New York, New York – April 13 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that Sandra Dallas’ Prayers for Sale (St. Martin’s Press) is the latest “main selection” in the Barnes & Noble Recommends program.  The book goes on sale tomorrow, April 14, and can be purchased at any Barnes & Noble store or online at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com/recommends).

“Readers will be hooked on Prayers for Sale from the very first page,” said Jaime Carey, chief merchandising officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. “Sandra Dallas deftly blends historical details and quilting lore with authentic voices and emotional truths.”

Prayers for Sale is the engrossing tale of a wise older woman with a lifetime of stories to tell, and a 17-year-old with prayers that need answers. Set in 1930s Colorado, it’s a novel in which the drama, humor and passions of one very full life are stitched into the fabric of another.  Eighty-six-year-old Hennie has lived in Middle Swan, a gold-mining town in the Rockies, since before Colorado was a state. Nit has recently arrived in town with a recent history that reminds Hennie of her own youthful hopes and sorrows.  Finding common ground in their Southern heritage and a love of quilting, an improbable bond is formed as Hennie captivates Nit with vivid memories that reach back to the mid-1800s. Summoning the feelings, dreams and satisfactions of Hennie’s years as a woman, mother and wife, these stirring yarns serve as a healing balm for Nit – and help her piece together a new beginning for her own family.

One Barnes & Noble bookseller who voted for this selection said, “Sandra Dallas takes us back to a time when we knew and cared about the ones around us, and reminds us of what community really means.” Another bookseller called Prayers for Sale “a delightful story of an unlikely friendship between two women of very different generations.”

Tune in to Barnes & Noble Studio’s April 13 episode of Barnes & Noble Tagged! (www.bn.com/tagged) to watch an interview with author Sandra Dallas.

The Barnes & Noble Recommends program includes:

• Barnes & Noble store events. Reading group discussions of Prayers for Sale will be held in select Barnes & Noble stores across the country. 
• A free reading group guide.  Customers can ask any Barnes & Noble bookseller for a copy of our free guide on how to start a reading group.  The guide can also be found online at www.bn.com/recommends.

Selections for Barnes & Noble Recommends are chosen by the company’s booksellers from across the country.  Each selection is a book that Barnes & Noble recommends unconditionally, believes is “unputdownable” and is especially appropriate for book discussion groups.

The previous 12 Barnes & Noble Recommends selections are:

• Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale (Atria Books).
• Chris Bohjalian’s The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books).
• Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt).
• Paulette Jiles’ Stormy Weather (William Morrow).
• Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells (Bantam Books).
• Maggie O’Farrell’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Harcourt).
• Marisa de los Santos’ Belong to Me (William Morrow).
• Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing).
• Ethan Canin’s America America (Random House).
• Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (The Dial Press).
• Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (Knopf).
• Spencer Quinn’s Dog On It (Simon & Schuster).