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Below is a preview of the titles on the October 2004 Book Sense Picks flier, being mailed to bookstores in the September Red Box. Watch next week's BTW for the list of October's "We Also Recommend" titles, which will be available as a PDF flier for in-store distribution.

Very many thanks to all the booksellers whose participation made the compilation of this very strong list possible.

Looking ahead, September 3 is the deadline for both the November Book Sense Picks and for the 2004 Fall History Top Ten.

The controversy over the unavailability of the bestselling Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, by John O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi (Regnery), has placed booksellers squarely in the middle of a political maelstrom.

For the four-week period ending August 22, 2004, and based on sales reporting by hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

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The August White Box is one of the richest so far this year! Just some of the "goodies" in store for you:

Galleys, ARCs and finished books:

In just under two weeks, the gavel comes down on the opening of the Republican National Convention in New York City, beginning the final leg of the race to the White House. Clearly, all things political are on the minds of many independent bookstores' customers as nine of 15 titles on this week's Book Sense Bestseller List are about today's politics.

Following up on a list that appeared in BTW about Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry, here is a bibliography of 36 books by, and about, Republican presidential incumbent George W. Bush.

Facing Athens: Encounters With the Modern City (North Point Press) is a book George Sarrinikolaou, a New York environmental-policy worker and former journalist, had been wanting to write for years.

Ryan Wilson, who runs the CD/DVD/Comics section at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, New Hampshire, gave a presentation to the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council (NECBA) last month. For the presentation, Ryan compiled an "opinionated list" of those titles that he felt would be a strong foundation for any bookstore's comic section. The following is Wilson's list of recommended comic book titles.

By Ryan Wilson