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Thousands have lined up in bookstores across the country and Amazon's website was said to have collapsed due to the fervor over the release of God's new book, "Christopher Hitchens is Not Great." God, already the author of the best seller of all time, "The Bible," was quoted as saying, "Christopher wrote a fairly interesting book, but he really put some doozies in there. I honestly had a good laugh at some of them." God's new book has been expected to sell out by the end of the business day, Friday, August 24, 2007.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why—and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation. "The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page." Schroeder, who as a Colorado Democrat was once one of Congress'...

In just the last few months, three books attacking belief It is not due to their eloquence, originality or persuasiveness that these books have become best sellers. I believe other factors are at work. And they are: First and most significant is the amount of evil coming from within Islam. Whether Islamists (or jihadists, Islamo-Fascists or whatever else Muslims who slaughter innocents in the name of Islam are called) represent a small sliver of Muslims or considerably more than that, they have brought religious faith into terrible disrepute. How could they not? The one recognized genocide in the world today...

Pat Buchanan's new book has roared to the top of the Amazon best-seller list hitting the No. 1 spot within a day of its release. In his "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America," Buchanan warns that the United States is witnessing its own death as illegal immigration destroys the fabric of the American nation. More: Buchanan says Mexico has been mounting a conscious effort to use the United States as a dumping ground for its poor and unemployed. Pat Buchanan reports that since 9/11, more than 4 million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders and...

Peninsula attorney and powerful Democratic Party fundraiser Joe Cotchett has been named to lead the trial counsel for ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson's lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials. The Burlingame lawyer, considered one of the top trial lawyers in the country, will ask a federal court to order Cheney, his ex-chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify regarding their role in disclosing Plame's classified CIA status. "This case is all about the truth," said Cotchett, senior partner in the law firm Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy in Burlingame....

WorldNetDaily is running an ad that states the following: “ Readers snatch up end-times books.” Prophecy-related products continue to be popular among WorldNetDaily readers, with two books on Israel’s involvement in end-times predictions coming in at No. 2 and 3 on ShopNetDaily’s weekly best-seller list—Dave Hunt’s “Judgment Day! Islam, Israel and the Nations” and Greg Laurie's “Are We Living in the Last Days?”(1) Why shouldn’t Christians snatch up these end-time books? They’re being told by prophetic writers that this is the generation that will see the rapture. Of course, previous generations of Christians were told the same thing. I predict...

Ann has the #1 bestselling hardcover book in nonfiction. It is listed on the NY Times website as such. But if you check the NY Times Bestsellers tab on Amazon, that pencil necked geek, Anderson Cooper has somehow risen to the top. And Ann's book is not listed. Hmmmm

A FRIEND OF MINE took his young daughter to visit the famous City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, explaining to her that the place is important because years ago it sold books no other store would — even, perhaps especially, books whose ideas many people found offensive. So, although my friend is no fan of Ward Churchill, the faux Indian and discredited professor who notoriously called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns," he didn't really mind seeing piles of Churchill's books prominently displayed on a table as he walked in. However, it did occur to him that perhaps the long-delayed English translation...

The New York Times has named controversial children's book “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” (Kids Ahead; hardcover: $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) by Katharine DeBrecht as one of the books most frequently discussed by bloggers last year. The inclusion on this high profile list alongside “The Da Vinci Code,” “Freakonomics,” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is just the latest surprise in a long list of unlikely accolades -- and angry criticism -- garnered by this conservative illustrated book. Written by a self-proclaimed “Security Mom for Bush,” the illustrated picture book -- which features Hillary Rodham Clinton and...

[snip] These are the numbers through Jan. 1, according to Nielsen Media's BookScan, "which counts approximately 75% of book sales around the country:" > Mike Wallace's "Between You and Me: A Memoir:" 60,000 sales. > Andrea Mitchell's "Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Other Scoundrels:" 26,000 sales. > Donny Deutsch's "Often Wrong, Never in Doubt:" 8,000 sales. > Mary Mapes' "Truth or Duty:" 7,000 sales.

American Girl alternative enjoys sales boost amidst boycott Jan 5, 2006 By Michael Foust Baptist Press Sales up The Life of Faith book and doll series has seen a sales increase since a pro-life group called for a boycott of American Girl. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A conservative-led boycott of the popular American Girl book and doll series during the Christmas season apparently led many parents to seek alternatives -- so much so that one Christian company saw its sales nearly triple in the final weeks of 2005. The Life of Faith book and doll series -- sometimes called the Christian alternative...

OSAMA bin Laden has turned an obscure book by a radical Washington historian into one of the nation's best sellers by recommending it in his latest verbal attack on the United States. Since the Al-Qaeda leader mentioned "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" in his tape last Thursday, William Blum's book has gone from 205,763 on the Amazon.com list of best sellers to number 27 on Saturday. As he fought off media attention, Mr Blum, 72, who lives in a one-room apartment in the US capital, told US media he had no regrets about the boost from...

WASHINGTON: An unexpected endorsement from Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of US foreign policy. William Blum’s “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower” was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com’s sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list. Bin Laden said Al Qaeda group was preparing more attacks in the United States but also told Americans, “It is useful for you to read the book ‘The Rogue State.’“ “I...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S. foreign policy. ADVERTISEMENT William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com's sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list. Bin Laden said al Qaeda group was preparing more attacks in the United States but also told Americans, "It is useful for you to read the book 'The...

An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S. foreign policy. William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com's sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list. Bin Laden said al Qaeda group was preparing more attacks in the United States but also told Americans, "It is useful for you to read the book 'The Rogue State.'" "I was...

Yesterday I posted that the book Bin Laden mentioned in his recent audio tape was languishing at 209,572 on Amazon.com's book list. Well, take a look again today: "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" by William Blum is, at this writing, ranked #43! According to Amazon, that means it is the 43rd best-selling book in their library. Amazing.

I know this is a dead issue and I don't want to flog a dead horse, but I was wondering how many of the children's books that Tookie wrote were actually sold? I know there were 9 of them but not one media source ever said how many of them were sold.

The movie version of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe has topped the UK box office with takings of £8 million in its opening weekend, figures showed today. The adaptation of the CS Lewis classic is the biggest UK opening for a Disney film - beating previous record-holder Toy Story 2. In the US, box office takings of 67.1 million dollars (£37.8 million) made it the second highest December opening of all time behind the final Lord Of The Rings film. O Worldwide, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe took 108.8 million US dollars...

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 10:01 a.m. EST Peter Schweizer’s new book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy” has made it to the coveted New York Times best-seller list in its first week out. The book – which previously reached the #1 spot on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling nonfiction work after it was previewed on NewsMax – will debut at #14 on the Times list. The list will be published in the Times’ Book Review on Sunday, November 20. The book’s inclusion on the Times list is even more remarkable considering it only received national...

One Reporter's Opinion – Liberal Hypocrisy George Putnam It is this reporter's opinion that a new book by Peter Schweizer, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," does a brilliant job of exposing the blatant hypocrisy of liberals who loudly espouse principals they disregard in their own personal lives. Schweizer writes in the November issue of NewsMax magazine: "Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for the liberals in their war against conservatives. Yet for all the talk about conservative hypocrisy, there has been very little investigation into the prevalence of hypocrisy on the...