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 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 American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of its 2007 Winter Institute scholarships: Lisa Sharp of Nightbird Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas; Miah Olmsted of Back to Books in Hudson, Wisconsin; and Jessica Stockton of McNally Robinson in New York City.
When it comes to Book Sense Picks, Unbridled Books is on a roll: Twelve of its last 21 titles have garnered the necessary support from independent booksellers in the Book Sense program to be selected as Picks -- including, in September, small acts of sex and electricity by Lise Haines and, in October, Goodnight, Texas by William J. Cobb.
 Daniel Pink thinks the creative types shall inherit the earth.
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 A year and a half ago, Roxanne Coady set out to brainstorm ideas for celebrating the 15th anniversary of her bookstore, R.J. Julia Booksellers, in Madison, Connecticut.
By Peter Osnos, Senior Fellow for Media at The Century Foundation and Founder of The Caravan Project
It was 50 years ago -- October 8, 1956, to be exact -- that Yankee pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history: 27 men up to the plate and 27 men set down. No errors. No walks. It was a perfect game from the unlikeliest of sources -- a pitcher who had developed a somewhat wild reputation in both his professional and personal life.
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