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Marvel Holds on in 2008
Marvel’s publishing division finished 2008 with sales of $125.4 million, virtually flat with 2007 when revenue was $125.7 million. Operating profit slipped to $47.3 million from $53.5 million, which the company said was primarily due to ongoing investments in digital initiatives.
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Spring Religion Listings
ABINGDON PRESS Funeral for a Stranger (Aug., $13 paper) by Becca Stevens addresses the issue of attending the funeral of an individual one has never met. Gone to Green (Aug., $13.99 paper) by Judy Christie. A woman finds new faith after leaving her corporate life at a large urban newspaper to run a rural paper.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/23/2009
Picture Books Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy David Soman and Jacky Davis . Dial , $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3339-8 What's a superhero without a sidekick? Lulu, star of last year's Ladybug Girl, meets her friend Sam at the playground, but before they can join forces, they must first agree on what to play—a sequence handled with understanding and humor.
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BB Guns at Dusk: Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor draws on his childhood vacations on Long Island.
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High Hopes for New Fiction: Abingdon Enters Christian Fiction Market
In these tough economic times, it's a rare publisher who's expanding. But after doing due diligence, strategic planning and careful acquiring, Abingdon Press will launch a Christian fiction line in late summer. In recent years, the market for Christian fiction has been so successfully cultivated by a handful of evangelical Christian publishers, such as Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany House, Zondervan ...
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Fiction
The Wedding Girl Madeleine Wickham . St. Martin's/Dunne , $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-38343-5 The usually reliable Wickham (Shopaholic series author Sophie Kinsella's alter ego) falters with this overplotted and heavy-handed smorgasbord of weddings and family shenanigans. Upon meeting wedding photographer Alexander Gilbert, Milly Havill realizes that he had photographed her when she first m...
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Nonfiction
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture Bill Wasik . Viking , $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-02084-3 Focusing on the phenomenon of viral culture, Wasik, senior editor at Harper's magazine, reflects on his own Internet experiments, beginning with the creation of “flash mobs,” a pop phenomena of 2003.
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Hollywood Quiet: PW's Book of the Week
Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found Allegra Huston. Simon & Schuster , $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5157-7 Huston’s memoir begins when she is five years old, learning of her mother’s death from her godfather. Although she is sent to live with her father, the film director John Huston, he is an intermittent presence in her life.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 2/23/2009
On the Web this week: Bernanke takes control, the WSJ on the end of WS, a new look at African aid, an American terrorist looks back, and the last undiscovered trove of written correspondence we're likely to see from a modern literary giant. Plus: the Loch Ness monster, Marilyn Monroe and other mythical creatures.
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Dial Hails the Return of 'Ladybug Girl'
Ladybug Girl evidently spoke to the inner superhero in young readers after this Dial picture book reached store shelves last March. The book spent 22 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold 120,000 copies. In a new follow-up tale, Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy, this imaginative gal acquires a sidekick.
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Q & A with Lisa Yee
Author Lisa Yee, a “mostly cured workaholic,” talked to Children’s Bookshelf about Absolutely Maybe, her first novel for young adults.
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Walden Media Moves into Future
Walden Media isn’t letting the dismal economy slow down its growing presence in both the movie and publishing industries. Next month Walden starts filming Beezus and Ramona, and is also developing the third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia and the movie version of Ingrid Law’s Savvy. And in early 2010, Walden and HarperCollins will co-publish the first three titles for a new HC imprint called Walden Pond Press.
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Despite Slowdown, Comics Retailers are Optimistic
Despite the economic downturn and increasingly selective buying by consumers, many independent comics retailers around the country are cautiously optimistic after weathering a tough retail period at the end of the year.
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Tales of Wonder to Launch Remainder House
TalesofWonder.com, a ten-year-old online retailer of graphic novels, is setting up a separate remainder operation just for graphic novels,
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Matt Thorn Returns to Translation
After a multifaceted career as a manga translator and scholar, Matt Thorn recently he returned to translation with Seduce Me After the Show and Red Blinds the Foolish, two yaoi works by his former student est em.
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A New Age Of Marvels
Fourteen years after first publishing the classic comics series, Marvels, writer Kurt Busiek, along with new collaborators, has written the long-awaited sequel, Marvels: Eye of the Camera.
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Comics Briefly
Weidenbaum to Leave Viz Media; Glyph Award Nominees Announced; Stumptown Awards Call for Nominations; Static Returns to Comics; Marvel Offers Lincoln, Obama Digital Comics; SLG Publishing Seminar; Bluewater Comics Go Green; and This Week @ The Beat
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Review: Mediterranean Hot and Spicy
Aglaia Kremezi, an expert on Greek cuisine, presents more than 100 recipes flavored with the subtle spices of the Mediterranean. Sections on mezes, appetizers and salads; main courses; and breads and desserts are fantastic, but the real soul of the book is its coverage of spice blends, sauces and condiments.
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Children's Books for Spring: T - Z
TANGLEWOOD PRESS (NBN, dist.) The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies ($15.95) by Ammi-Joan Paquette, illus. by Christa Unzner. Where in children's homes do fairies eat, sleep and play? (4-8) Wolf Camp ($15.95) by Katie McKy, illus. by Bonnie Leick. After attending a mysterious summer camp, Maddie exhibits wolf-like behavior.
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Nonfiction Reviews
Power, Ambition, Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons We All Can Learn Steve Forbes and John Prevas . Crown Business , $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-40844-0 Forbes magazine’s editor and CEO collaborates with classical scholar Prevas to examine the lives of the ancient world’s greatest leaders, including Julius Caesa...
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