A true classic from the “Portrait Of” series by Graphic Arts Books – an imprint of Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. View this spectacular mountain through the eyes of nineteenth-century painters and pioneers as well as contemporary photographers. A stunning and historically rich, yet surprisingly inexpensive way to capture this moment in history. Order today!

Travel/Pictorial
Softbound, 8.5” x 11”
80 pages, 77 color photographs
19th-century illustrations
ISBN: 1-55868-310-0
$12.95 retail

TO ORDER CALL YOUR LOCAL SALES REP OR CUSTOMER SERVICE AT 800-452-3032 OR YOU CAN EMAIL US AT SALES@GACPC.COM

Help the little ones drift into dreamland…

Sweet Dreams, Polar Bear
by Mindy Dwyer

Bright and playful watercolors create a fantastic world where a fancy poodle dreams of winning the Iditarod; a bear with a belly full of fish dreams of slurping peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; a plain white beluga dreams of painting herself the colors of the northern lights; and more. The repetition of Sweet dreams . . . Sleep tight . . . for each animal encourages children to join in until it’s time to settle down and dream their own fantastic dreams.

Alaska Northwest Books
Children’s
HB/SB, 8 3/8” x 8 3/8”
32 pages, 35 illustrations
HB ISBN: 0-88240-554-3, $15.95
SB ISBN: 0-88240-554-3, $8.95

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Hello all —
We’re officially into the fall season and I’d like to say that Portland has never looked better, we’re enjoying bright blue skies, the amazing array of leaf colors that seem to change overnight as well all the excitement about Mount St. Helens. On that note, don’t forget to stock up on copies of Portrait of Mount St. Helens. With this change in season I’m happy to announce that long-awaited new titles are arriving in our warehouse daily. From the new coffee-table work of art, Tennessee by Les Kerr and photographer George Humphries, to Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man and Portland Confidential, GACPC has a ton of great picks for the upcoming holiday season.

We hope you’re having a safe and prosperous fall season wherever this notes finds you and until next time, we hope you enjoy browsing our picks, our news and our author happenings.

Regards,

Mike Jones
Dir. Of Sales and Marketing

• Portland Confidential (WestWinds Press, 1-55868-793-9) – Full-page interview with author Phil Stanford (includes images of the book cover) about the new book in Portland Monthly magazine’s September issue. Also on an ongoing basis large ads for the book will be running the Portland Tribune that feature the cover and an “avail. date” of October 1.
  
  
• Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-590-X) and adventure travel journalist/author Doug Fine was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” last week. To hear the story, go to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3934125
  
  

• Lowcountry: From Charleston to Savannah (Graphic Arts Books, HB 1-55868-796-3, SB 1-55868840-4) – Five-page article by book’s photographer Bob Krist in Outdoor Photographer magazine’s August Issue.
  

• Salt & Pepper at the Pike Place Market (WestWinds Press, HB 1-55868-800-5, SB 1-55868-801-3) – Book review on the Seattle Times “Book Buzz” Section in September.
  

• Alaska Public Radio Network featured three Alaska Northwest Books authors on their “AK” arts show in September. This feature on quirky Alaska humor included: Doug Fine (Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man), Jeff Brown (On the Road to Tok), and Mr. Whitekeys (Elvis Presley’s Pharmacist was My Sunday School Teacher) To listen, go to: http://www.akradio.org/archives.html and click on 9/18.
  

• Winterlake Lodge Cookbook (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-563-2 SB $21.95) For fans of good eating and the Alaskan wilds, Winterlake is as good as it gets. — New York Post www.kirstendixon.com
  

• Culture Smart! (Graphic Arts Books, ISBNs vary) series featured in the October 3, Sunday travel section of the New York Times.
  

• NW Homegrown Cookbook Series: Wild Mushrooms (WestWinds Press, 0-1-55868-695-9) featured review in the Peninsula Daily News (Washington) October 3.

AUTHORS & BOOKS

• Annabel Langbein – Cooking to Impress Without Stress – will be on a national tour with the Sur La Table chain throughout the month of October. She will be meeting with various media people in the different cities as well as working closely with Beringer Blass Wine Estates to promote their line of wine from New Zealand, Matua Valley Wines.
  
  
• Phil Stanford – Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City - will be doing readings, signings television and radio interviews throughout the greater Portland and Salem area in the month of October.
  
  
• Teri Sloat’s art from Berry Magic will be featured at the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, Calif. from September 27 to December 31. Teri will be touring schools in exotic locations including Guam, Tai Pai, Akiak, Alaska, and more.
  
  
• Cynthia Nims – NW Homegrown Cook Book Series: Wild Mushrooms - will also do a cooking demo/signing at the new Alderwood Mall Williams Sonoma store in Seattle, WA on October 6th as
  well as a signing at the Port Angeles, Wash. Crab Festival on October 9th and 10th
  
  
• Les Kerr – Tennessee – will be doing signings, readings and singing/playing at the Southern Festival of Books in Memphis, Tenn. beginning October 6th and going through October 9th.
  
  
• Joan Harris – One Wing’s Gift – will offer storytelling at the Alaska Native Heritage Center’s Fall Festival in Anchorage on October 9. She’ll be joined with representatives from the Bird Treatment and Learning Center who will be bringing an array of live educational birds.
  
  
• Pat Kramer – Alaska’s Totem Poles – just wrapped up a 13-week Inside Passage cruise tour and has been enjoying positive reviews on this valuable book such as this one from the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai, Alaska:

…[Alaska’s Totem Poles] provides a real service: a comprehensive and compact insight into totem poles presented in an attractive and accessible way. For anyone planning to visit Southeast Alaska and seek out totem poles, this book is a valuable aid.

• Carol Losi and illustrator Amy Meissner – Salt & Pepper at the Pike Place Market – had their “best signing ever!” at Lionheart Books in Pike’s Place Market, Seattle as well as a great event at All For Kids in Seattle, and a fundraiser at the Harbor Hounds “Walk the Town event” in Gig Harbor all in late September.
  
  
• Jo Harper – Ollie Jolly, Rodeo Clown – made a special presentation at the Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading at UH Clear Lake, Texas.
  
  
• Ray Troll – Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from A to Z – will present at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for their 20th anniversary, October 23, on “Shark Day” along with Peter Benchley (author of Jaws) and David Doubilet (famed underwater photographer)

SHOWS & CONVENTIONS

• October 28th – 30th The 2004 National Publishing Conference and Book Industry Trade Show – Austin, Texas at the Hyatt Regency on Town Lake. For more information, visit: www.pubwest.org.
  
  
• October 8th – 10th The Southern Festival of Books, Memphis, Tenn. For more information visit: http://www.tn-humanities.org/sfbmain.htm
  
  
• Pam Flowers’ 2005 Tour. Stay tuned for dates from the famed long-distance dog musher and co-author of Alone across the Arctic and Big-Enough Anna as her tour will include Oregon, California, Michigan, Florida, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa, Idaho, Wisconsin, and Texas.
  

Below you’ll find great children’s titles to get them back into the swing of reading before school starts, cookbooks for the chef in all of us, and soon-to-be-arriving titles that we’ve all been waiting for. For even more titles visit us online, or ask us to send you a catalog.

		Tennessee Photography by George Humphries Essay by Les Kerr Graphic Arts Books Hardbound, 1-55868-834-X, $39
		Tennessee, the “Land of Western Waters” . . . Humphries’ spectacular photography captures the diverse and stunning landscape of this, our 16th state in the nation and Kerr embodies the cultural, social and natural beauty of the state in his captivating prose. Together they capture the essence of Tennessee in the latest book in the Graphic Arts Books State Book Series.
		Star Palate Text by Tammy Agassi and Kathy Casey Recipe testing by Kathy Casey Food Studio Documentary Media Hardbound, ISBN: 0-9719084-5-1, $29.9
		Mmmmmm… 80 of the most recognized, respected, and beloved celebrities standing side by side with 80 of the most delicious, tantalizing recipes in color photography. With 100% of profits going to benefit the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research, and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, this is a cookbook that will leave readers feeling both full and fulfilled.
		Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City Phil Stanford WestWinds Press Softbound, 5 3/8” x 8 3/8” 192 pages, 80 B&W photos ISBN: 1-55868-793-9, $15.95 retail
		Portland Confidential is the entertaining and fascinating story detailing how, in the 1950’s, Portland came to be known throughout the country as a Mecca of vice and sin. Mobsters, strippers, drugs, gambling and more… The little City by The River’s seedy and sorted history comes alive in this new illustrated memoir by Phil Stanford.
		Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man Doug Fine Alaska Northwest Books Adventure/Travel Softbound, 5 3/8” x 8 3/8” 224 pages ISBN 0-88240-590-X $14.95
		Now here’s a formula for near disaster: East Coast big-city guy, world-traveler, journalist, and otherwise politically savvy fellow settles down in rural Alaska, where men are many and manly, and women with survival skills are good to count among your friends. He wants to fit in. But how does one learn to be a Mountain Man? By observing, imitating, and making near-fatal mistakes, that’s how.