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From page 69 of McCafferty’s second novel: “Throughout this conversation, Manda acted like she couldn’t have been more bored. She lazily skimmed her new paperback copy of Reviving Ophelia—she must have read the old one down to shreds. She just stood there, popping another piece of Doublemint, or reapplying her lip gloss, or slapping her ever-present pack of Virginia Slims against her palm. (Insert oral fixation jokes, here, here and here.) Her hair—usually dishwater brown and wavy—had been straightened and bleached...
...week sees the re-appearance of another, less world-historical but still woefully forgotten "missing link" in the evolution of the graphic novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream appreciation, it remains, even 15 years later, a benchmark against which others in the genre can be measured...
...publishing luncheons and the morning talk-show circuit. But radio and TV host Tavis Smiley, editor of The Covenant with Black America--a manifesto by prominent African-Americans, including former Surgeon General David Satcher and Princeton professor Cornel West, that will reach No. 1 on next week's nonfiction paperback list--just went to church. Published in February by the small black-owned Third World Press, the Covenant has sold 250,000 copies, many on Smiley's barnstorming tour of African-American congregations around the U.S. Each revival-like meeting has drawn hundreds--in some cities, thousands--with many...
...book they can't keep their hands off is Spotless, a guide to household cleaning - and an unexpected blockbuster. Launched in December with a modest first print run of 12,000, the paperback compendium of "solutions to domestic disasters" has been reprinted 10 times and sold 138,000 copies; according to Nielsen BookScan, it's spent 15 weeks on the Top 10 bestsellers list, three of them at No. 1. "It's our best-selling title ever," says Jane Finemore, of publisher ABC Books. "Other titles have sold more than 100,000 copies, but over several months or years...
Whatever carnal combination you choose, the possibilities for sex discussion are endless. Indeed, the 252 pages of Jane Bogart’s newly released paperback, “Sexploration: The Ultimate Guide to Feeling Truly Great in Bed,” attest to that fact...