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2010 MBA Spring Meetings
MBA Booksellers –
Save the date!
MBA/ABA Spring Meeting & Forum
Sunday, March 21
ST. LOUIS, MO
at Left Bank Books, downtown St. Louis
This meeting will be co-hosted by MBA and ABA
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS – updated as of March 11
– click for the compete schedule!
- ABA and MBA Bookseller Education
- ABA Forum
- Bookseller Networking
- Rep Picks
- Lunch with Author Speaker
Patrick Somerville, THE CRADLE - Authors Reception featuring Midwest Connections authors
and other special guest authors:
Heather Brewer, ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS
Dori Hillestad Butler, THE BUDDY FILES
Jody Feldman, THE SEVENTH LEVEL
Susan McBride, THE COUGAR CLUB
David Zimmerman, THE SANDBOX
MBA/ABA Spring Meeting & Forum
St. Louis Registration
Partial list of Hotels in St. Louis Area
If you have questions about either one of our Spring Meetings, please let us know.
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THANKS FOR COMING
TO THE MINNEAPOLIS SPRING MEETING!
The Spring Meeting in Minneapolis was a great success, from education to rep picks to authors to Mike Perry and his band.
We will make all of the education handouts from the meeting available on the MBA website in the very near future.
If you have questions about the meeting, be sure to contact us. Thanks again!
Spring Midwest Connections Picks for Kids!
Our Spring 2010 Midwest Connections Picks for children offer great reading for all ages!
“My name is King.
I am a dog.
I am also a detective.”
THE BUDDY FILES
Books 1, 2 and 3 in the series
Dori Hillestad Butler
THE BUDDY FILES Book 1:
THE CASE OF THE LOST BOY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0910-4
THE BUDDY FILES Book 2:
THE CASE OF THE MIXED-UP MUTTS
ISBN 978-0-8075-0911-1
THE BUDDY FILES Book 3:
THE CASE OF THE MISSING FAMILY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0912-8
Albert Whitman & Company
www.albertwhitman.com
$14.99 each Hardcover
On sale March 2010
Children’s fiction/mysteries for ages 6-8
Kids will love this new series of early chapter book mysteries starring King, aka Buddy, a smart, funny, tail-wagging hero! His efforts to understand and communicate with the humans in his life are both convincing and hilarious.
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One cold morning in early spring, a plastic bag blows out of a landfill. Where do the wind and chance take it?
BAG IN THE WIND
Ted Kooser
Illustrated by Barry Root
Candlewick Press
www.candlewick.com
$17.99 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3001-0
Children’s picture book
Printed on paper containing 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste
In his singular first children’s book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople’s lives. Beautiful illustrations by Barry Root evoke the gusty, damp days of early springtime.
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I recommend this book to everyone who has a heart.” * 
IN A HEARTBEAT
Loretta Ellsworth
Walker & Company / Macmillan
$16.99 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-8027-2068-9
Young adult fiction
“IN A HEARTBEAT by Loretta Ellsworth was an amazing book. It was given to me as a new unknown book that I could read and review, and I read it all in one sitting. The story is told by Eagan and Amelia, two teenage girls connected by life and death. The two different narratives make this story impossible to put down. I recommend this book to everyone who has a heart.”
– Rachel Hettrick, Book Mouse, Ottawa, IL *
NEW! March Midwest Connections Picks
March blows in with two remarkable novels, a boot-stomping “folk-twang” CD, and children’s books of depth and humor. Read and listen to these Midwest Connections Picks today!
Click on the book and CD titles below for more info. Buy them from your favorite locally owned and operated Midwest independent bookseller!
Click here for the directory of our member bookstores
The power of music,
the exquisite torture of first love, and the many places we call home…
THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW
Peter Bognanni
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Penguin Book Group (USA)
$24.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-399-15609-0
This debut novel set in rural Iowa mixes the philosophy of Buckminster Fuller with punk rock in a hilarious and moving novel about misfit teenagers finding their place in a confusing world.
“I was totally blown away by this book.”
– Alice Meyer, Beaverdale Books, Des Moines, IA“Under the screaming rage of a Misfits or Ramones song, you can hear a heart beating, and that’s where Peter Bognanni gets to work — his wild and tender book reveals how much a couple of scared boys can say to each other with a little hateful noise.”
– Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is a Mix Tape
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A brave and profoundly moving novel of faith and forgiveness
LAMB BRIGHT SAVIORS
Robert Vivian
A Bison Original/University of Nebraska Press
“Flyover Fictions Series”
$22.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-8032-1380-7
The second volume in the Tall Grass Trilogy, following THE MOVER OF BONES
“Even when writing about violence, Vivian’s prose glows with an internal light that creates a continual sense of wonder. With its multiple voices and keen sense of place, Lamb Bright Saviors takes those qualities that so defined a writer such as Faulkner and makes them new for a changed world.”—Sue William Silverman, author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
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Available March 16 -
The second album from our favorite author/ songwriter/ musician and his band!
TINY PILOT
Michael Perry and the Long Beds
Amble Down Records
www.ambledown.com
MSRP $11.99
UPC 8-97714-00205-1
Michael Perry and his band of Long Beds write songs that range from boot-stomping country to roughneck folk balladS. Like Perry’s Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award-winning books COOP and TRUCK, these songs are populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America. Many have direct connections to COOP, TRUCK, and his other books POPULATION 485 and OFF MAIN STREET. Check out Mike’s website: www.sneezingcow.com
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One cold morning in early spring, a plastic bag blows out of a landfill. Where do the wind and chance take it?
BAG IN THE WIND
Ted Kooser
Illustrated by Barry Root
Candlewick Press
www.candlewick.com
$17.99 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3001-0
Printed on paper containing 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste
In his singular first children’s book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople’s lives.
———————–
“My name is King.
I am a dog.
I am also a detective.”
THE BUDDY FILES
Books 1, 2 and 3 in the series
Dori Hillestad Butler
THE BUDDY FILES Book 1:
THE CASE OF THE LOST BOY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0910-4
THE BUDDY FILES Book 2:
THE CASE OF THE MIXED-UP MUTTS
ISBN 978-0-8075-0911-1
THE BUDDY FILES Book 3:
THE CASE OF THE MISSING FAMILY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0912-8
Albert Whitman & Company
www.albertwhitman.com
$14.99 each Hardcover
On sale March 2010
Children’s fiction/mysteries for ages 6-8
Kids will love this new series of early chapter book mysteries starring King, aka Buddy, a smart, funny, tail-wagging hero!
