| Hello All,
It was great to see so many of you at BEA. Thank you especially to those booksellers I talked with about signing up with Ingram Publisher Services. I heard a lot of positive comments about IPS at BEA.
Father’s Day is right around the corner, and if your customers are looking for manly dad-books, please allow me to make some suggestions. For dads who love trucks there’s always INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, McCORMICK, NAVISTAR, the history of America’s greatest truck manufacturer. Or, for dads who love history, THE CHEROKEE TRAIL OF TEARS is an excellent choice. For hearty, wilderness dads we have just reprinted TWO IN A RED CANOE and ONE MAN’S WILDERNESS, and for a father who loves natural beauty, we recommend DESERT WATER and PILGRIM EYE. Finally, I recommend CHAINSAWS, a book my daughter should get for me.
Below, also, please take a moment to look at our ordering information and sales rep contacts. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call me or your local rep.
Regards,
Mike Jones
Dir. of Sales and Marketing
P.S. For those who haven’t heard, GACP Company is pleased to announce that Michael Powell, owner of Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, was elected to the company’s Board of Directors on May 21, 2007. He will serve as the outside director, and he joins the two other board members, Michael Hopkins, President of Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, and Jim Chandler, President of Ingram Book Group.
To view our ordering information, click here
To view a list of our sales reps, click here
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SAID WHAT? – Quotes, happenings, and awards from folks in the media
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The Cherokee Trail of Tears (Graphic Arts Books, HB, 978-1-55868-905-3) was reviewed in the May 26 edition of the Antelope Valley Press. “a great new book...a quintessentially American story.” —Norman Shoaf, Editor
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Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable (Chickasaw Press, HB, 978-1-55868-992-3) has been awarded the gold medal from Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Multicultural Adult Non-Fiction.
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon (Ooligan Press, SB, 978-1-932010-16-9) was featured in the May 27th issue of The Oregonian. “Just as one wouldn’t try to see the whole state in a day, the poems are best read a few at a time. Individually, the best are like postcards. Wish you were here, the best seem to say, and you may find yourself wishing to visit.” —B.T. Shaw, editor, The Oregonian poetry section
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George Guthridge, author, The Kids from Nowhere (Alaska Northwest Books®, SB, 978-0-88240-651-0) received a one-year Fulbright Fellowship to set up a career-oriented college fiction-writing program on St. Lucia in the Caribbean.
- The Kids from Nowhere (SB, Alaska Northwest Books®, 978-0-88240-651-0) is one of three finalists in the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition in the category of Education/Teaching/Academic. Awards will be presented on May 31 at the Park Central Hotel in New York.
Oklahoma 3 (Graphic Arts Books, HB, 978-1-55868-985-5) is a finalist in the Foreword Book of the Year Awards. Winners will be announced at BEA.
Pilgrim Eye (Gneissline Publishing, HB 978-0-9788165-0-6) was featured on the In Focus Artist Spotlight. “The bulk of the images in Pilgrim Eye come from Halpern's photographic interpretation of America's landscape, particularly the West. Judging by its contents, and by conversing with Halpern, there's no doubt that this is where his photographic passion resides.” For more information, visit: http://www.lexjet.com/lexjet/newsletter/2007/May_InFocus/ArtistSpotlight.asp
- Washington: The State of Wine (Graphic Arts Books, HB, 978-1-55868-953-4) is currently being featured by Seattle.about.com. “The photos speak for themselves, and run the gamut of everything related to Washington wine. A joy for any wine enthusiast, they seem to be saying, ‘Open a bottle and pour yourself a glass.’”
For more information see:
http://seattle.about.com/od/artsentertainment/fr/stateofwine.htm
It is also featured at the top of the main page: http://seattle.about.com
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– Author events, tours, and shows |
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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David G. Fitzgerald — author, The Cherokee Trail of Tears — will be signing at Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City, OK, on June 16, at 4:30 p.m.
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David G. Fitzgerald will also be signing at Steve's Sundry in Tulsa, OK, on June 30, from 1 to 3 p.m.
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Tricia Brown — author, The Itchy Little Musk Ox — will be signing at the St. Helen's bookshop in St. Helens, OR, on June 30, at 1 p.m.
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Tricia Brown — author, The World-Famous Alaska Highway — is presenting a slide show about traveling the Alaska Highway on June 7 at Title Wave Books in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Tricia Brown is also a speaker at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference June 8-12 in Homer, Alaska. The keynote speaker is Amy Tan.
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Ellen Bielawski — author, In Search of Ancient Alaska — is attending the Sitka Symposium, June 21-26 in Sitka, Alaska. Following the symposium a series of booksignings and talks in Southeast Alaska is planned.
- Pat Kramer — author, Alaska's Totems — will be an onboard lecturer on the Sapphire Princess from June 16 to August 10. During port calls in Ketchikan and Juneau, she will be signing books at various locations.
SHOWS
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BookExpo America, Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, May 31 to June 3. Booth 2939.
- Seattle Cruise-A-Thon, Seattle Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA, June 1 to June 4.
Other Great Father's Day Gifts:
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| Chainsaws: A History
by David Lee
Harbour Publishing
Hardbound, 978-1-55017-380-2, $44.95
From 600-pound steam-powered behemoths to gas chainsaws mounted on wheeled carriages to diesel chainsaws and electric chainsaws with portable generators, this book musters a curious collection of contraptions and inventors. Carefully tracing the chainsaw’s evolutionary threads, David Lee, working together with a worldwide network of chainsaw buffs, traces the roaring, woodchip- and-oil sprayed progress of what is now a lightweight modern machine that holds a place of honor in the world’s woodsheds. |
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| Las Vegas: Portrait of a City
Photography by Deon and Trish Reynolds
Graphic Arts Books
Hardbound, 978-1-55868-949-7, $14.95
Showcases the finest this city has to offer from the kitsch of the Neon Museum to the splendor of the Stratosphere Hotel Casino.
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Essay by William Fox
Photography by Mark Lisk
Graphic Arts Books
Hardbound, 978-1-55868-858-2, $29.95
When we think of the desert, we almost never associate it with water. Rather we define it by the very absence of water. Yet the desert was carved by water—canyons, arroyos, ravines, chasms, washes—and water, in any amount, is the desert’s most precious and mysterious commodity. Small creeks flow at night, but dry up and disappear during daylight hours, only to return when the sun goes down. |
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Two in a Red Canoe
by Megan Baldino and Matt Hage
Graphic Arts Books
Softbound • 978-1-55868-862-9 • $18.95
The Yukon River remains one of the last and greatest wild, unspoiled rivers in North America. The name alone sparks a sense of romance and adventure. Traveling in a red canoe named Lucille, Megan Baldino and Matt Hage embarked on an exciting, summerlong voyage down the mighty Yukon. |
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