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 There are less than two weeks left for the bookseller members of the American Booksellers Association to cast their votes for the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. Everyone working at an ABA member store is eligible to vote.
 Richard Howorth, founder of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, former American Booksellers Association president, and current Oxford mayor, will be honored with the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community at the Authors Guild Dinner on May 5. The dinner will be held at the Metropolitan Club in New York City, and will benefit the Authors Guild Foundation and the Authors League Fund.
Since mid-January, the polls have been open for the owners and staff at American Booksellers Association member stores to cast their ballots for this year's Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. But time is running out: Voting online and via fax to (914) 591-2720 is open until midnight on Monday, March 3.
Super Tuesday is over, but there's still time for the owners and staff of all ABA member stores to cast their votes for this year's Book Sense Book of the Year.
 This week, the Women's National Book Association announced the nominees for the 2008 Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards, recognizing retail bookstores that excel at inspiring the interest of young people in books and reading.
Bookseller Stockton Bagnulo Wins Competition for Indie Bookstore Business Plan
The American Booksellers Association is encouraging the owners and staff of all member stores to cast their votes for the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, recognizing independent booksellers' handselling favorites in the categories of Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Children's Literature, and Children's Illustrated.
National Poetry Month 2008 Poster Unveiled
 The Academy of American Poets (AAP) has unveiled the official poster for National Poetry Month 2008, designed by SpotCo, a New York City agency responsible for many poster designs of Broadway's most popular shows. ABA member booksellers can expect to receive their posters by mail in the end of February.
On Monday, January 14, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the Caldecott and Newbery medals and numerous other awards recognizing the best children's and young adult literature. The announcements were made at ALA's Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia.
The winners are:
JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS
Voting for the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards is now open to the owners and staff of all American Booksellers Association member bookstores. The awards honor independent booksellers' handselling favorites in the categories of Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Children's Literature, and Children's Illustrated.
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Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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Since Tuesday, March 11, when Publishers Weekly named Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California, its 2008 Bookseller of the Year, the staff of "129 incredible employees" has received "congratulatory phone calls, e-mails, and flowers from colleagues and publishers and authors and friends of the store.