Sunday, June 21, 2015

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (June 21st 2015)

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending June 21st 2015


10 - The Nightengale - Kristin Hannah
(18 weeks on list)

9  -  Piranha - Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
(2 weeks on list)
A man sets out to thwart an American weapons designer.

8  -  14th Deadly Sin - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Memory Man - David Baldacci
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Radiant Angel - Nelson DeMille
(2 weeks on list) (last week's #1)
A surveillance expert monitors the activities of a newly resurgent Russia.

4  -  In The Unlikely Event - Judy Blume
(Debut)
Secrets are revealed and love stories play out against the backdrop of a series of panic-inducing plane crashes in 1950s New Jersey.

3  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(57 weeks on list)

2  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(21 weeks on list)

1  -  FINDERS KEEPERS - STEPHEN KING
(DEBUT)
A deranged reader's infatuation with a Salingeresque novelist has dangerous consequences in a sequel to "Mr. Mercedes".


Thursday, June 18, 2015

The 2015 Triple Crown Wins for American Pharoah

2015 Triple Crown Winner
American Pharoah

Here are his 3 wins for the Crown

The 141st Kentucky Derby
May 2nd 2015




The 140th Preakness Stakes
May 16th 2015



The 147th Belmont Stakes
June 6th 2015


Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1955
Lady and the Tramp

June 16th 1955 Walt Disney pictures premiered the animated classic Lady and the Tramp. 
This tale of dogs in love would be the #6 movie of 1955.



The original 1955 trailer

Friday, June 12, 2015

Paul Harvey Interviewed On Larry King

Feb 28th 2009
Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey dies at the age of 90.  That night CNN aired an interview he did with Larry King from 2003.



Monday, June 8, 2015

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

May 11th 2009


Mine That Bird upset the favorite PioneeroftheNile, who is the father of 2015 Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1980
The Empire Strikes Back
(June 6th 1980, this was the #1 movie in the USA for the 3rd consecutive week.  "Empire" had debuted in theaters May 25th, Memorial Day weekend, with $8.43 million.  This was biggest debut weekend of 1980 and "Empire" would be the the #1 movie of 1980 with $209.3 million in revenues.)

2015 Triple Crown Winner


Tuesday, June 2, 2015

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) May 31st 2015

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending May 31st 2015


10 - The Bone Tree - Greg Iles
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(15 weeks on list)

8  -  The Forgotten Room - Lincoln Child
(Debut)
Probing a death, the "enigmatologist" Jeremy Logan discovers a hidden room at a Newport estate where a dangerous experiment took place.  A sequel to "The Third Gate".

7  -  A God In Ruins - Kate Atkinson
(2 weeks on list)
Postwar Britain as seen through the members of a well-to-do family.

6  -  Gathering Prey - John Sandford
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Dry Bones - Craig Johnson
(Debut)
Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, WY., investigates the death of a Cheyenne rancher on whose property a valuable dinosaur skeleton was found.  The basis of the series "Longmire".

4  -  Memory Man - David Baldacci
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  14th Deadly Sin - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
A video of a shocking crime surfaces, casting suspicion on a San Francisco detective's colleagues.



2  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(54 weeks on list) (2015 Pulitzer Prize for Novel)

1  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(18 weeks on list)(returns to #1 for a 14th week)
A psychological thriller set in the environs of London, UK.