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The success of Young Adult books has a lot of people celebrating, but it has outraged others. To draw attention to the growing number of challenges to YA titles, the sponsors of Banned Books Week have chosen to make YA books the focus of this year’s celebration.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 19, 2015.

Last year, Mississippi’s independent booksellers and the University Press of Mississippi began working together to revitalize the Books pages in the Jackson-based Clarion-Ledger. Since then, the section’s resurgence has enlivened the state’s literary culture.

The May Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

Today, the American Booksellers Association announces the winners of the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted by independent booksellers nationwide.

2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals shortlist announced; College to take over management of Bryn Mawr Bookstore; Consortium signs two indie publishers; Oyster to sell e-books; Atticus Lish wins 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction;  X.J. Kennedy wins Jackson Poetry Prize; Winners of the 2014 James Tiptree Jr. Award announced; Winners of 2015 Christopher Awards announced

The Literary Hub website launched on Wednesday with a showcase of literary essays, features, and profiles and a special letter from the editor commending bookstores.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 5, 2015.

PEN to honor Charlie Hebdo staff, Penguin Random House CEO, and Tom Stoppard; James Beard Foundation announces Book Award nominees; Diversity, free speech discussed at Annual Meeting of Association of American Publishers; Winners of 2015 Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction announced; Ingram Publisher Services adds five new clients

A complaint from a parent in Wallingford, Connecticut, has prompted the district’s superintendent of schools to remove Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower from the required reading list for high school freshmen.

Debut novelist Aline Ohanesian discusses growing up in a family where both sets of grandparents were Armenian Genocide survivors; how it feels to find success so early in her writing career; and the two mysterious sentences that sparked her imagination to begin writing Orhan’s Inheritance.

Here are the titles on the May Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement. A downloadable PDF version of the list will also be available beginning May 1 on BookWeb.org and IndieBound.org.

With the announcement today of the finalists for the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, booksellers at American Booksellers Association member stores across the country will begin voting to choose the winners in eight categories.

Man Booker International Prize finalists announced; HarperCollins unveils Go Set a Watchman cover; Ferguson librarian to receive Lemony Snicket Noble Librarians Prize; English PEN Hessell-Tiltman 2015 shortlist announced; Russian publisher to receive International Freedom to Publish Award

With ever-changing content, including essays, excerpts, interviews, and bookstore profiles, Literary Hub is poised to become a daily go-to website for readers engaged in the literary world.