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 The American Booksellers Association today announces the winners of the inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards. Formerly the Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, the new Indies Choice Book Awards reflect the spirit of independent bookstores nationwide through new categories and a broader range of winners and honor books.
The 2009 Indies Choice Book Award winners, chosen by the owners and staff at ABA member stores during more than four weeks of voting, are:
For the eight-week period ending April 7, 2009, and based on sales at independent bookstores throughout the U.S.
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Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan
Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau, $9.99, 9780385530934
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Here's a preview of the May Indie Next List, now on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.
 As warmer weather spreads across the country, IndieBound is refreshing the popular Bookseller DIY with new, spring-themed designs. With consumer awareness of IndieBound on the rise, DIY materials can help identify your store as a destination for local, community-conscious shopping.
Each month, the Indie Next List Notables feature engrossing and provocative writing -- fiction and nonfiction titles enthusiastically recommended by indie booksellers nationwide.
HarperStudio has partnered with PEN American Center to publish Burn This Book, a collection of essays about censorship and literature in response to oppression, which goes on sale May 12. Edited by Toni Morrison, the volume features an A-list of contributors including Paul Auster, Nadine Gordimer, Pico Iyer, Francine Prose, Salman Rushdie, and John Updike.
For the eight-week period ending March 24, 2009, and based on sales at independent bookstores throughout the U.S.
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Among the Mad
Jacqueline Winspear, Holt, $25, 9780805082166
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 In anticipation of next month's celebrations of National Poetry Month and Poem in Your Pocket Day, on April 30, the Academy of American Poets and Abrams Image have partnered to offer an ideal title for poetry lovers of all stripes: Poem in Your Pocket, a hardcover whose interior pages are a pad of 200 poems that can be peeled off to go in your pocket or someone else's.
The Genocide Prevention Project and the American Booksellers Association have partnered to raise public awareness that April is Genocide Prevention Month, a commemoration of past genocide and mass atrocity crimes and a call for a global prevention policy.
Voting is now open to the owners and staff at all ABA member bookstores for the inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards, reflecting the spirit of independent bookstores and the IndieBound movement.
 Here is the 2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten, based on the enthusiastic nominations of independent booksellers nationwide. A full-color PDF of the list is available for download on BookWeb.
Here's a preview of the April Indie Next List, now on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.
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Chronicle Books and We Are What We Do a U.K.-based nonprofit, have partnered to bring Change the World for Ten Bucks: Small Actions x Lots of People = Big Change to the U.S.
After more than four weeks of voting by booksellers at independent bookstores across the country, the American Booksellers Association today announces the first three inductees to the Indies Choice Book Awards Picture Book Hall of Fame.