On Sale Next Week: The Lace Reader
By Charlotte Abbott -- Publishers Weekly, 7/22/2008 6:21:00 AM
When Brunonia Barry’s debut The Lace Reader was self-published last year, a starred PW review and a bookseller buzz campaign helped it pop in the market--and land a $2 million republication deal with Morrow. Then the pub date was pushed up to next week, after editor Laurie Chittenden appeared on the BEA Editor's Buzz Panel, and talked up this novel about Salem, Massachussetts women who divine the future through lace.
[c] = children’s titles
= PW starred review
JULY 29
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (Morrow, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-06-162476-6). 250,000 copies.
Know Your Power: A Message To America's Daughter by Nancy Pelosi with Amy Hill Hearth (Doubleday, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-385-52586-2). 200,000 copies.
[star] Fractured by Karin Slaughter (Bantam, $25; ISBN 978-0-385-34195-0). 140,000 copies.
[c] Madam President by Lane Smith (Disney-Hyperion, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-0846-7). 150,000 copies.
[c] Cinderella’s Fairy-Tale Wedding by Lisa Ann Marsoli (Disney Press, $15.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-0919-8). 125,000 copies.
[c] Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell’s Tea Party by Lara Bergen (Disney Press, $14.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-0949-5). 125,000 copies.
[c] Baby Einstein: Touch and Feel Neighborhood Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark, illus. by Nadeem Zaidi (Disney Press, $6.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-0997-6). 100,000 copies.
August 1
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy (Grand Central/Twelve, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-446-58095-3).
--With reporting by John Sellers
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