Barnes & Noble Announces Black Order From James Rollins' Sigma Force Series As The Latest Spotlight Pick

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Black Order from James Rollins’ Sigma Force series, will be featured as the latest pick for “Barnes & Noble Spotlight” ( www.bn.com/spotlight), a NOOK Book ^™ program that features great writers at irresistible prices. Twice a month, Barnes & Noble Spotlight picks an author of a popular or breakout series from various genres and offers one of their titles at a special price, helping NOOK ^® readers discover new authors and dive into an exciting series for a wallet-friendly price. From August 11 through August 24, Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Bookstore will offer Black Order, for only 99 cents.

A mysterious bookstore fire in Copenhagen and a mind-destroying malady in Nepal propel the Sigma Force team on a hunt across four continents to save the world from a villainous new order. Commander Pierce finds himself unearthing clues from a now-abandoned laboratory in Poland, while Director Painter Crowe investigates a monastery of Buddhist monks that have turned to cannibalism and torture. Sigma Force must expose this new order for what it is, before it is too late. Black Order is the third installment of the Sigma Force series. Bloodline, the eighth novel in the series was released in June to critical acclaim. Each book follows the Sigma Force team as they fight to keep dangerous scientific discoveries out of enemy hands.

James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series. In addition to the Sigma Force series, James has penned many individual adventure thrillers including the novelization of the blockbuster movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Presently, James is working on the third installment of the Jake Ransom series, his young adult fantasy adventure series.

Spotlight features titles from different genres including popular romance, young adult and fiction. Customers who “like” NOOK on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/nook) and follow NOOK on Twitter ( www.twitter.com/nookbn) will be among the first to hear about the Spotlight picks.

NOOK Books ^™ that are featured in Barnes & Noble Spotlight, along with the more than 2.5 million other NOOK Books, magazines and newspapers available, can be purchased and read on the award-winning NOOK line of devices, which includes the recently introduced and critically-acclaimed NOOK Simple Touch ^™ with GlowLight ^™. All NOOK Books can also be read through a range of free NOOK reading apps, available for iPad ^™, iPhone ^®, Android, Mac ^® and PC, and can be downloaded at www.bn.com/freenookapps.

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