Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat; Mary Higgins Clark


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Reported in Mary Higgins Clark, 'Queen Of Suspense,' Dies At 92.  (NPR, 2/1/2020)

The 'Queen of Suspense' still occupies considerable shelf space at LINKcat public libraries.



Hardcover editions on the shelf of the Middleton Public Library

Photos by Retiring Guy


In fact, you'll find 13 copies of her debut novel, "Where Are the Children?" in LINKcat.  It was published in 1975.


Paperback editions on the shelf of the Middleton Public Library


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2020
John Rothchild.  (1/22/2020)
Sylvia Jukes Morris.  (1/20/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15/2020)
Elizabeth Wurtzel.  (1/11/2020)

2019
Robert K. Massie.  (12/4/2019)
Addison DeWitt wannabe John Simon.  (12/1/2019)
James I. Robertson.  (11/20/2019)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12/2019)
Ernest J. Gaines.  (11/8/2019)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28/2019)
Sol Stein.  (9/30/2019)
Anne Rivers Siddons.  (9/19/2019)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27/2019)
Based on the number of LINKcat holds, "Beloved" is the most popular novel by Toni Morrison.  (8/12/2019)
GET ME REWRITE: Most books by Martin Mayer purchased by LINKcat public libraries have been weeded.  (8/3/2019)
Keeping tabs on Wright Morris in LINKcat.  (7/25/2019)
No room for Judith Krantz's tales of sex and shopping on the shelves of the Middleton Public Library.  (6/27/2019)
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970.  (6/18/2019)
Anthony Price, author of Cold War spy thrillers that few people read anymore, dies at 90.  (6/17/2019)
Herman Wouk, author of many fat books, dies at 103.  (5/20/2019)
Warren Adler:  Forgotten author who now takes up minuscule library shelf space dies at 91.  (4/23/2019)
Dan Jenkins, author of nearly forgotten classic sports novel, dies at 90.  (3/10/2019)

2018
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970 Neal Thompson on parenting books.  (6/17/2018)
LINKcat libraries provide little shelf space for titles by 'rule-breaking cookbook author' Barbara Kafka.  (6/8/2018)
Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?  (6/2/2018)

2017
The "spy' books by Aline Countess of Romanones haven't traveled well.  (12/17/2017)
Minimal shelf space devoted to Kit Reed's books in LINKcat public libraries.  (10/1/2017)
Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library.  (9/8/2017)

2016
The distant dirty dozen literary career of E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10/2016)

2015
Gunter Grass (1927-2015).  (4/15/2015)

2014
Thomas Berger  (1924-2014).  (7/23/2014)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)  (4/8/2014)

2013
Barbara Branden's shelf sitter.  (12/26/2013)

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