'How Children Succeed' Tops Bestseller List Again

Paul Tough's book is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character is the top read among adults for the week ending Sept. 16, according to the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance. This is the second week at the top for Paul Tough's book.  The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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'How Children Succeed' Tops This Week's Bestseller List

Paul Tough's book is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character is the top read among adults for the week ending Sept. 9, according to the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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'Fire in the Ashes' Tops This Week's Bestseller List

Jonathan Kozol's book is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America is the top read among adults for the week ending Sept. 2, according to the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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State of Wonder Tops Local Bestseller List

Anne Patchett's novel is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

State of Wonder is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending Aug. 26. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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Count to Sleep St. Louis, Gone Girl Top Bestseller List

The novel is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

Giffin is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending Aug. 19. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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Chick Lit Author Tops Independent Booksellers List

The novel is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

Where We Belong by "chick-lit" author Emily Giffin is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending Aug. 5. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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Joe Meno and John Lutz Book Signing Tonight

The event will be held at Subterranean Books on Delmar.

Authors Joe Meno and John Lutz will be at Subterranean Books for a book signing tonight. The event begins at 7 p.m.  Joe Meno's new book is Office Girl. According to Subterranean, it is a novel about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a 23-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a 25-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999, Office Girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-…

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Psychological Crime Drama Tops Best Selling Book List

St. Louis-area independent bookstore best seller list for the week ending July 29.

Here's a roundup of the best-selling books in four St. Louis-area independent bookstores from the week ending July 29. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult    

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Karin Slaughter's 'Criminal' a Hot Read This Summer

The novel is this week's bestseller at St. Louis area independent book stores.

Criminal by Karin Slaughter is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending July 22. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adult

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St. Louis Readers Love 'Count to Sleep St. Louis'

The children's counting book features St. Louis' most popular landmarks.

Count to Sleep St. Louis, a counting book celebrating the city's famous features like the Gateway Arch and St. Louis Zoo, is a hot read among young adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending July 15. The bookstores include Subterranean Books in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End, Main Street Books in St. Charles and Pudd'nhead Books in Webster Groves. Adults Children/Young Adults

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