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Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks Zack Hample, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307280329
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For the eight-week period ending October 7, 2008, and based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
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A New Earth Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963
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IndieBound has created a handy, new guide for booksellers who have been longing to take advantage of the wealth of customizable materials in the Bookseller Do-It-Yourself, but who have been afraid to take the plunge.
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Here's a preview of the November Indie Next List now on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.
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Booksellers who have nominated titles to the Indie Next Lists in the past are being enlisted to help bring new voices to the chorus of those contributing recommendations to future lists. The "Tell-a-Bookseller-Friend" Indie Next List Nomination Challenge encourages past contributors to tell bookseller friends who have never nominated a title to the lists just how easy it is to do.
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The Indie Next List for Reading Groups for Fall '08/Winter '09 will be arriving in bookstores in the IndieBound movement in the October Red Box mailing; however, the full list, with bookseller quotes, can be previewed online now.
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IndieBound is a movement that's dynamic, adaptable, and growing, and so, too, are its online resources.
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There will be three opportunities for booksellers to help create Indie Next Lists in October:
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The American Booksellers Association has announced a new initiative to help booksellers encourage their colleagues to nominate titles for the Indie Next List -- and become eligible to win an ABA gift card in the process.
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For the eight-week period ending September 23, 2008, and based on sales at independent stores nationwide.
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Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, $19.99, 9780930289232
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1. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $14, 9780812977790 / 0812977793) "Lillian Leyb arrives in New York's Lower East Side in 1924. What she finds is not for her. Her tenacity and insatiable thirst for life and answers lead her to the Alaskan frontier. Lillian's strength and passion are an inspiration and an invitation to ask yourself, 'What would I have done?'" --Andrea Avantaggio, Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO
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