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12 Feb

February White Box -- Celebrating Passionate Bookselling

As Valentine's Day focuses our sights on expressions of fond regard and appreciation, so the February White Box overflows with offerings from Book Sense Publisher Partners, included with those same sentiments in mind -- regard for the passion with which you approach your chosen profession, and appreciation for the attention you pay to each title presented. Here are just some of the highlights:

Galleys, ARCs, and Finished Books:

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12 Feb

Lord of the Rings Sweepstakes Winner Announced

Bonnie Mercier of Lynn, Massachusetts, has won the grand prize in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Final Journey Sweepstakes, which ended on December 15. Mercier won a prize package of luggage and travel supplies, a J.R.R. Tolkien library, DVDs and video games, and movie memorabilia, in the promotion, which was sponsored by Book Sense, Houghton Mifflin, and New Line Cinema to mark the release of the third and final installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, in movie theaters around the country.

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12 Feb

The 2004 March/April Book Sense 76 Top Ten

Here is the Top Ten of the upcoming 2004 March/April Book Sense 76. Watch for next week's issue of Bookselling This Week for the full 76. And, again, very many thanks to all the independent booksellers who made this list possible.

1) Good Grief, by Lolly Winston (Warner, $18, 0446533041)

2) Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, by Neely Tucker (Crown, $23.95, 0609609769)

3) The Birth of Venus: A Novel, by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $24.95, 1400060737)

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12 Feb

BTW News Briefs

Scholastic Announces Potter Paperback Pub Date

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