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Booksellers have chosen Lauren Groff’s cleverly crafted novel Fates and Furies as their top pick for October’s Indie Next List. Groff’s critically acclaimed work, which has been long-listed for the National Book Award, tells the story of a marriage in which not all is as it seems.

Here are the titles on the November Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

Booksellers can stop by ABA’s booth at the upcoming regional trade shows to check out many of the Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce picks.

The October Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

PEN Center USA 2015 Literary Award winners announced; Pearson to hold onto Penguin Random House until 2017; Ingram Publisher Services adds five new clients; Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 shortlist revealed; ASTRA names new president; Authors Guild survey finds members’ incomes down 30 percent since 2009

For the seventh consecutive season, publishers are offering specials on 10 adult titles and 10 children’s titles chosen by panels of booksellers from across the U.S. as the top upcoming debuts.

This week, the National Book Foundation announced the longlists for the 2015 National Book Awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and young people’s literature.

Amy Stewart, the co-owner of Eureka Books, has made both the Indie Bestseller List and the September Indie Next List with her seventh book and first work of historical fiction, Girl Waits With Gun.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 6, 2015.

Independent bookstores are teaming up with Macmillan on a nationwide food drive to address childhood hunger in their local communities. The campaign is part of a promotion for the novel Crenshaw by Newbery Medalist and Animorphs series creator Katherine Applegate.

Here are the titles on the October Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

Did You Ever Have a Family, the first novel by bestselling memoirist Bill Clegg, “is the sort of work scholars are referring to when they explain why literature and the novel are so vitally important to our understanding of the human condition,” said Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop.

Hugo Award winners, Thurber Prize finalists announced; BISG reveals shortlists for most valuable volunteer, industry champion; HarperCollins India gets new CEO; Mississippi Book Festival exceeds expectations; IPS adds three publishers; Campaign asks bloggers to visit their local indie bookstores 

Here, by category, are the more than 200 titles featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog. The deadline for catalog orders is this Tuesday, September 1.

The September Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.