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RA Alert: Bataan Death March

Let’s start a new award, for “The Review That Most Makes You Want to Read the Book.” It’s surprising how few would qualify.

My nominee this week comes from the NYT BR, in a special category, “Most Made Me Want to Read a Book about a Subject I’m Not Drawn to,” for Dwight Garner’s review of Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman.

Library reserves are averaging 5 to 1 in six large systems we checked. It’s been moving up Amazon and is currently at #22, indicating it will appear on next week’s best seller lists.

What about you? Seen any reviews lately that made you say, “I’ve just gotta read that one”?

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman
Retail Price: $30.00
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux – (2009-06-09)
ISBN / EAN: 0374272603 / 9780374272609

Also in audio from Tantor:

Narrator: Michael Prichard

  • 14 Audio CDs (Retail Unikeep Pkg); EAN: 9781400111671
List Price: $39.99
  • 14 Audio CDs (Library BinderL Pkg); EAN: 9781400141678
List Price: $79.99
  • 2 Mp3-CDs (Retail SlimlineL Pkg); EAN: 9781400161676
List Price: $29.99

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One Response to “RA Alert: Bataan Death March”

  1. Bataan Death March #8 on Amazon | EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection Says:
    July 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    […] As we already mentioned, Dwight Garner’s review in the New York Times first made us want to read the book and helped it land on the Times bestseller list. […]