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The March/April Book Sense 76 features the incorrect ISBN and price for the title Baking Illustrated: The Practical Kitchen Companion for the Home Baker With 350 Recipes You Can Trust, edited by Cook's Illustrated Magazine (America's Test Kitchen). The book is priced at $35 and the correct ISBN is 0936184752.

On Thursday, March 4, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the winners of its 2003 book awards at a ceremony at the New School in New York City. The Fiction prize was awarded to Edward P. Jones for The Known World (Amistad Press). Jones' novel was a September/October 2003 Book Sense 76 pick.

Here is the Spring 2004 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top Ten, based on the nominations of independent booksellers from all regions of the country. The March White Box will contain the Poetry Top Ten pads, and you can download a PDF of the list, by clicking here.

For all those amateur bakers who have wondered why their efforts to produce perfect results succeed only about 20 percent of the time, Baking Illustrated: The Practical Kitchen Companion for the Home Baker With 350 Recipes You Can Trust (America's Test Kitchen) provides welcome reassurance.

Here are independent booksellers' picks for the Top Ten Easter and Passover titles for 2004. This list was developed by Book Sense in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative, an ongoing project that will continue through 2004.

Many thanks to all the independent booksellers who contributed a wealth of enthusiastic nominations for this list. Pads of the list will be included in the March White Box mailing.

Here are independent booksellers' picks for the Top Ten Easter and Passover titles for 2004. This list was developed by Book Sense in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative, an ongoing project that will continue through 2004.

Many thanks to all the independent booksellers who contributed a wealth of enthusiastic nominations for this list. Pads of the list will be included in the March White Box mailing.

John Hickenlooper, a successful, popular restaurant owner and developer, has become the successful and popular mayor of Denver. With no previous political experience, "not school treasurer, not dog catcher," Hickenlooper took office in July 2003, succeeding Mayor Wellington Webb.

Author Susan Isaacs has chosen The Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe (Soft Skull Press) as the next title to be read by the Today Book Club. The announcement was made on NBC's Today Show on Wednesday, February 25.

Client Distribution Services (CDS), best known as a book distributor, is now looking to make a name for itself in the field of book publishing. One-year-old CDS Books will be publishing A Son Called Gabriel by Northern Irish author Damian McNicholl in June.

Based on four weeks of sales ended February 22, 2004, in hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

The full 2004 March/April Book Sense 76 with booksellers' quotes is now online at http://news.bookweb.org/read/2254. Fliers will be on their way to booksellers in the upcoming weeks.

The list features a wealth of great titles, including really notable fiction, intriguing memoirs, and great nonfiction (everything from all-star baking to writer's block, with a lot in between!). There are a number of creative in-store display opportunities, with many potential themes.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List, Newmarket Press is publishing a collection of photographs entitled Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film. The book features the work of photographer David James, includes a foreword by Spielberg, and is being published in conjunction with Universal Studios Home Video's release of th

Paul Auster was 15 years old when he found the book that made him decide to become a writer.

"I was a sophomore in high school," said Auster (born in Newark, New Jersey, and living now in Brooklyn), "when I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. And I was so overwhelmed by the book, I said to myself: 'If this is what a novel can be -- then I want to do it, too.'"

Here is the Top Ten of the upcoming 2004 March/April Book Sense 76. Watch for next week's issue of Bookselling This Week for the full 76. And, again, very many thanks to all the independent booksellers who made this list possible.

1) Good Grief, by Lolly Winston (Warner, $18, 0446533041)

2) Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, by Neely Tucker (Crown, $23.95, 0609609769)

3) The Birth of Venus: A Novel, by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $24.95, 1400060737)