Barnes & Noble. com Announces "Hottest Books of the Season"
Number one ranked bookseller releases its list of the 'Hottest Books of the Season.' The list of consumer favorites and top sellers includes books by former president Bill Clinton, entertainer Rikki Lee Travolta, thriller writer Dan Brown, and television's Dr. Phil.
(PRWEB) July 18, 2004
Barnes & Noble. com, the world's largest bookseller, has announced the memoir "My Life" by former president Bill Clinton, novel "My Fractured Life" by Rikki Lee Travolta, mystery "R is for Ricochet" by Sue Grafton, and horror story "The Lake House" by James Patterson among its "Hottest Books of the Season."
"My Life" is the self-penned, candid account of Clinton's life from his tumultuous childhood through his years in the Whitehouse.
"(Clinton's) life is too fascinating, his mind too brilliant, his desire to charm too strong to permit him to produce a boring book. The combination of analytic and emotional intelligence that made him a great politician now makes him a compelling raconteur," states Washington Post critic Walter Isaacson.
Named a Top Ten recommendation by Amazon. com, Travolta's "My Fractured Life" has drawn comparisons to "Catcher in the Rye" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for its stormy antihero and self-deprecating dark humor.
Set against the backdrop of Hollywood's underbelly, "My Fractured Life" is the story of faded stars struggling to adjust to life outside of the spotlight as they discover there is little calling for former celebrities in the real world job market.
"Rikki Lee Travolta is a very versatile writer, moving easily from fiction and drama into pop culture," states Kirk Landers of James Informational Media.
The 18th offering in the Kinsey Millhone detective series (following 2002's "P is for Peril"), Grafton's "R is for Ricochet" has the sexy female private investigator babysitting a newly paroled daughter of privilege with visions of revenge on her former employer.
"Grafton's series remains fresh and exciting, with complex plots and well-developed characters," states Wilda Williams of the Library Journal.
A follow-up to the 1998 novel "When the Wind Blows" about children genetically engineered to fly, Patterson's "The Lake House" is a mixture of the science fiction and suspense genres in which the human-bird hybrid children are caught in a legal battle as their rescuers turned surrogate parents try to gain custody.
"The pages move like the wind," states Publisher's Weekly in its praise of the fast moving novel.
Titles on Barnes & Noble's hot list will be available to online customers at 30 to 40% savings and will be designated to online shoppers with a special Summer Sale savings icon.
"Serving customers is our highest priority," said Marie Toulantis, chief executive officer, in a statement.
The 2004 EquiTrend Brand Study by Harris Interactive placed Barnes & Nobel. com as the highest overall rating of all e-commerce companies for quality. Barnes & Noble was also the number one ranked company in the 2002 and 2003 EquiTrend studies. More than 24,000 consumers were interviewed in the annual survey.
Additional titles on Barnes & Noble's 'hot list' include the romance "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks, the thriller "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, the children's story "I Already Know I Love You" by Billy Crystal, the mystery "Skinny Dip" by Carl Haasen, and the diet and health title "The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook" by Dr. Phil McGraw
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the worldÂ’s largest bookseller, operating 653 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 188 B. Dalton Bookseller stores, primarily in regional shopping malls.
