This year Barnes & Noble is honoring four booksellers with the 2015 Above & Beyond Award, Barnes & Noble’s way to recognize booksellers for excellence in delivering extraordinary customer service, team spirit, going the extra mile, increasing business knowledge and personal growth. This week we’ll be getting to know the winners, and today we’re talking to Whitney Schuner. […]
Tomorrow Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up will make impact in bookstores everywhere, crashing onto shelves in an epic explosion. Well. Okay, it won’t actually do that. But when you’re talking about a novel that features an asteroid hurtling toward the planet, it’s hard to resist comparing it to a speedy chunk of space rock.
This year Barnes & Noble is honoring four booksellers with the 2015 Above & Beyond Award, Barnes & Noble’s way to recognize booksellers for excellence in delivering extraordinary customer service, team spirit, going the extra mile, increasing business knowledge and personal growth. Let’s get to know the winners! Mike Fleming Store: Yonkers, NY Exemplifies: Going the Extra Mile Café […]
Nobody stays cooler than an old-fashioned detective, even when he’s sweating through his suit. As we head into the hottest days of summer, I suggest you chill out with the next best thing after central air: a detective thriller, full of scarred-up heavies, world-weary private eyes, and dames with a secret. Here are some of […]
In keeping with the season, I—the agoraphobic bibliophile—was recently forced to leave the friendly confines of my home to travel to a local megamall to see my daughters’ holiday dance performances. The trip included a 30-minute white knuckle drive through a snowstorm, a nightmarish mall parking situation where a hostile woman actually got out of […]