Topic: Tom Perrotta
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Bestselling books the week of 1/3/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 12/20/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 11/8/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 10/18/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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HBO makes great TV from books
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Bestselling books the week of 1/3/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 12/20/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 11/8/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 10/18/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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HBO makes great TV from books
How do you compress a complicated novel into a two-hour, cinema-friendly format? The answer, most often, is: you can't. A better solution for many authors is to have their books turned into HBO series. The end result is often an in-depth adaptation – with story and characters intact – that would have been impossible get at the multiplex. Here are some of the best-known books that have been turned into successful HBO series – with many more to come.
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Bestselling books the week of 9/29/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 9/22/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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3 of the most-talked-about September novels
In this month's roundup, three acclaimed writers approach the modern problem of isolation in three very different ways.
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Bestselling books the week of 9/15/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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2 debut novels worth drooling over
This fall is crowded with new releases from literary heavyweights from Tom Perrotta and Jeffrey Eugenides to Joan Didion and Haruki Marukami. But it also offers two new names worth searching out: Erin Morgenstern and Chad Harbach, both of whose debut novels offer readers a chance to dive into fully realized worlds. In one, it’s a 19th-century traveling circus that’s open only at night; in the other, it’s a Midwestern baseball field. Both novels feature protagonists who are the very best at what they do. (Morgenstern and Harbach are no slouches, either.)
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Bestselling books the week of 9/9/11, according to IndieBound
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America
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Fall books: 12 fiction titles you don't want to miss
From Ireland to India, and from the year AD 73 to the possible end of the world, here are 12 of the most enticing of the fall 2011 fiction titles.
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Tom Perrotta talks about "The Leftovers"
"The Rapture is ... a surprisingly rich metaphor for growing older and living with loss," says Perrotta of the end-time theme in "The Leftovers."
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Author Tom Perrotta working on new HBO series
The series, based on his novel, "The Leftovers," about a small town post-Rapture, may just fill that creepy small town-shaped hole that "Twin Peaks" left behind.
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9 best books of August: Amazon editors' favorite picks
Some of this summer's most interesting books will pull at your heartstrings and pull you across time and space – from Beijing today to 1930s Manhattan to planet Earth in the year 2044. And that's just for starters. Here are nine of the August 2011 titles that are drawing the most enthusiastic thumbs-up from the editors at Amazon.com.
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