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- Awards: Firecracker Book Winners
- Personnel Changes at Random House Publishing Group
- TV: Park Avenue
- Cool Idea: Kids 'Reading with Madison,' the Therapy Dog
- Bookseller Moment: Hills & Hamlets Bookshop
- Media Heat: Jeffrey Seller on Fresh Air
- The Lynx Bookstore, Gainesville, Fla., Debuts Airport Book Vending Machine
- Obituary Note: Bill Moyers
- Review: Baldwin: A Love Story
- ALA Names Daniel J. Montgomery Executive Director
- Supreme Court Rules Public School Parents Can Opt Out of LGBTQ+ Books
- Book Trailer of the Day: Ivy & Bearlock Holmes
- Image of the Day: Mike Curato at Books on the Square
- B&N Launching Bookstores in Glen Allen, Va., and York, Pa.
- Bookseller Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop
- The Little Bookshop Opens in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Cool Idea: Summer Reading Marches in at Green Apple Books
- TV: Vladimir
- Personnel Changes at Morrow & HarperCollins Children's Books
- Bonfire Bookstore & Yarnery Debuts in Woodstock, Va.
- Awards: Orwell Book Winners
- Obituary Note: Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Chalkboard: Fiction: A Novel Bookshop
- Image of the Day: Buzz Me In at Book Soup
- Moonstruck Market Bookstore Coming to Melbourne, Fla.
- Page Society Bookshop on the Move in Oklahoma
- Reading with... Sebastian Castillo
- Review: The Sunflower Boys
- Lori Benton Joins Abrams as Senior V-P, Children's Publishing
- 'It Was a Glorious Moment, to Enter that Bookshop'
- Outside of a Dog Books & Games Will Close or Be Sold Due to S.Dak. Anti-Trans Law
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Heat Wave Reading Display: Octopus Bookshop
- Personnel Changes at Harper
- Awards: Miles Franklin Shortlist
- Robert Gray: BookPeople's Conference: 'Book Selling, Building Community, & Nurturing Creativity, Imagination, & Ideas'
- This Weekend on Book TV: Stanley McChrystal
- Book Trailer of the Day: Overcoming Shame-Based Social Anxiety and Shyness
- Media Heat: Robin Givhan on Fresh Air
- Kim Turrisi Promoted to V-P at SCBWI
- Image of the Day: Eliza Knight at Story & Song
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Review: Fonseca
- Recluse Books Opens in Fort Worth, Tex.
- Bad B's Books Hits the Road in Wilmington, N.C.
- At Kirkus, Publisher & CEO Kuehn Leaving; Judy Hottensen Takes Interim Role
- Bookseller Moment: Wild Geese Bookshop
- BookWoman, Austin, Tex., Vandalized
- Books Are Magic's NYC Voting Reminder
- AAP Sales: Down 4% in April; Down 0.2% YTD
- B&N Opening a Store in Phoenix, Ariz., Today
- Obituary Note: James Lloydovich Patterson
- Movies: Nuremberg
- Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Winners
- Image of the Day: James Frey's Back
- Media Heat: Emily Kasriel on the World
- Chalkboard: Broadside Bookshop
- Reading with... John Wiswell
- YA Review: Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
- The Rogue Bookshop Coming to Beloit, Wis.
- TV: Washington Black
- Community Rallies Around Iffy Books, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Obituary Note: Linna Thomas
- Image of the Day: BookTowne Hosts Kristin Harmel
- The Chapter Books & Gifts Opens in Lufkin, Tex.
- Simon & Schuster to Sell and Distribute Melbourne University Publishing
- Personnel Changes at Arcadia Publishing
- Awards: German Nonfiction Winner
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Media Heat: Hilton Carter on Today
- Review: The El
- Book Trailer of the Day: What the Deep Water Knows
- Lore Bookstore Opens in Los Angeles, Calif.
- Bookstore Romance Day: 'My Favorite Day of the Year'
- Welcome to Shelf Awareness: Extra!
- Bookstore Romance Day Woos Supporters with GoFundMe Campaign
- Save the Date: Bookstore Romance Day Arrives August 9
- Romance: 'The Leading Growth Category in 2025'
- TV: Foundation Season 3
- Chalkboard: Whitelam Books
- Beach Reads Display: Books Inc. Opera Plaza
- Obituary Note: Nathan Silver
- Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops Opening Store in Saco
- Awards: Danuta Gleed Literary Winners
- Image of the Day: Is a River Alive?
- Media Heat: Carter Sherman on Fresh Air
- Review: The Dilemmas of Working Women
- Book Trailer of the Day: Unkind Mind
- Top Library Recommended Titles for July
- Chicago's Open Books Launches Bookmobile
- In Texas, B&N Opening Two Stores, Closing One
- Media Heat: Fresh Air Remembers Edmund White
- Cool Idea of the Day: 'Summer Reading Wall of Fame'
- Juneteenth Bookstore Display: Morgenstern Books
- Movie: Spingsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
- Octopus Bookshop Opens in Kennebunk, Maine
- Image of the Day: 'No Such Thing as a Silent Ally'
- Haunted Burrow Books Opening Today in Seattle, Wash.
- Obituary Note: William Langewiesche
- Awards: Carnegie Medal Winners
- Book Trailer of the Day: Joseph Smith
- Chalkboard: Books on Main
- Ci2025: Activating Literacy with the Whole Family
- Reading with... Harris Lahti
- Review: Seduction Theory
- International Update: Japan's Plan to Revitalize Bookstores; Spain's Postal Service to Support Local Bookshops
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- BookCon Is Returning Next April in New York City
- Abrams Restructures Marketing Department
- Awards: Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Shortlist
- Obituary Note: Thomas Neurath
- Storefront Window Display: Pig City Books
- This Weekend on Book TV: José Andrés
- Robert Gray: Indie Bookshop Week for the Fun of It
- Ownership Change at BookPeople of Moscow, Moscow, Idaho
- Media Heat: Larry Charles on CBS Mornings
- Personnel Changes at Candlewick/Holiday House/Peachtree
- Image of the Day: Jeff Hiller at East End Books
- Broadway Books Pilot to Premiere at Dances With Films Fest in L.A.
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Ci2025: Publisher Education
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Last Time We Spoke
- Review: The Harvey Girls
- Obituary Note: Barbara Holdridge
- Pages & Peonies Hosting Grand Opening in Walker, Mich.
- TV: The Other Bennet Sister
- Awards: Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Shortlist
- Chalkboard: Anthology for Books
- Pride Month Display: {pages} a bookstore
- Personnel Changes at Stable Book Group and Distribution; Soho Press
- Media Heat: Kellie Carter Jackson on CBS Mornings
- Ci2025: Mac Barnett: Behold the Picture Book!
- Daughters Coffee & Books Opens in Durham, N.C.
- Reading with... Laura Elliott
- Children's Review: The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Tontine Caper
- B&N Opening New Bookstores in Tysons, Va., & Southbury, Conn., Today
- Image of the Day: Skip Rhudy at Sea Shelves by the Seashore in Port Aransas, Tex.
- Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
- Bookshop Video: 'By Popular Demand, Our New Sections!'
- Book Love Bar Building Community in Ypsilanti, Mich.
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Obituary Note: Norma Swenson
- Awards: Walter Scott Historical Fiction Winner
- Dennis Lloyd New Association of University Presses President
- Media Heat: Larry Charles on Fresh Air
- Bookseller Moment: Rakestraw Books
- Review: The Grand Paloma Resort
- Book Trailer of the Day: Qreative Evolution
- Ci2025: Children's Bookselling 101
- Image of the Day: Green Apple Hosts Ocean Vuong
- Golden Hour Books in Newburgh, N.Y., Relocates
- Movies: Mike Hammer
- Image of the Day: Generation Queer at the Curious Cat
- Review: Extinction Capital of the World: Stories
- Happy 50th Birthday, Book Soup!
- Ci2025: 'Community and Camaraderie'
- Ci2025: Samira Ahmed: How Can I Be Brave?
- Obituary Note: Caroline Herter
- Personnel Changes at Random House Publishing Group
- Media Heat: Barry Diller on Late Night with Seth Meyers
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
- Awards: Women's Fiction, Non-Fiction Prize Winners
- Book Trailer of the Day: Climate of Chaos
- Tales & Tails Opens in Fredericksburg, Va.
- Ci2025: 'You Protect Fundamental Rights, Critical Thinking, Democracy'
- Ci2025: The Festivities Begin in Portland
- Pride Month Displays: The Chatham Bookstore
- Clarksville Book Shop, Clarksville, Tenn., Vandalized Days Before Opening
- Awards: Reading the West Winners
- BEM Signs Lease in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Personnel Changes at Nicole Banholzer PR
- Oprah's Book Club Pick: The River Is Waiting
- Movies: The Highway That Eats People
- Reading Group Choices' Most Popular May Books
- Image of the Day: The Oracle of Rewilding at Rizzoli Bookstore
- Reading with... Olive Senior
- Review: Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
- The Dusted Shelf Bookstore Debuts in Montgomery, Tex.
- BAM to Open New Bookstore in Bossier City, La.
- Marriage Proposal: Little Shop of Stories
- Howling Basset Books Relocates to Lambertville, N.J.
- Henry's Books, Spearfish, S.Dak., Expanding
- Awards: Doug Wright Winners
- Obituary Note: Gwen Henderson
- Robert Gray: Summer Traffic Report--New Mobile Bookstores Hit the Road
- Top Book Club Picks in May
- This Weekend on Book TV: Montel Williams on The Sailing of the Intrepid
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Personnel Changes at Penguin Press; Dutton
- Book Trailer of the Day: Writers of the Future, Volume 41
- Ownership Change at Underground Books, Carrollton, Ga.
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Image of the Day: Taylor Jenkins Reid Supports Binc
- Review: Moderation
- Eileen Dengler to Retire from NAIBA, Professional Booksellers School
- Book Group Speed Dating Event This Friday
- TV: The Institute
- Pride Window: Author's Note Bookstore
- Personnel Changes at Hachette Book Group
- Book Trailer of the Day: Blood in the Water
- Media Heat: Glennon Doyle on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- After Fire, The Nook Celebrates Grand Re-opening in Brookings, S.Dak.
- Awards: RSL Christopher Bland Winner
- Obituary Note: Stanley Nelson
- Image of the Day: Andrew Maraniss at Parnassus Books
- Cool Idea of the Day: 'Ask Our Dads!' Display
- Reading with... Victoria Zeller
- Children's Review: Tomatoes on Trial
- The Twisted Spine Opening in September in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Obituary Note: Frederick Forsyth
- Stable Book Group and Hachette Form Stable Distribution for Indie Publishers
- Awards: PEN/Malamud Short Story Winner
- 'Libraries Have Been Called One of the Pillars of Democracy'
- Personnel Changes at Putnam
- Bookstore Engagement: Godmothers Books
- Movies: The Lost Bus
- The Nation and OR Books Launch Nation Books Imprint
- Image of the Day: S&S Selects Tour
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Media Heat: Molly Jong-Fast on Fresh Air
- Grand Opening for the Last Page Book Shop in Moab, Utah
- Review: An Oral History of Atlantis
- Book Trailer of the Day: The DBT Workbook to Stop Walking on Eggshells
- Movies: Dracula
- Obituary Note: Joel Fram
- ABA's Philomena Polefrone Named LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School
- Awards: Nebula Winners; Plutarch Biography Winners
- Media Heat: George Takei on Good Morning America
- Review: Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
- Book Trailer of the Day: Portraits in a Nutshell
- Personnel Changes at Berkley
- Image of the Day: The Novel Neighbor's New Grads
- Follett to Operate Johns Hopkins University's Bookstore
- Bookseller Moment: Tome Books & Novelteas
- Courageous Books Coming to Dexter, Mich.
- Media Heat: Charan Ranganath on Fresh Air
- Susie Sonneborn Wins NAIBA's Joe Drabyak Handseller of the Year Award
- Movies: Old Gold Mountain
- Chalkboard: The Bookworm
- Awards: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel, McDermid Debut Shortlists
- Stephen Colbert Launches the Late Show Book Club
- Grand Opening for Tome Books & Novelteas in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Obituary Note: Frank Graham Jr.
- Image of the Day: Abraham Verghese Returns to McIntyre's
- Paper Moon Relocating in Troy, N.Y.
- Personnel Changes at HarperCollins Christian Publishing
- Bookseller Bunny: Beatrix Hopper at Quail Ridge Books
- International Update: IPA's Prix Voltaire Honorees; UNICEF Literacy Initiative in Bulgaria
- Reading with... Nini Berndt