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12 Nov

Swedish Novel Explores Youthful Friendship & '60s Culture

Vittula, as Mikael Niemi explains in his first adult novel, is short for Vittulajanka, a district located in the Swedish village of Pajala. It's a place where the winters are long, cold, and dark. But it's also a place where the joys of being a teenager burn vividly.

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12 Nov

Wisconsin Bookstore's Fight for Free Speech Victorious

On Thursday, November 6, Madison, Wisconsin's Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative and a local newsweekly were able to convince Madison Area Technical College (MATC) to reverse its decision to impose restrictions on a speaking event about the Middle East, featuring noted writer and University of Chicago researcher Ali Abunimah. MATC had attempted to limit the scope of the talk and to deny Rainbow's request to sell books in conjunction with the event after some residents protested the talk due to Abunimah's pro-Palestinian point-of-view.

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12 Nov

Old Is New Again at 2nd Edition

"I guess we're bucking the trend," said Debi Echlin of 2nd Edition Books and Gifts in Oakland, California. Co-owners Echlin and Helen Talley reformatted their store from selling mostly used books to carrying only new titles. At a time when many booksellers are opting to add used books to their inventory mix, Echlin said she realized that her diminutive section of new books, comprised entirely of Book Sense Bestsellers and 76 picks, was substantially more profitable than the rest of the used stock.

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11 Nov

Correction

In the November/December Book Sense 76, the nominating bookseller for Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World, by Peter Nichols (HarperCollins, $24.95, 006008877X) was Jeanne Morris, Bethany Beach Books, Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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