In 1985, Kmart's Waldenbooks subsidiary acquired Brentano's and nine years later, in 1994, Brentano's and its parent company Waldenbooks were merged into Kmart's other book subsidiary, Borders.
It reached the top 10 on the Waldenbooks Series Best-Seller List, marking the first time one of her novels had placed on the list.
Heck has also been an editor at Ace Books (where he edited Lynn S. Hightower and Robert J. Sawyer, among others), and created the SF newsletter Xignals and its mystery equivalent Crime Times for the Waldenbooks chain.
Far From the Tree was a New York Times Bestseller, and Better Than I Know Myself received two Open Book Awards, and was included on the Best African-American fiction of 2004 lists of both Borders and WaldenBooks.
In 1994, Kmart merged Waldenbooks and Borders, another chain it had acquired, forming the Borders-Walden Group.
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In 1984, Waldenbooks acquired the Brentano's chain, and later that year was itself acquired by Kmart.
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Waldenbooks (often referred to as Waldens), operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders Group.
One is advertising-oriented and created specially for distribution at anime and manga conventions while the other is more general in scope and with a version each for distribution through Waldenbooks and Borders stores.
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Termed "magalogs" by Viz, these digest versions are distributed freely at Borders and Waldenbooks.
The mall has featured such now defunct chains as Waldenbooks, Garden Botanika, and was one of four original locations of the concept Sesame Street General Store.