I know the feeling about the election. Last week I bought a bottle of these drops that help quell things like anxiety and anger. I think I'm going to need them in the next few days/weeks/months. My mom did one better and picked up a big bottle of pre-made margaritas so we can have that on election night (might make word wars that evening very interesting, I think).

Not sure how the Nooks work, but I know that everything that was on my first Kindle, which bit the dust a while ago, was on Amazon and I could re-download things to a new device. I hope B&N is the same way so you can regain the books you want.