Book News

From its beginnings, the Book Sense program has underscored the singular relationships between independent booksellers and authors. BTW is pleased to occasionally feature "Book Sense One-on-One," in which the bookseller who has nominated a title as a Book Sense Pick interviews that title's author.

On Monday, September 27, novelist Ann Patchett selected Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin) as the next title to be read by the NBC Today Show's Today Book Club. The title was previously selected by independent booksellers with Book Sense as a September Pick.

Here is a preview of the November Book Sense Picks. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will receive the Picks fliers in the October Red Box.

The first White Box of fall 2004 is fabulous!!!

Here are just some of the items you'll find:

Galleys, ARCs, and finished books:

From her spot behind the counter at Diesel: A Bookstore, in Oakland, California, bookseller Melissa Lion recommends great reading from her current favorite genre, young adult fiction.

On Thursday, September, 16, Oprah announced the selection of Simon & Schuster's The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck as the next title to be read by the Oprah Book Club.

The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2004 NAIBA Book Awards. The award honors books that are written by authors from the region (New York to Virginia) or that take place in the region. The winners are:

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S. for the four-week period ending September 12, 2004.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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This week Book Sense announces the 2004 Halloween Top Ten. The list is produced in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative and is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.

Booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving the Halloween Top Ten in the September Red Box.

Book Sense and the A&E Network are partnering in a special campaign to raise funds to support the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) and to promote the A&E original movie The Brooke Ellison Story.

Usually, when an author's book is nominated for an award it is cause for celebration, but for author and eighth-grade English teacher Jordan Sonnenblick -- whose book, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, was nominated in July 2004 for the Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA, a divis

To help plan orders, here's a preview of the titles on the October 2004 Book Sense "We Also Recommend…" PDF, which will be posted, along with a file of shelf-talkers, to www.bookweb.org/read/6977 next week.

With the 2004 presidential election process in full swing, the Children's Book Council (CBC) has made available on its Web site, www.cbcbooks.org, an annotated bibliography of election-related titles for young people in grades K - 12.

On September 1, the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) announced the winners of the 2004 Great Lakes Book Awards, which will be presented at a luncheon on Friday, October 8, during the GLBA fall trade show in Dearborn, Michigan. This year, the association split the children's award into two categories: picture book and chapter book.

This year's Great Lakes Book Award winners are: