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2007 Quill Nominees by Kate At BEA, the 2007 Quill Award nominees were announced. What titles were eligible? Eligible titles for the 2007 Quill Awards were those published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
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Last week 30,000 booksellers flooded New York City's Javits Center to attend the annual Book Convention (known to insiders as BEA). This is where people wait in endless lines for an autograph, where people compare their tradeshow loot like Halloween candy (in this case, advance copies of books), and where Stephen Colbert, Rosie O'Donnell, LL Cool J and Khalid Hosseini can be seen under one roof. With 90-degree New York heat and a temperamental air conditioner, booksellers struggled to stay cool.
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A new batch of ChangeThis manifestos will be up this week, but in case you missed these popular manifestos, here's your chance to check in with what our readers are reading.   Growing Great New Managers by Erika Andersen 10 Unwealthy Habits - Alicia Castillo Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths  by Dan Coughlin What Must Starbucks Do? by John Moore 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down by Michael Iva  Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin Managers Ignite!
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BusinessWeek | The Working-Mom Quandary "Out now are four books that deconstruct the underlying causes of stopping out and formulate some smart solutions beyond HR pablum. " (tags: businessbooks organizational_development personaldevelopment) The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List April 2007 bestsellers (tags: businessbooks lists) BusinessWeek Bestsellers - Slideshow ". .
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Richard Florida of Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class is looking for some help on the title for his next book. Some of the ideas include: The Wealth of Place Who's Your City? Where Location Factor Why Place Matters Geography is Destiny What's Your LQ (Location Quotient) I suggest in the comments that they keep working on it.
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