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Gordon Hauptfleisch

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• The Early Word Holiday Edition: New Christmas Books 2009

  A select dozen new Christmas-themed books, including Augusten Burroughs, Garrison Keillor, Wally Lamb, Trixie Koontz, Linda Lael Miller, Anne Perry, Heather Graham...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 20, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 16, 2009

  'Going Rogue'; The following book's sales may Palin comparison: Patterson, Cussler, Eco, 'Alex Rider', Nabokov, Armstrong, 'The Immortals' 'Battle for America 2008'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 17, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 9, 2009

  King, Coonts, Bond, Niven, Howard, Rutherford, Poyer, Hart, Finch; Agassi, Carlin, Scalia, Zadie Smith, Led Zeppelin, 'Miracle on the Hudson', 'Biggest Loser' 'Flow', 'Elephant Whisperer'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 09, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 2, 2009

  Woodrow Wilson, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Obama, Roy Williams, Abigail Adams, Karr, 'The Onion', 'Patton, Montgomery, Rommel'; Grisham, Kingsolver, Robb, Shaara, Sandra Brown, Briggs, Paolini...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 01, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 26, 2009

  Rand, Hulk, Queen Mum, Ocho Cinco, 'Little Women' Woman, 'Denialism', the Sports Guy; Irving, Rice, Baldacci, P.C. Cast, Charlaine Harris, Robert Jordan, Cody McFadyen, Rowland...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 26, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 19, 2009

  SuperFreakonomics, Keegan, Altman, Gladwell, Michael Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Timothy Keller, Sorkin, Rubens, 'Heidegger and a Hippo'; Cornwell, Steel, Vonnegut, Mayle, Johansen, Pamuk...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 20, 2009

• The Early Word (Fiction): New Books for the Week of October 5, 2009

  A.S. Byatt, Robert B. Parker, Charlaine Harris, Richard Paul Evans, Jonathan Kellerman, Melissa De La Cruz, Jeannette Walls, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Pratchett, Scott Westerfeld...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 04, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 28, 2009

  Nick Hornby, Janet Evanovich, John Sandford, Audrey Niffenegger, P.C. Cast; Patrick Swayze, Taylor Branch, Victoria Gotti, Barack Obama, Jerry Orbach, Edmund White, Anne Frank...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 28, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 21, 2009

  Ellroy, Atwood, Gabaldon, Ishiguro, Keillor, Paretsky, McCall Smith, Woods; Glenn Beck, Craig Ferguson, Karen Armstrong, Neil Sheehan, MacKenzie Phillips, Steve Hodel...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 22, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 14, 2009

  Dan Brown's long-awaited The Lost Symbol, third Joyce Carol Oates book of 2009, Lackey, Mitchard; Edward Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Krakauer, Luntz, 'Hawk and the Dove'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 13, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 7, 2009

  From Caligula to Kathy Griffin: Including Nicholas Sparks, R.J. Ellory, Jeff Lindsay, Patrick Ness; Hill Harper, Sue Monk Kidd, and Ann Kidd Taylor...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 07, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 31, 2009

  The Feel-Good Week of September: Tom Ridge: 'America under Siege'; Stephen Elliott's 'Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder'. Good times, good times...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 01, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 24, 2009

  Cash for Non-Clunkers Continues! Coben, Francis, Patterson, Kathy Reichs, Vampire Fic du jour; Kidder's memoir , Koontz's canine, 'Madoff's Other Secret', Marilyn's 'Secret Life'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 24, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 17, 2009

  'Soul of a Dog', 'Power of the Dog', 'If Einstein Had Been a Surfer'; Philippa Gregory, 'Star Wars', Karen Marie Moning, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 17, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 10, 2009

  Pat Conroy, Sandra Brown, Robin Cook, Nancy Grace, Faye Kellerman; 'The Life and Lies of Bernard Madoff', Alana Stewart's 'Journey with Farrah', 'The Sartorialist'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 10, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 3, 2009

  Thomas Pynchon, Richard Russo, W.E.B. Griffin, Margaret Weis&Tracy Hickman, Stephenie Meyer Special Edition, Sidney Sheldon (from beyond the grave); 'Bernanke's War', 'The Philosophical Baby'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 03, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 27, 2009

  Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire, James Patterson, Joyce Maynard, Teri Coyne; Teddy Roosevelt 'Wilderness Warrior', Carlene Bauer: A Memoir...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 27, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 13, 2009

  James Lee Burke, Steve Martini, Karin Slaughter, Stephen L. Carter, Elisabeth Hyde; The Romantic Generation and 'Terror of Science', 'Founding of Facebook', Jimmy Carter 'Malaise'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 13, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 6, 2009

  Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Greg Iles, David Liss, Vikas Swarup, Carolyn Haines; Bob Greene, 'Pill Head', 'Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 06, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 22, 2009

  Catastrophe by Dick Morris, Buzz Aldrin's memoir, Cooking Dirty, Slavery's Constitution; Janet Evanovich, James Rollins, Mary Kay Andrews, Fate of the Jedi, Madeleine Wickham...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 23, 2009