk Press ($15.95) Why buy another cookbook on baking cookies? What makes the "Field Guide to Cookies" stand out? The scope and size of this tiny book lift it out of the norm.
After collecting recipes from all over the ...
Looking back into the crystal ball
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Diane Evans
DelMio.com (MCT) - When author and social forecaster John Naisbitt released his famous "Megatrends" in 1982, it was as if it became must reading because people understood he was on to something. What else would explain why the book became one of the biggest successes in publishing history, with ...
Poetry Foundation names children's laureate, humor winner
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Charles Storch
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - "When I grow up," begins a poem by Mary Ann Hoberman, "I want to be/A grown-up who remembers me/And what it felt like to be small. ..." Hoberman is that kind of grown-up. Now at age 78 and a grandmother, she claims a vivid recall of her young childhood in Connecticut. Her ...
Get under the covers ... with a good book
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Allen Pierleoni
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - If the summer reading season lacked focus, the fall season is about to bring a landslide of much-anticipated books by A-list authors. No surprise there. In the $23 billion book industry, fall is when the publishing houses release titles written by their most prestigious ...
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