Sentence examples for a main selection from inspiring English sources

It was chosen as a main selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club — the first by a black since Wright's "Native Son".

The Book-of-the-Month Club chose "The Helga Pictures" as the first art book to appear as a main selection.

After being republished in 1984, it became a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and a No. 1 best seller.

At the end of a decade in business, he published his first novel, The Last Temptation, which was a New York Times bestseller and a main selection of the Literary Guild.

It was the first book by a black American woman writer to be chosen as a main selection of the all-powerful Book of the Month Club, a recognition unknown to the black community since Richard Wright's Native Son (1940).

For members, the club publishes The Book-Of-The-Month Club Views, a newsletter offering brief descriptions of about 200 of the books it is offering, as well as a "main selection" that will be recommended by the panel members.

"It was a Book of the Month Club main selection, a big paperback deal, a film option, lead review in the New York Times," Seymour recalls.

The novel, with a first printing of 100,000 copies, has already been sold in six countries and to a paperback publisher and is a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection.

"Nectar in a Sieve" was a best seller and the main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in March 1955, earning Ms. Markandaya a $100,000 prize.

Its Web sites also make it easier for customers to reject a book club's main selection in favor of another -- addressing customers' complaints that unwanted books arrived monthly if they failed to respond by mail fast enough.

More popular than The Bluest Eye, Sula whetted the appetite of Morrison's growing audience for her third major work of the 1970s, Song of Solomon (1977), the first African American novel since Native Son to be a Book-of-the-Month Book-of-the-Month Book-of-the-Month