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Incoming ABA President Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, provides BTW readers with a report on his trip to Italy last week to attend the International Booksellers Federation's Annual Conference, held in conjunction with the Turin International Book Fair.
 Take a boy raised under the big-sky canopy of rural Montana, expose him to the charms of colloquial story-telling and colorful speech, encourage an appreciation of prose and poetry, provoke his curiosity about the people and places and times that preceded him -- and who have you got?
The results of the American Booksellers Association's 2006 Board of Directors elections, which concluded on April 24, were recently certified by the association's election inspector, KPMG.
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It's been quite a year so far, in terms of authors and honesty. From the James Frey firestorm to this week's news about teen author Kaavya Viswanathan's apparent penchant for plagiarism, the nature of truth, memory, and artistic license repeatedly have been called into question.
 Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, the number-one selection on the June Book Sense Picks list, was just a day away from starting a different novel, when an article about a photographer named Edward J. Kelty caught her eye -- and then her undivided attention.
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Photograph by Wyatt Counts
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American Booksellers Association bookstore members are currently casting ballots to elect 2006 - 2007 ABA Board directors and to ratify the ABA Nominating Committee's choice of Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, for a first term as ABA president, and of Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, for a one-year term as vice president.
On Wednesday, May 17, the American Booksellers Association's first-ever Legislative Day at BookExpo America will begin at noon with a featured presentation by Robert Barnett, senior partner at the prestigious Washington law firm Williams & Connolly LLP.
American Booksellers Association Board of Directors ballots must be postmarked by April 17 and returned in a special postage-paid envelope to accountant KPMG by April 24.
 On Tuesday, April 4, BookExpo America announced the appointment of Lance Fensterman as show manager. Fensterman, who was most recently store manager for R.J. Julia at Elm Street Books in New Canaan, Connecticut, will report to Courtney Muller, group vice president at Reed Exhibitions. He will begin his job at Reed Exhibitions on April 10.
The American Booksellers Association will honor longtime South Carolina independent booksellers and community leaders Betty and Rhett Jackson with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Celebration of Bookselling at this year's BookExpo America. The award will be presented to the Jacksons by fellow South Carolinian, and longtime friend, author Pat Conroy. The Jacksons opened their bookstore, The Happy Bookseller, in 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina.
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American Booksellers Association Board of Directors ballots must be postmarked by April 17 and returned in a special postage-paid envelope to accountant KPMG by April 24.
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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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