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 Hopefully, all stores with Book Sense will have the happy problem of being extremely busy during this holiday season. But it is also extremely important that all stores continue to report their sales to the Book Sense Bestseller List each week. It is a crucial time to demonstrate to the industry the power of independents.
 A bookseller is one of the few good guys among a nasty cast of characters in Blind Submission, memoirist Debra Ginsberg's debut novel set in a Bay Area literary agency.
 The Book Sense 2006 Bestsellers, a special listing of the year's top 15 bestselling titles in six categories -- Hardcover Fiction, Hardcover Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction, Paperback Nonfiction, Children's Fiction, and Children's Illustrated -- will be published in Bookselling This Week on Thursday, December 7.
 Here is the full listing of December 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 December Picks fliers in the November Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)
Book Sense has again compiled a special, year-end Picks Highlights list, featuring a wealth of great reading recommended by independent booksellers. The list of titles contained in the four-page, tabloid-format flier -- which will be arriving at bookstores in the November Red Box -- presents a wide range of Book Sense Picks in fiction and nonfiction from 2006, and offers booksellers a great opportunity to build effective holiday displays.
Canadian publisher Groundwood Books has created The Groundwork Guides, a new series of "edgy, opinionated guides" for teen readers about important political and social issues.
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The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.
Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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Here is the full listing of January 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 January Picks fliers in the December Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)
