Happy Holidays!!! Happy New Year!!!

I am signing off until the new year. A new front page on our web site is being launched mid-January, my blog will then move to our web site address. Until January, have a safe and happy holiday season.

Edmund

Media News

*Friday morning on the Today Show: Rick Warren, author of The Purpose of Christmas (Howard Books, $17.99, 9781416559009/1416559000).

*Friday on the Diane Rehm Show, in repeat: Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone (Knopf, $26.95, 9780375414497/0375414495).

*Friday on Tavis Smiley: Mitch Albom, author of Have a Little Faith (Hyperion, $23.99, 9780786868728/0786868724).

*Friday night on the Jay Leno Show, in a repeat: Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, authors of Read All About It! (HarperCollins, $18.89, 9780061560767/0061560766).

News Media

*Today on Fox News' Glenn Beck: Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas List (Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781439150009/1439150001).

*Tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Jeffrey Ross, author of I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges (Simon Spotlight, $24.99, 9781439101407/143910140X).

*Tomorrow morning on Morning Edition: Larry McMurtry, author of Literary Life: A Second Memoir (Simon & Schuster, $24, 9781439159934/1439159939).

*Tomorrow on the Joy Behar Show: Steve Ward and JoAnn Ward, authors of Crash Course in Love (VH1, $17.99, 9781439177334/1439177333).

*Tomorrow on Oprah: Sarah Palin, author of Going Rogue (HarperCollins, $28.99, 9780061997877/0061939897).

*Tomorrow on the Diane Rehm Show: Bruce Feiler, author of America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story (Morrow, $26.99, 9780060574888/0060574887).

*Tomorrow night on Larry King Live: E. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press, $16, 9780743290081/0743290089).

*Tomorrow night on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Lance Armstrong, author of Comeback 2.0 (Touchstone, $27.99, 9781439173145/1439173141).

Media News

Today on Dr. Phil: Mitch Albom, author of Have a Little Faith (Hyperion, $23.99, 9780786868728/0786868724). Albom is also on the Bonnie Hunt Show today and on the Today Show tomorrow morning

*Tonight on the Colbert Report: Nicholas A. Christakis, author of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (Little, Brown, $25.99, 9780316036146/0316036145).

*Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Emma McLaughlin, co-author of Nanny Returns (Atria, $25, 9781416585671/1416585672).

*Tomorrow on the Tavis Smiley Show: Ann Louise Bardach, author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington (Scribner, $28, 9781416551508/1416551506).

*Tomorrow on the Bonnie Hunt Show: Deepak Chopra, author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You (Harmony, $25, 9780307452337/0307452336).

*Tomorrow night on Larry King Live: Joel Osteen, author of It's Your Time (Free Press, $25, 9781439100110/143910011X).

Media News

Tomorrow on ABC's World News: Max Cleland, author of Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove (Simon & Schuster, $26, 9781439126059).

Media News

*This morning on the Today Show: Mitch Albom, author of Have a Little Faith (Hyperion, $23.99, 9780786868728/0786868724).

*Today on the Diane Rehm Show: Roger G. Kennedy, author of When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy (Rizzoli, $75, 9780847830893/0847830896).

*Tomorrow on the Diane Rehm Show: Thomas Mallon, author of Yours Ever: People and Their Letters (Pantheon, $26.95, 9780679444268/0679444262).

*Tomorrow on Ellen: Howie Mandel, author of Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me (Bantam, $25, 9780553807868/0553807862)

*Tomorrow night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves (Viking, $32.95, 9780670021253/0670021253).

*Tomorrow night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Jon Bon Jovi, author of Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful (Collins, $30, 9780061864155/0061864153).

*Also on Late Night: Susie Essman, author of What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy (Simon & Schuster, $25, 9781439150177/1439150176).

*Tomorrow night on the Late Show with David Letterman: Maryjean Ballner, author of Cat Massage: A Whiskers to Tail Guide to Your Cat's Ultimate Petting Experience (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312154929/0312154925) and Dog Massage: A Whiskers-to-Tail Guide to Your Dog's Ultimate Petting Experience (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312267278/0312267274).

BookNet's Top 20 Canadian Titles

The following Canadian titles – a mix of fiction and non-fiction – are the big sellers going into the final stretch of the Christmas shopping season. For the two weeks ending Nov. 29, 2009:

1. The Bishop’s Man, Linden MacIntyre(Random House Canada, $32 cl, 9780307357069)
2. Playing with Fire, Theo Fleury and Kirstie McLellan Day(HarperCollins Canada, $32.99 cl, 9781554682393)
3. All of Me, Anne Murray and Michael Posner(Knopf Canada, $35 cl, 9780307398444)
4. A Soldier First, Rick Hillier(HarperCollins Canada, $34.99 cl, 9781554684915)
5. What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell(Little, Brown/H.B. Fenn and Company, $34.99 cl, 9780316075848)
6. The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill(HarperCollins Canada, $24.95 pa, 9781554681563)
7. Canadian Living: the Slow Cooker Collection, Elizabeth Baird(Transcontinental Books, $22.95 pa, 9780980992458)
8. Bravo! Best of Bridge Cookbook, Sally Vaughan-Johnston(Robert Rose, $29.95 spiral, 9780778802204)
9. Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968-2000, John English(Knopf Canada, $39.95 cl, 9780676975239)
10. 100 Photos That Changed Canada(HarperCollins Canada, $45 cl, 9781554684977)
11. The Shack, William P. Young(Windblown Media/Hachette, $15.99 pa, 9780964729230)
12. Extreme Vinyl Café, Stuart Mclean(Viking Canada, $36 cl, 9780670064472)
13. The Best of Chef at Home, Michael Smith(Whitecap Books/H.B. Fenn, $29.95 cl, 9781552859841)
14. Don Cherry’s Hockey Stories and Stuff, Don Cherry(Doubleday Canada, $29.95 pa, 9780385666756)
15. The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon(Random House Canada, $32.95 cl, 9780307356208)
16. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood(McClelland & Stewart, $32.99 cl, 9780771008443)
17. The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger(McArthur & Company, $24.95 pa, 9781552787984)
18. Gretzky’s Tears, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $34.95 cl, 9780307397294)
19. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch; Sheila McGraw, illus.(Firefly Books, $5.95 pa, 9780920668375)
20. One on One, Peter Mansbridge(Random House Canada, $35 cl, 9780307357847)

Media News

*Today on CNN's Campbell Brown: Walter Isaacson, author of American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane (Simon & Schuster, $25.99, 9781439180648/1439180644).

*Today on the Laura Ingraham Show: William J. Bennett, author of The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas (Howard Books, $16.99, 9781416567462/1416567461). Bennett is also on Hannity tomorrow.

*Today on the Wendy Williams Show: Steven Ward and JoAnn Ward, authors of Crash Course in Love (VH1, $17.99, 9781439177334/1439177333).

*Today on the View: Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of YOU: Having a Baby: The Owner's Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy (Free Press, $26.99, 9781416572367/1416572368).

*Tonight on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Howie Mandel, author of Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me (Bantam, $25, 9780553807868/0553807862).

*Also on Tonight: Deepak Chopra, author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You (Harmony, $25, 9780307452337/0307452336).

*Tomorrow on Oprah, in a repeat: Mackenzie Phillips, author of High on Arrival (Simon Spotlight, $25.99, 9781439153857/143915385X).

*Tomorrow on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Mike Huckabee, author of A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit (Sentinel HC, $19.95, 9781595230621/1595230629).

Media News

*Tomorrow on the CBS Early Show: Jon Scieszka, author of Robot Zot (S&S Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781416963943/1416963944) will host the "Children's Book Recommendations" segment live at the FAO Schwarz store in New York City.

*Tomorrow on Morning Edition Saturday: Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon discuss Ounce Dice Trice by Alastair Reid and Ben Shahn (New York Review Children's Collection, $15.95, 9781590173206/1590173201).

*On CBS Sunday Morning: Matteo Pericoli, author of The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York (Simon & Schuster, $21.99, 9781416569909/1416569901).

Media News

*Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Grace Lin, author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown, $16.99, 978036114271/0316114278). Al Roker selected this book as his December pick on October 23.

*Tomorrow morning on the Early Show: Jaden Hair, creator of steamykitchen.com and author of The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight's Dinner (Tuttle Publishing, $27.95, 9780804840286/0804840288).

Media News

*Tomorrow on Live with Regis & Kelly: Lance Armstrong, author of Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal (Touchstone, $27.99, 9781439173145/1439173141).

&Today on the Diane Rehm Show: Greg Mortenson, author of Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Viking, $26.95, 9780670021154/0670021156).

*Tomorrow on the View: Mike Huckabee, author of A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit (Sentinel, $19.95, 9781595230621/1595230629).

*Tomorrow on Tavis Smiley: Malcolm Gladwell, author of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316075848/0316075841).

*Tomorrow on the Martha Stewart Show: David Carter, author of White Noise: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages (Little Simon, $22.99, 9781416940944/1416940944), who will help Martha create a holiday pop-up centerpiece.

Tomorrow night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Michael Specter, author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594202308/1594202303).

BookNet's Top Books on Sports

Gear up for the Vancouver Winter Olympics with these top 20 bestselling sports and recreation titles. For the two weeks ending Nov. 22, 2009:

1. Gretzky’s Tears, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $34.95 cl, 9780307397294)
2. Canada’s Olympic Hockey History, 1920–2010, Andrew Podnieks(Key Porter, $40 pa, 9781551683232)
3. The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons(Random House Canada, $37 cl, 9780345511768)
4. Why the Leafs Suck and How They Can Be Fixed, Al Strachan(HarperCollins Canada, $22.99 pa, 9781554685462)
5. Hockey Dad, Bob McKenzie(John Wiley & Sons Canada, $29.95 cl, 9780470159392)
6. Leafs AbomiNation, David Feschuk, Michael Grange(Random House Canada, $19.67 pa, 9780307357762)
7. NHL Official Guide and Record Book 2010(Triumph Books/Monarch Books of Canada, $29.95 pa, 9781894801164)
8. Curl to Win, Russ Howard(HarperCollins Canada, $29.99 cl, 9780002008488)
9. Survive! Les Stroud(HarperCollins Canada, $21.95 pa, 9780002008860)
10. The Montreal Canadiens, D’Arcy Jenish(Doubleday Canada, $22 pa, 9780385663250)
11. Jacques Plante, Todd Denault(McClelland & Stewart, $32.99 cl, 9780771026331)
12. Survive! Ultimate Edition, Les Stroud(HarperCollins Canada, $34.99 pa, 9781554686377)13. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer(Knopf Canada, $9.99 mm, 9780307475251)
14. Home Ice, Lorna Schultz Nicholson(H.B. Fenn, $25 pa, 9781551683256)
15. Got Fight? Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss(HarperCollins Canada, $31.50 cl, 9780061721717)16. TSN 25 Years(John Wiley & Sons Canada, $39.95 cl, 9780470736487)
17. Searching for Bobby Orr, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $22 pa, 9780676976526)
18. Saskatchewan Roughriders, Robert Lorin Calder (Centax Books & Distribution, $54.95 cl, 9781897010617)

Media News

Tomorrow morning on Good Morning America: Julie Powell, author of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Little, Brown, $24.99, 9780316003360/0316003360).

Tomorrow night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Lance Armstrong, author of Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal (Touchstone, $27.99, 9781439173145/1439173141).