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Presents books on American, Ancient and World History. Includes `Tara Revisited: Women, War, and the Plantation,' by Catherine Clinton; `Killing Kennedy: And the Hoax of the Century,' by Harrison Edward Livingstone; `Mind Control and the Assassination of President Kennedy,' by Dick Russell; `1939: The Lost World of the Fair,' by David Gelernter. INSETS: A different place.;Vietnam reflections..

Lists general fiction books. Includes `Redeye: A Western,' by Clyde Edgerton; `The New York Yanquis,' by Bill Granger; `Secret Dreams,' by Keith Korman; `Reservation Blues,' by Sherman Alexie; `The Shadow Man,' by John Katzenbach; `Rookery Blues,' by Jon Hassler; `Sleep On, Beloved,' by Cecil Foster; `Mystique,' by Amanda Quick; `Playing the Game,' by Alan Lelchuck. INSETS: Collision on the superhighway.;A novelist with a cause..

Presents biography and memoirs. Includes `The Last Camilles: The Rutland Years, 1949-1953,' by Gwynn McDougal; `I Fall To Pieces : The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline,' by Mark Bego; `Dance of a Fallen Monk: The Twists and Turns of a Spiritual Life,' by George Fowler. INSETS: Backlist antiques.;You'll never eat dinner either.;Terms of endearment and otherwise..

Lists the participating exhibitors at the American Booksellers Association's (ABA) 1994 annual convention and trade show in Los Angeles, California. Main exhibitors; Small press exhibitors; International exhibitors; Audio and video exhibitors.

Presents books about sports. Includes `The St. Louis Cardinals: Over 100 Years of Baseball Memories and Memorabilia,' by Bruce Chadwick; `Rookie: Michael Jordan's Year in Baseball,' by Jim Patton; `Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sports and Other Amusements,' by Alistair Cooke; `The 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time: A Sports Editor's Personal Ranking,' by Bert Randolph Sugar.

Presents books about religion. Includes `Love Letters From Cell 92, the Correspondence Between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria Von Wedemeyer'; `I Am with You Always: True Stories of Encounters with Jesus,' by G. Scott Sparrow; `A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History,' by Albert J. Raboteau; `Wisdom of the Jewish Sages: A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot,' by Rami Shapiro. INSET: Reaching new hites..

Lists first fiction books. Includes `The Good Negress,' by A.J. Verdelle; `Lying in Bed,' by J.D. Landis; `Amnesty,' by Louise A. Blum; `A Perfect Silence,' by Alba Ambert; `Rain,' by Kristry Gunn; `The Fourth Procedure,' by Stanley Pottinger; `Moon Cakes,' by Andrea Louie; `The Stolen Child,' Paul Cody; `I, Morgain,' by Harry Robin; `Out at the Old Ball Game,' by Bernie Bookbinder. INSET: Annotating Mrs. Onassis..

Presents cookbooks and books about wine and entertainment. Includes `Provence Gastronomique,' by Erica Brown; `Mary Engelbreit's Bountiful Harvest' and `Mary Engelbreit's World of Recipe,' by edited Jill Wolf; `Culinary Art: Recipes from Greater Chicago Restaurants'; `B. Smith's: Entertaining and Cooking for Friends,' by Barbara Smith; `Grains, Rice and Beans,' by Kevin Graham. INSET: WW II: A half-century later..

Presents books on contemporary affairs. Includes `It's All the Rage: Crime and Culture,' by Wendy Kaminer; `Reinvesting in America: The Grassroots Movements That Are Feeding the Hungry, Housing the Homeless, and Putting Americans Back to Work,' by Robin Garr; `Live from Death Row,' by Mumia Abu-Jamal; `The Price of Experience: Power, Money, Image and Murder in Los Angeles,' by Randall Sullivan. INSET: Igniting the libido, 1995-style..

Presents books about business and personal finance. Includes `Finding Work Without Losing Heart: Bouncing Back from Mid-Career Job Loss,' by William J. Byron; `The Frugal Investor: How to Build a Low-risk, High-Return Portfolio,' by Scott Spiering and Jay Wurts; `Fad Surfing in the Bedroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers,' by Aileen C. Shapiro. INSET: The envelope please..

Presents books about arts and architecture. Includes `Parmigianino,' by Cecil Gould; `Garden of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists,' by John Beardsley; `Carpaccio,' by Vittorio Sgarbi; `Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved for Humanity by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,' by Albert Kostenevich. INSET: Art on the road..

Features congresses on multimedia hosted by regional booksellers association. New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association; The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association; The Upper Midwest Booksellers Association; The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association; The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association; The Southeast Booksellers Association; The New England Booksellers Association.

Presents highlights of the 1994 American Booksellers Association (ABA) Convention and Trade Show held in Los Angeles, California from May 28 to 31. Session called `The Competitive Environment of Bookselling'; Comparative Shopper Survey on shopper motivation commissioned by the ABA group and done by the Wirthlin Group; Introduction of multimedia through the Electronic Books sessions. INSET: Award-winning books and booksellers..

Presents books about craft and hobby guidelines. Includes `Woodworker's Guide to Pricing Your Work,' by Dan Ramsey; `The Complete Guide to Flower Arrangement ,' by Jane Packer; `Making Simple Instruments,' by Bart Hopkin.

Presents books about psychology. Includes `They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal,' by Paula J. Caplan; `Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing,' edited by Hope Edelman; `The Missing Piece: Solving the Puzzle of Self,' by Claudia Black; `I Don't Want to Be Inside Me, Anymore: Messages from an Autistic Mind,' by Birger Sellin.

Presents books about war and military. Includes `Shrouds of Glory,' by Winston Groom; `An Encyclopedia of Modern U.S. Weapons,' by Timothy M. Laur and Steven L. Llanso; `The Price of Folly: British Muddles, Mistakes, and Mismanagement in the American Revolutionary War,' by William Seymour; `Gettysburg July 1,' by David G. Martin.

Presents books on poetry. Includes `Poems for Life: Famous People Select Their Favorite Poems and Say Why It Inspires Them'; `Wounded in the House of a Friend,' by Sonia Sanchez; `Straight Put Out of View,' by Joyce Sutphen; `Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems; `The Columbia anthology of American Poetry,' edited by Jay Parini; `Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs,' edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard. INSET: Sherlock Holmes on campus?..

Presents books about science. Includes `River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life,' by Richard Dawkins; `Extraterrestial Intelligence,' by Jean Heidmann; `The Same and Not the Same,' by Ronald Hoffman; `The Great Comet Crash: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Its Impact on Jupiter,' edited by John G. Spencer and Jacqueline Mitton; `Gemstone of Afghanistan,' by Gary Bowersox and Chamberlin Bowersox.

Presents books on self-help and recovery. Includes `I Love You--Talk to Me! Overcoming Our Tendency to Avoid Conflict in Marriage,' by Donald Harvey; `Beyond the Darkness: My Near-Death Journey to the Edge of Hell and Back,' by Angie Fenimore; `Family Secrets: What You Don't Know Can You Hurt You,' by John Bradshaw; `Newly Divorced Book of Protocol,' by Gloria Linterman.

Presents books on philosophy. Includes `The Defeat of the Mind,' by Alain Finkielkraut; `New Maladies of the Soul,' by Julia Kristeva; `Pierce's Philosophical Perspective,' by Vincent G. Potter; `The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, Habermas,' by Steven Best; `Great Thinkers of the Eastern World,' by Ian P. McGreal; `Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness,' by Sharon Salzberg. INSET: Hurray for women..

Presents books about politics. Includes `Ethics in Congress: The Problem of Institutional Corruption,' by Dennis F. Thompson; `Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News,' by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon; `The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians,' by Naseer Aruri; `J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote,' by Athan Theoharis.

Presents books about photography. Includes `Men Without Ties: Gianni Versace,' edited by Tama Janowitz et al.; `Animal Attractions,' edited by Diana Edkins; `Feels Like Home : An Evocation in Words & Pictures,' edited by Cheryl Moch; `One Thousand Suns: Krishnamurti at Eighty-Five, and the Last Walk,' by Asit Chandmal; `Dispossession,' by Lynn Stern; `Strong Hearts: Native Visions & Voices.'

Presents the books about performing arts and films. Includes `For the Love of Lucy: The Complete Guide for Collectors and Fans,' by Ric Wyman; `Merchant Ivory's English Landscape: Rooms, Views, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes,' by John Pym; `Luisa Tetrazzini: The Florentine Nightingale,' by Charles Neilson Gattey; `Marc-Antoine Charpentier; `The Dilys Powell Film Reader,' edited by Christopher Cook.

Presents books on literary criticism and Belles Letters. Includes `Principal Products of Portugal: Prose Pieces,' by Donald Hall; `Under This Blazing Light,' by Amos Oz; `At Home in the World,' by Michael Jackson; `The Double Flame: Essays on Love and Eroticism,' by Octavio Paz; `The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage,' edited by Claude J. Summers. INSET: Duking it out for the top spot..

Presents books about humor. Includes `Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home,' by Bailey White; `If You Leave Me, Can I come Too?' by Cynthia Heimel; `Still Catholic After All These Years,' by Ed Stivender; `The Parent's Dictionary: From Arrrrggggh! to Zzzzzzzzzz,' by Merrill Furman; `Leslie Nielson's Stupid Little Golf Book,' by Leslie Nielsen and Henry Beard.

Presents books about nature and environment. Includes `Ocean Planet: Writings and Images of the Sea; `Saving Wildlife: A Century of Conservation,' by Donald Goddard and Sam Swope; `Vanishing Flora,' by Donald Stermer; `In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land,' by Stephanie Mills; `Dear Earth: A Love Letter from Spring Hollow,' by Radine Trees Nehring.

Presents books on health, fitness and beauty. Includes `Thin Tastes Better: Dr. Gullo's Six Winning Strategies for Losing Weight and Living Thin,' by Stephen P. Gullo; `The Women's Complete Healthbook; `The Profactor-H Program: Reversing the Single Most Important Health Risk Factor in Your Life,' by Richard F. Heller; `Megahealth,' by Marc Sorenson.

Presents books about childcare and parenting. Includes `The Expectant Father: A Survival Guide for Fathers-to-Be,' by Armit Brott and Jennifer Ash; `The Challenging Child: How to Understand, Raise, and Enjoy Your `Difficult' Child,' by Stanley I. Greenspan; `101 Ways to Be a Special Mom,' by Vicki Lansky; `Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades: And What You Can Do About It,' by Sylvia Rimm. INSET: Well-suited authors..

Reports on the New York New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic Bookseller Associations' (NYNJBA-MABA) joint trade show on October 2 to 3, 1994 in Atlantic City in New Jersey. Comment by Fern Jaffe, NYNJBA executive director; Features of the show; Issue of multimedia; Other issues discussed; Highlights of the show.

Looks at the use of readings in the marketing of books focusing on poetry. Barnes & Noble's hosting of a Poetry Series featuring Story Line Press authors; Use by independent booksellers; Innovative endeavors in readings.

Reports on New England Booksellers Association's `Discovery of the Month' handsell program. Publisher support for the books `Corelli's Mandolin,' by Louis de Bernieres and `In the Time of the Butterflies,' by Julia Alvarez; Booksellers' positive response to the program.

Presents books on women's studies. Includes `Kidding Ourselves: Why Women Won't Achieve Equality Until Men Start Really Sharing Parenting and How to make It Happen,' by Rhona Mahony; `The Face of Love: Feminism and the Beauty Question,' by Ellen Zetzel Lambert; `My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality,' edited by Gloria Wade-Gayles.

Presents travel books. Includes `England as You Like It: An Independent Traveler's Companion,' by Susan Allen Toth; `Eyewitness Travel Guides: Provence & the Cote D'Azur'; `Venice and the Veneto'; `Living in Portugal,' by Anne de Stoop; `An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona,' by Tim Parks; `The Ukimwi Road,' by Dervla Murphy.

Presents books about true crime. Includes `A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love,' by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith; `Sins of the Son: A Memoir,' by Carlton Stowers; `In the Name of the Law: From the French Connection Persecution to the Defense of Claus von Bulow, an Insider's Account of How American Justice Really Works,' by Thomas Puccio and Dan Collins.

Presents book on social sciences. Includes `The Masculine Mystique: The Politics of Masculinity,' by Andrew Kimbrell; `Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University,' by John B. Christiansen and Sharon N. Barnett; `An Amish Barnraising,' by Merle Good; `The Hite Report on Family ,' by Shere Hite; `Landscape and Memory,' by Simon Schama. INSET: Redefining the term `bag lady'..

Presents reference books. Includes `Official Encyclopedia of Bridge,' edited by Henry Francis; `The World Factbook: 1995-96,' by the Central Intelligence Agency; `The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,' by David Crystal; `The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography,' edited by John S. Bowman; `Modern Women Writers,' compiled and edited by Lilian S. Robinson.

Presents books about supernaturals and mysticism. Includes `Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest,' by Daniel Quinn; `Spiritwalker: My Journey Through the Visionary Gateway,' by Hank Wesselman; `Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Diary of a UFO Abductee,' by Kim Carlsberg; `Metapatterns,' by Tyler Volk.

Presents books about computers. Includes `Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought,' by Douglas Hofstadter; `War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality,' by Mark Slouka; `Silicon Snake Oil,' by Cliff Stoll; `201 Principles of Software Development,' by Alan M. Davis; `NetWorld,' by David Rothman.

Reports on christmas 1994 sales in bookstores in the United States. Overall mixed results.

Reports that Zany Brainy is opening new stores in the United States. Sites of the stores.

Reports on the bookstore cafe, called the Times Club, in the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. Remarks by Prairie Lights owner Jim Harris; Increase in sales; Design of the cafe.

Reports on Anchor's laminated reading list as a promotion for the book `Nine Parts of Desire' and for Middle Eastern books. Favorable reaction from booksellers; Titles from the list.

Reports on the opening of a Barbara's Bestsellers bookstore in the concourse of Boston, Massachusetts' South Station, the city's main commuter train station. Books on offer; History; Success of Barbara's branches in Illinois.

Reports on Bantam Books' promotional campaign for the book `The First Sacrifice,' by Thomas Gifford. Release of paperback copies of the book's original version; Initial number of printing copies to be released.

Features the interior design of the St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City. Awards won by the design; Past difficulties encountered by the store.

Reports on the closing of Chart House Books in Hyannis, Massachusetts at the end of March 1994. Retirement of owner-manager Ruth Goldrosen; Competition from Barnes & Noble as one of the factors for closing the store; Prediction by Goldrosen about Barnes & Noble's success in Hyannis; Other factors that led to the closing of the store.