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Contrary to the cover letter in the Book Sense White Box mailing for March, the ARC of the forthcoming novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, will be shipped to stores under separate cover, directly from the publisher, Riverhead Books (Penguin Group USA). The book has an on-sale date of May 22, 2007.
While April 1, the opening day of the baseball season, is still a few long days away, in the book-publishing world, baseball season began about two to three months ago -- that's when the year's first crop of baseball books began hitting bookstore shelves and ARCs for new releases began to litter my desk and office floor (and I mean "litter" in the best possible sense).