On Sale Next Week: Sandra Brown

Charlotte Abbott -- Publishers Weekly, 8/5/2008

Beginning when a TV reporter wakes up in bed next to a dead police detective, Sandra Brown’s latest thriller, Smoke Screen, “laces her dependable romantic fireworks with a solid action-filled plot, though readers should be prepared for a few stereotypes,” according to the PW review.

[c] = children’s titles
 = PW starred review

August 12

Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26.95; ISBN 978-1-4165-6306-8). 395,000 copies.

The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman (Morrow, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-06-122733-2). 250,000 copies.

[c] Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume, illus. by James Stevenson (Delacorte, $12.99; ISBN 978-0-385-73307-6). 250,000 copies.

The One-Life Solution by Dr. Henry Cloud (Collins, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-06-146642-7). 150,000 copies.

[c] Let’s Dance, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton (Random/Corey, $5.99; ISBN 978-0-375-84519-2). 150,000 copies.

[c] Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts by Dr. Ernest Drake, ed. by Dugald A. Steer, illus. by Helen Ward, et al. (Candlewick, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-7636-3940-2). 140,000 copies.

[c] Born to Read by Judy Sierra, illus. by Marc Brown (Knopf, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-375-84687-8). 125,000 copies.

[c] Duck and Goose, 1, 2, 3 by Tad Hills (Random/Schwartz & Wade, $6.99; ISBN 978-0-375-85621-1). 125,000 copies.

[c] The Dragon Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (Disney-Hyperion, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-1070-5). 100,000 copies.

[c] Tinker Bell Read-Aloud Storybook (Random/Disney, $8.99; ISBN 978-0-7364-2529-2). 100,000 copies.

The Walk-In by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo (Crown, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-307-39481-1). 75,000 copies.

August 13

Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-446-52787-3). 175,000 copies.

August 14

The Little Book by Seldon Edwards (Dutton, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95061-5).

Good People by Marcus Sakey (Dutton, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95084-4)

--With reporting by John Sellers

For a complete listing of major titles on sale between now and December 2008, go to PW’s exclusive online calendar.