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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.
 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.
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Part II of a Bookselling This Week miniseries about web-centric undertakings that will help you stay current -- and stay connected to the tens of millions of people who engage in online conversations about books and reading. (Read Part I, "Booksellers Befriend MySpace.")
Becoming a blogger changed Jessica Stockton Bagnulo's life.
2007 Great Lakes Book Award Winners
The Great Lakes Booksellers Association has announced the winners of its 2007 Great Lakes Book Awards.
This year's winners are:
 Bad things happen to Peter Greenberg when he travels.
The phrase "beach read" typically calls to mind a certain sort of book: usually fiction, light of subject matter, an easy read.
Elizabeth Haslam, who with her husband, Charles "the Bookman" Haslam, was the second generation to run Haslam's in St. Petersburg, Florida, died on Saturday, July 14. She was 94.
After the Second World War, Elizabeth and Charles Haslam took over the store founded by his parents, John and Mary Haslam, in 1933. The store continues to be run by the third and fourth generations of Haslams, Elizabeth and Charles' daughter, Suzanne, and her husband, Ray Hinst, and their son and his family.
 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author, and renowned free speech advocate Doug Marlette was killed in a single-car accident in Mississippi on Tuesday, July 10. Marlette was a passenger in a car heading to Oxford, Mississippi -- where he had been helping some high school students stage a musical based on his comic strip Kudzu -- when the car apparently hydroplaned on a rain-soaked road before hitting a tree, according to published reports. Marlette was 57.
"Imagine there's no countries," John Lennon dared us in a 1971 song. "It isn't hard to do."
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