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Here is a preview of the titles to be featured on the Book Sense December "We Also Recommend." Downloadable PDFs of the flier and shelf-talkers, which include bibliographic information and booksellers' quotations for the 20 titles, will be available next week at www.bookweb.org/read/6977. The PDF flier also includes jacket images.
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country for the four-week period ending November 14, 2004.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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 Author/illustrator Jeanette Winter creates award-winning children's books on some very complicated subjects: She has explored other cultures, from Mali to Mexico, and has introduced the lives of artists as varied as Georgia O' Keeffe and Emily Dickinson to young readers.
The November 8 issue of The New Yorker, on newsstands last week, featured the latest installment of "Just Kidding," highlighting independent booksellers' title recommendations for children and young adults, from the Book Sense Picks lists. The special insert also includes a full-page ad featuring the top ten titles on the Autumn 2004 Book Sense Kids' Picks. The ad and insert copy direct readers to independent bookstores and www.booksense.com for more book suggestions.
 For those of us who want to tour the world but might be short of funds or time, a newly published coffee-table book may help quench that thirst for travel for a while -- or, perhaps, make it even worse.
 Newmarket Press is packing some hot material in a brown paper bag. Well, at least it's designed to look like a brown paper bag. It's actually the cover of the trade paperback Kinsey: Public and Private, the official tie-in to the film Kinsey, which explores the life of famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
While the recent announcement of the 2004 National Book Award finalists included many unfamiliar names, one very familiar name in publishing came up twice in the same category. Nominated for the Young People's Literature award were two titles bearing Little, Brown's Megan Tingley Books imprint: Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill and Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters.
 On Tuesday, October 26, author Sue Miller chose Brian Morton's A Window Across the River (Harcourt, $13) as the next title to be read by NBC Today Show's Today Book Club. Miller and Morton discussed the selection, which explores the balance between romance and creative temperament.
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