On Sale in March
by Charlotte Abbott -- Publishers Weekly, 2/12/2007
Hints of spring—and the buildup to Mother's Day— arrive next month, with big printings for Jodi Picoult and Maeve Binchy, and novels from Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Lethem. Elaine Pagels and Karen King weigh in on The Gospel of Judas and Jerome Groopman reveals How Doctors Think.For children, there's the sequel to Fancy Nancy and a first novel from Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Brian Selznick.
| MARCH 1 |
* 18r g8r by Lauren Myracle (Abrams/Amulet, $15.95). 200,000 copies.
* Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long, illus. by David Shannon (Harcourt, $16). 150,000 copies.
* *The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, $22.99). 100,000 copies.
* *The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (Little, Brown/Tingley, $16.99). 75,000 copies.
| MARCH 6 |
*Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26). 500,000 copies.
Whitehorn Woods by Maeve Binchy (Knopf, $25.95). 400,000 copies.
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham (Free Press, $30). 250,000 copies.
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's, $19.95). 225,000 copies.
A Far Country by Daniel Mason (Knopf, $24). 150,000 copies.
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King (Viking, $24.95). 150,000 copies.
*Entering the Castle:
An Inner Path to God and Your Soul by Caroline Myss (Free Press, $26). 125,000 copies.
When the Light Goes by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster, $24). 100,000 copies.
| MARCH 13 |
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins, $25.95). 350,000 copies.
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (HarperCollins, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
* Thanks to You by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton (HarperCollins/Julie Andrews Collection, $14.99). 150,000 copies.
*Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell (Random/Shaye Areheart, $23). 125,000 copies.
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
At Some Disputed Barricade by Anne Perry (Ballantine, $21.95).
| MARCH 19 |
*How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Houghton Mifflin, $26). 250,000 copies.
| MARCH 20 |
For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison (Morrow, $21.95). 150,000 copies.
The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot, as recounted by Jeffrey Archer with the assistance of Francis J. Moloney (St. Martin's, $19.95). 100,000 copies.
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (Dutton, $24.95).
* Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
| MARCH 27|
The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag (Bantam, $26). 325,000 copies.
* Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $16.99). 250,000 copies.
Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson (Kensington, $19.95). 250,000 copies.
* Septimus Heap, Book Three: Physik by Angie Sage (HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99). 200,000 copies.
* Pretty Little Liars #2 Flawless by Sara Shepard (HarperTeen, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
*The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
—with reporting by Raya Kuzyk and Joy Bean
* = PW starred review
* = Children's titles
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