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23 May

Announcing Plans for a 'Best Reading Group Books of All Time' 76

By Carl Lennertz

One of the many ideas and suggestions that came out of BookExpo America, now that the 76 is well-established as a marketing tool for mostly new books, is to extend its reach to backlist, and to do so first by creating a "Best Reading Group Books of All Time 76."

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23 May

Free Speech Advocate Opens the Book on Alfred E. Smith

By 1936, two New Yorkers were touted as the greatest political leaders of the century -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. While every American can recall some accomplishments of FDR, only those who lived through the 1920s and 1930s will likely even remember who Smith was.

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23 May

USA Today Selects Its Second Book Club Title

With War Emblem only one win away from horse racing’s triple crown, the USA Today book club’s second book selection is a fitting one: Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine Books), winner of this year’s BookSense Book of the Year Award for adult nonfiction. The national newspaper announced the selection Thursday, May 23.

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23 May

THE TITLE WAVE – Sifting and Winnowing on the BEA Show Floor

A major goal of all booksellers at BookExpo America (BEA) is to identify key titles and to discover intriguing new houses. During the show, BTW staff talked with a number of publishers, particularly smaller, independent houses, to try and help highlight some of the promising books from upcoming lists. By no means exhaustive (although everyone attending BEA can plead exhaustion) the following titles struck us as good possibilities for the fall.

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