Barnes & Noble Announces Dog on It from Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie Series As the Latest Spotlight Pick08:30 EDT Monday, October 22, 2012 NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Dog on It from Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie 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 October 20 through November 2, Barnes & Noble's NOOK Bookstore will offer Dog on It from the bestselling Chet and Bernie series for only 99 cents. Dog on It introduces readers to the sleuthing duo of Chet and Bernie, a K-9 academy dropout and his unlucky private detective owner who runs the Little Detective Agency. When a 15-year-old girl in the neighborhood goes missing, Chet and Bernie are called in to find the girl and her captor. Much to everyone's surprise, the girl soon returns home, only to disappear shortly again after. As Chet and Bernie follow clue after clue, the detective duo must try and solve the case before they end up in way over their heads. Dog on It, which was also featured as a Barnes & Noble Recommends pick in 2009,is the first of five novels in the Chet and Bernie series. Each book, narrated by the lovable canine, follows Chet and Bernie as they try to solve crimes without getting into too much mischief. Spencer Quinn is TheNew York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mysteries. Critically acclaimed for his humorous and entertaining stories, every novel in the Chet and Bernie series has also been on TheNew York Times bestsellers list. Spencer recently released the eShort Story NOOK Book, A Cat Was Involved, as an addition to the five novel Chet and Bernie mystery 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 3 million other NOOK Books, magazines and newspapers available, can be purchased and read on the award-winning NOOK line of devices. 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. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. 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