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Host Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy.
Chapter and Breathe Spellers
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Late Saturday afternoon -- after two and a half days of busy trade show activities -- the Book Sense Reading room offered a literary respite for BookExpo America attendees. From 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., four of independent booksellers' favorite authors, including two Book Sense Book of the Year winners, read from their works. The featured authors were:
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Author Chuck Klosterman
Photo:Lisa Corson
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By Joan Airoldi
It was a moment that librarians had been dreading.
On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden. We said no.
 Book-banning is familiar territory for Chris Crutcher: Each of his nine books has caught the attention of censors around the country. It is fitting, then, that his latest novel, The Sledding Hill (Greenwillow Books), a Summer 2005 Book Sense Children's Pick, explores friendship, grief, growing up -- and a censorship attempt at an Idaho high school.
First Amendment activist and bookseller Cammie Mannino, owner of Halfway Down the Stairs Children's Bookshop in downtown Rochester, Michigan, was instrumental in securing the re-election of two incumbent school board candidates. The contentious campaign, which pitted the two incumbents against two newcomers supported by a newly formed conservative political action committee (PAC), ended on May 3 with a record turnout and two-to-one victories over both PAC candidates.
 Steve Berry
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Some young people have visions that change their lives -- like the trio of youngsters in Fatima, Portugal, who were visited by the Virgin Mary in 1917.
Results of the 2005 ABA Board of Directors elections, which concluded on May 4, were recently certified by the association's election inspector, KPMG. Candidates chosen by ABA bookstore members to serve as directors, with terms ending in 2008, were Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana; Michael Tucker of Books Inc.
"Susanna Clarke astonishes with a tale full of wonders! The vivid characters, richly defined world of 1806 England, and mystical elements keep the pages turning in this story of how magicians helped the English defeat Napoleon." --Emery Pinter, Chapter 11, Atlanta, Georgia -- From the July 2004 Book Sense Picks
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Candidate Duck has high aspirations in running the farm, as one thing leads to another, and soon the presidency is at hand. Complete with Cronin's version of the 'hanging chad' and a late-night saxophone appearance on television. Fun for the whole family," said Carl Wichman of Varsity Mart in Fargo, North Dakota --from the 2004 Book Sense Summer Kids' Picks
 Beginning at age 20, Tim Farrington, author of May Book Sense Pick Lizzie's War (HarperSanFrancisco), worked for 10 years as a dishwasher, followed by another decade as a house-cleaner. He also wrote several unpublished novels along the way.
This past weekend, Rowan Oak, the newly restored home of author William Faulkner, was rededicated in Oxford, Mississippi. To mark the occasion, on Monday, May 2, NPR's Morning Edition featured "Literary Pilgrims Flock to Faulkner's Home" by Melanie Peeples, followed by this commentary by Richard Howorth, Oxford's mayor and owner of Square Books.
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About ABA
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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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