A New Year, A New You.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2001

A World of Books from Barnes & Noble

on How to Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions on Keeping Fit,

Getting Organized, Reducing Stress, to Finding Satisfaction

in Your Work and Relationships

Millions of people make New Year's Day resolutions. Unfortunately, few keep them. Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest bookseller, carries a wide selection of books to help you keep your New Year's promises. They include books on beauty, diet, fitness, stress, work, organization and relationships.

Here's a short list of some of Barnes & Noble's most popular titles, all under $30:

Latina Beauty: A Get-Gorgeous Guide for Every Mujeras by the editors of Latina Magazine. The leading magazine by and for Latinas presents the first total beauty guide exclusively for Hispanic women. Latina Beauty features insider tips from the hottest stars, models, and beauty experts.

Win the Weight Game: Successful Strategies for Living Well by Sarah, the Duchess of York. The Duchess of York is not only a spokesperson for Weight Watchers, but a widely recognized role model and survivor who has successfully battled her weight demons and won. The book contains meal plans, recipes, and inspirational stories for men and women.

Sugar Busters, developed by H. Leighton Steward and Morrison Bethea, is a revolutionary new diet plan based on sound nutritional principles that shows you how to eliminate sugar from your daily menu through easy-to-follow recipes and meal plans.

Get rid of clutter for good with some help from professional clutter-buster Julie Morgenstern. Her books, Organizing Your Life From the Inside Out, offers tips and tactics to help you get to the root causes of your chaos and devise a plan to sort, label, and stash your stuff for good. Uncover your psychological strengths and stumbling blocks and create a time-management system that suits your individual needs in Time Management From the Inside Out.

Richard Carlson's Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series of books offer simple ways for everyone to manage relationships, minimize stress and conflict at work.

Packed with useful exercises, checklists, personal stories, and a wealth of resources, Take Time For Your Life by Cheryl Richardson will show you how to step back, regain control, and make conscious decisions about the future you'd like to create, and begin living a life that you love.

Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach, is a practical guide with exercises for each day of the year to help readers to a happier, more fulfilled way of living.

Harriet Braiker's new book, The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome offers easy to follow solutions to help lead readers make deal constructively with relationships and emotions; including a 21-day action plan for curing the disease to please.

If improving relationships is one of your goals, Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus: Nine Principles for Lasting Love, Increasing Success, and Vibrant Health in the 21st Century by John Gray is an excellent resource. The book offers new advice on health, love and relationships - from couples to friends to parents, based on nine guiding principles.

It's a Jungle Out There, Jane: Understanding the Male Animal by Joy Browne. Joy Browne, popular radio host, shares her insights on why all men panic when a woman says, "We need to talk." The book discusses men and work, home, kids, friendship, conflict, sex, communication, appearance, money and women.

To help make these and other books more affordable, Barnes & Noble's new customer membership program, "Readers' Advantage," offers members 10% discounts on all books in Barnes & Noble stores and 5% discounts at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com). Readers' Advantage also includes special member events and offers throughout the year. An annual membership costs $25. Customers who join now receive a one-year subscription to BOOK magazine and a free canvas book bag.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) operates 559 Barnes & Noble and 378 B. Dalton bookstores, and, with its acquisition of Babbage's Etc. and Funco, Inc., is the nation's largest operator of video game and entertainment software stores. 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). Barnes & Noble.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 and Web site.

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