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Lt. Col. Tom C. McKenney recounts Jack Hinson's extraordinary feats as a lone Confederate sniper. After a unit of Union occupation troops moved in on his land and summarily captured, executed, and placed the decapitated heads of his sons on his gateposts, Hinson abandoned his quiet life for one of revenge. |
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Rose
Madeline Mula's
forthcoming book The
Beautiful
People and Other Aggravations ($14.95 pb)
was a finalist in the Humor category for the National Best Books 2009
Awards.
In
her signature self-deprecating and hilarious style, humor essayist Rose
Madeline Mula gripes about growin
Mula also recently published her latest
article for The Saturday Evening
Post. In this laugh-out-loud article, she wonders, "What will they
think of next?" House plants that walk to the sink and drink when
they're thirsty? Or a shopping cart that will roll
to the store and collect your groceries (or at least one with wheels that
roll in the same direction)? Who knows? Mula
sure has some ideas! |
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David
Davis
won third place in the Writer's Digest 78th Annual Writing Competition
for his children's story "Black Diamond." Davis is the author of
several children's titles, including four books in Pelican's Night
Before Christmas Series
($15.95). In his most recent title, Texas
Aesop's Fables ($15.95), Davis retells
age-old lessons about life, fairness, and honesty with a Texas twist. |
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Kay
Shaw Nelson, the
author of
The Cloak
and Dagger Cook ($24.95),
will represent her CIA memoir at the National Press Club Book Fair on
Tuesday, November 17 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm in Washington D.C. The fair
is a fundraiser
for the club's Eric Friedheim National
Journalism Library. |
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Ronnie
McDowell and
Edie
Hand, coauthors of The
Genuine Elvis: Photos and Untold Stories about the King
($14.95), will appear for a live in-studio interview on the "Joey
Reynolds Show" at 10:00 pm on Friday, November 6. Now the #1 late-night
radio talk show in NY, they broadcast live in the New York Tri-State area
from midnight to 1:00 am and are carried by one hundred stations
nationally from 1:00 am to 5:00 am. |
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Peggy
Scott Laborde,
coauthor of Christmas
in New Orleans ($39.95),
will have a TV interview at 1:30 pm on November 16 with Tom Bagwill
on WLAE's Greater New Orleans. |
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Pelican has made Christmas shopping easy
this year with our NEW
WEB SITE. Shopping carts are easily located at the top
right-hand corner of the screen and customers can now search for keywords
from inside the book. If cookies are on your mind this season, a quick
search will not only bring up such treasures as Cookies
to Die For! ($26.95) and The
100
Greatest Desserts of the South ($14.95 pb),
but every book that mentions cookies. We're adding new features all the
time, so watch for updates in future newsletters and on Twitter. |
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Pecans
from Soup to Nuts
($19.95), by Keith
Courrege
and
Marcelle
Bienvenu "Highly recommended for nut lovers and Southern cooks." --Library Journal
"It's
sure to send a creepy-crawly thrill along the ticklebone
of little listeners." "Suzanne
Mann's warm and lyrical reading of Adele Colvin's inspirational stories
. . . combined with the stunning musical soundtrack by Andy Meginniss
and Shaun Pezant makes this recording a true
masterpiece!" --Bobby
Horton, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and music historian |
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An
article on The
Cloak and Dagger
Cook ($24.95), by Kay
Shaw Nelson, will run
Reviewed
in the winter issue of Louisiana
Cultural Vistas magazine
Reviewed in the November issue of Louisiana
Road Trips magazine and New
Orleans Magazine
Mentioned in the November issue of Where
Magazine's New Orleans edition Included in the November issue of Sophisticated Woman |
Jack
Hinson's One-Man War
Why
Things Go Wrong: Deming Philosophy in a Dozen Ten-Minute Sessions
Madame
A
review of 
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Dianne
de Las Casas,
author of The
Cajun Cornbread Boy
($15.95) and
Madame
Poulet and Monsieur
Roach ($15.95), has the following appearances: |
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Johnette
Downing, author of Chef
Creole ($15.95),
Down
in Louisiana ($15.95), Today
Is Monday in Louisiana
($15.95), My
Aunt Came Back from Louisiane
($15.95), and Why
the Crawfish Lives in the Mud ($15.95), has the
following appearances:
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Peggy
Scott Laborde,
coauthor of Canal
Street: New Orleans’ Great Wide Way
($39.95) and Christmas
in New Orleans
($39.95), has the following appearances:
November
21 (Sat.) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Barnes and Noble Booksellers,
3414 Highway 190 Ste. 10, |
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Una
Belle Townsend,
author of Grady’s
in the Silo ($15.95), Racecar
Driver’s Night Before Christmas
($15.95), and The
Oklahoma Land Run ($15.95), has the following
appearances: |
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Joe Kulka, illustrator of Gingerbread Man Superhero! ($15.95). November
6 (Fri.), 8:00 pm: Children’s Book World, 17
Haverford Station Rd., Haverford, PA 19041;
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Philip
Handleman,
author of A
Dream of Pilots ($14.95), has the following
appearance: November
23 (Mon.), 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Henry Ford Museum, 20900 Oakwood Blvd.,
Dearborn, MI 48124; signing |
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Mel
Tarman,
coauthor of Toby
Belfer Learns about Heroes and Martyrs
($14.95), has
the following appearances:
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Gloria
Teles Pushker,
coauthor of Toby
Belfer Learns about Heroes and Martyrs
($14.95) and author of Toby
Belfer Never Had a Christmas Tree
($14.95), Toby
Belfer’s Seder: A Passover Story
Retold
($15.95), A
Belfer Bar Mitzvah
($15.95), Toby
Belfer and the High Holy Days
($15.95), and Toby
Belfer Visits Ellis Island
($15.95), has the following appearance:
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Marcelle
Bienvenu,
coauthor of Pecans
from Soup to Nuts ($19.95), has the following
appearances: November
10 (Tue.), 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Cherry Books, 1054 Canal Blvd.,
Thibodaux, LA 70301; signing November
14 (Sat.), 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Garden District Bookshop, 2727 Prytania
St., New Orleans, LA 70130; |
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Henri Schindler, author of Mardi Gras Treasures: Invitations of the Golden Age ($35.00), has the following appearance:
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Beverly
Barras Vidrine,
author of A
Mardi Gras Dictionary ($15.95), A
Christmas
Dictionary ($15.95), St.
Patrick’s Day Alphabet ($7.95 pb),
and Easter
Day Alphabet ($7.95 pb),
has the following appearance: November 14 (Sat.), 3:30 pm: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5705 Johnston St., Lafayette, LA 70503; storytime and signing |
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Sheila
Hebert-Collins, the
author of Blanchette
et les Sept Petits Cajuns: A Cajun Snow White
($15.95), Cendrillon:
A Cajun Cinderella ($15.95), Jacques
et la Canne a
Sucre ($15.95),
Jolie
Blonde and the Three Heberts:
A Cajun Twist to an Old Tale ($15.95), Les
Trois Cochons
($15.95), Petite
Rouge: A Cajun Twist to an Old Tale ($15.95), and T
Pousette et T Poulette:
A Cajun Hansel and Gretel ($15.95), has
the following appearance:
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