National Book Award winners, left to right: Mark Doty, Annette Gordon-Reed, Judy Blundell, Peter Matthiessen (click for larger image)
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NRF Holiday Study: Books to Be a Hot Item This Year
Though the majority of consumers have not even put a dent in their shopping list, traditional winter apparel and personal, inexpensive items like DVDs, CDs, and books will be the first things they stock up on as they begin their holiday shopping, according to NRF's 2008 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch.
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The Women's National Book Association is seeking nominations for its 2009 Pannell Awards, honoring retail bookstores that excel at inspiring an interest in reading, as well as creatively bringing books and young people together.
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On Wednesday, October 15, author Scott Turow announced the 20 finalists for the 2008 National Book Awards from the stage of the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
This year's finalists are:
Fiction
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On Thursday, October 9, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a French novelist, children's author, and essayist, was named the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy described Le Clezio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure, and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
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UConn's Suzy Staubach to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Suzy Staubach, manager of the General Books Division at the UConn Co-Op in Storrs, Connecticut, will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community Award, presented by the Connecticut Center for the Book, at its Seventh Annual Connecticut Book Awards on Sunday, September 21.
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About ABA
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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