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Remnants of her blue-collar childhood? Maybe. But Evanovich can well afford to be out of the loop, since her eight crime novels--the first of which she published when she was 51--have made her a top national seller in the genre. In its first week of publication, her latest, Hard Eight, jumped to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list...
...record-size wildfires blaze across the west and workers clear the last pieces of debris from the World Trade Center site, readers with no more courage than it takes to drive to Barnes & Noble are snapping up the many new firefighter books on store shelves and best-seller lists. The current crop precedes what will be a glut of 9/11-anniversary-pegged books this fall, including former New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen's memoir and a history of his department. It's clear firefighters are hot. The simmering question: Will enough vicarious heroes buy books to sustain the trend...
...Reaching No. 5 on the New York Times best-seller list, Firehouse has earned the finest reviews of the bunch and is selling well, despite the melancholy subject...
...Hideki leaves, it's a tragedy," says Jun Ikushima, a Tokyo reporter and co-author with Seattle Mariners reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa of the book My Way to Study English, which became a best seller in Japan. "Hideki's the best player in Japan now, and the Giants are the symbol of Japanese baseball. It's bigger than Ichiro leaving. We depend on Hideki for so much?his popularity, his dynamism?that if he goes, I can't imagine what will happen. I will feel emptiness. It will be the beginning of the destruction of Japanese baseball...
...about five with a dirty razor blade. It saw her through her desert escape and the vagaries of a frenetic life on the international modeling circuit. Dirie wrote about all this in Desert Flower, her 1998 autobiography, which topped the British, German (1.75 million copies) and Dutch best-seller lists. In Desert Dawn, which was written with Jeanne D'Haem and first published in Germany a few months ago, she tells of her horrific journey last year to find her mother, who lives in a village in her poverty-stricken homeland. Dirie found spiritual nourishment in her family's courage...