Noteworthy Events

GRETNA ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL
Four Pelican authors will be making appearances at this month’s Gretna Art Walk. The festival will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 13. This monthly event is held at Huey P. Long Avenue, on the neutral ground between 6th Street and 7th Street in Gretna, Louisiana. Author of Germans of Louisiana (9781589802445), Ellen C. Merrill will be signing copies of her book from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Fans of Denise Walter McConduit, author of the children’s series that includes D.J. and the Debutante Ball (9781589801738), D.J. and the Jazz Fest (9781565542396), and D.J. and the Zulu Parade (9781565540637), will be able to meet her and have their books signed from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Also signing will be Cecilia Casrill Dartez, author of Jenny Giraffe and the Streetcar Party (9780882899626), Jenny Giraffe Discovers the French Quarter (9780882898139), Jenny Giraffe Discovers Papa Noël (9781565540842), and Jenny Giraffe’s Mardi Gras Ride (9781565541825), from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. As a special treat, the world-renowned Chef John Besh, who, along with coauthor Dr. David A. Newsome, has written the upcoming The New Orleans Program: Eat, Exercise, and Enjoy Life (9781589803442), will be serving up some German delicacies in the German Pavilion.

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From May 19 through 21, almost everyone associated with the book business, from publishers to booksellers, will gather in the Washington Convention Center located in Washington, DC for this year’s Book Expo of America (BEA). With more than two thousand exhibits, five hundred authors, and over sixty conference sessions, BEA is America’s largest annual gathering for the publishing industry. Four of our authors will be at Pelican’s booth. Bev Shaffer, author of Brownies to Die For! (9781589803824), will be signing her book on Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. as well as from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rose Madeline Mula will sign copies of her book, If These Are Laugh Lines, I’m Having Way Too Much Fun (9781589803770), on Saturday between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Both visitors and residents of Washington, DC can enjoy Thomas B. Grooms’ new book, The Majesty of Capitol Hill (9781589802285), copies of which he will be signing on Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Finally, acclaimed illustrator Joan C. Waites will be signing copies of the children’s book Moon’s Cloud Blanket (9781565549227) on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

We at Pelican are proud to announce that one of our authors, Steven L. Layne, president of the Illinois Reading Council, has helped his organization win the International Reading Association’s highest award for membership, the President’s Cup. This award is given to the group that achieves the greatest growth in IRA membership for the year among the states and provinces with a similar number of instructional staff. Pelican has published ten books by Steven L. Layne, the latest of which is entitled Mergers (9781589801837).

The 2006 Oklahoma Book Award finalists have been announced and Richard Trout’s Czar of Alaska: The Cross of Charlemagne (9781589803282), the latest installment in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series, is among the nominees in the Children’s/Young Adult category.

Praise For Pelican Titles

"Brownies to Die For! is an amazing collection of the most tasteful and delightful brownie recipes . . . enthusiastically highly recommended to all readers with a taste for these tasty chocolate treats!"      

--Science Blog.com

"The publishers did a terrific job producing this quality hardcover book, filling it with beautiful craving-inducing photos of many of the brownie recipes. You’d be hard pressed to find a better gift for any brownies fans you know."

--Fabulousfoods.com

Why Jews Should Not Be Liberals (9781589803831), by Larry F. Sternberg:

"[Sternberg] employs Bible and Talmud verses and draws on history to show that Jews are instead better served by America’s conservative leaderships." 

--Library Journal

The Battle of Carthage: Border War in Southwest Missouri, July 5, 1861 (9781589802230), by David C. Hinze and Karen Farnham:

"The authors provide a very detailed account of the state of affairs in Missouri as well as of the battle and campaign." 

--Civil War Courier

Recipes from Mulate’s (9781589803473), by Monique Boutté Christina:

"In presenting Cajun recipes, [Monique Boutté] Christina has followed her father’s example of keeping ingredients simple and just cooking everything perfectly. Most of the directions in her book are contained in a small paragraph and are so easy anyone could follow them."

--Gambit Weekly

"The verses are full of Steven L. Layne’s love for his mother, but they also incorporate thoughtful ideas, not doggerel sentiment, about why he loves his mother. . . . The full-color illustrations by Gail Greaves Klinger are meticulously painted and surely make her mother proud."

 --Easton (Md.) Star Democrat

Father Mississippi (9781565547957), by Lyle Saxon:

"Attentive readers will see the parallels between government response, and lack thereof, between the Great Flood and Hurricane Katrina, demonstrating even to the casual reader that little has changed in the intervening seventy-nine years. It also illustrates the old adage that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it." 

--L’Observateur

Voodoo Fire in Haiti (9781589803626), by Richard A. Loederer:

"A long-lost charmer about a trip within the Haitian interior of another era . . . [contains] very evocative woodcuts by the author that add to the total otherness of what and where he is, going from the wild twenties jazz scene in New York to the all-but-unbelievable scenes he was witness to in the cacophonous darkness of a voodoo ceremony."

 --Rockland (Maine) Courier-Gazette

Uglesich’s Restaurant Cookbook (9781589802094), by John Uglesich:

"As much a family history as a cookbook."               

--Corinth (Miss.) Daily Corinthian

General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory (9781589802537), by Robert Collins:

"Those who fancy we live in corrupt, venal, decadent days, the worst by far ever seen in the world, would do well to crack a history book. Almost any serious history book would do, but they could do no better, for a start, than General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory."                                                       --Nevada (Mo.) Daily Mail

"An interesting Kansas book [that] introduces us to a little-known hero."                                                      --Territorial Magazine

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