BestSellers
Fri, 18 May 2012 23:51:17 -0700
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, April 21, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
Brad Meltzer’s inspiring lives; John Grisham and baseball; a Secret Service agent’s Kennedy detail
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:00:00 -0700
After some (slightly serious) technical glitches, here at last are the bestseller lists for April 22 .... No surprise that Grisham’s latest (non-thriller) novel nabs the top spot in new fiction ... while in nonfiction, the lovely Giada De Laurentiis is trumped by another thriller writer, Brad Meltzer, with yet another non-thriller entry — “Heroes for My Daughter” is the inspirational follow-up ...
St. Louis woman assists elderly, learns from her own life
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:00:00 -0700
Jeannie Krause-Taylor, 59, social worker, educator and founder of Pathways for Aging, 745 Craig Road in Creve Coeur. The company provides counseling for older adults, care management for families with aging parents and coaching for adult children.
Recipe for a bestselling book
Tue, 01 May 2012 14:17:36 -0700
Remember the time you picked up a copy of that big bestseller and tore through the book in a couple of days, marveling at the bad writing, ridiculous plot twists and paper-thin characters? "Is drivel all it takes to sell a gazillion copies and retire to a sleekly spacious modern house in the woods?" you probably asked yourself. "I could crank out better crap than this! How hard can it be?" The ...
In Springfield, a challenge to the status quo
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:16:30 -0700
SPRINGFIELD — Faced with an incumbent who generally feels the same way as she does about city issues, challenger Denise Bean hopes that distinguishing her leadership style from Mayor Christine Lundberg’s will be enough to give Springfield its first competitive mayoral race since the 1990s. Bean, the 46-year-old owner of …
Leadership styles offer contrast for Springfield mayor candidates
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:16:40 -0700
SPRINGFIELD — Faced with an incumbent who generally feels the same way as she does about city issues, challenger Denise Bean hopes that distinguishing her leadership style from Mayor Christine Lundberg’s will be enough to give Springfield its first competitive mayoral race since the 1990s. Bean, the 46-year-old owner of …