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Barnes & Noble Ninth Annual “My Favorite Teacher Contest”

Barnes & Noble announced the launch of the 2019 “Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest,” which provides high school students with the opportunity to share their appreciation for their teachers with their local communities. Now in its ninth year, the contest is launching on Valentine’s Day to give students...

Mystery Writers of America – 2019 Edgar Award Nominations

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 210th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Nominees for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2018. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to...

38th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

The 38th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded tonight at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium. Now a program of the Los Angeles Times Foundation, the Book Prizes are dedicated to honoring literary luminaries, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing from authors at...

Barnes & Noble Launches Browsery App for Android and iOS users

Barnes & Noble announced the launch of Browsery—the first mobile app to talk about books the way readers do. Browsery is available for Android and iOS users. It blends technology with the Barnes & Noble experience of community, conversation and peer-to-peer recommendations to deliver a new kind of digital browsing...

Barnes & Noble – Educator Appreciation Days Every Saturday & Sunday in April

To celebrate pre-K-12 public, private and homeschool educators and administrators, Barnes & Noble announced the return of Educator Appreciation Days for every Saturday and Sunday in April. Starting Sunday, April 1, local stores will feature special discounts* for teachers and administrators such as 25% off most merchandise like books, toys...

Barnes & Noble – Winners of the 27th Annual Discover Awards

Barnes & Noble announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell’s Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother’s suicide, and Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a...