Sentences with phrase «surprise bestseller»

Kobo expects 2012 to bring additional surprise bestsellers from self - published authors, whether through direct relationships or aggregating partners.

A featured speaker was the education scholar E. D. Hirsch, whose surprise bestseller Cultural Literacy had appeared a few years earlier.

Carlo Rovelli's brief book was a surprise bestseller in his native Italy, and the English edition shows us all why

A surprise bestseller, the book generated enormous controversy, and Hirsch was denounced by many academics as, along with other insults, an elitist and an apologist for the canon of dead white males.

Joanne Harris» delightful, magical 1999 novel Chocolat became a surprise bestseller and a major motion picture.

A surprise bestseller with too few copies printed created almost as many headaches as a title that was languishing in the warehouse because they had printed too many copies.

After reading Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, I wanted to learn much more about trees, and so seized on this surprise bestseller from Germany as soon as it appeared in English translation.

Debut author Graeme Simsion had a surprise bestseller on his hands last fall with The Rosie Project.

This 2010 surprise bestseller was a charming and engaging story of British country life in East Sussex, where a very English retired Major forms a surprising relationship with a Pakistani shopkeeper.

Blue Nights by Joan Didion Didion's haunting memoir of her husband's death and illness, The Year of Magical Thinking, was a surprise bestseller.

Her 2014 novel, The Bear, was a surprise bestseller and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Edelman has written seven books — his latest, 2014's The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs, was a surprise bestseller, reaching # 1 on The Washington Post's Paperback Nonfiction General list.