NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today named Tara Hefner from Riverbend High School in Fredericksburg, VA, as the 2014-2015 national winner and “Teacher of the Year” in the Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest. Mrs. Hefner, an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, was nominated by her student, high school senior Jeimy Alfaro, and was