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Another story for you guys to mull over from The Austin American-Statesman: Book removed from Round Rock middle school libraries By Bob Banta | Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 10:54 AM A teen novel that stirred controversy when the parent of a Round Rock student complained that it is obscene was removed from the district’s middle … Continue reading What the ?
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Alison sent me an interesting link today. In light of our upcoming Banned Books Celebration, I thought I would post it here and ask for your input. What do you guys think? We'd love to hear your point of view, so please comment and let us know! Hmmm... Posted by Laurie
Our good friends over at the Austin Chronicle have written a splendid article on the upcoming celebrations for Banned Books Week. Click the image below to check it out: Posted by Laurie
Earlier this year, the marketing staff here at the store traveled to sunny Los Angeles for BEA – an annual conference for booksellers, publishers and distributors. Among the amazing people we got to meet (hello, George Hamilton!), I had the great fortune to meet the legendary Salman Rushdie. And by “meet” I mean I threaded … Continue reading Laurie recommends….
As soon as I finished reading The Little Book by Selden Edwards, I had to shuffle some things around in my head to make room for it on my Top Five Favorite Novels of All Time list. It's almost impossible for me to describe how incredible this book is - it is about time travel … Continue reading Staff Reviews: Laurie recommends….
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson In May, I attended a meeting of independent booksellers in Indianapolis. At the beginning of the meeting we performed one of those annoying icebreaker exercises that are so common in both classrooms and boardrooms. Being booksellers, our icebreaker exercise was to introduce ourselves and then tell … Continue reading Top Shelf Pick for September
Hello fellow bibliophiles! We are finally jumping on the blogging bandwagon. Seems like just yesterday this "internet thing" was remote and futuristic, a difficult concept to grasp in an age when dewey decimals systems and encyclopedias were the apex of reading and research. These days, "Google" is a verb and cell phones are an extension … Continue reading We’re Indiebound!
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