Spring 2013 Adult Announcements
For spring 2013, we have collected, from more than 1,500 publishers and imprints, information on more than 11,000 adult titles. Plus, our editors have chosen the stand-out books in 20 categories. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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PubWest Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Counterpoint’s Jack Shoemaker
PubWest has awarded its 2013 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award for long-lasting contributions to the Western book community to Jack Shoemaker, editorial director and vice president of Counterpoint Press.
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Exploring LGBT History: LGBT 2013
The LGBT Pride Month is celebrated each June in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots, and from a vantage point midway through this year’s observance it seems especially fitting that some of the season’s recent and forthcoming titles uncover and explore the LGBT experience from a historical angle.
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TeleBrands: Selling Books ‘As Seen on TV’
From the man behind the Slice-O-Matic food slicer, the Ped Egg “no-mess” way to remove callouses, and Pocket Hose, “the amazing expandable garden hose,” comes a new product: physical books.
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Welcome the Millennials: Business Management and Leadership
Something different is afoot in the workplace these days, due in no small part to the rise of the Millennials, aka Generation Y—loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000.
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Presumed Guilty: True Crime
Imagine this: a decade after an unsolved double murder, your estranged spouse claims that you confessed to the crimes, and you end up behind bars for nearly 40 years.
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Cinema Redux: Summer Movie Tie-ins 2013
A major voice in the world of movies was silenced last week when beloved film critic Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer after a long and public battle.
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The Changing World of Reference: Focus on Reference 2013
The online revolution hit no publishers more directly than those that specialize in reference material. With so much information readily available electronically (some accurate, some… not), several years of handwringing followed.
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Victorian Crimes: Mysteries 2013
Only to modern eyes does the late 19th century seem cozy, staid, or secure.
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The Wide World of Sports: Sports Books 2013
Patricia Bostelman, v-p of marketing for Barnes & Noble, compares sports books to the Civil War.
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Baby, Look at You Now
A look at last year’s top-selling parenting titles provides a revealing glimpse of the continuities and the changes at the heart of the category.
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