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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27 In August of 1910, the largest fire ever to sweep across forests in the United States claimed trees, buildings, and lives across a stretch of three million acres in the Rocky Mountains. Timothy Egan writes in his follow-up to The Worst Hard Time, his National Book Award-winning...
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So You Want To Be A Waiter (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Cooking Under Cover: One Pot Wonders — A Treasury of Soups, Stews, Braises, and Casseroles Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (September 21, 1998) ISBN-10: 0395935210 ISBN-13: 978-0395935217 This book is exactly what it pretends to be – a compendium of soups, stews, braises and casseroles. It’s nice to have all of those categories in one place instead of having to plow [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gary Gentel, president, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference Publishers, released the following statement in support of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's new Curious George book, Curious Baby, Curious George Counting — My First Book of Numbers: "It has come to our attention that a concern has been raised about Curious Baby, Curious George Counting — My First...
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Editorial Ass (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Children's R.J. Anderson/FAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER (Fantasy, HarperCollins Children's, age 10+, April): A fierce young faery fights to save her dying people while concealing her forbidden love for a human. Rebecca Barnhouse / THE BOOK OF THE MAIDSERVANT (middle grade historical fiction, Random House, October): A medieval pilgrimage to Rome. Difficulty! Danger! Abandonment! Love? "A compelling...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the 25th anniversary of award-winning children's book creator Chris Van Allsburg's classic book, The Polar Express. This first-person narrative of a magical Christmas Eve journey, richly illustrated with Van Allsburg's lush artwork, tells a heartwarming story of childhood faith that has become a cherished part of millions of families' holiday...
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Writer's Resource Center (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Editor — Dimensional Fund Advisors – Austin, TX Editor – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Evanston, IL Editor – Prentis Cancer Research Ctr – Detroit, MI Editor – Hoffman Media – Birmingham, AL Editor – Nevada Public Radio – Las Vegas, NV Proofreader – RR Donnelley – Elgin, IL Proofreader – Reznick Group – Bethesda, MD Proofreader...
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DesiPundit (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century Masha Gessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) Pure mathematicians have the reputation of being otherworldly and divorced from practical matters. Grisha or Grigory Perelman, the ...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
As the afternoon sun sets, much too soon, here are a few publishing links to play with... Daily Finance analyzes a a $20 million breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against Houghton Mifflin Harcourt by Cengage over textbook sales. NY Daily News excerpted Sarah Palin 's taped interview with Oprah Winfrey , an interview that will open her book tour next week: "We don't have to keep going down this...
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not your mother's bookclub (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Four times a year, children's and YA booksellers from across the country nominate and vote on their fave brand-new books. The resulting list is distributed to bookstores all over the country, so it is pretty awesome to be on it. The Winter IndieNext YA picks are... 1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780385737944) "James Dashner's The Maze Runner is...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Axler's Theater Elaine Blair The New York Review of Books "The Humbling" by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp., $22.00 One of the rare funny moments in Philip Roth's recent novel "Everyman" (2006) takes place when the unnamed hero visits his parents' graves in Newark. His health has been poor, his colleagues and friends have been dying, and though he has no reason to...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Contempt for the reader The Humbling. By Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 140 pages; $22. Jonathan Cape; GBP12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, in his late period, produced some of the most sublime chamber music ever written. Woody Allen abandoned Russian heaviness and zeitgeist-tapping frizziness to revel in the delight of form and structure. His recent films, “Match...
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Procure IQ (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By: Bill Huber, Director, CPO Services, TPI Recently, ICG Commerce announced that it signed a four-year agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company ─ the world’s largest publisher of educational materials for pre-K–12 schools ...
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is sending me on a coast-to-coast tour in support of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Here...
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About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The foreword and introduction of a book are usually things to be glanced at, gotten through as quickly as possible on the way to the "good stuff." Here, the "good stuff" begins in the foreword, continues into the introduction, and comes to fruition in the double-dozen stories that comprise the meat of the book, the best American sports writing of 2008. Read more . Photo credit:...
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Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) defines arboricide as "the wanton destruction of trees." The OED 's earliest citation is dated 1899—H.G. Graham, Social Life of Scotl. 18th Cent. I. v. 199: "This crime of arboricide was distressingly frequent." There are earlier examples of the word. The earliest example I can find is from 1844, in Asa Gray, "The Longevity of Trees,"...
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