On Sale Next Week: Sebastian Junger and Plum Sykes

by Charlotte Abbot, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 4/10/2006

Junger and Sykes deliver two bookends for summer reading: an account of the Boston Strangler that gets an extra dose of creepiness from Junger’s family’s connection to the killer, and a frothy Manhattan husband-hunting novel from the author of Bergdorf Blondes.

April 17

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words by Robert Dallek and Terry Golway (Sourcebooks/MediaFusion, $29.95). 100,000 first print.

April 18

Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals: Great Dinners from the Pantry and Your Market’s Express Lane by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $18.95) 600,000 first print.

A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger (Norton, $23.95). 250,000 first print.

The Debutante Divorcée by Plum Sykes (Miramax, $23.95). 250,000 first print.

Blue Shoes and Happiness: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95). 250,000 first print.

Make Him Look Good by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (St. Martin’s, $22.95) 150,000 first print.

April 19

Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid by Joe Klein (Doubleday, $23.95). 100,000 first printing.

April 20

Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with the Man Who Led the Mossad by Efraim Halevy (St. Martin’s, $25). 125,000 first printing.

For a complete listing of major titles on sale between now and August, 2006, go to PW’s exclusive online calendar.

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