New York, New York – February 9, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that Spencer Quinn’s Dog on It (Simon & Schuster) is the next selection in the Barnes & Noble Recommends program.  The book goes on sale tomorrow, February 10, and can be purchased at any Barnes & Noble store or online at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com/recommends).

“Dog on It is the first volume in Spencer Quinn’s new mystery series featuring the charming detective duo of private investigator Bernie Little and his dog Chet,” said Jaime Carey, chief merchandising officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. “A dog lover’s mystery filled with laughs, Dog on It is sure to be the next hit in the Recommends program’s succession of breakout titles.”

Dog on It is a suspenseful adventure narrated by the inimitable Chet, best friend and canine partner to Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator.  When the story begins, Bernie’s enterprise, the Little Detective Agency, is limping along, waiting for the next job to arrive. Riding shotgun for stakeouts in Bernie’s beat-up convertible is the perfect life for Chet, though he knows Bernie’s worried about cash flow. But their luck is about to change. During a nighttime stroll through the neighborhood, the pair encounters a panicked neighbor, Cynthia Chambliss, who beseeches Bernie to find her daughter Madison, a 15-year-old who has been missing for several hours. Madison soon returns home on her own, only to disappear again – this time for several days. As Chet and Bernie race across the desert towards Las Vegas in their sandblasted Porsche, Quinn’s narrative unfolds with mounting suspense. At every stage of their journey, readers will warm to Chet’s loyalty and courage – to say nothing of his delightful doggy digressions – and be captivated by Spencer Quinn’s deft blend of humor and thrills in this enormously entertaining tale.

One Barnes & Noble bookseller who voted for this selection said, “Dog on It was not only unputdownable, it was stay-up-all-night-reading-but-save-the-last-few-chapters-for-the-next-day-because-you-don’t-want-it-to-be-over-good.” Another bookseller called Dog on It “hilarious and refreshing. I look forward to reading more of Chet’s adventures!”

The Barnes & Noble Recommends program includes:

• Barnes & Noble store events. Reading group discussions of Dog on It 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 11 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).