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- Baker & Taylor Struggling; Ingram Sees Increased Library Business
- TV: The Age of Innocence
- Obituary Note: Brian Patten
- Lake Bound Bookstore Opening This Week in Averill Park, N.Y.
- Review: My Fair Frauds
- Image of the Day: Suzanne Warye at the Book Stall
- Shelf Awareness Call for Information: Indies First/Small Business Saturday
- ABA's Banned Books Display Instagram Contest
- Voice of the Heartland Award Goes to Ross Gay
- Media Heat: Ada Limón on Fresh Air
- Personnel Changes at Candlewick/Holiday House/Peachtree
- Book Trailer of the Day: Tell Me I Belong
- Favorite E-Mail Subject Line Received Recently by Shelf Awareness
- Awards: PNBA BuzzBooks Winner; Goldsmiths Shortlist
- Libro.fm Bestsellers in September
- On Stage: The Hunger Games
- Sidewalk Signboard: Lost & Bound Bookstore & Soda Bar
- Cool Idea: Fall Giving Tree
- Movies: Wicker
- PEN America Report: 'Disturbing Normalization' of Book Bans
- Obituary Note: Jane Goodall
- International Update: Bookshop.org U.K. Adds E-Books; EIBF director Julie Belgrado Stepping Down
- Awards: Cercador Literature in Translation Finalists; Wolfson History Shortlist
- Image of the Day: Mini Cozy Mystery Con at Mystery Lovers Bookshop
- Reading with... Yume Kitasei
- Review: Friends and Liars
- Molly's Bookstore, Melrose, Mass., Adding Boston Location
- Bookseller Moment: Annie Bloom's Books
- The Story Emporium & Book Shop Coming to Hutto, Tex.
- Cool Idea of the Day: 'Government Shutdown Discount'
- James Patterson's Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program for Indie Booksellers Returns
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Steamy Lit Romance Bookstore Moving to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
- B&N to Open New Stores in La Jolla, Calif., Knoxville, Tenn.
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Robert Gray: Bookstore Customer Service Reel Festival
- This Weekend on Book TV: Phyllis Bennis on Understanding Palestine & Israel
- Obituary Note: Harlow Giles Unger
- Personnel Changes at Saga Press
- Image of the Day: SNL Stars Appear for Edie Baskin
- Media Heat: Christopher Pepper, Joanna Schroeder on Morning Joe
- Review: Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
- Awards: Cundill History Finalists; Trivedi Science Book Winner
- WNBA's Great Group Reads
- PNBA's Fall Tradeshow Concludes
- Reading Rainbow to Return on YouTube Channel KidZuko
- Image of the Day: The Well-Read Moose Hosts Chris Whitaker
- B&N's October Book Club Pick: Heart the Lover
- Reading with... Lana Lin
- Obituary Note: Robert B. Barnett
- Children's Review: The Coziest Place on the Moon
- Bookmiser New & Used Books, Marietta, Ga., Damaged by Fire
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
- Media Heat: Nicholas Sparks on Good Morning America
- Personnel Changes at Knopf
- Awards: Australia's Prime Minister Literary Winners; Center for Fiction First Novel Shortlist
- The Twisted Spine Bookstore Opens in Brooklyn
- Bookshop Cat: Blue Cypress Books
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Betrayal
- B&N Reopens Baton Rouge, La., Bookstore in New Space
- Deal for Readerlink to Buy Baker & Taylor Collapses
- Awards: Pacific Northwest Book Shortlist
- Books & Books Goes Backstage with Dua Lipa
- IPG Adds Four Publishers
- Media Heat: Mark Ronson on Fresh Air
- TV: Down Cemetery Road
- Image of the Day: Lost and Found Hanukkah at Brazos Bookstore
- Obituary Note: Maxine Clair
- Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
- Starred Review: Supersaurio
- PNBA Keynote: 'Conflict, Care, and Community in Bookstore Workplaces'
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Book Trailer of the Day: Trial and Error
- Indie Bookstores: 'A Pillar That Is Holding Up Our Country'
- Celia Bookshop Opening in Swarthmore, Pa., on Saturday
- PNBA: Pictures from the Exhibition
- PNBA Fall Tradeshow Opens in Spokane, Wash.
- Movies: Hamnet
- Autumn Bookseller Moment: The Yankee Bookshop
- Review: Haven't Killed in Years
- Media Heat: David McCloskey on All Things Considered
- Charley Rejsek Leaving BookPeople to Head Put It In a Book
- Patrick Flaherty Named Store Manager at Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Obituary Note: Tim Mooney
- Awards: Dayton Literary Peace Winners
- Image of the Day: Codebreaker at Wild Rumpus
- Book Trailer of the Day: Scared by the Bible
- Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
- TV: Charlotte's Web
- International Update: 'Another Challenging Year' for U.K. Bookshops; Young Finns Reading in English
- Obituary Note: Charley Rosen
- Paz & Associates Launches 'Life Raft: Survival Tools for New Bookstore Owners'
- Image of the Day: The Colonel and the King and the Author at Jabberwocky Books
- Indie Bookshops Feature on FX/Hulu's New Series The Lowdown
- Chalkboard: Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza
- Gladys Books & Wine Opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Awards: Sunburst Winners
- Bookseller Moment: Neighborhood Books
- Prelude Bookstore Arriving This Fall in Dunwoody, Ga.
- Review: The Bookshop Below
- Reading with... Emily Jane
- Book Trailer of the Day: Sisters of the Jungle
- Quill & Candle Bookshop Opens in Longmont, Colo.
- ABA Names LeVar Burton Indie Bookstore Ambassador
- Bookshop Scarecrow: Battenkill Books
- Awards: Financial Times and Schroders Business Book Shortlist
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Obituary Note: Margaret W. Rossiter
- This Weekend on Book TV: Jordan Thomas on When It All Burns
- Personnel Changes at the future of agency
- Robert Gray: U.K.'s Bookshop Heroes: 'Less Like Doing a Job & More Like Taking On an Identity'
- Media Heat: Hoda Kotb on the Sherri Shepherd Show
- Owner Wins $100,000 to Help Launch BookMother in Bloomington, Minn.
- Book Trailer of the Day: Cabin Head and Tree Head
- Garden Wall Bookshop Reopens Under New Ownership, Name
- Brilliant Books, Traverse City, Mich., Closing Physical Store
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Review: Evensong
- Image of the Day: Historical Mysteries at Book Love Bar
- Movies: Twice
- NYC's Bluestockings Cooperative Closing
- Bookshop Cat: Spooky at Dark Star Books & Comics
- Bookseller Moment: Fountain Bookstore
- Obituary Note: Hannah Langdon
- The Golden Owl, New London, Conn., to Reopen After Flood Damage
- Awards: Booker, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Shortlists
- Reading with... ND Stevenson
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Elevator on 74th Street
- Media Heat: Lionel Richie on Good Morning America
- Smitten Booktique Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Store in Leawood, Kan.
- Children's Review: And They Walk On
- Image of the Day: Polina Chesnakova at Books on the Square
- ABA at 125: 'Change Isn't Going to Happen If You Don't Get Involved'
- Turtle Books Debuting in Brookline, Mass., Next Month
- Movies: Miss Nelson Is Missing
- Zora's Place Opens in Evanston, Ill.
- Bookseller Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop
- Obituary Note: Marian Burros
- Happy 70th Birthday, Kepler's Books!
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Awards: Crook's Corner Shortlist
- Personnel Changes at Abrams
- Media Heat: Ken Follett on Today
- Review: The White Hot
- Book Trailer of the Day: Dasher and the Polar Bear
- Fulton Street Books & Coffee, Tulsa, Okla., to Close
- B&N College Partners with L.A.'s Occidental College Bookstore
- Plot Twist Cafe Coming to Maryville, Mo.
- Welcome to Shelf Awareness: Extra!
- Booksellers Prepare for Banned Books Week
- Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024
- Banned Books Week: More Important Than Ever
- Penguin Random House's Banned Wagon Is Ready to Roll
- A Timely Documentary: The Librarians
- Recommended Banned Books Reading & Resources
- TV: WitSec
- Bookseller Moment: Black Cat Books & Oddities
- Obituary Note: Dan Wickett
- AAP: Sales in First Half of 2025 Down 1.7%, to $6.3 Billion
- Binc Names Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize Winners
- Judge Throws Out Trump Lawsuit Against Penguin Random House, New York Times
- Awards: American Book Winners; BIO Editorial Excellence Winner
- Media Heat: Jacinda Ardern on Morning Joe, Live Prime, Daily Show
- Starred Review: Son of the Morning
- Book Trailer of the Day: Special Election
- Loyalty Bookstores: 'We're Still Here, and We're Still Fighting'
- Bookstore Video: 'How to Catch a Book Bestie'
- Image of the Day: Caroline O'Donoghue at the Strand
- Top Library Recommended Titles for October
- Blue House Books, Kenosha, Wis., Is Expanding
- Scholastic First Quarter: With School Out, Revenues Fall 5%
- Karen Lotz Joining W.W. Norton as Director, Children's Books and Strategic Development
- Happy 50th Birthday, the Bookshelf!
- Movies: Reminders of Him
- Bookseller Moment: Shared Stories Books
- Oklahoma City's Lost & Bound Books Is Expanding
- International Update: 'Paperback Paradox' in U.K.'s Summer Sales; MoMA Opens Bookstore in Seoul
- CALIBA's Fall Fest Concludes
- Awards: Giller Longlist
- B&N Opening New Store in Puyallup, Wash.
- Image of the Day: Khadijah VanBrakle at Page 1 Books
- Chalkboard: Sandmeyer's Bookstore
- Book Trailer of the Day: Convergence
- Reading with... Cadwell Turnbull
- Review: The Dinner Party
- CALIBA Fall Fest: Annual Meeting and Town Hall
- Awards: B&N Discover Finalists
- Obituary Note: Thomas Perry
- Chalkboard: Blue Cypress Books
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Simon & Schuster to Sell and Distribute Shortwave Publishing
- Fire Damage Update: Monstera's Books, Overland, Kan.
- This Weekend on Book TV: Robert Macfarlane on Is a River Alive?
- Robert Gray: A Confluence of Art and Books
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Media Heat: Jayne Kennedy on Tamron Hall
- Image of the Day: All Good Books Hosts Corinna Barrett Lain
- Personnel Changes at PRH, Random House Publishing Group
- Review: The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
- Magical Forest Bookstore Opens in Fox River Grove, Ill.
- Book Trailer of the Day: If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be?
- Love & Legends Books, Brooklyn, N.Y., Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
- Trump Sues Penguin Random House, New York Times
- Movies: The Housemaid
- IPG Adds Four Publishers
- HarperCollins Expanding Direct-to-Consumer, Data Engineering, Product Development Efforts
- Personnel Changes at Tor Publishing Group
- Obituary Note: Sareeta Domingo
- Awards: Bread and Roses Winners
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
- Media Heat: Chris Colfer on CBS Mornings
- Image of the Day: Powerhouse Presents P.E. Moskowitx
- Reading with... Martin Cahill
- Starred Children's Review: Broken
- Book Trailer of the Day: Wicked Strange
- Bookstore Moment: Yellow Dog Bookshop
- On Stage: The Baby-Sitters Club Musical
- Chalkboard: Ink & Ivy Book Boutique
- Awards: Wainwright Winners
- Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate
- Monarch Books & Gifts, Overland Park., Kan., Relocating
- Obituary Note: Marilyn Diamond
- Gnoll's Loot Table Lands in Riverside, Iowa
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Image of the Day: Launch Week for Pat Harris
- Personnel Changes at Grand Central
- Media Heat: Mary Roach on Fresh Air
- Starred Review: Palaver
- Book Trailer of the Day: Radical Sisters
- Charmed & Bound Books Coming to Flemington, N.J., This Fall
- Simon & Schuster Rep Tim Hepp Is Retiring
- Stable Distribution Set to Launch with 15 Publishing Partners
- National Book Award Longlists: Fiction
- Image of the Day: Tochi Eze at New Dominion Bookshop
- Review: Queen Esther
- NEIBA: Bookseller Wellness 101 (or: Our Bodies Are Prisons of Flesh)
- Media Heat: Trymaine Lee on Fresh Air
- Football Season Sales Floor Display: Schuler Books
- NEIBA: A Lively, Smoothly Run 52nd Fall Conference
- Primetime Emmy Winners by the Book
- Awards: Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Winner
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Book of Fairies
- Personnel Changes at TvS Media Group; Kensington; Abraham Associates
- NEIBA: Alix Harrow: 'Obsessed with Lady Knights'
- Media Heat: Renée Watson on MSNBC's Velshi Banned Book Club
- Columbia Univ. Press Sales Consortium to Represent Univ. of Pittsburgh Press
- Chalkboard: Volumes Bookcafe
- Teddy's Best Reads Opening in Oxford, Conn., Next Month
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Pocket Books, Lancaster, Pa., Opening Second Location