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This week, Publishers Lunch released Buzz Books 2013: Spring/Summer, a free e-book of pre-publication excerpts from 28 highly anticipated books set to go on sale between March and July. Close to half of the excerpts (11 titles) will also be featured at this month’s Winter Institute.

Here’s a preview of the titles on the March Indie Next List flier on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

On Monday, January 28, at its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, the American Library Association (ALA) announced a wide range of award-winning books, videos, and audiobooks for children and young adults, including the recipients of the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards.

From March 1 - 3, Plum Organics will donate a nutrient-dense Super Smoothie to a family in need for every copy of “A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It” (PublicAffairs) sold.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 20, 2013.

The February Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

Here are the top 15 bestselling titles in the categories of Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction and Nonfiction, and Children’s Interest and Illustrated based on reporting from independent bookstores nationwide for the six-week holiday period, from November 23 through December 31, 2012.

Wi8 bookseller registrants will soon receive a complimentary copy of Alex George’s A Good American (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam),  this year’s One Institute, One Read title. George recently spoke to BTW about what it means to be a “good American,” the importance of finding a place to call home, and what it has meant to his work to have the support of indie booksellers.

On Monday, January 14, the National Book Critics Circle announced its award finalists in six categories — autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — for titles published in 2012.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 6, 2013.