Concerns that Harry Potter movies might lose audiences because of a PG
rating or an aging base of fans were dispelled, as it were, over the
weekend. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire grossed $101.4
million, the highest opening weekend for a Potter movie yet and one of
the top five for any movie. Even Warner Bros. was pleasantly surprised.
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Martha Stewart fans began lining up at 3 a.m. on Saturday for her noon appearance at a B&N in Minneapolis, Minn., according to the Pioneer Press. After someone on line recommended Terrace Horticultural Books, which specializes in used and antiquarian gardening books, Stewart headed over to the store and bought 20 books on Japanese and Chinese gardening, garden ornaments and landscape architecture in Europe.
Kent Petterson, who owns the store with his wife, Abby L. Farr-Petterson, told the paper: "She was very kind and just the kind of person I like to have in the store. A good buyer, too. She really cleaned up."
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After eight years of holding sales at a downtown mall, Friends of the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, Conn., prepares to move into new space in the expanded library, the Bristol Press reported. The group wants to have a little more time before it checks out of the mall.
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Speaking of friends of library organizations, since opening a bookstore in 1991, the Friends of the San Antonio Public Library in Texas has donated more than $450,000 to the library from its Book Cellar. San Antonio Express-News columnist Paula Allen provides a history of the store and organization.
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Nancy Greene and Patricia McElreath are giving up Greene's Books and Beans, the coffeehouse and bookstore in New London, Conn., that they founded nine years ago, the New London Day reported. In January, Greene's daughter, Kate Greene, will take over the shop, which has benefited from an improving neighborhood. In the early days, according to the story, some people thought Greene's Books and Beans was a brothel or a front for drug sales.
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Under the headline "Books Are the Focus of This 25 Year Old," the Portsmouth Herald profiles Kristin Hays, who works at a B&N in Newington, N.H., where she is "a lead bookseller in charge of the audio, humor, games and travel sections of the store. She's also the employee who heads up the 'staff recommends' shelf."
Hays, who wants to be a professional photographer, has recommended the photo-essay book Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest by James Balog and Tooth and Claw, a collection of short stories by T. C. Boyle.
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Speaking of young booksellers, check out The Written Nerd: Confessions of an Independent Bookseller and Unrepentant Book Nerd, a new blog written by Jessica Stockton, manager of Labyrinth Books in New York City.
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The Anchorage Daily News offers a roundup of stores in the suburban Valley near Anchorage, Alaska, including Alaskana Books, Fireside Books, Annabel's and Shalom Books.
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A sudoku seminar at a B&N in Fort Myers, Fla., drew more than 200 people, according to the News-Press. One participant called sudoku "like a math class, but more fun than studying math in a classroom."
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Martha Stewart fans began lining up at 3 a.m. on Saturday for her noon appearance at a B&N in Minneapolis, Minn., according to the Pioneer Press. After someone on line recommended Terrace Horticultural Books, which specializes in used and antiquarian gardening books, Stewart headed over to the store and bought 20 books on Japanese and Chinese gardening, garden ornaments and landscape architecture in Europe.
Kent Petterson, who owns the store with his wife, Abby L. Farr-Petterson, told the paper: "She was very kind and just the kind of person I like to have in the store. A good buyer, too. She really cleaned up."
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After eight years of holding sales at a downtown mall, Friends of the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, Conn., prepares to move into new space in the expanded library, the Bristol Press reported. The group wants to have a little more time before it checks out of the mall.
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Speaking of friends of library organizations, since opening a bookstore in 1991, the Friends of the San Antonio Public Library in Texas has donated more than $450,000 to the library from its Book Cellar. San Antonio Express-News columnist Paula Allen provides a history of the store and organization.
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Nancy Greene and Patricia McElreath are giving up Greene's Books and Beans, the coffeehouse and bookstore in New London, Conn., that they founded nine years ago, the New London Day reported. In January, Greene's daughter, Kate Greene, will take over the shop, which has benefited from an improving neighborhood. In the early days, according to the story, some people thought Greene's Books and Beans was a brothel or a front for drug sales.
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Under the headline "Books Are the Focus of This 25 Year Old," the Portsmouth Herald profiles Kristin Hays, who works at a B&N in Newington, N.H., where she is "a lead bookseller in charge of the audio, humor, games and travel sections of the store. She's also the employee who heads up the 'staff recommends' shelf."
Hays, who wants to be a professional photographer, has recommended the photo-essay book Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest by James Balog and Tooth and Claw, a collection of short stories by T. C. Boyle.
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Speaking of young booksellers, check out The Written Nerd: Confessions of an Independent Bookseller and Unrepentant Book Nerd, a new blog written by Jessica Stockton, manager of Labyrinth Books in New York City.
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The Anchorage Daily News offers a roundup of stores in the suburban Valley near Anchorage, Alaska, including Alaskana Books, Fireside Books, Annabel's and Shalom Books.
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A sudoku seminar at a B&N in Fort Myers, Fla., drew more than 200 people, according to the News-Press. One participant called sudoku "like a math class, but more fun than studying math in a classroom."