Barnes & Noble Bookstores Celebrate Mother's Day
BUSINESS WIRE - May 05, 1999 16:24
NEW YORK (May 5) BUSINESS WIRE -May 5, 1999--Nothing says "Happy Mother's Day" like the gift of a book or a Barnes & Noble gift certificate. Your neighborhood Barnes & Noble bookstore carries the most comprehensive selection of titles for every Mom, sister, wife and girlfriend. Make Mother's Day shopping a pleasure with books that reflect her tastes and interests. Some Mother's Day suggestions include: Paperback selections under $20.00: all Oprah picks, including her latest: -- Anita Shreve's Pilot's Wife, $13.95, Oprah's latest, is a
thrilling story of love and betrayal set in present-day Ireland
and England. -- Bernard Schink's The Reader, $11.00, set in post-war Germany,
deals with a young boy's sexual awakening with a mysterious older
woman. -- Wally Lamb does it again. His latest bestseller, I Know This Much
is True, $16.00, now in paperback, is a novel about mental
illness and the family abuse which caused it. -- Billie Letts' Where the Heart Is, $12.00, brings home the message
that families are not always what you were born into, but are
found in the people and places you love. Under $25.00: inspirational and self-help books by authors who have inspired millions of people include: -- Sarah Breathnach's Simple Abundance, $21.00, a daily guide with
exercises for every day of the year, helps women clear through
mental clutter and attain clarity. -- In One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, $14.00, Iyanla Vanzant
provides exercises and readings designed to open your mind, heart
and soul to the truth of your identity as a human being. -- Traveling Mercies, $23.00, is the new memoir by Anne Lamott,
author of the fiction writer's bible, Bird by Bird. Hardcover fiction under $30.00: -- The latest blockbuster by America's "Queen of Suspense" is Mary
Higgins Clark's We'll Meet Again, - $25.00. -- Jan Karon's A New Song, $24.95, the fifth novel in the popular
Mitford series, continues to charm readers with its fascinating
cast of characters from Connecticut. -- Danielle Steele does it again. Her Bittersweet, $26.95, involves
a mother's choices and new beginnings. -- Maeve Binchy's, Tara Road, $24.95, is a tender novel of two women
-- one from Dublin, the other from New England -- and the
pleasures and pitfalls of friendship. -- Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, $26.00; tells the story of
an evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the
Belgian Congo in the late 1950s. -- Amanda Quick's I Thee Wed, $23.95, set in Regency England, has it
all -- an enigmatic financier, an independent lady's companion -
in a tale that could end either in matrimony or murder. -- Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag, $24.95, a page-turning thriller with
lots of twists and turns from start to finish, concerns
Minneapolis's latest serial killer who adds insult to injury by
murdering his victims and then setting the corpses on fire.
Barnes & Noble has it all -- Mom's favorite book and CD (from yesterday's classics to today's Grammy winners), beautiful Mother's Day cards, and delicious Godiva chocolate. And while you're at your neighborhood Barnes & Noble, pick up something for yourself. About Barnes & Noble, Inc.:
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) operates 520 Barnes & Noble and 470 B. Dalton bookstores. Barnes & Noble stores stock an authoritative selection of book titles and provide access to more than one million titles. They offer books from more than 50,000 publisher imprints with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. Barnes & Noble is one of the world's largest booksellers on the World Wide Web (http://www.bn.com), and the exclusive bookseller on America Online (Keyword: bn). With more than 750,000 titles ready for immediate delivery, barnesandnoble.com has the largest standing inventory of any online bookseller. Barnes & Noble also publishes books under its own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores, mail-order catalogs, and Web site.
General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's investor relations Web site: shareholder.com.
-0- es/ny*
CONTACT: Barnes & Noble, Inc. Debra Williams
212/633-4062
KEYWORD: NEW YORK
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT PUBLISHING Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet
with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com
News provided by COMTEX |
