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Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
Zack Hample, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307280329
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The Quill Book Awards were presented on Monday, October 22, in a ceremony that will be broadcast on NBC Universal Stations on Saturday, October 27. The Quills Book of the Year, chosen by readers across the country, was awarded to Angels Fall by Nora Roberts (Putnam). The Debut Author of the Year Award was given to Diane Setterfield for The Thirteenth Tale (Atria).
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The Winners of the 2007 Quill Book Awards
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 On Tuesday, October 16, Anne Enright was named the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Gathering, published in the U.S. in September by Black Cat, a paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic.
 Since 2001, the first weekend in October has marked the Amelia Island Book Festival in the town of Fernandina Beach, Florida. Dozens of authors mingle with thousands of readers at workshops, readings, and social events in the historic harbor town off Florida's northeast coast.
For the eight-week period ending October 7, 2007, and based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
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The Secret
Rhonda Byrne (Ed.), Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707
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Truth is stranger than fiction, it's sometimes said. But fiction often gives us our best chance to experience and comprehend an increasingly strange reality.
 Oprah's 59th Book Club Selection is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published in both English and Spanish-language editions by Vintage Books. The announcement was made by Oprah on Friday, October 5.
 Here is the full listing of November Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the month's Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving their November Picks fliers in the October Red Box.
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 ABFFE President Chris Finan has begun a special Banned Books Week Tour for his new book, From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America.
 By setting his novel, Matrimony (Pantheon), an October Book Sense Pick, on college campuses, as well as within a marriage, married writer Joshua Henkin chose familiar territory.
 Stores with Book Sense will be receiving the Autumn - Winter 2007/2008 Book Sense Reading Group Picks list in the October Red Box mailing; however, the full list, with bookseller quotes, can be previewed online now.
For the eight-week period ending September 18, 2007, and based on sales at independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
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The Children of Hurin
J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $26, 9780618894642
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 After a decade of hosting hundreds of author visits as the marketing director for Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California, Linda Urban will now be the one signing the books.
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