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Hello everyone!
Next week we head to Washington, D.C. for BookExpo America! If you’ll be there too, be sure to stop by and see us at booths 3308 and 3310.
At our booth, we’ll be featuring Brilliant Waters by Elizabeth Carmel with a foreword by Robert Redford, from our new distributed publisher, Hawks Peak Publishing. In addition, we are giving away copies of Washington, D.C.: Portrait of a City and Alaska Almanac 29th Edition while supplies last. You can also enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of Salmon from our Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series and a box of Northwest Smoked Salmon. And, be sure to take advantage of our show specials: an additional 5% for retailers and 2% for wholesalers. We’ll have the new Fall 2006 catalogs on hand at the show, and will be mailing them shortly.
See below for special May happenings and Mother’s Day gift ideas.
Thank you all for your continued support!
Regards,
Mike Jones
Dir. Of Sales and Marketing
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- Iditarod Glory (Graphic Arts Books, HB 1-55868-911-7) – Reviewed in the Spring 2006 issue of American Society of Media Photographers Bulletin. “Readers won’t have to wait to reach the starting line—they’ll be hooked from the moment they open the book.” —AB
- The Indochina Chronicles (Times Editions, SB 981-261-036-7) – Phil Karber’s book was reviewed in the April issue of Bookwatch describing it as an “intimate and intriguing memoir” that is “perfect reading for the armchair traveler.”
- The Least of These (WestWinds Press®, SB 1-55868-860-9) – Winner of the 2006 Alaska Presswomen’s Communicator’s Award for a nonfiction book.
Author/illustrator Joan Harris was interviewed in the May 2006 issue of Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Newsletter.
- Mount Hood: The Heart of Oregon (Graphic Arts Books, HB 1-55868-923-0) – Photographer Peter Marbach was featured in Providence Health System’s Spring magazine, Providence Together. The story highlights his personal triumph of climbing Mount Hood nine months after a triple bypass surgery, which inspired him to create his book, Mount Hood.
- On Patrol (Alaska Northwest Books®, SB 0-88240-573-X) – Reviewed in the Spring 2006 issue of Alaska History. “Tremblay entertains and informs the reader with a special story in just about every chapter.” —Jim Lieb, Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
- Recess at 20 Below (Alaska Northwest Books®, HB 0-88240-604-3, SB 0-88240-609-4) – Reviewed in the March 2006 issue of The Old Schoolhouse. “I greatly enjoyed looking through it and it makes a great read aloud to younger children with the colorful photographs. The fact that it is of real children in a real situation make it even more fascinating.” —Nancy Wagner.
- Seattle (Graphic Arts Books, HB 1-55868-863-3) – Excerpted in the Seattle Times on May 7th.
- The Storytellers’ Club (Alaska Northwest Books®, HB 0-88240-607-8) – Semi finalist for the Tenth Annual 2006 Independent Book Awards in the Multicultural Fiction Adult category. There were 450 books honored in the first phase of judging. Winners will be announced May 10th.
- The Street-Smart Naturalist (WestWinds Press®, SB 1-55868-859-5) – Featured in a special May Issue of Sunset magazine’s Seattle Insider’s Guide. Bonnie Henderson quotes a few of David’s favorite places around Seattle that are included in his book.
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AUTHORS & BOOKS
- Wordstock, the annual festival of the book in Portland, Oregon, was a huge success for GACPC in April—we saw lots of friends, listened to authors’ readings, and our own authors Tricia Brown (Groucho’s Eyebrows, The World-Famous Alaska Highway, and Fresh Air in the Attic) and Phil Stanford (Portland Confidential) came to sign books.
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| ALREADY ON A BOOKSHELF NEAR YOU – Perfect for Mother’s Day!
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For Mother’s Day 2006, here are some of our first picks that your mother will be sure to enjoy! Call us anytime to order any of these titles. We’ll have everything from cooking to kids, and autobiographies to coffee-table works of art. Enjoy!
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One Tough Mother: Success in Life, Business, and Apple Pies
Gert Boyle with Kerry Tymchuk
WestWinds Press®
Hardbound, 1-55868-908-7, $19.95
When a heart attack claimed Gert Boyle’s husband in 1970, the forty-six-year-old housewife and mother of three found herself at the helm of Columbia Sportswear, a small and financially struggling outerwear manufacturer in Portland, Oregon. Today Columbia is the largest skiwear manufacturer in the United States and Gert Boyle has become an icon in her industry—the first woman ever inducted into the International Sporting Goods Hall of Fame. In One Tough Mother, Boyle presents an honest, open, and often irreverent account of her truly remarkable journey from a childhood in Nazi Germany to fame and fortune in America.
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Year in Flowers
Watercolors and text by Katy Gilmore
Alaska Northwest Books®
Hardbound, 0-88240-460-1, $7.95
Alaska artist Katy Gilmore’s vivid paintings and personalized essays on living with flowers along with a daily calendar and blank journal pages will delight flower lovers everywhere.
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Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series: Stone Fruit
Cynthia Nims
WestWinds Press®
Softbound, 1-55868-602-9, $14.95
This lovely addition to the Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series shares all the secrets to cooking with stone fruit: cherries, nectarines, apricots, plums, and peaches.
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