New 2-Day Schedule!
2009 MIDWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION
TRADE SHOW
September 25-26, Friday-Saturday

Saint Paul RiverCentre and nearby venues
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Exhibitor registration forms are ready to download from our 2009 Exhibitor Registration & Information page!

Exhibitor Registration Deadline AUGUST 14

“Your presence at our trade show makes you more money from us!”
– Nancy Simpson, Book Vault, Oskaloosa, IA

“Please know that the more exposure my staff has to the books you want to sell, the more likely we are to sell them and recommend them to our customers.”
– Lanora Hurley, Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI

“The books that make the biggest impression on me and then my customers are the ones I hear about at the Trade Show in Minneapolis/St Paul.”
– Sarah Beahler, Prairie Moon Books, Sheldon, IA

“Stick with us, we are still very much in the game.”
– Laura Hansen, Bookin’ It, Little Falls, MN

Two thought-provoking books join our Midwest Connections Picks starting in June. One is a critically-acclaimed novel celebrating its 10th anniversary. The other is a timely study and call to action for our Midwest communities.

Click on the title links below for much more information about each one of these books for adults. And check out our  children’s Midwest Connections Picks for summer reading , too.

Buy these books from your favorite locally owned and operated Midwest independent bookseller!  Click here for the new searchable directory of our MBA member bookstores.

A Prayer for the Dying
A Novel
10^th Anniversary Edition

by Stewart O’Nan

Picador USA / Macmillan
www.picadorusa.com
June 1, 2009
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-42891-4
Price: $14.00 Trade Paperback
Historical fiction / Set in small town in Wisconsin, mid-1800s.

 “The Best Book You’ve Never Read” Summer Selection
“The Best Book You’ve Never Read” is selected by Picador’s sales representatives as one of their favorite titles from Picador’s extensive backlist.

“A PRAYER FOR THE DYING reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town

By Nick Reding

Bloomsbury USA / Macmillan
www.bloomsburyusa.com
June 2009
$25.00 Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-650-0
Contemporary American issues / Midwest small towns and rural communities / book focuses on the town of Oelwein, Iowa

The dramatic story of Methamphetamine as it comes to the American Heartland — a timely, moving, very human account of one community’s attempt to confront the epidemic and see their way to a brighter future.

“It’s estimated that more than 26 million people worldwide are addicted to crystal meth-widely considered to be the most dangerous drug on earth. Nick Reding…spent four years in Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), documenting the town’s meth-influenced decline. Through scrupulous reporting and fierce moral engagement, he conveys the tragedy of the meth epidemic on both a micro- and macroscopic level.”
-Village Voice

And don’t miss these two bestselling and critically acclaimed Midwest Connections Picks
– now in paperback for suspense-filled summer reading —

Available now —

Red Knife
A Cork O’Connor Mystery
by William Kent Krueger
Atria Books / Simon & Schuster

 On sale June 23 —

Stalking Susan
by Julie Kramer
Anchor / Random House

Click on the links above for more information about these books.

The new and vastly improved searchable MBA Bookstores Directory is up and running now!

Just click on BOOKSTORES here or on the navigation bar above for more details about our 200+ independent bookstore members and for access to our searchable online directory.

Search by store name, city, state, and/or type of bookstore. You also can search for stores with special events and  book clubs, store blogs, online ordering, new and used books, and coffee/cafe services.

Check it out today!

Publishers and vendors –
Take advantage of new 2009 opportunities to advertise with Mdwest Booksellers Association and reach both our MBA bookstores and the book-reading public:

The 2009 MBA Catalog 

Publisher contract deadline June 30!

The MBA Catalog marketing program SELLS BOOKS!  We’ll build on past success with more online support through this website, plus other new features.

GOOD NEWS!  Our advertising rates for 2009 are the same as for 2008 — no increases!  Plus we are offering a discounted rate for backlist titles, and special deeply discounted rates for banner ads on the MBA website and on our weekly Heartland Indie Bestseller List e-mails.

Advertising rates, marketing features, and all forms and information for publisher participation in the 2009 MBA Catalog are available now on our website.  Go to our Publisher Catalog Information web page for complete details.

Website & Heartland Bestseller List Banner Advertising

NEW Ad Formats, Rates and Discounted Ad Packages!

Ads on the MBA website midwestbooksellers.org can be directed at either MBA bookseller members and the book trade or at the general public.

In addition, we now feature banner ads in our weekly Heartland Indie Bestseller List E-mails delivered via Constant Contact to our booksellers, members and others in the book industry. Plus, we can work with advertisers to create special E-mails which deliver advertising and related informational content to our booksellers and members.

Go to our Advertising Opportunities web page for more information!

Please contact us at the MBA office if you have questions or need further assistance.

Four terrific new books join our Midwest Connections Picks starting in May! You’ll find a memoir, a study of friendship, fiction, and natural history to capture your interest. 

Click on the title links below for much more information about each one of these books for adults. And check out our new children’s Midwest Connections Picks which launch in May, too.

COOP
A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
by Michael Perry

Already a Heartland Indie Bestseller!

The often hilarious and always deeply heartfelt new memoir from the bestselling, award-winner author of TRUCK: A LOVE STORY, POPULATION: 485, and OFF MAIN STREET.

MBA Booksellers — A Midwest Connections sign, shelf-talker, and other display and promo materials are available for this title!

THE GIRLS FROM AMES
A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship
by Jeffrey Zaslow

Already a Heartland Indie Bestseller!

The inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the enduring, deep bonds of women as they experience life’s challenges and to the power of friendship to overcome even the most daunting odds.

THE GREAT PERHAPS
A Novel
by Joe Meno

 A breakout new novel from the critically acclaimed novelist and playwright Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned.

MBA Booksellers — A Midwest Connections sign, shelf-talker, and other display and promo materials are available for this title!

BEYOND WALDEN
The Hidden History of America’s Kettle Lakes and Ponds
by Robert M. Thorson

The geology, ecology, and cultural history of kettle lakes in the Upper Minnesota - Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin — and from Maine to Montana.

Buy these books from your favorite locally owned and operated Midwest independent bookseller!  Click here for the directory of our member bookstores.