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Pete Mulvihill, the co-owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco, is looking forward to bringing his expertise to the association’s Board of Directors while continuing to learn and grow with the ABA membership.

Booksellers chose Pieces of My Mother, a memoir by Book Passage events coordinator Melissa Cistaro, as an Indie Next List pick for May. In the book, Cistaro writes about her mother’s disappearance from her life at a very young age and how she came to terms with this fateful choice as an adult.

The results of balloting by the bookstore members of the American Booksellers Association to elect a new president, vice president/secretary, and three directors to serve on the ABA Board are now official.

Robyn DesHotel joined ABA as the organization’s new chief financial officer in March. Two months into her new role, she talked with Bookselling This Week about her career in finance and her first months at ABA.

The second in Bookselling This Week’s series of small press profiles features a conversation with Dennis Loy Johnson, publisher and co-founder of the Brooklyn-based independent publisher Melville House Books.

Judy Blume, this year’s ABFE Art Auction honoree, talks about fighting back against censorship and the surprise she felt the first time one of her books was challenged.

Suzy Staubach to leave UConn Co-op; Maine Coast Book Shop & Café on the market; Literary Hub highlights Parnassus, Brazos

Court strikes down ban on prisoner speech; National Endowment for Humanities announces new grant; 2015 Edgar winners announced; Lambda Literary selects Emerging Writer Award winners; James Beard Foundation names award winners; Booksellers on judges panel for 2015 Kirkus Prize; Nevada writers win Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award; President of HarperCollins Children's Books to retire 

Distinguished poet Elizabeth Alexander is the author of The Light of the World, a heartbreaking memoir about the sudden death of her husband and the memories that make up a family. 

CBC and WNDB partner on internship program; GLIBA, MIBA bestseller lists debut; Shortlists announced for 2015 PEN Literary Awards; SIBA Book Award finalists announced; ALA releases list of most frequently challenged books of 2014; S&S’s Wendy Sheanin promoted; New Zealand booksellers and retailers launch eFairness campaign

Becky Anderson wins Naperville City Council seat; Barrington Books to open second location; Our Town Books employee to purchase shop; Let’s Play Books! hosts Little Free Library

Dan Odegard, former owner of Odegard Books in St. Paul and Edina, Minnesota, died last Tuesday, March 31. Odegard, who was 69, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2010.

Watermark’s Sarah Bagby selected as National Book Awards judge; Tattered Cover to open in Aspen Grove this weekend; DIESEL celebrates Poetry Month with audio newsletter

Debut novelist Aline Ohanesian discusses growing up in a family where both sets of grandparents were Armenian Genocide survivors; how it feels to find success so early in her writing career; and the two mysterious sentences that sparked her imagination to begin writing Orhan’s Inheritance.

Redbery Books owners Bev and Bill Bauer, who plan to retire in June, are leaving the Cable, Wisconsin, store in the hands of longtime customers Maureen and Brad Palmer.