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Oprah has chosen The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski as the next pick for her book club.

Barnes & Noble has chosen Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as the newest selection in its Barnes & Noble Recommends program.

The Sony Reader will now be sold in Target stores for $299. People who purchase a Sony Reader from Target will receive a code enabling them to download a free copy of The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory from the Sony e-book store.

Deborah Rodriguez, author of The Kabul Beauty School, will be publishing her first fiction novel, The Kabul Coffee Club. The book will tell the story of 6 women, both Afghan and foreigners, who form an unlikely friendship in a coffee house in the middle of a war zone. I wonder if the move from nonfiction to fiction has anything to do with the rumblings that the book contained inaccuracies and inconsistencies.

Nicholas Sparks is simultaneously writing a new novel and its adaptation for film, which will star Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. The book is scheduled for publication in September 2009 and the movie will follow soon after.

Audio recordings of Agatha Christie have recently been discovered by her grandson. The tapes are of Christie dictating the last third of the first draft of her autobiography. The company that oversees her estate is determining what to do with the tapes.

Candace Bushnell has signed a two-book deal to write teen novels featuring Carrie Bradshaw during her high school years. The first book, The Carrie Diaries, will be published in the fall of 2010. The idea is that the teenagers who love the Sex and the City book/show/movie will be thrilled to read about Carrie's teenage years.

The nominees for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award are:
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein
Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry byTim Bouquet & Byron Ousey When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The winner will be announced on October 14th.