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18 Dec

ABA Invites Booksellers to Tampa and Chicago Forums

This week, ABA sent e-mail invitations to booksellers in the Southeast and Great Lakes regions (including booksellers in Wisconsin) to attend the first two ABA Booksellers Forums of 2004. In conjunction with the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA), ABA will hold the first forum of the winter season on Friday, January 9, at the John F. Germany Public Library in downtown Tampa, Florida.

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18 Dec

BTW Takes a Holiday, But Bestseller List As Usual

There will be no issue of Bookselling This Week during the week of December 22; however, the Book Sense Bestseller List will be compiled and e-mailed to booksellers as usual on Tuesday, December 23. In addition, the list in PDF format will be posted to the Web at www.bookweb.org/booksense/bestsellers/ either late Tuesday or early Wednesday, December 24. Booksellers will receive an e-mail from ABA when posting of the Bestseller List to BookWeb is complete.

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17 Dec

Wallace Kuralt, Noted North Carolina Bookseller, Dies

Longtime North Carolina bookseller Wallace Kuralt died on Saturday, December 13, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Kuralt, brother of the late CBS journalist Charles Kuralt, had been treated for Merkel cell carcinoma, a skin cancer, for nearly two years, as reported by the Raleigh News & Observer. He was 64.

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16 Dec

African-American Elders Share Their Wisdom

"A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak is like having your grandmother in the room with you," said Renee Poussaint, executive director and co-founder of the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) and co-editor of the collection of oral histories that tell the first-person stories of African-American elders, both the nationally notable and

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