More Michael Jackson releases.
The King of Pop lives on in the hearts of publishers who are releasing a batch of new Michael Jackson books this fall.
Just out with a 400,000 first printing: “The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation,” by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. The book is an annotated collection of Boteach’s 30 hours of taped interviews, conducted in 2000 to 2001.
The young and vibrant star is on display in “Michael Jackson: Before He Was King,” by Todd Gray, in stores Nov. 6. Gray worked as Jackson’s personal photographer from 1979 through 1983.
Also coming up is “Michael Jackson: Paper Dolls.”
Since the singer’s death in June, Jackson book sales have not be stellar.
Ian Halperin’s expose, “Unmasked,” about Jackson’s last year did best. It peaked at No. 29 on USA Today’s best- seller list. Triumph Books’ photo tribute, “Michael Jackson” hit No. 39. J. Randy Taraborrelli’s updated bio, “Michael Jackson” peaked at No. 118.
Jackson’s best-selling 1988 autobiography, “Moonwalk,” will be reissued Tuesday with a new introduction by Berry Gordy, who describes Jackson as the greatest entertainer who ever lived.
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The Owl Killers, by Karen Maitland
I thought I heard a man dying in the great forest tonight, but now I’m not so certain; maybe what I heard was a corpse rising to life. He was shrieking and pleading, but he wasn’t begging for mercy. He’d challenged Death to wrestle with him. He’d thrown back his head and demanded to suffer, as if he wanted the demons to do their worst and drag him down into the pit of Hell. If he was human, then he must have been mad, did you know that? And tonight the moon was round as a woman’s belly swollen with child. That’s when men should fear it most.
I can’t ever tell the other women what I saw, not even Pega. How could I explain to them what I was doing out there alone in the forest at midnight? I’m not a lunatic, if that’s what you’re thinking, not like that madman. I hadn’t gone into the woods trying to kill or get myself killed, though I knew the dangers only too well. God alone knows how many deadly creatures slither and prowl through those ancient groves. Venomous adders, wild boars, savaging wolves — even a stag in rut could kill you. And if the beasts are not terrible enough, there are the cutpurses and the outlaws who prey on any stranger wandering through their domain.
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Best
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1. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, et al
2. Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin
3. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, by Steve Harvey
4. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. In the President’s Secret Service, by Ronald Kessler
6. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
7. Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin
8. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
9. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, with Jeffrey Zaslow
10. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, by Bill O’Reilly
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