In other news Paul Shaffer, the band leader on David Letterman, has published a memoir titled, "We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives : A Swingin' Show-biz Saga". This book covers his life growing up and of course his life in music and television, but the book really is about the music. It is now available for purchase on Amazon.com in Hardback edition ($15.21), Kindel edition ($9.99) and Unabridged Audio CD ($39.50).
Stephen King will have a new book released on Novemeber 10, 2009 titled, "Under the Dome: A Novel". It is available on Amazon.com for pre-order for the price of $9.00, now that is a deal! It's also avaiable for the Kindle for $9.00 and the audio CD (unabridged) for $26.39.
This is the synpopsis of the book:
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when--or if--it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens--town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing--even murder--to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
James Patterson is releasing "I, Alex Cross" on Novemmeber 16, 2009. It is a murder mystery of sorts. It is avaiable for pre-order through Amazon.com Harcover price is $9.00, Kindle verison is also $9.00, and the ABRIDGED Audio CD is $16.49.
You can't run
Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
Alex Cross is your only hope to stay aliveYou can't hide
The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain--they will do anything to keep their secrets safe.
As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could rock the entire world. With the unstoppable action, unforeseeable twists, and edge-of-your-seat suspense that only a James Patterson thriller delivers, I, Alex Cross is the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.
"The Original of Laura" by Vladimir Nabokov is being released on November 17, 2009. This book intrigues me not only as a writer, but also as a reader and as a person who has a large family. It is avaiable for pre-order on Amazon.com for the price of $23.10, and it is only avaiable in Hardback. I forsee myself making this book one of my purchases in the near future. The description follows.
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative—dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality—affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.
About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His acclaimed works of fiction include Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire, among others. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
This year has been an amazingly frustrating year for book publishers and writers alike due to the fact that people are having less money to spend on lesiure books. For christmas this year give the gift of a book, or audio CD. By purchasing new books not only do you support your favorite authors but also give the book industry a much needed boost. With the economy still being low publishers are not accepting NEW WRITERS as much as they used to and many brilliant manuscripts are being turned away due to the fact that a new author is seen as a RISK. So if your like me and are looking for that new author that will make your heart race as you read their book we need to show our support of the industry so that the publishers will be willing to take those risks again.
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