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14 Dec

Latest Today Book Club Selection Announced

On Tuesday, December 14, author Sue Monk Kidd, an indie favorite and 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award-winner for The Secret Life of Bees (Penguin), chose Stephanie Kallos' new novel Broken for You (Grove) as the next title to be read by the NBC Today Show's Today Book Club.

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14 Dec

Making the Case for Women's Rights at Wal-Mart

Betty Dukes is no Erin Brockovich. A middle-aged, African-American woman who thought sex discrimination was something unseemly and describes herself as a "preacher of the Gospel," Dukes -- who is currently employed as a 'greeter' at the Wal-Mart in Pittsburg, California -- is nevertheless poised to head a group of 1.6 million women in the largest civil rights class-action suit in history -- Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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14 Dec

The Book Sense Beach Book (Mass Market) Bestseller List

For the four-week period ending December 12, 2004, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent booksellers nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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

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09 Dec

ABA Board Nomination Deadline Approaches

Friday, December 17, is the deadline for receipt of nominations of candidates to serve on the American Booksellers Association's Board of Directors. Any ABA member may submit nominations to the Nominating Committee, chaired by Suzanne Staubach of UConn Co-op in Storrs, Connecticut.

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