Publishing News

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, March 6, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

She takes none of it for granted. Not the sales figures, the fame, the fortune, the fact that her name pops up on best-seller lists with the frequency of freakishly popular scribes such as Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark.

"Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink; Riverhead, 256 pages ($26.95).

Sometime in the near future, a federal judge will decide whether Google can proceed with its plan to create a digital library and bookstore out of millions of old books scanned from libraries around the world.

LOS ANGELES - It used to be that the only adults who read young adult literature were those who had a vested interest - teachers or librarians or parents who either needed or wanted to keep an eye on developing readers' tastes.

"The Best Is Yet To Come" by Diana Palmer; Harlequin (2010), 183 pages, $6.99 (paperback)

"The Girl Who Fell From The Sky" by Heidi W. Durrow; Algonquin (265 pages. $22.95)

"Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight" by Karl Rove; Threshold Editions (596 pages, $30)

"Ordinary Thunderstorms" by William Boyd; Harper (403 pages, $26.99)

"Reality Hunger: A Manifesto" by David Shields; Alfred A. Knopf (240 pages, $24.95)