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Now Read This III A Guide to Mainstream Fiction
Nancy Pearl and Sarah Statz Cords
ISBN: 1-59158-570-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-570-1
285 pages
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 4/30/2010
List Price: $60.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 4/30/2010)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Description: The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Wyatt's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contemporary, mainstream fiction titles according to their primary appeal features-character, setting, language, and story. It also notes award-winning titles and those appropriate for book clubs; and it offers users suggestions for related reads. Focus is on titles published since 2000, and all annotations are new to this volume. This is the standard readers' advisory guide to mainstream fiction, and an essential tool for readers' advisors.
About the Author: NANCY PEARL former Director of the Washington Center for the Book, is the author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, and of the forthcoming Book Crush, as well as Library Unlimited's Now Read This and Now Read This II. She is recipient Womens National Book Association Award, ALAs Allie Beth Martin Award, Washington (State) Humanities Award, and the Louis Shores Greenwood Publishing Group Award and she was named Library Journal's Fiction Reviewer of the Year.

SARAH STATZ CORDS works at the reference and circulation desks at Madison Public Library, Alicia Ashman Branch, Wisconsin and teaches Reading Interests of Adults at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is also a book reviewer for Bookslut.com, as well as the creator of www.storiesthataretrue.com, a Web site devoted to nonfiction book reviews and booklists. She previously worked as a Reference and Instruction academic librarian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and she is the author of Public Speaking Handbook for Librarians and Information Professionals (2003).
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