BookExpo America 2009: Addendum to 'Around the Booths'
-- Publishers Weekly, 5/11/2009
Owing to one technical glitch and a few late changes in exhibitor information, we offer the following updates to the “Around the Booths” feature that appeared in our pre-BEA April 27 issue.
Cambridge Univ. Press
Celebrating its 425th anniversary. Booth: 4146.
Grand Central Publishing
Featured: Spooner by Pete Dexter; A Separate Country by Robert Hicks; The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison; Roses by Leila Meacham; Nurture Shock by Po Bronson (Twelve); Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo (trade paper). Giveaways: galleys (featured titles); T-shirts (Fierce Style by Christian Siriano); sun visors (On the Line by Serena Williams); magnets (Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel). Booth: 3740.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Meeting Rm: 1A03.
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Giveaways: Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers); Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin (Feiwel and Friends); Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala (First Second); The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan, illus. by Yoko Tanaka (Holt Books for Young Readers/Christy Ottaviano Books); The Midnight Charter by David Whitley (Roaring Brook Press); The Dog Whisperer: The Rescue by Ellen Emerson White writing as Nicholas Edwards. Meeting Rm: 1A17.
Llewellyn
Featured: Messages by Stan Romanek; Black Is for Beginnings (Flux) by Laurie Stolarz; Lament and Ballad (Flux) by Maggie Stiefvater; Smasher (Midnight Ink) by Keith Raffel. Giveaways: buttons. Booth: 4276.
St. Martin's Press
Featured from St. Martin's Press: You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs; Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon; Step Out on Nothing by Byron Pitts; My Life Outside the Ring by Hulk Hogan. From Thomas Dunne: The Test of Our Lives by Tom Ridge with Larry Bloom; To Try Men's Souls by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forschten; Resurrection by Jim Dent. Meeting Rm: 1A17.
Weinstein Books
Featured: My Remarkable Journey by Larry King; The Secrets of Timeless Appeal by Raquel Welch; All Things at Once by Mika Brzezinski; The Third Man Factor by John Geiger; The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark. Booth: 3764.
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