Augusten Burroughs, Jim Noles & Bill McKibben Join Wi3 Lineup

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This week, the American Booksellers Association announced the addition of Augusten Burroughs and Jim Noles to the list of 35-plus authors scheduled to appear at the Third Annual Winter Institute's (Wi3) Friday evening Author Reception.

Burroughs, whose latest memoir, A Wolf at the Table, will be published by St. Martin's in May, has had a steady stream of appearances on the Book Sense Picks and Bestseller lists since the publication of Running With Scissors in 2002.

Jim Noles' newest title, A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America -- One State Quarter at a Time, will be published by Da Capo Press in May.

ABA has also announced the addition of educator, environmentalist, and bestselling author Bill McKibben to the Saturday Keynote Lunch Panel on localism. McKibben's Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, a March 2007 Book Sense Pick, will be published as a trade paperback in March by Holt Paperbacks.

The other lunch panelists will be Stacy Mitchell, author of Big Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for American's Independent Businesses (Beacon) and senior researcher for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and Michael Shuman, author of The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (Berrett-Koehler) and co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. The panel, moderated by ABA COO Oren Teicher, will take place from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Saturday.

Wi3's Author Reception will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, at the conclusion of the first full day of educational programming. All Winter Institute registrants are invited to enjoy refreshments and mingle with the 38 authors who will be on hand to autograph their books.