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Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 16, 2014.

Booksellers at all ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots for the 2014 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards from now until April 11. The winners will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch at BEA.

Makiia Lucier talks about her debut title for young adults, A Death-Struck Year, the merits of historical fiction, and more.

BEA reveals lineups for author breakfasts; Bryan Pearce given posthumous humanitarian award; Senate to vote on Maria Contreras-Sweet for SBA administrator; AAUP releases Books for Understanding: Ukraine; Inaugural Pinckley Prizes announced

Independent booksellers will soon be able to sell and buy back used higher education textbooks through Ingram Content Group’s expanded textbook program.

TaraShea Nesbit is the author of the debut novel The Wives of Los Alamos, a spring 2014 Indies Introduce title and a March 2014 Indie Next List pick, which tells the story of women from all over the world who cut their ties with friends and relatives to live in isolation at Los Alamos while their husbands developed the atomic bomb.

In celebration of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, the #1 Indie Next List pick for April, an Algonquin sweepstakes will award three lucky ABA member booksellers a customized Storied Life print with their name emblazoned on the book cover.

Booksellers look for answers from L.A. Times Festival of Books; Small Business Majority offers free media training; Supreme Court to hear workers’ case against Amazon; Linda Matthews retires from Chicago Review Press; Sylvan Dell becomes Arbordale Publishing; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists revealed; Lambda Literary Award finalists announced; Children’s Africana Book Award winners chosen

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 2, 2014.

Rohan Gavin’s Knightley & Son “is a clever, creative, exciting adventure perfect for everyone who loves a good, classic mystery,” says Kris Vreeland of Once Upon a Time Bookstore. Here, Gavin discusses the inspiration for his debut novel for middle grade readers and more.

BookExpo America has revealed the titles and authors selected for the 2014 Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade Editors Buzz Forums and Author Stage appearances.

Ezra Jack Keats children’s book awards announced; Michael Carley to leave Simon & Schuster

World Book Night U.S. announced today that a special World Book Night edition of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave will be made available to schools as part of this year’s April 23 celebration of reading.

The talk of the independent bookselling community, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry follows the life of a bookstore owner as he deals with the trials and tribulations of life, love, and the book business. Here, author Gabrielle Zevin discusses the inspiration for her story and how she learned so much about the inner workings of the book business without stepping behind a checkout counter.

Walton’s eloquent debut YA novel, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, about a girl with speckled wings and a heritage of love, loss, and magic has been called “timeless, beautiful, and perfect for lovers of magical realism” by bookseller Melissa Fox of Watermark Books and Café.