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Saturday, November 18, 2006

By PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Hardcover best-sellers compiled from data from large-city bookstores, bookstore chains and local best-seller lists across the United States. The first number to the right of the author's name is the book's previous week's ranking; the second is the number of weeks the book has been on the best-seller list.

Fiction Hardcover

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By KAREN MacPHERSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Spark your family's Thanksgiving spirit with these children's books _ some of them newly published, some of them favorites from previous years:

_ An elderly couple is dismayed upon accidentally burning the Thanksgiving dinner.

By ANDREW A. SMITH
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Welcome to another edition of Comics Headline Ticker, which chronicles the continuing conquest of current culture by comics characters.

_ ITEM! Marvel's Heroes Licked?

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By PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Hardcover best-sellers compiled from data from large-city bookstores, bookstore chains and local best-seller lists across the United States. The first number to the right of the author's name is the book's previous week's ranking; the second is the number of weeks the book has been on the best-seller list.

Fiction Hardcover

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By KAREN MACPHERSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Norton Juster wrote his classic children's fantasy, "The Phantom Tollbooth," as a way to avoid buckling down to another project.

Juster, trained as an architect, won a Ford Foundation grant in the late 1950's to write a book for children about cities.

By BOB HOOVER
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
_ "THE LAY OF THE LAND." By Richard Ford. Knopf. $26.95.

Life is a hard proposition. It takes focus, effort, fancy footwork, false encouragement and a clean shirt.

By ANDREW A. SMITH
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I'm going to blame global warming: November's comic-book offerings are just as hot as those in the summer months. What happened to the old days, when the industry would go into a coma during the winter? Now I have to stay alert year-round!

Speaking of the old days, November's most important offering is a reprint: the second of Gemstone's hardback EC Archives series, "Shock SuspenStories" Vol.

By PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Hardcover best-sellers compiled from data from large-city bookstores, bookstore chains and local best-seller lists across the United States. The first number to the right of the author's name is the book's previous week's ranking; the second is the number of weeks the book has been on the best-seller list.

Fiction Hardcover

1.Lisey's Story.

By KAREN MACPHERSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
It's no exaggeration: Tomie dePaola is an icon in the world of children's literature.

Since his first children's book was published in 1965, dePaola (pronounced da-POW-la) has produced more than 200 books, ranging the "Strega Nona" folktales to anthologies of Mother Goose rhymes and Bible stories to a popular series of autobiographical chapter books.