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Publishers Weekly Bestseller List

Arts & Entertainment

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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A bounty of Thanksgiving-related books for children

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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A look at the conquest of culture by comics characters

Arts & Entertainment

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?

The U.S.

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Publishers Weekly Bestseller List

Arts & Entertainment

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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Architect builds second career as a writer

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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'Lay of the Land' proves Ford is heir to Updike, Roth

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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Comic industry offerings remain hot as weather cools

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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Publishers Weekly Bestseller List

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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'Christmas Remembered' is a holiday for dePaola

Arts & Entertainment

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.

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