February White Box -- Celebrating Passionate Bookselling

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As Valentine's Day focuses our sights on expressions of fond regard and appreciation, so the February White Box overflows with offerings from Book Sense Publisher Partners, included with those same sentiments in mind -- regard for the passion with which you approach your chosen profession, and appreciation for the attention you pay to each title presented. Here are just some of the highlights:

Galleys, ARCs, and Finished Books:

  • Putnam offers FUNNY CIDE: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods … and Won by the Funny Cide Team with Sally Jenkins
  • THIS IS NOT CIVILIZATION, a first novel by Robert Rosenberg, coming from Houghton Mifflin
  • From Miramax, be on the lookout for the BERGDORF BLONDES by Plum Sykes
  • Alexandra Fuller, Book Sense Book of the Year Award-winner for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, returns with SCRIBBLING THE CAT: Travels With an African Soldier, to be published by Penguin Press
  • Novelist Tawni O'Dell (Back Roads) now brings you COAL RUN, coming from Viking
  • Top Ten 76-Pick author Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs) brings Maisie back in a new novel, BIRDS OF A FEATHER, a Soho Press publication
  • Bloomsbury Children's Books offers THE INSIDERS by J. Minter
  • Tor/Forge sends along two distinctive reading experiences in GARDENS OF THE MOON: Volume One of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson and LARRY BOND'S FIRST TEAM by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice
  • Thomas Moore has written the long-awaited sequel to Care of the Soul, entitled DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals, to be published by Gotham Books
  • Another first novel, this one from Dutton, THE HUNDREDTH MAN by Jack Kerley
  • Paula Marantz Cohen, author of Jane Austen in Boca, continues her series of Shakespeare updates in MUCH ADO ABOUT JESSIE KAPLAN, coming from St. Martin's
  • Also from St. Martin's, THE PRESERVATIONIST by David Maine, a first novel retelling the familiar Biblical story of Noah and the Ark from a fresh perspective
  • Mira offers Debbie Macomber's latest, THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET
  • Fulcrum sets you to thinking about THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF HEALTH CARE, written by former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm
  • Likewise, from Berrett Koehler (distributed by PGW) comes the thoughtful SECOND INNOCENCE: Rediscovering Joy and Wonder by John Izzo, Ph.D.
  • Yet another first novelist, Adam Langer leads you on a journey CROSSING CALIFORNIA, to be published by Riverhead

Catalogs, Excerpt Booklets, Samplers, F&G's, Reading Group Guides, Bookmark Packs, Posters, and more from:
Black Rose (distributed by Consortium), Atria (S&S), Berkley Signature Editions, Arcade, Other Press, Hyperion Books for Children (including Michael Di Capua Books and Jump At the Sun), Penguin Press, HarperCollins, and Book Page

In the folder are Sell Sheets, Special Offers, Shelf-talkers, Broadsides, Postcards, Brochures, and more from:
HarperCollins, Pendragon Press, F&W, Holt, Hyperion Books for Children, Newmarket Press, Broadway Books (Random House), Artemis Records, Sourcebooks, Plume, AERO Press, Picador, Out of the Box, Avalon, Exley Giftbooks, City Lights (Consortium), St. Martin's, Wiley, Tor/Forge, Akashic (Consortium), Other Press, Front Street (PGW), Traveler's Tales, DK, and Gotham Books

PLUS!

  • Don't miss the nominating ballot for the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Finalists! A copy of the ballot is included with this letter in the White Box, or, if you prefer, nominate online at www.bookweb.org/read/6785. One ballot per store, please!
  • For those stores participating in the Hardcover History program in conjunction with The History Channel, you'll find your new permanent mini-poster sleeve and bookmarks for the upcoming BREAKING VEGAS featured program, based on the Free Press (S&S) title Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich.

As always, our thanks for your continued participation in all facets of the Book Sense program.

  • Please remember to report to the Book Sense Bestseller List each week (Questions or problems? Contact Bill Cunningham at [email protected].)

Until next month,

Cheers,

Mark Nichols
Director, Book Sense Marketing
[email protected]
(914) 591-2665, ext. 1240

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