Congratulations to Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, Mich., which is celebrating its 25th anniversary tomorrow evening, 7 to 10 p.m., with live jazz and refreshments. At the same time, the store will release its holiday catalogue, which includes 100 titles. The store doesn't usually mark its birthday, Julia Cowlishaw said, so "this is a big deal."

She added that Shaman Drum, whose motto is "academic, scholarly, literary and independent since 1980," is "going along fine" and "trying to be as nimble as we have to be."

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single classic in possession of a good sales record must be in want of a sequel--or two.

As mentioned here on Monday, another film version of Pride and Prejudice opens tomorrow and stars Keira Knightley, who appeared last night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sourcebooks's Mary Kravenas gently reminded us that the publisher has put out a sequel to the Jane Austen masterwork, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll ($16.95,1402202733), which was originally self-published in 1999. In spring the sequel's sequel appears: Darcy & Elizabeth: At Home at Pemberley by Linda Berdoll ($16.95, 1402205635).

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More than 40 booksellers have shown an interest in an American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression program that will bring investigative reporters to bookstores to discuss threats to press freedom, the foundation reports. For more information about the program, contact ABFFE president Chris Finan at 212-587-4025 or chris@abffe.com and see the Web site.

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It sounds like a B movie: Battle of the Buyout Specialists.

According to the AP and Boston Globe, Abry Partners, the current owner of F&W Publications (whose imprints include KP Books, David & Charles, Adams Media, Writer's Digest Books and North Light Books), is suing former owner Providence Equity Partners, charging that under Providence, "F&W artificially inflated its revenue" during the six months ended this past June 30, when Abry bought F&W from Providence for $500 million.

Abry said it overpaid for the company and wants to rescind the transaction or collect damages.

Suits between buyout specialists are exceedingly rare, according to the AP. Last year, making charges similar to Abry, Willis Stein & Partners (which owns Baker & Taylor) sued the buyout firm from which it bought Lincoln Snacks Holding Co. The case is reportedly still pending.

This morning Imus in the Morning talks with Al Franken, whose new book is The Truth (With Jokes) (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062).

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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Salman Rushdie, whose latest book is Shalimar the Clown (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356). As the show describes the episode: "Although the history of Kashmir provides the backdrop of Rushdie's new novel, it is a larger-than-life romance with larger-than-life characters--a version of Romeo and Juliet and the Ramayana. In this conversation, he describes the ways in which an historical conflict can determine the course of love."

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated (New Press, $25.95, 1565849523).

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Too funny? Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Chris Elliott, whose debut novel is The Shroud of the Thwacker (Miramax, $22.95, 1401352456).

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Yesterday All Things Considered ate up Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Ten Speed, $40, 1580086810), a photographic chronicle of what 30 families around the world ate during one week.

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Yesterday on Talk of the Nation: Mel Watkins, author of Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry (Pantheon, $26.95, 0375423826).

Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry. The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more information, go to Book TV's Web site.

Saturday, November 12

7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment first aired in 1998, A. Scott Berg discussed his biography Lindbergh (Berkley, $17, 0425170411).

8 p.m. After Words. Chuck Todd, editor-in-chief of the Hotline, interviews New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, whose new memoir is Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)

Sunday, November 13

1 a.m. History on Book TV. Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World and Krakatoa, discusses his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993).

5 p.m. Public Lives. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, authors of Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf, $35, 0679422714), talk about the late Chinese leader's life.

The 2005 World Fantasy Awards, which were presented last Sunday at the World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wis., went to:

Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Novella: The Growlimb by Michael Shea (F&SF, January 2004)

Short Fiction: "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan in Black Juice (Allen & Unwin Australia)

Anthology (tie):
Acquainted With the Night edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash Tree Press)
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones edited by Sheree R. Thomas (Warner Aspect)

Collection: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia)

Life Achievement: Tom Doherty and Carol Emshwiller

Artist: John Picacio

Special Award, Professional: S.T. Joshi (for scholarship)

Special Award, Non-Professional: Robert Morgan (for Sarob Press)

The Book Sense Notable Picks for December are:

Fiction

• Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge (NAL, $12.95 paper, 0451216431).
• The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong, Kyung-Ja Chun and Maya West (Trans.) (Seven Stories, $27.95, 1583226931).
• Popco by Scarlett Thomas (Harvest, $14 paper, 015603137X).
• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012).
• Sleeping With Schubert by Bonnie Marson (Random House, $21.95, 1400060419).

Nonfiction

• All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross (Hyperion, $14.95 paper, 0786888202).
• The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz (Little, Brown, $29.95, 0316803529).
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316156116).
• Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West by Clemens P. Work (University of New Mexico Press, $34.95, 0826337740).
• Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes (HarperCollins, $29.95, 0060593237).
• The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty & Tenderness in a Commercial Context by Leonard Koren (Stone Bridge, $19.95 paper, 1933330007).
• Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War by John T. Halliday (Scribner, $27.50, 0743274881).
• Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, & Bull Riders: A Year Inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour by Josh Peter (Rodale, $24.95, 1594861196).
• Laughing With Lucy: My Life With America's Leading Lady of Comedy by Madelyn Pugh Davis, with Bob Carroll, Jr. (Emmis, $19.95, 1578602475).
• Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam, foreword by Richard Rodriguez (Heyday, $14.95 paper, 1597140201).
• Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country by Joe Queenan (Picador, $14 paper, 031242521X).

Cooking

• The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman (Broadway, $29.95, 0767906721).
• Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers: Fresh Ideas for the Weeknight Table by Moosewood Collective (Clarkson Potter, $32.50, 0609609122).

Mystery and Suspense

• Jamaica Me Dead by Bob Morris (St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95, 0312328915).
• Six for Gold: A John the Eunuch Mystery by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer (Poisoned Pen, $24.95, 1590581458).