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04 Sep

Esme Raji Codell Expounds on Potato Pedagogy and the Power of Books

Esme Raji Codell, and yes, she was named for Salinger's Esme -- came to national attention with her first book, Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Algonquin). The insightful, funny, unbelievably energetic Codell began her first year of teaching in an underachieving, charmless public school in a very poor section of Chicago. She chronicled the experience and gave readers a glimpse of what a gifted teacher can do even in the humblest environments.

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04 Sep

The Wit, Satire, and Humor Book Sense Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 31, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

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

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04 Sep

Author Claire Cook Attests to the Power of Book Sense

Claire Cook, whose novel Must Love Dogs (Onyx Books) is a top ten pick on the Summer Paperback Book Sense 76, recently wrote to Dan Cullen, editor-in-chief of the Book Sense 76 lists, to express her appreciation for independent booksellers' support of her work and to acknowledge the power of the Book Sense 76 lists.

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04 Sep

Great Lakes Book Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2003 Great Lakes Book Awards were recently announced by the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA).

The winners are: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar Straus & Giroux and Picador USA) for Fiction; To Conquer the Air by James Tobin (The Free Press) in the General category; and Girl Wonder by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Rich Widener (Atheneum) for Children’s Literature.

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