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17 Jul

Report of the Summer ABA Board Meeting

The ABA Board held its summer meeting at the association's headquarters in Tarrytown, New York, from July 10 - 13.

At its meeting, the ABA Board:

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16 Jul

National Public Radio Program Sends Listeners to Bookstores

Public radio listeners are among the heaviest book buyers (according to a recent analysis by Mediamark Research), so when notable public radio personality Susan Stamberg hosts a segment devoted to bookseller picks for summer reading, stores can expect a significant response. Stamberg, who serves as a National Public Radio (NPR) special correspondent, periodically devotes segments on news programs to brief interviews with independent booksellers around the country.

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16 Jul

How Marianne Wiggins Learned to Keep Worrying and Hate the Bomb

The Atomic age spawned more than nationwide paranoia, anti-Soviet propaganda, and "Little Boy," the code name for the four-ton bomb dropped on Hiroshima. There was a spate of filmmakers and writers who responded to the possibility of nuclear Armageddon with a legion of classics: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Manhattan Project, and Fail Safe, among them.

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16 Jul

July White Box Includes Dazzling Array of Materials

The July white box lands on your doorsteps with the crackle and boom of Independen(ts) Day fireworks -- a dazzling and colorful array of offerings from Book Sense Publisher Partners including:

Galleys, ARC's, and Finished Books

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