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06 Mar

Senate Approves Patriot Act Reauthorization

After months of intense debate, on Thursday, March 2, the Senate voted 89 - 10 to reauthorize the expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, including a four-year extension of Section 215, which authorizes searches of bookstore and library records. It is expected that the House will vote on -- and pass -- the legislation on Tuesday, March 7, according to media reports. President Bush must sign the bill before March 10.

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06 Mar

McMurtry Thanks Booksellers at the Academy Awards

At last night's 78th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, several of the Oscar-winning films were based on books -- Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, Capote, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Constant Gardener, and Tsotsi. In his acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay, Larry McMurtry acknowledged the role of books in film, and he offered a paean to "all the booksellers of the world."

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02 Mar

Book Sense Welcomes New Publisher Partners

The Book Sense family of Publisher Partners has two new additions: Dorchester Publishing and Watson-Guptill Publications.

Watson-Guptill was founded in 1937 by Ernest Watson and Arthur Guptill. The company, which is now owned by VNU, includes five imprints -- Watson-Guptill, Amphoto Books, Billboard Books, Back Stage Books, and Whitney Library of Design -- with titles focusing on, among other things, fine art, lifestyle and design, cartooning, animation, crafts and graphic design, photography, and television.

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02 Mar

The April Book Sense Picks and Notables Preview

Booksellers have spoken regarding the number-one title on the April Book Sense Picks list, and ... it's a tie.

When the tabulating was done, The Madonnas of Leningrad, a novel by Debra Dean (Morrow), and Saving the World, a novel by Julia Alvarez (Algonquin), had received an equal amount of support from independent booksellers in the Book Sense program.

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