ABA Announces 2005 Board Election Results Booksellers Take to The

May 12, 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS: ABA Announces 2005 Board Election • ABA Announces 2005 Board Election Results Results ...... 1 May 12, 2005 -- Results of the 2005 ABA Board of Directors • Booksellers Take to the Road for a Bookstore elections, which concluded on May 4, were recently certified by the Tour ...... 1 association's election inspector, KPMG. Candidates chosen by ABA bookstore members to serve as directors, with terms ending • BookSense.com Sites to Experience in 2008, were Russ Lawrence 1 of Chapter One Book Store in Downtime ...... 3 Hamilton, Montana; Michael Tucker 2 of Books Inc. in San • BEA Spotlight: Joyful Celebrations of Book Francisco; and Collette Morgan 3 of Wild Rumpus Books for Sense, Booksellers, Books & Authors ...... 3 Young Readers in Minneapolis. Lawrence, who currently serves on • Potter Plans Percolating Aplenty ...... 4 the Board, was elected to a second three-year term. ABA membership also ratified the Board's choice of Mitchell • ABA to Present "Increasing Margin" in 4 California Next Week ...... 5 Kaplan , owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida, for a second one-year term as ABA president, and of Lawrence for his • Senate Committee Hears Patriot Act Critics .... 5 first one-year term as ABA vice president/secretary. • Bill Maher BEA Event Expected to Sell Out ..... 6 Ending their terms on the ABA Board are Neal Coonerty of • BTW News Briefs ...... 6 Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, and Karl Pohrt of • South Carolina Internet Statute Struck Down Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan...... 6 Other directors on the nine-member ABA Board are Suzanne • 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Winner: Staubach of UConn Co-op in Storrs, Connecticut; Carla Jimenez of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ...... 7 Inkwood Books in Tampa, Florida; Cathy Langer of Tattered Cover • Former Speaker of the House Cautions Book Store in Denver; Linda Ramsdell of The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont; and Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands in Against Giving Up Liberty for Safety ...... 7 Tempe, Arizona. • Appeals Court Dismisses Lawsuit Filed The Board transition will take place at ABA meetings to be held in Against Cheney Task Force ...... 8 conjunction with BookExpo America in June in New York City. • Free Classified Ads Available to ABA New and outgoing members of the Board will be at ABA's Annual Bookstore Members ...... 8 Membership Meeting, to be held from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on • Idea Exchange Busy With Talks of Potter Friday, June 3, in Room 1C 04 at the Javits Convention Center. Parties and More ...... 9 ABA's official annual meeting will provide membership with an • God Is Nigh -- Book Sense Is in the Details at update on the past year's activities and accomplishments and a look TV Bookstore ...... 9 ahead to upcoming association projects. • Book Sense Notable Is a Novel of Reverie & ABA's Annual Town Hall Meeting will be held immediately preceding the Board meeting, from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., in Room Remembrance ...... 9 1C 03. The Town Hall Meeting offers ABA member booksellers the opportunity to express opinions and share ideas with ABA BOOK SENSE THIS WEEK Board members and staff in a less formal setting than at ABA's • Harry Potter Gift Cards Selling Now ...... 10 Annual Membership meeting. Booksellers can ask questions and make suggestions on such topics as Book Sense, ABACUS, ABA's • RiverRun: A Vital Part of the Cultural Life of educational offerings, or anything else that comes to mind. Portsmouth ...... 10 Both the Annual Membership Meeting and the Town Hall are open • The Book Sense Family & Parenting Bestseller to all ABA members. List ...... 11 Booksellers Take to the Road for a MARKETPLACE Bookstore Tour • Classifieds ...... 12 May 12, 2005 -- If booksellers had a free day away from their • Other Advertising ...... 12 stores and the opportunity to be driven around in a bus with a group of like-minded colleagues, how would they most likely spend the day?

Visiting other bookstores, of course. bigger-name writers who have had events at the store have only 5 That was the guiding premise behind the Southern California sold 20 or 30. "So I find it's worth the time and effort, for your Booksellers Association's (SCBA) first Independent Bookstore local people." Tour, a May 10 event in Los Angeles, which drew over 40 Many tour participants took notes during these informal participants from around the Southland. presentations. Back on the bus, several were heard talking about Booksellers (and some other book industry professionals) gathered helpful things they'd learned: how Book'em found postcards at 8:30 a.m. in the back plaza of the main Vroman's store in preferable to newsletters for letting patrons know about upcoming Pasadena for the start of an eclectic, nine-hour tour of eight stores events; how EsoWon went about hiring off-duty police officers for situated all over L.A. on-site event security. First on the itinerary was the 15-year-old Book'em Mysteries in By the time the bus arrived at Dutton's Beverly Hills, riders were South Pasadena -- a small, cozy (also hard-boiled) store where ready and grateful for the sandwich lunch waiting in the gleaming co-owner Barry Martin filled the wide-awake pilgrims in on the new store. They munched on pita-wraps and swigged sodas as store's retail realities. "The best teachers we've had have been our Random House rep Margaret Winter and HarperCollins' Gabe customers," he said. "If you listen to them, they're going to tell you Barillas filled them in on current and upcoming titles and trends. what your bookstore is.... Many of them, we consider our friends." Writer Kathleen Duey, a tour participant and author of several Book'em patrons are upper-middle-class, Martin said. "They live previous young-adult titles, spoke about her recent work with Big within a 10- to 12-mile radius [of us]. They are ethnically diverse. Guy Books and its Time Soldiers series, which features They are college-educated, and they're reading sophisticates.... If pictographically strong "flash-bam" adventure tales aimed at male you want to know our demographic, it's about 35 to death." youths. "What we're trying to do is build a bridge to the video-boys, from what they do all day, back to books," said Duey. The tour bus then drove some 15 freeway-miles south to "That's the point. In fact, we even trademarked the phrase 'stealth 17-year-old EsoWon Books, a general store where the focus is on literacy' ... There's a place for these. What we would love to be is African-American fiction and nonfiction. Owner James Fugate the comic-books for the next generation, because there are so many explained to his visitors how EsoWon began with the idea of being boys who are so visual." a community bookstore. "We started having, sort of, community forums, on Friday nights, where people could meet, discuss issues, More youth titles were showcased for the tour group at Children's discuss books," he said. "We weren't able to get any book signings Book World, three miles southwest of Beverly Hills, near Century at that time ... and we decided we would start bringing in authors City. In this high-ceilinged, welcoming store, HarperCollins ourselves.... Even though we may have charged maybe five or 10 children's books rep Deborah Murphy spoke of such buzz-worthy dollars admission, we [usually] broke even with the airfare. It titles as Michelle Paver's current hit Wolf Brother , the 100-plus brought a lot of community attention to the store.... Slowly, people Narnia Chronicles-related HarperCollins titles tied to the December began to take notice of us." movie version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe ; and Lemony Snicket's 12th book (its title to be kept secret until its Then, one day EsoWon got a call from someone wanting to present release), due October 18. Muhammad Ali at the store, Fugate recalled. "It was incredible: a Sunday afternoon, Muhammad came at 10:00 o'clock ... stayed At Children's Book World, patrons were plentiful; the staff seemed until 6:00, made sure everybody got their books signed. So the as knowledgeable and as eager to help as librarians; and several store slowly evolved." tour-members (here as in other stores visited) purchased books. Last year, EsoWon was chosen to be one of two L.A. stores to host "This city is so spread-out," said Skylight Books general manager signings for Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life . "I didn't expect 10,000 Kerry Slattery, a tour participant, "and everyone's so busy, that a people, all thinking somehow they were going to be among the tour like this is almost the only way to see and find out about all the 1,500 who'd get in to buy a book," Fugate said, noting that it was different stores around." Slattery asked pertinent questions about quite a sight. store logistics and practices of several of the presenting booksellers, as did other tour-takers. "There are always new things Next, the tour-takers were driven 14 miles west, to the oceanside you can learn," she said. town of Pacific Palisades, once home to Thomas Mann and other emigre authors of the 1940s. There were, in fact, Mann titles on the In fact, Slattery's own eight-year-old Skylight Books, 16 miles shelves of the small but well-stocked and wonderfully appointed away, was the sixth store the tour visited. Village Books, where store owner Katie O'Laughlin described how At Skylight, Los Angeles senior public librarian Pearl Yonezawa wheeled shelves and tables are rolled into the back of the store for spoke of ways in which her Los Feliz branch library worked with author visits. "We have folding-chairs and benches to seat about 30 Slattery's store as community partners on various events and in people," she explained. "It's a way to make a small space book-donation programs. The tour group also learned how Skylight workable." arranged an ongoing program in which store patrons buy books to Village Books has its events mostly in the evening near its closing be given to nearby Children's Hospital. time of 8:00 p.m. "We've had a lot of success with local authors, The daylight-savings-time sun was still high in the L.A. sky as the and part of it is that in this neighborhood we have a lot of authors tour bus pulled into the parking lot of Museum of the American and friends of authors," O'Laughlin said. "I don't think I've ever had West Autry National Center in Griffith Park at about 5:00 p.m., but to actually go out and look for people; we've always had people the energy of the tour participants seemed to be sinking a bit as coming in here. The local people will invite their families and they were led into the museum's bookstore and gift shop -- the friends, their neighbors (to their signings). Sometimes they bring daylong tour's penultimate stop. After inspecting the small shop's food, and they really get people in here." It's not uncommon for a impressively large selection of books and Western-related items, "neighborhood" author to sell 50 to 100 books, she said, whereas the group's members listened closely to the Autry's director of retail

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 2 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 operations Bobbi Jean Bell's brief talk and then asked several good special event hosted by multitalented performer Al Franken and questions. sponsored by Putumayo World Music. Franken, the bestselling But by the time the tour made its way back to, inside, and upstairs author, Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer, at Vroman's in Pasadena, even the most persistent questioners were Grammy-winning comedian, and host of The Al Franken Show on content now just to graze from a fruit-and-cheese buffet and listen Air America Radio, will serve as master of ceremonies for the as SCBA president Terry Gilman said she thought there was a real highly anticipated Celebration of Bookselling, which will be held future for this bookstore-tour event -- not only for booksellers, but from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. on Friday, June 3, in the Special Events for consumers. Hall of the Javits Convention Center. "I think it went really well," agreed SCBA executive director Always a high point of BEA programming, the Celebration features Jennifer Bigelow. "I'm very happy.... The results from our (recent) the presentation of the 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. survey showed the stores very much wanted the opportunity to This year, the authors and illustrators of all of the winning titles network with one another, to learn from another and see each will be there to receive their awards: other's stores, and that's what they did today.... Once Upon a Story, • Nonfiction: Robert Kurson ( Shadow Divers: The True in Long Beach -- Julee Morris closed her store, put up a sign saying Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve 'gone to look at bookstores,' and brought her staff with her for the One of the Last Mysteries of World War II , Random House) day so they could see how others do business." Bigelow anticipated • Fiction: Susanna Clarke ( Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell , the tour becoming an annual SCBA event. --Tom Nolan 6 Bloomsbury) • Children's Literature: Author Blue Balliett and illustrator Brett Helquist ( Chasing Vermeer , Scholastic Press) BookSense.com Sites to Experience • Children's Illustrated: Author Doreen Cronin and illustrator Downtime Betsy Lewin ( Duck for President, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). May 12, 2005 -- 7 BookSense.com will be moving its servers to a new location in June. As a result, bookstores' BookSense.com 9 The Celebration will also feature a special presentation by ABA websites will be down from 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, June and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression to 10, through Saturday evening, June 11. Customers will be Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in recognition of his work in defending presented with a "Down for Maintenance" page during this time. reader privacy. Normal service should be restored by Sunday, June 12. The presentation of the Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year The move is being undertaken to facilitate server maintenance and Award to BookPeople of Austin, Texas, and the Rep of the Year to control costs. Award to Charlie Boswell of Heinecken & Associates will also be part of the Celebration festivities. Questions about the move and downtime should be addressed to BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos at [email protected] 8 . Colombian singer and Putumayo World Music artist Marta Gomez will treat guests to a live performance of original songs during the BEA Spotlight: Joyful Celebrations of event, which is free and open to all BEA participants. Book Sense, Booksellers, Books & The Book Sense Book Luncheon Authors From noon - 1:30 p.m. on Friday in the Special Events Hall, booksellers from stores with Book Sense will meet over 50 authors May 12, 2005 -- Just Three Weeks & Counting and illustrators whose books they have chosen as past or present This week , BTW shines a spotlight on special events sponsored by Book Sense Picks. This year's event, sponsored by the Quills ABA and Book Sense at this BookExpo America. BEA will be held Literary Foundation, will be emceed by bookseller -- and recent from Thursday, June 2, to Sunday, June 5, at New York City's Book Sense Picks author -- Betsy Burton of The King's English in Jacob Javits Convention Center. Salt Lake City, Utah. The Third Annual "What Are You Reading/Publishing?" The luncheon, which is only open to stores with Book Sense, Lunch requires an e-mail confirmation of reservation for admittance. Confirmations will be sent to registered booksellers by May 16. All ABA member booksellers registered for ABA's Thursday, June Reservations are no longer being accepted for this event, which is 2, "Day of Education," at BEA are invited to the Javits Center's booked to capacity. Special Events Hall from 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. for the "What Are You Reading/Publishing?" Lunch. This is an opportunity to break The Book Sense Reading Room This year's Book Sense Reading bread with bookseller colleagues from around the country and Room will feature four of independent booksellers' favorite engage in discussions about your favorite handsells. The lunch has authors, including two Book Sense Book of the Year winners. On a new twist this year: In addition to talking to booksellers, tables Saturday, June 3, all BEA attendees are invited to the Reading will feature editors from ABA's Book Sense Publishing Partners, Room (Room 1C 03 of the Javits Center), where these four who will come prepared to discuss hot books and sleepers from outstanding authors will read from, and speak about, their books in their coming fall lists. The lunch is free of charge, but booksellers a relaxed setting: must register in advance through BEA. BEA will provide a • Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic), the 2005 "Thursday Lunch" ticket, which must be presented for admission. Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature winner and a 2004 Summer Kids' Pick ABA's Celebration of Bookselling • Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Booksellers and other industry professionals attending ABA's (Bloomsbury), the 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Fiction Celebration of Bookselling at this BEA will be treated to a very winner and a September 2004 Pick

• Betsy Burton, author of The King's English: Adventures of an demonstrations, and a Dwarf Winged Horse will be available to Independent Bookseller (Gibbs-Smith), an April 2005 Pick give children earthbound rides. • A.J. Jacobs, The Know It All: One Man's Humble Quest to Be Carol Chittenden of Eight Cousins, located in the traditional New the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster), an England village of Falmouth, Massachusetts, told BTW that all her October 2004 Pick fellow merchants on the two-block downtown shopping strip have Readings will take place from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. been invited to join in the project to turn the streets into Diagon Alley from noon to midnight on July 15. "We've gotten a good The BookSense.com Spelling Bee response so far," said Chittenden. "We're encouraging other Book Sense favorite Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season businesses to have special offers for shoppers dressed as witches, (Anchor), will be hosting the BookSense.com/American Heritage wizards, Hogwarts students, and magical creatures, and to offer Dictionaries Spelling Bee at BEA on Saturday, June 4. Bee Season special merchandise or describe merchandise or services in terms was a Book Sense Book of the Year finalist in 2001. of its 'magical' properties." Short of a full-scale transformation, Chittenden suggests that storeowners wear costumes and offer The spelling bee, which will be from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in Room small handouts. Some examples are changing a massage therapist 1B 02-03-04, is open to all BEA attendees. The event is a great to "Madame Pomfrey's Healing Arts" or the pharmacy to "Defense way for booksellers to blow off steam with colleagues from all Against the Dark Arts." corners of the book industry at the end of a long day on the trade show floor. The Downtown Naperville Alliance (DNA) is rallying behind a Harry Potter party planned for July 15, according to the alliance's Booksellers who would like to participate in what's sure to be a head of marketing, Becky Anderson -- who also happens to be fun-filled event should send an e-mail to BookSense.com Director co-owner of Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville and Downers 10 Len Vlahos at [email protected] . Grove. Both communities will have similar parties, although the Naperville program is somewhat bigger. Potter Plans Percolating Aplenty "The carillon will play a special Harry Potter concert with bells at May 12, 2005 -- The Harry Potter phenomenon continues as midnight," Anderson told BTW . "We'll be showing movies on huge booksellers use their experience with the previous books in the outdoor screens, have a big stage with Irish and Scottish dancers. series to prepare for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood We have over 30 participating merchants, the local media, a Prince (Scholastic) on July 16. Innovative ideas sprout up every college, and the hospital. We're expecting a really big crowd -- [we day, like so many Abyssinian shrivelfigs. had] 5,000 people last time, and we're expecting more. People will line up for the book, and we'll give them each a special bag full of Although past Harry Potter book releases have drawn astounding handouts from a variety of publishers with information about other crowds, this time bookstores are expecting even greater turnouts, great fantasy books." and they are planning accordingly. Many stores have used Potter parties to involve other community organizations, such as hospitals, Russ Lawrence, co-owner of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, colleges, libraries, and increasingly, other local businesses. A Montana, will be selling books at midnight in this small town of number of booksellers who are leaders in downtown business 5,000 people. How impressive, then, that for the last release party, associations have found these events to be excellent opportunities nearly five percent of the population showed up. "Last time we for downtown areas to mobilize. expected maybe 40 or 50 people, and we got 200, so who knows how many will come this time," he said. Major downtown transformations into Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and all points in between, are taking place in Hudson, Ohio, home of Lawrence and his wife, store co-owner Jean Matthews, have The Learned Owl Book Shop; Wilmington, Ohio, home of Books involved the community in Potter celebrations in a different way. 'N' More; Falmouth, Massachusetts, home of Eight Cousins; and "We are encouraging people to pre-order their copies [of Harry Naperville, Illinois, home of Anderson's Bookshop. Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ] by offering to donate $6 per prepaid order to the school library of their choice in our marketing "Hudson will once again turn into Harry's World on the night of area," said Lawrence. "We sell the book at full price, but donate the July 15," noted Liz Murphy of the Learned Owl. Main Street will six bucks. We have provided all the local librarians with order again be Diagon Alley, but new this year are more than 30 slips, promoted the deal at book fairs and in school bulletins, and businesses just behind Main Street that will become part of we mention it at every reading as one of our upcoming events." Hogsmeade. Restaurants are offering souvenir menus, contests will send kids all over town, and the public library will become the Everything is big in Texas, including the parking lot of BookPeople Hogwarts Dining Hall. Over 60 businesses are now involved, said in Austin. The space is ample for the 1,500 to 2,000 people who Murphy. "Last time, 5,000 people came to Hudson. We're not quite will likely show up for games, spell stations, magicians, fire sure what to expect this year." dancers, and a replica of Platform 9 and 3/4. Several local businesses are involved, including Amy's Ice Cream, transformed Residents are cautioned to cross Main Street with care at midnight, for the night into Honeydukes of Hogsmeade, and the Alamo July 15, in Wilmington, Ohio: Rumors are spreading about a real Drafthouse, an independent movie theater, that is offering a unicorn making a rare appearance. Fortunately, the city of surprise at midnight, according to Amarin Enyart, BookPeople's Wilmington has offered to close Main Street from 5:00 p.m. until kids events coordinator. after midnight for the large event sponsored by Books 'N' More. Dozens of businesses and organizations are participating, and two "People will be given vouchers for the book, then they can line up hotels are taking overnight reservations for the party. One, the and watch the entertainment while they wait. The party will start at General Denver Hotel, will become Hogwarts East/Wilmington 9:00 p.m. and end when the last book has been handed out," Enyart Branch, site of sorting into houses and the start-of-the-term told BTW. banquet. The Glen Helen Raptor Center will provide owl Some booksellers have plans to burn the candle at the other end --

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 4 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 starting Harry Potter programming by the dawn's early light. This committee should ask [the question] as to how to prevent the Vroman's Bookstore of Pasadena, California, is holding a morning future abuses of these powers," he said. "The folks back home find party for the hour prior to the store's opening on Saturday, it awfully hard to just sit back and trust the government to do the according to Nicole White, children's book buyer. People are right thing without the adequate checks and balances to prevent invited to come in costume for games, giveaways, and an harm in the case that something goes wrong." introduction to the audio book; butterbeer will be served with and Said Senator Durbin, "People want Congress to strike a balance, to without caffeine. protect civil liberties, but give government the power it needs to Classes will begin at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, July 16, at fight the war on terrorism." He pointed out that the 9/11 Square Books, Jr. in Oxford, Mississippi. The WIT Program -- Commission stressed that when the government seeks to expand its Wizards in Training -- will include a scavenger hunt, trivia power, "the burden of proof is on the government to demonstrate contests, and Wizard Shoppe/fun house. Attendees will be that the power is needed." rewarded with a 20 percent discount off their Potter purchase. During the hearing, committee members Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), "During our last event," said Katie Snodgrass of Square Books, John Cornyn (R-TX), and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) stressed that there were "one mother described the thrill of the Potter release parties. She no known abuses of the expanded Patriot Act powers. Cornyn said, 'I've only seen the children spring out of bed with this wild contended, "People condemn [the Patriot Act] entirely ... on excitement in their eyes one other time -- Christmas morning.'" 11 emotion and on spin.... The best teacher is experience and the --Nomi Schwartz Patriot Act has held up well in experience in terms of providing security, but not unduly jeopardizing our liberty. We should make Watch for continuing BTW coverage of Harry Potter events. Let us our decision based on facts and experience." know about your plans by sending an e-mail to 12 One of the more intense exchanges of the day occurred between [email protected] . Senator Kyl and Senators Durbin and Craig over the exact interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Kyl insisted the ABA to Present "Increasing Margin" in statute gave the recipients of a 215 order the authority to challenge California Next Week it, and he dismissed out-of-hand a point made by Durbin that the potential exists that a law enforcement request for library records May 12, 2005 -- Next Wednesday, May 18, ABA CEO Avin Mark under Section 215 could inadvertently cast an American citizen Domnitz will be presenting "Increasing Margin: An Advanced into a net of suspicion because of the type of book he or she Course in Growing Your Bottom Line" at the offices of the checked out. "That's a red herring," Kyle scoffed. Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) at The Presidio in San Francisco. The course, part of ABA's new "I don't think it's a red herring," said Craig, who suggested that education program developed for BookExpo America 2005, is free Section 215 could open the door for abuses by a "rogue agent," and open to all ABA and NCIBA bookstore members. who, for example, might decide to check and see if anyone took out a book on bomb-making at a particular library. Intended for booksellers already familiar with principles of inventory management, this content-rich session will compare and In his opening remarks, SCJ committee member Russell Feingold contrast a profitable and unprofitable bookstore, covering a wide (D-WI) stressed, "Our responsibility is to make sure future abuses range of material. Topics will include controlling product mix, do not occur.... Do we lay down the hammer and say nothing bad direct versus wholesale ordering, electronic ordering, has happened [thus far], so let's renew? Apparently, Section 215 understanding the value of early payment discounts, better has not been used, but many times the records were obtained from managing seasonal title orders, and more. librarians who volunteered them." And in response to the exchange between Kyle and Durbin, he added: "If there is an ability to Following the session, which will run from 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., challenge under 215, I cannot find it." a complimentary lunch will be provided. Booksellers planning to attend are asked to RSVP by e-mail to ABA's Kristen Gilligan at Others testifying in favor of amending Section 215 and other [email protected] 13 . sunsetting provisions of the USA Patriot Act included former U.S. House representative Bob Barr, the current chairman of the Patriots NCIBA's offices are located at The Presidio, 37 Graham St. in San to Restore Checks and Balances; David Cole, professor of law at Francisco [(415) 561-7686; Fax: (415) 561-7685]. the Georgetown University Law Center; James X. Dempsey, More about ABA's Day of Education at BEA can be found at executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology; www.bookweb.org/aba/convention/ 14 . and Suzanne E. Spaulding, managing director of the Harbour Group, LLC. Senate Committee Hears Patriot Act Patriot Act proponents testifying before SCJ were Daniel P. Collins, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olsen LLP, and Andrew C. Critics McCarthy, an attorney and senior fellow at the Foundation for the May 12, 2005 -- On Tuesday, May 10, the Senate Committee on Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based "non-partisan, the Judiciary (SCJ) continued its oversight hearings on the USA non-profit policy institute dedicated to defeating terrorism and Patriot Act and heard testimony from a number of the act's critics. promoting freedom." Among those testifying before the committee were Senators In his statement, Barr called on Congress to "improve the Patriot Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Larry Craig (R-ID), sponsors of the 15 Act by carefully inserting modest checks against abuse. In Security and Freedom Enhancement Act (SAFE) of 2005. particular, I urge the members of the committee to support the In his opening remarks, Craig stressed that it is crucial that the bi-partisan SAFE.... While it would retain every expansion of law committee not only review how the Patriot Act has been used, but enforcement and intelligence authority in the Patriot Act, the SAFE also whether the act leaves open the door for abuses in the future. Act would incorporate modest -- but essential -- new safeguards

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 5 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 against abuse." the children's specialty store category. During questioning from SCJ members, Harbour Group's Look for more information on the Pannell Award and this year's Spaulding said of Section 215, "At a minimum, we ought to winners in an upcoming issue of Bookselling This Week . consider a higher standard for records that implicate First Amendment activity and probable cause might be the appropriate The Publishing Triangle's 17th Annual Triangle Awards standard there; and a clarification that it applies only to business records. Now it applies to any tangible thing held by anyone." On May 10, the 17th Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2004, Meanwhile, in his statement, Foundation for the Defense of were presented at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School for Democracies' McCarthy defended Section 215. "None of the Patriot Social Research. Edward Field was named the 2005 recipient of the Act's enhancements of the government's investigative arsenal has Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime been more assiduously libeled than Section 215," he said. "Indeed, Achievement, named in honor of a legendary editor of the 1970s in the public mind, it has become the 'library records' provision and 1980s. notwithstanding that libraries are nowhere mentioned. While there • The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry winner was Carl Phillips are points of legitimate concern, most of the controversy is a 16 for The Rest of Love (FSG); tempest in a teapot. Section 215 is a good law." --David Grogan • The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry winner was (For more about efforts to amend the USA Patriot Act, go to Maureen Seaton for Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie www.bookweb.org/read/7679 17 ). Mellon University Press); • The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction winner was Bill Maher BEA Event Expected to Sell Alison Smith for Name All the Animals (Scribner); • The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction winner was David Out K. Johnson for The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Prosecution May 11, 2005 -- Tickets for this year's BookExpo America Book of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (University of Industry Foundation Benefit starring comedian Bill Maher may sell Chicago Press); out before the June 2 - 5 trade show, according to Tina Jordan, the • The Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction winner was show's public relations/special events director. This would be a first Stacey D'Erasmo for A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin); and for BEA's annual Saturday night event, which benefits the • The Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction winner was Adam American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Berlin for Belmondo Stories (St. Martin's Press). Association of American Publishers Get Caught Reading Campaign. Maher will perform for booksellers and other industry professionals South Carolina Internet Statute Struck and their guests at an exclusive, "closed" appearance on Saturday, June 4, at New York City's The Town Hall. Maher will be at BEA Down to promote his new book, New Rules , which will be published by May 11, 2005 -- On Monday, May 9, booksellers and free speech Rodale in the fall. New Rules is based on segments from Maher's groups, including the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA), television show, Real Time , on HBO. scored a victory in the battle against Internet censorship when a Tickets for the performance may be purchased in advance via the judge in the U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, BEA registration form, which can be found online at permanently enjoined a statute that would have criminalized any www.bookexpoamerica.com 18 . Subject to availability, tickets may work communicated on the Internet that is accessible in South be purchased at The Town Hall the evening of the performance. Carolina and contains a depiction of nudity or sexual conduct Tickets are $25 for one ticket, $45 for two, and $100 for five. considered to be "harmful to minors." "We are pleased to have successfully defended the right of BTW News Briefs booksellers to do business on the Internet on the same terms as in their stores--without censorship," said SEBA Executive Director May 11, 2005 -- Wanda Jewell.

WNBA Announces Pannell Winners Chris Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), a plaintiff in the case, noted, "This gives On Wednesday, May 11, the Women's National Book Association us a perfect record in protecting the First Amendment rights of announced the winners of this year's Lucile Micheels Pannell booksellers on the Internet." Award. This year's award for a general bookstore goes to BookPeople in Austin, Texas, which is also the recipient of this To date, ABFFE and booksellers in seven states have joined year's Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year Award. The members of the Media Coalition in challenging laws that winner in the children's specialty category is Reading Reptile unconstitutionally restrict the display of First Amendment Books and Toys for Young Mammals in Kansas City, Missouri. protected material, including book excerpts and jacket covers that are purportedly "harmful to minors." Thus far six of those statutes The Pannell Awards will be presented at BookExpo America in have been struck down and an Ohio case is still pending. New York City at the Children's Book and Author Breakfast on Friday, June 3. Each winner will receive a check for $1,000 and a The plaintiffs in the South Carolina case first issued their challenge framed piece of original art created by a children's book illustrator. in November 2002. They argued that the law, which took effect in Artists Barbara Lavallee and Ed Young contributed this year's art. July 2001, violated the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause In addition to the award winners, the jury selected Wonderland of the U.S. Constitution, because "it prohibits adults, and even Books and Toys in Rockford, Illinois for an honorable mention in older minors from viewing and sending constitutionally protected images over the Internet and has the effect of prohibiting

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 6 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 constitutionally protected communications nationwide." Clarke's first novel, and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Furthermore, they contended that the statute, as a content-based Book Award in the first novel category. restriction on speech, could not survive strict scrutiny and is New Line Cinema has acquired the film rights to Jonathan Strange unconstitutionally overbroad because it substantially infringes on and Mr. Norrell , and a screenplay is in the works. protected speech of adults." Described as a fusion of Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.K. Under the South Carolina statute "certain book covers and jackets Rowling, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is set during the posted on a bookseller's website could be considered harmful to Napoleonic Wars, hundreds of years after humans have lost the minors" and constitute a criminal act, said Jewell, when the groups ability to perform magic. A secretive Mr. Norrell stuns the British first issued their challenge. nation with his abilities to practice practical magic -- he causes In his decision granting plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, statues to speak and summons ghostly ships to terrify Napoleon's Judge Patrick Michael Duffy, wrote: "[T]he Act fails strict scrutiny army. Norrell's reign as England's sole magician is curtailed by the because the State has failed to prove that it is more effective at appearance of another magician: the brilliant and arrogant Jonathan achieving the State's interest in protecting minors than Plaintiffs' Strange. Strange studies under Norrell and together they dazzle the proffered less restrictive alternative of filtering.... world with their feats. But as Strange's powers grow so do his "The State admits that much of the harmful to minors material at reckless attempts to summon the Raven King, the legendary issue originates from overseas, and that the Act does nothing to magician of yore raised by fairies. His ambition threatens his prevent material of foreign origin. Courts have unanimously partnership with Norrell and everything else he values. concluded that the inability to curtail the flow of sexually-explicit Clarke will also be honored at the Book Sense Author Luncheon on materials from abroad is a fatal flaw in statutes such as the Act." Friday at BEA. The luncheon, which is only open to stores with Furthermore, Judge Duffy noted that "a wealth of federal courts, Book Sense, requires an e-mail confirmation of reservation for including four courts of appeals, have held that similar state laws admittance. Confirmations will be sent to registered booksellers by violated the Commerce Clause" and that the Act is "invalid because May 16. Reservations are no longer being accepted for this event, it places an undue burden on interstate commerce by regulating which is booked to capacity. commerce occurring wholly outside of South Carolina." Other plaintiffs in the case included the Association of American Former Speaker of the House Cautions Publishers, Families Against Internet Censorship, the Comic Book Against Giving Up Liberty for Safety Legal Defense Fund, and Print Studio South, Inc. -- David Grogan 19 May 11, 2005 -- This Op-Ed column by former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Wright originally appeared in the 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 10, 2005. Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell PATRIOT ACT: Giving up liberty for safety? By Jim Wright May 11, 2005 -- "Susanna Clarke astonishes with a tale full of Special to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram wonders! The vivid characters, richly defined world of 1806 England, and mystical elements keep the pages turning in this story Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those that can give up essential liberty of how magicians helped the English defeat Napoleon." --Emery to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor Pinter, Chapter 11, Atlanta, Georgia -- From the July 2004 Book safety." Sense Picks In the immediate wake of such a stunning tragedy as befell this Susanna Clarke, author of this year's Book Sense Book of the Year nation on 9/11, a certain amount of over-reactive hysteria might fiction winner, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 20 (Bloomsbury), have been expected, human nature being what it is. will be honored at ABA's annual Celebration of Bookselling on Stampeded by an outraged public demanding swift and vigorous Friday, June 3, at BookExpo America (BEA), and all trade show action, members of Congress literally vied with one another to participants are invited to attend. Clarke will be presented the establish their own anti-terrorism credentials. award, which recognizes independent booksellers' handselling favorites during the past year, at a festive event featuring all of this Just a few days after 9/11, a swiftly composed bill went to year's Book Sense Book of the Year winners. The free event begins Congress granting government broader powers to crack down on at 5:30 p.m. in the Special Events Hall at New York's Jacob Javits terrorism suspects. It sailed to overwhelming passage. Convention Center and is open to all BEA badged attendees. The bill's official title -- the USA Patriot Act -- virtually dared Clarke will also be featured at another event open to all BEA anybody to vote against it. Who wants to be on record against participants -- the Book Sense Reading Room 21 -- on Saturday, patriotism? Or for coddling terrorists? June 4, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Room 1C 03. Now, some thoughtful lawmakers of both parties are having serious 22 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell was a Book Sense Pick in July second thoughts. 2004. It also appeared on 2004's Book Sense Picks Highlights list Liberty and safety exist in uneasy balance, and with Franklin's and was a Book Sense Bestseller. In 2005, the book appeared on admonition in mind, a determined bipartisan group is gathering the Book Sense SciFi/Fantasy Bestseller List. forces for a second all-out effort, later this year, to remove from the Short stories and novellas by the Oxford-educated Clarke have Patriot Act what they see as a grave threat to some of America's previously been published in many anthologies, including The most cherished constitutional freedoms. Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Collections . Her story Mr At issue is the "Freedom to Read" amendment. It seeks to reinforce Simonelli, or The Fairy Widower , was shortlisted for a World every citizen's right to read whatever one wishes without fear of Fantasy Award in 2001. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 7 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 being harassed, punished, or intimidated by government. Specifically, they want to protect library and bookstore patrons Against Cheney Task Force from federal investigators looking into what books they check out May 10, 2005 -- On May 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the or purchase. District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2004 by a Section 215 of the sweeping Patriot Act grants FBI investigators coalition of public interest groups that urged the court to order Vice the power to demand sales and checkout records, as well as lists of President Dick Cheney to reveal the names of the people who customers, from libraries and bookstores. participated in meetings of an energy task force he appointed in 2001. The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression The brewing battle seems certain to be one of the testiest of the (ABFFE) and other organizations had filed an amicus brief year, as well as one of the most fundamental in defining the proposing a compromise in the case. national character. An earlier skirmish over the issue ended, after muscular presidential intervention, in a 210-210 House deadlock In 2004, the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch sued Vice President last year. Cheney when he refused to reveal any information about the operations of his National Energy Policy Development Group On a tie vote, under House rules, the motion fails. So the Patriot (NEPDG). There was speculation at the time that representatives of Act's controversial power remained intact for the year. the oil and gas industry participated in the policy discussions of the But the issue is certain to come to a head again this year, with the group and offered advice to the government, which would make Justice Department lobbying for even expanded powers. Hearings NEPDG subject to open meeting requirements of the Federal began in the Senate last week. Advisory Committee Act (FACA). FACA was designed to Sen. Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, asked eliminate the ability of special interest groups to secretly influence Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert the government by requiring full disclosure of the membership and Mueller if they'd agree to exempting public libraries from Section proceedings of any advisory committees that include 215. non-government personnel. Gonzales admitted that government shouldn't challenge people's In November 2004, an amicus brief was filed by ABFFE, the patriotism on the basis of the books they read, but he rejected the American Library Association, the Society of Professional idea of limiting government's power to keep special watch on Journalists, and others that proposed a compromise that would libraries. Suspicious people, he insisted, sometimes use library protect the separation of powers while maintaining public computers to communicate with one another. accountability. It asked the court to order Cheney to prepare a log indicating the dates of all meetings of the NEPDG with a list of Specter seemed unimpressed by the attorney general's argument. who attended the meetings. If outsiders were involved, Sierra Club The Pennsylvania Republican usually supports the Bush could then request the release of documents relating to their administration on law enforcement matters, and his defection on participation. this issue could be crucial. "We are very disappointed in this decision because it appears to Gonzales, hard-pressed to sustain his position, yielded a undermine a law that is designed to ensure that the operations of begrudging inch. He said he'd accept an amendment allowing our government are open to public scrutiny and debate," said someone from whom records are demanded to call a lawyer -- a ABFFE President Chris Finan. "Surely, the public is entitled to right not uniformly guaranteed under current Justice Department know who is participating in meetings of these advisory practice. committees that are shaping national policy, whether they are Almost two years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union cited 'official' members or not." 742 cases of individuals arrested and held without charges, legal The Vice President had maintained that his task force was not an counsel, or notification of next of kin. advisory committee and that being forced to reveal information Every good citizen abhors terrorism. We want our government to about its operation would violate the separation of powers, protect us from it. Still, in the process, we must be wise enough not undermining the executive branch's ability to solicit advice without to throw the baby out with the bath water. interference by the courts. If we allow the terrorist threat to panic us into abandoning our In its decision, the appeals court ruled that the plaintiffs had failed guarantees of individual rights and freedom, that would be the to establish any duty owed to them by the federal government modern equivalent of selling our birthright. under FACA. The court noted that a government committee that consists of federal employee members is not therefore subject to Enemies of freedom win when they scare us into adopting their FACA simply because an outsider participates in the committee tactics. meetings, as long as the outsider does not have a vote on the committee. Jim Wright is a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Contact him at P.O. Box 1413, Fort Worth, TX Free Classified Ads Available to ABA 76101. Visit the Star-Telegram 's online services at www.star-telegram.com 23 . Bookstore Members Copyright © 2005 Star-Telegram . All rights reserved. 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Each ad can be up to 50 words, and ads will appear for a period of embarrassing visits from God, who appears only to her and in two weeks on BTW 's Classifieds 24 webpage, as well as in the full many guises. print-on-demand edition of BTW . Bookstore members can also One of the first of God's weekly assignments for Joan was to secure place additional Classified Ads at a 25 percent discount off the gainful employment, which she did by applying to Skylight Books regular rate of $20 per seven words (28-word minimum). in her hometown of Arcadia, Maryland. Well-designed and full of ABA Bookstore Members who would like to place a Classified Ad books and displays, the bookstore isn't usually crowded with should contact Elizabeth Fabian at [email protected] 25 or at paying customers, other than Joan's love interests and God -- none (800) 637-0037, ext. 1271. The deadline for Classified Ad copy is of whom pay cash. 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday for an ad in the following day's edition During the show's development, designers from Canterbury of BTW . Productions, which produces the show, approached ABA for With a circulation of more than 11,000 trade professionals, BTW information about dressing a bookstore set with maximum also offers publishers, sidelines vendors, and others in the industry verisimilitude. Jill Perlstein, ABA marketing director, supplied opportunities to place "Front Page" Ads in the BTW weekly e-mail them with Book Sense banners, shelf-talkers, counter cards, and flash, in addition to Classified Ad placement. lists, and, according to production designer Bill Eigenbrodt, these A new rate card is available at www.bookweb.org/read/2901 26 . give the bookstore a "visual personality." In a final episode, Joan had a lengthy confrontation with a young Idea Exchange Busy With Talks of Potter man, quite possibly the embodiment of evil, with a large, clearly visible Book Sense banner directly behind her. She told the young Parties and More man that she would triumph in any competition with him, because May 10, 2005 -- Every week dozens of booksellers seek and share she "has God on [her] side." With the added strength of the nation's advice and information about bookselling and the book industry on finest independent bookstores, how could she lose? --Nomi BookWeb's Idea Exchange 27 . Here, BTW presents a look at some Schwartz of this week's topics -- with the hope that more booksellers will join in. For more on Book Sense and Joan of Arcadia (whose third season has not been confirmed), go to news.bookweb.org/read/1755 29 and Among the topics that booksellers are discussing in the 30 Bookseller-to-Bookseller Forum this week are: news.bookweb.org/read/2919 . • How to handle customer requests for titles that the store does not currently carry or had not planned on ordering in the near future; Book Sense Notable Is a Novel of • A continuing discussion regarding media mail; • A back-and-forth on Moleskine notebooks; Reverie & Remembrance • Planning Potter parties; May 09, 2005 -- When Pablo Medina initially conceived his latest • Working with local schools; and novel, The Cigar Roller 31 (Grove Press), a May Book Sense • A query regarding e-mail service for Macintosh. Notable, he envisioned a social history of the cigar industry and the cigar-worker community -- made up of many Cuban immigrants -- In the Ask ABA forum there was a query on changing profile in and around Tampa, Florida. "But then again, I'm neither a information. In Ask BookSense.com, there were inquiries regarding sociologist nor an historian," the Cuban-born author said in a recent the Book Sense Gift Card Program and how to make the most out interview with BTW , so he jettisoned that idea and pursued an of a BookSense.com website. historical novel. The decision wasn't surprising, considering his two The Idea Exchange Forums are open to ABA bookstore and previous novels, The Return of Felix Nogara and The Marks of provisional members only. (Booksellers who do not already have a Birth , are both "historically influenced or driven." In writing BookWeb Account will need to create one 28 .) Nogara , in fact, Medina felt as if "history itself was becoming a character in the narrative," he said. "The main character in that book was constantly reacting to history and historical events God Is Nigh -- Book Sense Is in the surrounding him." Details at TV Bookstore As Medina continued to write The Cigar Roller , he would focus on May 10, 2005 -- Stores with Book Sense attract readers of all one character more than anyone or anything else. "The whole idea ideologies, creeds, and tastes. But is it possible that the six-year-old of an historical novel fell by the wayside, and I decided to write a branding program for independents has convinced even the short novel" -- only 178 pages, in fact -- "on this particular Supreme Being -- the primary promoter of the bestselling Good character." In hindsight, he added, "It had become a process of Book -- to stop in? discovering what it was that the novel wanted to be." 32 The bookstore in question is actually an elaborate set for the CBS At the center of The Cigar Roller is Amadeo Terra, a former series Joan of Arcadia . Skylight Books -- named after the real cigar roller from Cuba, who is living in a Catholic nursing home in bookstore in Los Angeles, where initial episodes of the show were Tampa in the 1940s after he has suffered a stroke that has left him filmed -- has been the site of many a scene this season. And paralyzed. When his nurse feeds him some mango -- quite a treat viewers, particularly those in the book business, have noticed the compared with his usual baby-food mush -- the tangy flavor helps increasing prominence of orange and blue Book Sense banners in him to conjure vivid memories of life in Havana. His marriage, his the background. unfaithful meanderings, his rocky relationship with his three sons, and the political turbulence that inspired his family to end up in Completing its second season this month, Joan of Arcadia , is an Florida all return to him in moving, artful detail. hour-long series about a typical high school girl with school, family, and romance problems exacerbated by chronic, Early in the book, Medina -- who is also the author of five

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 9 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK May 12, 2005 collections of poetry and a memoir -- blends Amadeo's physical belonged in some strange way. Both emotions were struggling with and emotional turmoil with memories of urban strife, all in one one another. When I first left the island, the city of Havana was poetic, metaphorically rich passage. He writes: "Something is essentially intact. But when I was there in '99, it was completely happening inside his body he doesn't like, groups of people deteriorated to the point where I felt as if I was walking around gathering on street corners, in parks, upset at some political among ruins, essentially the ruins of my memory. I'm still, in ways, unfairness, a stolen election, a breakdown of the system. More trying to deal with that." --Jeff Perlah 33 people gather and the outrage grows, followed by a rallying cry. The crowd spills onto the street. A boy throws a Molotov cocktail at a police wagon; someone else sets fire to a mound of refuse.... Amadeo opens his mouth to scream for help and a fierce jet of food shoots out and lands on the white snow of his belly." Perhaps the description of Amadeo's belly was inspired, in part, by the location where Medina wrote most of this novel: the top of a peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. "I was living by Harry Potter Gift Cards Selling Now myself and when the snows started coming and the darkness arrived and the bitterly cold weather began, the only May 12, 2005 -- Booksellers interested in offering their customers companionship I had on a day-to-day basis was Amadeo," Medina special, limited edition Harry Potter Book Sense gift cards -- which recalled. "So that many of the issues that I myself struggled with -- are available for immediate shipment -- should order now, as supplies are limited. Orders must be placed through the with what it means to be a man and how it is that one acts in the 34 world, for example -- I sort of projected onto this character and booksenseorders.givex.com web page. (Booksellers who tried to deal with in that way. I almost went crazy up there but at previously notified ABA Marketing Director Jill Perlstein via least I got this book out of it." e-mail of their interest in the cards must also place their orders through the Givex site in order to receive their cards.) As Medina's mountain-top writing sojourn ensued, he strove to make Amadeo, well, as flawed as possible, he confessed. "He's a Orders for the Harry Potter Book Sense gift card and coordinating man who really has not looked at his own self and that comes up in presenter, which have been created in cooperation with Scholastic, the way he relates to others," the author said. "And he's constantly Inc., the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling's record-breaking Harry acting out of some rather narrow perspectives that he carries with Potter series, will be filled as long as supplies last. The gift card him. I like to believe the book itself is the process of him features art from the eagerly awaited Harry Potter and the discovering, on some level, those flaws and finally coming to terms Half-Blood Prince , which has an on-sale date of Saturday, July 16, and which Scholastic is promoting with a multi-million dollar with them." In short, Amadeo is not an easy character to like, 35 Medina admitted. "The way he dealt with his wife and children marketing campaign . were not always the most uplifting ways," he said. Yet the author The costs for the special Harry Potter gift cards are the same as for ultimately presents Amadeo as someone who, in many ways, is the other current card designs (22 cents per card for a minimum easy to relate to and who is undeniably human -- comically so, at order of 100 generic cards; 31 cents for a minimum order of 250 times. "He's comic in that he comes to an understanding of himself imprinted cards.) In addition, there is the usual 50 cents per card that he has avoided for so long," Medina explained. "Amadeo sees transaction fee, 8 cents per presenter, and shipping and handling that what he's been searching for is a way of reaching other charges. However, Book Sense Harry Potter gift cards are eligible people." for a bookstore's individual co-op from Scholastic. While concocting Amadeo, Medina looked to both fictional Complete details and ordering information are available at characters, including Pedro Paramo in Juan Rulfo's novel of the www.bookweb.org/read/7728 36 . same name, and real-life individuals. "I had a couple of relatives who had suffered strokes around the time I was working on this To participate, stores must be part of the Book Sense Gift Card whole project, so I became very familiar with nursing homes and Program. (Stores may join the Book Sense Gift Card Program and the way caretakers interact with patients, and vice versa." Still, place an initial order for Harry Potter gift cards while supplies last. those who interact with Amadeo aren't nearly as developed as Book Sense Gift Card Program information is available at www.bookweb.org/read/6303 37 . Questions should be addressed to Medina's protagonist. "It's one of the things you negotiate as a 38 writer," Medina said. "I couldn't have such an internally based Perlstein at [email protected] .) story, and at the same time, have several fully formed secondary characters. Yet I think some of them are fuller than others. His RiverRun: A Vital Part of the Cultural wife, Julia, is certainly more developed; but because we see them Life of Portsmouth through his eyes only, they all sort of flatten out." May 11, 2005 -- RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, New Medina was born in Cuba and lived there for 12 years before Hampshire, opened three years ago, but it has already become a moving to New York City in 1960. "Since I arrived in the U.S., I've vital community resource, by design of co-owner Tom Holbrook. always been searching for points of contact regarding the two RiverRun tailors its titles to the book buyers of Portsmouth, offers cultures," he said. "And it was certainly a way into this novel." an exciting and full events calendar, and sponsors many cultural Medina -- who has been teaching writing and literature at New events outside of the bookstore, including the town's poet laureate School University in Manhattan during the past decade -- has only program, the only city with a population under 50,000 to do so, been back to Cuba once, in 1999, and that visit was a complicated said Holbrook. experience. "I was only there for nine days, and I was numb for Portsmouth is a tourist town on the New Hampshire seacoast, a most of the time," he remembered. "I was trying to get my bearings section only 17 miles long. "It's the most liberal city in New straight. I felt very much a stranger, but at the same time I felt I Hampshire without a doubt," said Holbrook. "There are a lot of

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