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Last week, booksellers throughout the area were bombarded by requests for Under the Heaven Tree, a memoir by William Bridges.
The only problem (for all of us) was that the book is a "print-on-demand" (POD) book. With no warning that the book would be splashed across the pages of the metropolitan daily, none of the local booksellers, chain or independent, was able to fill the demand.
Fortunately, we were able to get the book in a matter of days (Thursday), and have filled our customer back orders. But books by micro-publishers and POD books aren't marketed or promoted in a way that puts them on our radars.
That's scant excuse; we'd like to be able to anticipate your needs in advance, but we aren't mind-readers, tycoons, or partakers in a leisurely life of the mind. We're retailers.
I would be interested to know if any of the other local stores had the book in stock last Sunday morning when the C-J reviewed the book. FYI, we still have copies in stock. If you don't remember or didn't see the review, read it here for a limited time.
Judging it a fair use, I have saved the review in our store archives if the link expires.
Also last week, Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, was interviewed. Her future appearance with our friends at the Speed Art Museum hasn't had a noticeable impact on demand, but only because the book is a regular top seller here at Destinations. We almost always have the book on hand, but we recommend you call to have us put one aside for you if you want to pick this one up.
Read the C-J interview here.
Today's top review is of Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad. We have this book in stock, too. Read the review here.
Charles Barkley, Jane Fonda, and the late poet Donald Justice have received mention today and last week in the C-J's various book pages and we have those books available this week, too.
On NPR this morning:
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin. This imagining of a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes in retirement is creating a real stir among Holmes-o-philes and other lovers of creative mystery. We'll have it here on its release date of April 21.
In the New York Times Book Review today:
No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow Jr. (due Tuesday)
Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Eavesdropping by Patrick Radden Keefe (in stock)
Towelhead by Alicia Erian
Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
Highway 61 Resurfaced by Bill Fitzhugh
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block
Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shrevelow
Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff (previously reviewed here)
A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell
The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power by Lance Morrow
Children's books:
Jungle Gym Jitters by Chuck Richards
Paisley by Maggie Smith
La La Rose by Satomi Ichikawa
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen by Jane Yolen
Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin
Shlemiel Crooks by Anna Olswanger
The Secret Seder by Doreen Rappaport
The Matzo Ball Boy by Lisa Shulman
Luna by Julia Anne Peters
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin
The Bremen Town Musicians: And Other Animal Tales From Grimm by Doris Orgel
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The Book Review alone is reason enough to buy the Sunday New York Times. The list of reviews above is just a fraction of what is offered each Sunday in the NYTBR. Add the New York Times Magazine, and the Sunday Times is indispensable reading. But call ahead if you want one. Supply is limited and we are the only outlet in Southern Indiana where you can get The New York Times, daily and Sunday. We always sell out.
The only problem (for all of us) was that the book is a "print-on-demand" (POD) book. With no warning that the book would be splashed across the pages of the metropolitan daily, none of the local booksellers, chain or independent, was able to fill the demand.
Fortunately, we were able to get the book in a matter of days (Thursday), and have filled our customer back orders. But books by micro-publishers and POD books aren't marketed or promoted in a way that puts them on our radars.
That's scant excuse; we'd like to be able to anticipate your needs in advance, but we aren't mind-readers, tycoons, or partakers in a leisurely life of the mind. We're retailers.
I would be interested to know if any of the other local stores had the book in stock last Sunday morning when the C-J reviewed the book. FYI, we still have copies in stock. If you don't remember or didn't see the review, read it here for a limited time.
Judging it a fair use, I have saved the review in our store archives if the link expires.
Also last week, Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, was interviewed. Her future appearance with our friends at the Speed Art Museum hasn't had a noticeable impact on demand, but only because the book is a regular top seller here at Destinations. We almost always have the book on hand, but we recommend you call to have us put one aside for you if you want to pick this one up.
Read the C-J interview here.
Today's top review is of Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad. We have this book in stock, too. Read the review here.
Charles Barkley, Jane Fonda, and the late poet Donald Justice have received mention today and last week in the C-J's various book pages and we have those books available this week, too.
On NPR this morning:
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin. This imagining of a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes in retirement is creating a real stir among Holmes-o-philes and other lovers of creative mystery. We'll have it here on its release date of April 21.
In the New York Times Book Review today:
No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow Jr. (due Tuesday)
Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Eavesdropping by Patrick Radden Keefe (in stock)
Towelhead by Alicia Erian
Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
Highway 61 Resurfaced by Bill Fitzhugh
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block
Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shrevelow
Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff (previously reviewed here)
A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell
The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power by Lance Morrow
Children's books:
Jungle Gym Jitters by Chuck Richards
Paisley by Maggie Smith
La La Rose by Satomi Ichikawa
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen by Jane Yolen
Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin
Shlemiel Crooks by Anna Olswanger
The Secret Seder by Doreen Rappaport
The Matzo Ball Boy by Lisa Shulman
Luna by Julia Anne Peters
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin
The Bremen Town Musicians: And Other Animal Tales From Grimm by Doris Orgel
_________________________
The Book Review alone is reason enough to buy the Sunday New York Times. The list of reviews above is just a fraction of what is offered each Sunday in the NYTBR. Add the New York Times Magazine, and the Sunday Times is indispensable reading. But call ahead if you want one. Supply is limited and we are the only outlet in Southern Indiana where you can get The New York Times, daily and Sunday. We always sell out.
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