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Here is the full listing of the January Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the January Book Sense 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.)
 For some writers, the search for the right idea for a book can be hit-and-miss, requiring a great deal of work, diligence, and luck to find just the right theme.
For the eight-week period ending November 27, 2005, and based on reporting by hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
Attention Media: Please contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
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Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 13, 2005.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
Attention Media: Please contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
The start of the holiday season brings gift catalogs, decorations, and dozens of large color advertisements for new movies. What follows are updates on more films based on books, graphic novels, plays, and short stories. This list is not comprehensive, but it does represent some of the more popular feature films opening during November, December, and the early weeks of 2006. Some of the films are opening only at film festivals and major markets in 2005 and, then, moving into wide release in 2006.
The format and price listed in the 2005 December Book Sense Picks flier for the Notables title Sleeping With Schubert by Bonnie Marson are incorrect. The listing should have reflected that the title is now a Ballantine paperback, $13.95, ISBN 0812968395.
The information will be listed correctly on the downloadable PDF of the December Book Sense Notables.
 Though Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is Laila Lalami's debut novel, the Moroccan-born author has been writing for publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Independent, and The Nation for years.
From The Historian to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan in fiction, and The Tender Bar: A Memoir and Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog in nonfiction, 2005 was marked by a wide range of outstanding writing and notable Book Sense Picks selections.
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The 2005 Book Sense Bestsellers, a special listing of the year's bestselling titles at independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide, was created to provide stores with a versatile marketing tool to help drive sales during the all-important holiday season and into the new year.
