Bestselling Books: Weekly Bestsellers in North America dated April 5 2008
The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to [...]
April 8th, 2008 | Posted in Bestselling Books, English Bestsellers, Graphic Novels, comic strips, comics retailers, publishing houses | 4 Comments
Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Bestseller - Wonder Bread and Curry: Mingled Cultures, Conflicted Hearts
Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither: too used to freedom to accept the rituals and conventions of home, and yet too steeped in tradition to [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Bestselling Books, English Bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize-winning collection | 8 Comments
Bestselling Books: Passion throws me in a loss
It had been an innocent boyhood hobby, but when, in his forties, Simon Garfield rediscovered stamp-collecting, it spiralled into an obsession that went beyond the usual midlife search for meaning. It was costing him thousands and signalled the end of a marriage already collapsing under the strain of [...]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in Bestselling Books, English Bestsellers, Passion Love, Western Art, Western Culture | 3 Comments