Political power plays, looting, plunder and burning villages. Touts as a "medieval mindbender" featuring "forbidden love affairs, Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick is Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth (NAL, $24.95, 9780451225245/0451225244), which the show's website Prize winners and three runners-up received Highsmith gift certificates.Ĭheck out the winners and all entries here. The firstĪnd second place finishers won Highsmith book carts the two third In its second year, the contest drew 129 entrants, all of whom receivedĪ 15% coupon good for Highsmith, Upstart and Upstart Books.
Unshelved's Gene Ambaum remarked, "I wish I could drive that bookcart around my library." Lights, panels that open up to reveal shelves and space for a Highsmith, is "What Can (Mr.) Brown Do For You?" a transformation of aīookcart into a UPS truck by Timberland High School in Wentzville, Mo., The winner of Unshelved's Pimp My Bookcart contest, sponsored by "Our early membersĪre now in possession of very valuable signed first editions!" "One of ourĮarliest selections, in May 2003, was a debut novel called The Kite Runner,īy then-unknown writer Khaled Hosseini," she wrote. More than 200 members and focuses on emerging writers. Noted that the store's club, which was founded in 2003, has grown to Mary Benham,įirst Editions Club coordinator at Book Passage, Corte Madera, Calif.,
Kong, a figure that already exceeds the company's total print run ofĦ80,000 for the sixth and penultimate Harry Potter book." has shipped 700,000 copies to book stores in Taiwan and Hong "issued 1.1 million copies of the book," while "Taiwan's Crown CultureĬorp. China's People's Literature Publishing House More than 1.8 million copies of the Chinese-language edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have been printed and more may be on the way, the AP Money spent here will go back into the community." Tim Rogers, manager of Pegasus Books, said he felt that "people inīerkeley are passionate about coming in here. Tactile pleasure and a social pleasure to being in a bookstore." But Moskowitz, owner of Moe's Books, worried that people "seem to haveĪmnesia that a bookstore is a pleasurable experience. "I think a community without bookstores would be a barren place," said Lorraine Zimmerman, a partner at University Press Books. 150,Ĭommunity-minded bookshops in Berkeley are under increasing pressureįrom online and big-box retailers, according to the Daily Californian. Portion of the proceeds will benefit local schools P.S. Invited to a preview night party the night before from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, November 28, Barnes & Noble is opening a store at 270 Fourth Ave., Clark Fork, Idaho 83811 20. "It was either start a book store or getĪ real job." Berning Books is located at 310 E. Which will celebrate its grand opening this Saturday.
In a profile of her new bookstore, Berning Books, Clark Fork, Idaho, Showing up to talk about books," Seanna Berning told the Bonner County Daily Bee Surprising that people I wouldn't have expected to be readers are "When I go to other cities, I'm appalled at how few Milwaukee a lot of credit for being so fierce about shopping locally," LGBT community, the social justice activist world, Tina's school, myĮditing business, our church, everywhere. Relationships we have with people in education, the arts, politics, the
Of our greatest passions-words and politics-and it builds on the many Morales said, "It's a really satisfying blend of two Time and energy to make Broad Vocabulary an even more successful "Clearly, they are politically-minded ladies and are able to devote the Very happy that Tina and Jennifer are the new broads," said Tennessen. The couple purchased Broad Vocabulary from Molly Tennessen, Amy Daroszeski and Kelly Todd. Morales and Tina Owen, life partners and the new owners of the feministīookshop Broad Vocabulary, Milwaukee, Wis., were introduced to theĬity by.
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