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Or get it from an independent bookstore in your waters via Booksense.com

The Whaling News

reported by Gus Openshaw

Tuesday, 18 April 2006

GOWKJ a Bestseller


From The Birmingham News April 16, 2006:

Hardcover:

1. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog"by John Grogan, (William Morrow, $21.95)

2. "Two Little Girls in Blue" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)

3. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

4. "Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal" by Keith Thompson (McAdam/Cage, $19)

5. "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $24.95)

6. "The Tenth Circle" by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26)

7. "His Lovely Wife" by Elizabeth Dewberry (Harcourt, $24)

8. "Prior Bad Acts" by Tami Hoag (Bantam, $26)

9. "French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano (Knopf, $26)

10. "The 5th Horseman"by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)


Posted by Gus Openshaw at 9:03 PM EDT
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Monday, 3 April 2006

"GOWKJ" Book Signings Preliminary Schedule


How to get all the excitement of a whale hunt without setting foot on a deck, and with none of the whale-killing stench:

Date/Time: 4/7, 4pm
Location:Birmingham, AL
Venue/Details: The Alabama Booksmith

Date/Time: 4/25, 7pm
Location:Jefferson Parish Library
Venue/Details: Metairie, LA

Date/Time: 4/26, 5pm
Location:Jackson, MS
Venue/Details: Lemuria Books

Date/Time: 4/27, 5:30pm
Location:Oxford, MS
Venue/Details: Square Books & Thacker Mountain Radio Show

Date/Time: 6/3, 1-3pm
Location:Port Washington, WI
Venue/Details: Port Washington Pirate Festival


Posted by Gus Openshaw at 9:13 PM EDT
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