Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Francisco Jiménez was born in Mexico and grew up working in the fields of California as the son of illegal immigrants. "Reaching Out," by Francisco Jiménez Houghton Mifflin, $16, 200 pages; ages 12 and up
Information Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
ABC-CLIO (www.abc-clio.com) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhpub.com) announced an agreement granting ABC-CLIO a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing Group, including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International, and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will transfer certain assets, including copyrights,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Gavin sez, Kelly Link just released her second book, Magic for Beginners, online for a year under the Creative Commons license. 2 of the 9 stories aren't included due to contractual agreements but this is huge news because two giant companies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (who published it in paperback) and HarperPerennial (who published the UK edition) have agreed to take a chance and be a part of the...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
BOSTON & SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ABC-CLIO and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced an agreement granting ABC-CLIO a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. said it received a multiyear printing contract, valued at a cumulative $875 million, from educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.
cynsations (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Congratulations on the release of The Raucous Royals: Test Your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce which Royal Rumors are True. (Houghton Mifflin, Oct. 2008)! Could you tell us about the book? The Raucous Royals (you must say it with a British accent) reveals the rumors behind history's most scandalous royals. Examples: Was Napoleon really short? Did Anne Boleyn have six fingers?...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The Numerati By Stephen Baker Houghton Mifflin; 256 pages; $26 If you caught any part of the Cold War, you may remember the chilling tales of the Red surveillance state that circulated on an urban-legend basis in the West. I personally recall an elementary...
Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGraw2008 by Houghton Mifflin 384 pages978-0618386284 $24.00 Erin McGraw writes fantastic short stories. She is one of those rare writers that has the ability to take what makes her short stories fantastic –...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Ann Patty (left) has a simple acquisition strategy: "If I don't stop reading a book," the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt executive editor explained, "I buy it. If I stop in the middle, I don't buy it." (She will, she admitted, put a manuscript down to sleep—but if she grabs the New York Times first thing the next morning instead of that story, she's not buying it.) "Any moron can overpay for a bestseller,"...
Precocious Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
So the big question posed by this week’s ComicList is, “Will there be another ‘Category 5 S**tstorm’ over this year’s Best American Comics collection from Houghton Mifflin'” It’s hard to say, though I find it difficult to believe that most people didn’t get that sort of thing out of their systems last year. [...]
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Given the day that’s in it, with our humble tome THE BIG O being published in hardback in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I thought I’d take the opportunity to blow my own trumpet so hard that I squish both lungs out through said trumpet in little sausage-y links. Maestro? In your own time, please … Actually, no – there’ll be no trumpet-parping today. Today is a day for feeling quietly positive...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Indignation By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin; 235 pages; $26 "Hard-working, coarse-grained, bribe-ridden, semi-xenophobic Irish-Italian-German-Slavic-Jewish-Negro Newark ..." We're back there again, on Philip Roth's old not-so-hallowed home ground, in his new...
The Thinking Mother (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Title: Vibes Author: Amy Kathleen Ryan Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company Books for Children, 2008 Genre: Young Adult Fiction; publisher states grades 7 and up Format: Soft cover book Full retail price: $16.00 ISBN: 9780618995301 Summary Statement: Couldn’t Put It Down; Has Some Good Discussion Topics Also Rating: 4 stars out of 5 How this book came to me: I requested an advance reading copy of...
10,000 Birds (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Thanks to the good, generous folks at Houghton Mifflin, we had two copies of the exciting new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America to give away. There was an easy way and a hard way to win. We already announced the winner for the former. Now let’s talk those canny, courageous souls who [...]
culturekitchen (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
I have covered many amazingly disgusting examples of Republican racism and anti-Semitism over the years. Not too long ago there was an idiot bar owner in Cobb Co. Georgia who made T-shirts with a picture of Curious George (registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) eating a banana with the caption "Obama '08." When confronted by some uppity civil rights groups the bar owner insisted he wasn't...
