new out in paperback

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Post 1 by TexasRed (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 05-Oct-2006 13:24:26

Elizabeth Kostova's best-seller The Historian is now out in paperback.
By Jacqueline Blais, USA TODAY
•The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Back Bay, $15.99; reprint).

USA TODAY's Carol Memmott said last year that Kostova's chilling portrayal
of Dracula "may have outdone Stoker or even ... Hollywood's numerous Dracula
reincarnations."

Also newly released:

•The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's
Edition by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show (Warner; $15.99;
reprint)

Irreverent sendup of American history is updated for teachers with
corrections in red ink. Catch Stewart promoting his book:
amazon.com/jonstewart.

•Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns
Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $19.95; reprint).

Portrait of Lincoln is coupled with stories of three men who were his rivals
for the 1860 GOP presidential nomination.

•Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $15; reprint).

Memoir about teaching for 30 years from the author of the Pulitzer-winning
Angela's Ashes and 'Tis.

•The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $15; reprint).

Tells the story of Venice, a city that "teeters in precarious balance
between endurance and decay."

•Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Ballantine, $14.95; reprint).

An art patron plans a "journey of the senses" along Burma Road for her
friends, but when she dies, she witnesses their antics from her perch in
heaven.