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23 May

USA Today Selects Its Second Book Club Title

With War Emblem only one win away from horse racing’s triple crown, the USA Today book club’s second book selection is a fitting one: Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine Books), winner of this year’s BookSense Book of the Year Award for adult nonfiction. The national newspaper announced the selection Thursday, May 23.

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23 May

THE TITLE WAVE – Sifting and Winnowing on the BEA Show Floor

A major goal of all booksellers at BookExpo America (BEA) is to identify key titles and to discover intriguing new houses. During the show, BTW staff talked with a number of publishers, particularly smaller, independent houses, to try and help highlight some of the promising books from upcoming lists. By no means exhaustive (although everyone attending BEA can plead exhaustion) the following titles struck us as good possibilities for the fall.

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23 May

ABA Strategic Planning Committee Receives Members' Ranking of Draft Strategic Goals

When the ABA Strategic Planning Committee meets in July, its work will rest on a foundation of significant ABA member input. A key result of that input is the final result of surveys conducted at 11 regional meetings over the past several months and at special sessions at BookExpo America (BEA). These meetings addressed the draft strategic goals created by the Strategic Planning Committee in conjunction with input from ABA’s Booksellers Advisory Council (BAC).

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22 May

Tattered Cover's Joyce Meskis Receives ALA's Immroth and Roll of Honor Awards

This week, the American Library Association (ALA) announced that Joyce Meskis, owner of Denver, Colorado’s Tattered Cover Book Store, is the recipient of the 2002 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award and the 2002 Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Roll of Honor Award. Meskis and her colleagues at the Tattered Cover Book Store have won widespread acclaim as a result of the store’s legal battle in which it successfully defended the privacy rights of its customers.

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