| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781557046437 | | Publisher: Newmarket Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 39734053 | | Item#: BQYYGT | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 96 |
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| | | As part of its birthday celebration, Book Sense (a subsidiary of the American Booksellers Association) circulated a ballot with 371 titles--all of the top-10-ranked books on the Book Sense Best Books lists over the last five years. Over 1,000 members voted for the books they most enjoyed hand-selling, resulting in a "Best of the First Five Years" list of 15 adult and 10 children's titles. As a quick and easy reference for booklovers, this first volume of Book Sense Best Books features these titles and more than 100 others, organized as follows:
- The Top Picks: 15 adult and 10 children's titles, annotated by individual booksellers
- Top Reading Group Recommendations: 50 more adult titles, organized by category
- Top Classics for Children and Young Adults: 50 more titles, organized by age and reading level
- Appendix listing of 371 Top Ten Book Sense picks from past five years
- Index by title and author
| Author Bio| Barbara Kingsolver | | Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky in a family that encouraged reading and nature study, but strongly discouraged TV-watching. She studied biology at DePauw University, then spent a few years working in Europe. Curious about the American Southwest, she came home to settle in Tucson, where she eventually pursued graduate studies in ecology at the University of Arizona. After graduate school she worked as a scientific writer and a freelance journalist and, eventually, became a full-time writer. Her first novel, THE BEAN TREES, was published in 1988 to much critical acclaim, and won awards from the American Library Association, PEN, and the American Booksellers Association, among others. In addition to fiction, Kingsolver has written articles on social and environmental topics. |
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