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Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 16, 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 book industry's awards season moved into full swing, with the announcement earlier this week of the winners of the inaugural Quill Book Awards, the finalists for the National Book Awards, and the winner of the U.K.'s Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The 2005 Quill Book Awards
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Here is the full listing of the 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. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)
There are two significant deadlines approaching for the Book Sense Picks lists.
Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 2, 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.
 Author Laura Whitcomb
 This week, Book Sense and The History Channel present the Autumn 2005 Top Ten Picks About Luminaries in Science, Art, and Politics. The list is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide and is the sixth time Book Sense has compiled a list in association with The History Channel.
Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 18, 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.
 Turn down Station Street, a shady side street in quaint-chic Brookline Village, Massachusetts, and you'll see a T-stop to your right, and a large brick warehouse building tucked into the block-long row of shops and businesses to your left.
 This week Book Sense announces the 2005 Halloween Top Ten. The list is produced in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative and is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.
Booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving the Halloween Top Ten in the September Red Box.
For a downloadable PDF file of the Halloween 2005 Top Ten, click here.
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About ABA
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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The usual book for an actor to write, after years of success, is his memoirs. And that's the very book Jack Klugman -- the veteran stage and screen performer, star of the fondly remembered TV series The Odd Couple and Quincy -- tried to write a few years ago, with the help of collaborator Burton Rocks. 