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Independent bookstores multiplying

NEW YORK — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It’s all so funny,” she says. “When I tell them I run the trade association for independent stores, they’ll say, ‘It’s just so sad that they’re disappearing.’ I don’t think they’re really keeping track, or they just know about a store that closed or heard about one closing.” The decline of physical bookstores remains so embedded in popular culture that the man dating Anne Hathaway’s character in “ The ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction 1. “The Ballad of Falling Dragons” by Sarah A. Parker (Avon) 2. “Ironwood” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 3. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. “A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman (Ace) 5. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 6. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 7. “26 Beauties” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 8. “Starside (deluxe ed.)” by Alex Aster (Avon) 9. “Broken Dove” by Dani Francis (Del Rey) 10. “The Kings’ List” by Jade Presley (Red ...

PEN gala raises $2M amid ban surge

NEW YORK — On a night otherwise dedicated to the endangered state of free expression, honoree Ann Patchett asked those gathered for PEN America’s annual gala to take a breath and consider the revelations held within the event’s setting — the American Museum of Natural History. “The ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction 1. “A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman (Ace) 2. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 3. “Broken Dove” by Dani Francis (Del Rey) 4. “The Fourth Option” by Carr/Woodward (Atria/Bestler) 5. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 6. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 7. “26 Beauties” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 8. “Fury Bound” by Sable Sorensen (Requited) 9. “The Last Mandarin” by Penny/Fung (Minotaur) 10. “Starside (deluxe ed.)” by Alex Aster (Avon) 11. “The ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction 1. “Fury Bound” by Sable Sorensen (Requited) 2. “26 Beauties” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 5. “Platform Decay” by Martha Wells (Tor) 6. “The Things We Never Say” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) 7. “Twisted (collector’s ed.)” by Emily McIntire (Bloom) 8. “Starside (deluxe ed.)” by Alex Aster (Avon) 9. “The Mother-Daughter Book Club” by Patterson/Patterson (Little, Brown) 10. “The Night We Met ...

Riordan to unveil new ‘Camp Half-Blood’ novels

NEW YORK — Starting this fall, fans of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” books can discover some adventures that took place at the demigod training facility Camp Half-Blood when Percy himself wasn’t around. Random House Children’s Books announced Tuesday that Riordan is collaborating with different co-authors on each of four “Camp Half-Blood” middle-grade novels set during the time between Riordan’s first two Percy books, “The Lightning Thief” and “The Sea of Monsters.” Since “The Lightning Thief” was published in 2005, Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” ...