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- Tick Tock by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
- Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
- Andrew Johnson by Annette Gordon-Reed, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family by Mara Shalhoup
- Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
- My Father at 100 by Ron Reagan

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Over on NewWest.net, she has an interview with the Austin-based author David E. Hilton, wherein he offers details about his West Texas upbringing, how his agent changed his book, and this tidbit, which is a lesson to writers who are picky about their surroundings:

Claridge is writing about Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who lived in Dallas until his death in 2009 (read about him here.) Borlaug was awarded the Nobel in 1970 for his contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing agricultural innovations to the developing world, saving perhaps 1 billion lives in the process.

Claridge says she is looking for "those priceless tidbits of info townspeople tend to believe are too inconsequential to matter." Such moments tell volumes, she told me in an e-mail.

- The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
- The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
- The Angel Therapy Handbook by Doreen Virtue
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
- An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- The Lo-Down by Lo Bosworth
- Gideon's War by Howard Gordon

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The legendary writer will appear at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 7700 W. Northwest Highway. Updated details were just released, and I have them after the jump.

Publishers Weekly reports that his book, Decision Points, was the top-selling adult nonfiction book of 2010, with 1,649,000 copies. He also topped the audio best-sellers list, with 83,000 copies.

The top fiction seller was everybody's favorite deceased Swede, Stieg Larsson, who sold 2.1 million copies of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Plus 1.4 million copies of The Girl Who Played With Fire. Plus 1.4 million copies of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer." He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those "which people praise and don't read."

Not everyone agrees with the alteration:

Another Twain scholar, professor Stephen Railton at the University of Virginia, said Gribben was well respected, but called the new version "a terrible idea."

The language depicts America's past, Railton said, and the revised book was not being true to the period in which Twain was writing. Railton has an unaltered version of "Huck Finn" coming out later this year that includes context for schools to explore racism and slavery in the book.

Read the rest of the story here and tell us: Do you agree with the decision to alter these literary classics?

She notes:

The family-owned chain of 110 used bookstores, with annual sales of more than $220 million, just launched its company-branded online shopping site and expects to soon sell electronic books.

Live since Thursday, www.hpbmarketplace.com offers 120 million titles sold through Half Price Books and other independent booksellers.

- Damage by John Lescroart
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- A Shore Thing by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
- The Bloodlust (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #2) by L. J. Smith, Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec
- NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- Fang by James Patterson
- Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga by Greg Bear

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- What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz
- Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan
- Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz
- Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
- Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
- Star Wars: Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber

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- The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
- The Complete Book of Mustang: Every Model Since 1964-1/2 by Mike Mueller
- Sundome by Kazuto Okada
- Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins

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Unfortunately, the store has announced on its website that it is closing its physical location and becoming an online-only presence as of Sunday.

There is good news for fans of children's books, though.

First up is an adaptation of The Color of Lightning, by Paulette Jiles. As per our review, this story about a freed slave who settles in North Texas but must rescue his family from Kiowa kidnappers is "a potent, harrowing story about real people with that genuine heroism that makes legendary pale by comparison."