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01 Aug

Bookseller Gives Michigan Community a New Song

Downtown Howell, Michigan, is about to have something new to sing about. Opening officially on September 15 is a 3,000-square-foot general bookstore named Aria Booksellers, complete with a Patagonian conure, a tropical American parrot whose name is Mozart.

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01 Aug

The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Nautical Interest

Based on sales from over 300 independent booksellers across American over the last eight weeks.

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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01 Aug

The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Fishing

Based on sales from over 300 independent booksellers across American over the last eight weeks.

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

(Editor's note: For the best and funniest novel about family and fishing -- and the debate between fly vs. bait -- don't miss David James Duncan's The River Why. As funny as any Tom Robbins. Check it out.)

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01 Aug

Thursday Tip, Sleeper Alerts, and … a Movie Rec??

By Carl Lennertz

Tip of the Week: Booksellers are reporting that they have had great success tucking a copy of the current 76 flier into titles waiting on the hold/special order shelf.

Sales News: Here's an update from data gathered from 350 indies. (Booksellers: Some of this information went out by e-mail Tuesday; let me know if you're not getting that e-mail, along with the national list and the "On the Rises." Publishers: Let me know if you're not getting the list on Tuesday.)

Hardcover Fiction:

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