Sleepers From the Bestseller Data, 76 Deadline, and Ad Kudos

By Carl Lennertz

Publisher Ad Kudos:
Many, many, many thanks to all the publishers who advertise with us in our ad format, and to those who mention Book Sense in their own ads. Please give these books an extra look.

In the November issue of BookPage, Hyperion has a nice ad for The Sunday Wife with a Book Sense 76 mention and logo:

• The Sunday Wife, by Cassandra King (Hyperion, $23.95, 0786869054) Also a TimeWarner Audio (1401396631)
  

Random has a full-color Book Sense ad in the December 16 issue of The New Yorker, on stands on December 9, for the November/December 76 pick:

• Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing From Around the World and Throughout History, edited by Mark Kurlansky (Ballantine, $26.95, 0345457102)
  

A few sleepers gleaned from the bestseller data this week:

Hardcover fiction:

• #36 The Seven Sisters, by Margaret Drabble (Harcourt, $25, 0151007403)
  
• #45 Child of My Heart, by Alice McDermott (Farrar, $23, 0374121230)
  

Paperback fiction:

• #22 Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, $15, 1573229725)
  
• #43 Fateless, by Imre Kertesz (Northwestern University Press, $19.95, 0810110490)
  

Paperback nonfiction:

• #38 Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser (Anchor, $16.95, 0385489498)
  
• #40 Uncle Boris in the Yukon: And Other Shaggy Dog Stories, by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (Harvest Books, $12, 0156027151)
  
• #41 The Polar Bear Waltz and Other Moments of Epic Silliness: Comic Classics from Outside Magazines "Parting Shots" (Norton, $15.95, 0393323986)
  
• #43 The Best American Science and Nature Writing, by edited by Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin, $13, 0618134786)
  
• #48 Handbags: The Power of the Purse, by Anna Johnson (Workman, $13.95, 0761123776)
  

Children's:

• #22 Farfallina & Marcel, by Holly Keller (Greenwillow, $15.99, 006623932X) -- came out in August for ages 4-8 and catching on
  

Carl !!!
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