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For the eight-week period ending February 21, 2006, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent booksellers with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine
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To be eligible to win prizes, stores with Book Sense that are participating in the Curious George promotion created by Houghton Mifflin and Book Sense must return disposable cameras, with undeveloped photos of special events and displays, to Book Sense by March 1. ABA will develop the film and return a CD of the photos to the bookstore.
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Island Books, Judy Crosby's 13-year-old bookstore, is located in Middletown, on Aquidneck Island, one of the earliest colonial settlement sites in Rhode Island. Until 1731, Middletown was a part of neighboring Newport, the seaside town long famous as a vacation spot for the extraordinarily wealthy.
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On February 14, the U.S. Commerce Department delivered a valentine to the nation's economy. At 8:30 a.m., the agency released a monthly sales estimate for January showing that retail and food services sales were up 2.3 percent from December 2005 and had risen 8.8 percent over January 2005. Estimated January sales were $365.4 billion, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes.
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In Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir (Holt), Danielle Trussoni puts her own literary twist on the war memoir: Her father, Dan, was the one who served, but his experiences, and the posttraumatic stress disorder they cause, haunt the entire family, particularly Trussoni. She came to view the Vietnam War as a "hole...
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Here's a reminder about ABA/Book Sense programs and events. This list may also be downloaded in PDF format.
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Nominations Needed for Upcoming Lists
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About ABA
The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.
Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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