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Edited by Jill A. Tardiff with John Niernberger, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Mary Ann Tennenhouse and Carol Wiener -- Publishers Weekly, 4/17/2006
La Galera S.A. Editorial
This Barcelona-based publisher offers illustrated books for children, literature for children and young adults, school, game and knowledge books as well as fairy tales; exhibiting with Federación de Gremios de Editores de España. Booth: 1003.Lake Isle Press
This first-time exhibitor publishes cooking and popular health titles. Featured: titles in Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals small format series, including Guy Food, Comfort Food and Kid Food; Serves One by Toni Lydecker; Harlem Really Cooks! by Sandra Lawrence; The Harried Housewife's Cookbook by Cynthia O'Connor O'Hara. Discounts: 50%, retail; 52%, wholesale on orders of 25 or more. Booth: 2604.Lammers-Koll VerlagPublishes and distributes the literature of Heinz Grill; a part of the German Collective Stand. Booth: 3703.
Landauer Corp.
Featured: The Complete New Router Book by Chris Marshall; Working with Wood and Outdoor Living: The Ultimate Project Guide, both by Tom Carpenter and Mark Johanson; Fons & Porter Presents Quilts from The Henry Ford by Marianne Fons and Liz Porter; Thimbleberries New Collection of Classic Quilts by Lynette Jensen; Woolley Fox American Folk Art Rug Hooking by Barbara Carroll; Warren Kimble American Folk Artist by Warren Kimble; First Time Quiltmaking Learning to Quilt in Six Easy Lessons and Getting Started in Punch Needle, both by Editors at Landauer; Appliqué by Janet Pittman. Booth: 2460.Veronica Lane Books
Booth: 5727.Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Featured: Langenscheidt Pocket Guides (Chinese; French; German); Universal Dictionaries/Reference; Spell It (Write) Right; Berlitz Language in 30 Days (Chinese, Japanese); Berlitz Phrase Books (Italian); Hide This Book: Books for Lovers (Spanish, French); Hide This CD (Spanish, French); Pocket Guides (various); Berlitz Kids Sticker Book: Animals (Spanish/Ingles); 101 Basic Words Sticker Book; Flashcards (Spanish; French; Chinese); Insight City Guide series (Namibia, Sri Lanka); Insight Night and Day Guide series (Boston; Chicago; Las Vegas; London; NYC; Orlando; Paris); Insight Pocket Maps (various); American Map regional maps and 2007 road atlases. Giveaways: bags. Discounts: 50%, free freight on orders of 50 or more units. Booths: 1938, 1939.Larstan Publishing
This first-time exhibitor publishes expert guides on technology, marketing and personal finance; offers media and print book promotion through various syndication networks; exhibiting with Publishers Group West. Featured: The Black Book Series, including The Black Book on Personal Finance and The Black Book on Corporate Security, both by Tony Alagna (various contributors); Confessions of an Ink-Stained Wretch by John Persinos; Podcasting Business by Joe Devlin. Drawings: for 30-second national television ads (Larstan TV Syndication Network). Discounts: see PGW booth for details. Booth: 2762.Last Gasp of San Francisco
Featured from Last Gasp: Who Killed Hunter Thompson, edited by Warren Hinckle; Stories Care Forgot, edited by Ethan Clark; I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit by Aaron Cometbus; Labour by J.T. LeRoy; The Overrated Book by Henry Owings; Shag, Ltd. by Douglas Nason; The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol. 2 by Tony Fitzpatrick; Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima; Gama-Go Postcard Book; Sequins and Skeletons by Miriam Wosk. From First Gasp: Daniel's Ride/El Paseo de Daniel and Turntable Timmy, both by Michael Perry. From P.I.E. Books: Fushigi Circus by Mark Ryden; 2 Kilo of Kessels Kramer by Kessels Kramer; Character Design Collection; Urban Sign Design; Advertising Collection with Impact; Pictogram and Icon Collection; Unlimited Design Ideas in Limited Color. Discounts: 50%, Last Gasp titles; others 44%; free freight (continental U.S.). Booth: 1655.Laughing Elephant/Green Tiger Press
Booth: 5746.Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Booth: 4058.Learning Express
Featured: Acing the SAT 2006; SAT Writing Essentials; SAT Math Essentials; Statistics Success in 20 Minutes a Day; Calculus Success in 20 Minutes a Day; Vocabulary and Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day; ASVAB Success; Nursing School Entrance Exam; Grammar Essentials; Math Essentials. Discounts: see PGW booth for details. Booth: 2648.Learning Horizons
Offers licensed products under Sesame Street, Nick Jr., Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears and Parents Magazine brand names. Featured: Leap Frog Workbooks/CDs (eight titles); Sesame Street Take-Along, Wipe-Off Workbooks/Crayon; Sesame Street Ready, Set Pre-school Bind-up Workbook; Dora the Explorer Workbooks; Blue's Clues Workbooks; Sponge Bob Square Pants Underwater Math Adventure Take-Along, Wipe-Off Workbooks/Marker; Sponge Bob Square Pants Berrylicious Spelling Take-Along Wipe-Off Workbooks/Marker; Parents Magazine Panorama Wipe-Off Workbooks/Marker; Learning Horizons Super Fun Coloring/Activity Books; Know-It-Alls/Audio CDs. Discounts: extra 5%. Booth: 5108.Lectorum Publications
Featured: Platero y Juan Ramon by Carlos Reviejo; Cloud Boy by Rhode Montijo; Julia de Burgos by Georgina Lazaro; La Maleta de Hana by Karen Levine; Un Perro Muy Diferente by Dorothy Joan Harris; Arturo y el Misterioso Sobre and Berto da la Talla by Marc Brown; Sopa de Zanahoria by John Segal; Paula en Nueva York by Mikel Valverde; Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne. Discounts: free freight. Booth: 5800.Lectorum S.A.
This Mexican publisher offers science fiction and fantasy, history and multicultural books for adults and children; exhibiting with Cepromex. Booth: 1206.Lefall and Co.
Booth: 5045.Legacy Planning Partners
Provides information to individuals and families interested in creating lasting legacies for their loved ones, including spouses, children with special needs and pets. Booth: 4556.Legacy Publishers
Booth: 6020.Legal Write Publications
Formerly FYOS Entertainment; exhibiting with Publishers Marketing Assn. Featured: Literary Law Guide for Authors, 2nd Edition; Copyright Companion for Writers and Contracts Companion for Writers, all by Tonya Evans-Walls. Drawings: 10, each for 30-minute legal consultation with Tonya Evans-Walls. Discounts: 50%, free freight (10-book minimum, net 30). Booth: 2462.L.E.G.O. SPA/PBI
Booth: 668.Legwork Team
Booth: 4464.Hal Leonard Corp.
Featured: Soul of Tone: 60 Years of Fender Amps by Tom Wheeler; Live at the Village Vanguard by Lorraine Gordon with Barry Singer; How to Have Your Hit Song Published, by Jay Warner; The Ultimate Vintage Snare Drum Collection by Michael Currato; Get Media Airplay by Rick Davis; Joel Whitburn's 2007 Songs & Artists by Joel Whitburn; The History of the World's Most Popular Audio Company: 60 Years of JBL by John Eargle; The Music Store of the Rock Stars by Henry Goldrich with Holly Schoenfeld Goldrich; Tito Puente (book/DVD) by Jim Payne. Booth: 3360.Leo Paper Group
Booth: 5331.Lerner Publishing Group
Booth: 5615.Library Journal
The leading independent publication in the library field, read by librarians and publishers; includes extensive book reviews as well as reviews of audio, video and software. Featured: LJ will sponsor a Librarian's Lounge at booth 4265, refreshments provided; will cohost, with Random House, a breakfast for collection librarians; will cosponsor a pre-BEA "Day of Dialog" for librarians (www.libraryjournal.com/dayofdialog). Giveaways: magazines; LJ Hotline newsletters. Booth: 4265.LifeTips.com
This first-time exhibitor is an information rich Web site, providing tips created by hundreds of freelance expert writers screened and recruited for the niche topics found on the site. Booth: 721.Lightning Source
Provides book manufacturing and distribution services; stores books electronically and delivers on-demand in either traditional printed format or as eBooks in response to publishers, booksellers and libraries. Featured services: storage, management and distribution of digital content. Booth: 1339.Lights, Camera, Interaction!
Booth: 5010.
Light Technology
This first time exhibitor publishes trade paperback metaphysical books and the monthly magazine the Sedona Journal of Emergence. Featured Books: Animal Souls Are ET Astronauts, Walk-Ins and the Explorer Race, Shamanic Secrets for Spiritual Mastery, Benevolent Magic, and Shining the Light VII by Robert Shapiro; The Gentle Way by Tom T. Moore; Gaia Speaks by Pepper Lewis; Change Your Encodements, Your DNA, Your Life! by Cathy Chapman; Homeopathy for Epidemics by Eileen Nauman; Forever Numerology by Lynn Buess; This School Called Planet Earth by Summer Bacon; How to be Financially Successful by Joshua David Stone; Pathways and Parables for a Changing World by Miriandrea Rota; Harmonious Healing and the Immortal's Way by Jasmuheen; A New Formula for Creation by Judith Moore. Giveaways: Copies of Sedona Journal, catalogs, autographed books by Moore on Sunday. Discounts: 50% on orders of 15 titles or more of new books. Free shipping. Booth: 620.
LightWedge
Booth: 3733.
Frances Lincoln Publishers
Featured: Nancy Lancaster by Martin Wood; Great Gardens of the World by Penelope Hobhouse; Great Gardens of America by Tim Richardson; Truffles by Elisabeth Luard; Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design by Katie Campbell; Pilgrimage by Derry Brabbs; Corrugated Iron Architecture by Adam Mornement; In a Zen Garden by Judith Glover; Nature's Playground by Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield; The Tiny Garden by Jane McMorland Hunter. Booth: 3738.Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Booth: 2724.Little, Brown & Co.
Featured: Paint It Black by Janet Fitch; Cross by James Patterson; Echo Park by Michael Connelly; Mission Song by John le Carré; A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and Dave Freedman; One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson; The Real Animal House by Chris Miller; Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris; On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington. Booths: 2812, 2813.Little, Brown & Co. Books for Young Readers
Featured from Little, Brown: Maximum Ride by James Patterson; Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez; Vampirates by Justin Somper; Incantation by Alice Hoffman; What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles; Just Like Heaven by Patrick McDonnell; Chowder by Peter Brown; Everything I Learned About Being a Girl by Kim Cattrall. From Megan Tingley Books: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer; Toot & Puddle: The One and Only Opal by Holly Hobbie. From LB Kids: Messages from the Heart by Sandra Magsamen; Alex Toys novelty books/toys; Cranium Fun Folios series. Booths: 2812 2813.Llewellyn Worldwide
Booths: 3139, 5532.Lobster Press
Booth: 5930.Login Canada
This Canadian book distributor represents such fine publishers as American Psychiatric Publishing, American Psychological Assn., Elsevier Science, Guilford, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Springer and Taylor & Francis. Booth: 1054.London Book Fair
LBF is one of the leading international trade book fairs. Featured: information about 2007 LBF (Mar. 4–6). Booth: 2911.Lonely Planet Publications
Featured: Bluelist; Middle of Nowhere; A Year of Adventures; Tales from Nowhere; The Cities Book; Nicaragua & El Salvador; Kaua'i by Luci Yamamoto; MicroNations by George Dunford and Simon Sellars; Code Green by Kerry Lorimer; The Travel Book by Roz Hopkins. Discounts: 50%, free freight on orders of 25 or more (Best Of, National Park, Road Trip series). Booth: 939.Long River Press
Featured: Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories by Shouhua Qi; Rendering the Minds: Learning Chinese Characters Through Pictures by Sukming Lo; A Basic Mencius by Kujie Zhou. Booth: 3765.Longseller
Publishes literature and New Age titles as well as education, how-to and children's and young adult books; exhibiting with Cámara Argentina del Libro. Booth: 1205.Louisiana State Univ. Press/ LSU Press
Featured: Money, Power, and Elections by Rodney A. Smith; The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805, edited by Trey Berry, Pam Beasley and Jeanne Clements; Atchafalaya Houseboat by Gwen Roland, photos by C.C. Lockwood; The Emancipation Proclamation by Harold Holzer et al.; Tales of Mike the Tiger by David G. Baker and Margaret Taylor Stewart; Conservative Conservationist by J. Brooks Flippen; An Unnatural Metropolis by Craig E. Colten; New Orleans on Parade by J. Mark Souther; New Orleans as It Was by Henry C. Castellanos. Discounts: 46%, trade; 40%, short-discount; free freight on orders of five or more units. Booth: 820. LuluBooth: 947.
Luminary Graphics
Featured: 30 caricatures by Mike Caplanis, available on note cards, mugs, umbrellas, bags, posters and bookmarks. Booth: 5549.Lund Humphries/Ashgate Publishing Co.
Featured: Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka, edited by Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm; Samuel Palme, 1805–1881 by William Vaughan et al.; Black Victorians: Black People in British Art, 1800–1900, edited by Jan Marsh; The Cutting Edge: Fashion from Japan, edited by Louise Mitchell, essays by Akiko Fukai and Bonnie English; Constantine the Great by Elizabeth Hartley, Jane Hawkes, Martin Henig and Frances Mee; Leonora Carrington by Susan L. Aberth; Cuban-American Art in Miami by Lynette M.F. Bosch; Patrick Caulfield: Paintings by Marco Livingstone. Discounts: free freight. Booth: 3757.Lunwerg Editores
Publishes illustrated, large-format books for adults on art, architecture, photography, food and maritime themes; exhibiting with Federación de Gremios de Editores de España. Booth: 1003.
