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After the Dover-Sherborn (Massachusetts) Schools book review committee's decision to remove So Far From the Bamboo Grove from the school curriculum was met by a wave of protests from free speech groups and area residents, a Dover-Sherborn Regional School Committee voted on Tuesday to reinstate the controversial novel. According to the Boston Globe, the committee plans to restructure the English curriculum to more clearly show the story's historical context.

Here is the full listing of February 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 February Picks fliers in the January Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)

Thoughts of a new Harry Potter to sell should be enough to warm any bookseller's heart this holiday season, and while information on the latest in the Potter series is extremely limited, J.K. Rowling has at least given her latest a name. On December 21, Scholastic announced that the 7th book in the Harry Potter series will be titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending December 17, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.

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To complement the Book Sense 2006 Bestsellers -- a special listing of the year's top-selling books in Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction and Nonfiction, and Children's Fiction and Illustrated -- Book Sense has created the Book Sense 2006 Children's Series Bestsellers.

As a boy in India, Vikram Chandra -- author of Sacred Games (HarperCollins), the number-one January Book Sense Pick -- was surrounded by stories: the traditional tales of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana told him by his aunts and grandmothers; a cornucopia of American, English, and Indian books displayed by

This week, Book Sense is announcing the Book Sense 2006 Bestsellers, a special listing of the year's top-selling books across six categories, based on sales at independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide. The list provides the year's top 15 titles in Hardcover Fiction, Hardcover Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction, Paperback Nonfiction, Children's Fiction, and Children's Illustrated.