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For many independent bookstore owners the idea of retiring and having the time to read the books stacked at their bedsides might seem the stuff of dreams, but, inevitably, there comes a time when store owners have to make a decision regarding the future of their businesses. For some, this means selling the business either to an employee or to an outside party; for others, this means handing the business off to their children.
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The village of New London, New Hampshire, can take some credit for the success of new U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. The rural community of New London, especially the farm where generations of Hall's family have lived, has served as his lifelong inspiration and his home for the past 30 years. That same community is also home to 11-year-old Morgan Hill Bookstore.
 Karl Pohrt, owner of the Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently received the honor of having a professorship at the University of Michigan named for him. The honor was conferred by U-M German history professor Geoff Eley. Eley was given the title of distinguished professor, which allows him to name the position after a "person of distinction" in a related field of interest.
Warren Buffett may be the Oracle of Omaha, but Nancy Rips is Omaha's very own Book Maven. Over the past few decades, Rips has discovered and developed unique ways to bring books to people and people to books.
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British music-lovers have been drawn to the sounds of their American cousins ever since Yankee Doodle picked up a fife.
 Rachel Cohn and David Levithan aren't the sort of authors who need complete silence in order to be creative: they prefer to rock out to the music on their iPods as they write. According to Levithan, "It'd be hard to find either of us without our iPod earphones in. It's a totally constant soundtrack."
 Before Abigail Friedman moved to Japan she had, like many Americans, "lots of well-founded ignorant views" of haiku.
In a primary election on Tuesday, June 6, Neal Coonerty, owner of California's Bookshop Santa Cruz, easily won a seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. Coonerty garnered 58 percent of the vote, while his two opponents, Chris Krohn and Jonathan Boutelle, won 25 percent and 12 percent of the votes, respectively, as reported by the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Elaine and Bill Petrocelli, the owners of Book Passage in Corte Madera and San Francisco, most recently made the news with the announcement, on May 24 in California's Marin Independent Journal, that they plan to open a third store in Novato, California. However, since January, the Petrocellis and Book Passage have been in the news for another reason.
Pat Robinson of Bookland and the Dartmouth Bookstore
 Mary Elizabeth Patricia "Pat" Robinson, who, during a long bookselling career, worked for the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Bookland in Brunswick, Maine, died on Wednesday, May 17, after a brief illness. She was 88.
Robinson was born on March 24, 1918, in Walpole, Massachusetts. In 1938, Robinson married Raymond Robinson.
On Thursday, May 11, The Playboy Foundation presented longtime South Carolina independent bookseller Rhett Jackson with a 2006 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Lifetime Achievement Award at New York's Cipriani 23rd Street. The award ceremony recognized Jackson and seven other individuals for their personal achievements in defending the First Amendment.
American Booksellers Association COO Oren Teicher introduced Jackson at the awards ceremony and talked about his "passionate commitment to the idea that books change lives."
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American Booksellers Association is a national trade association that supports and advocates for the success of independent bookstores. We provide members with education, networking opportunities, advocacy, resources, and technology. In turn our members support local schools through book fairs, donations and author visits; promote literacy; provide inclusive community centers; connect readers and books; add character to neighborhoods; champion and center diverse and new voices; and contribute to the local economy. We feel honored to support them in their work.
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