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September

2007

Noteworthy Events       Awards       Quotes from Media       Accelerated Reader       Author Appearances

Note from the Publisher

After the Fourth of July weekend, Martha Long, coeditor of the fifth edition of Louisiana: The Land and Its People (9781589803039, $35.00), was traveling back to Louisiana from Picayune, Mississippi, and stopped at the Louisiana Welcome Center on I-59 to collect goodies for her classroom. When she asked if she could have one of every brochure because she was a teacher, the welcome center employee introduced her to two teachers from West Monroe, Louisiana, who were doing the same thing. During the ensuing discussion, West Monroe teachers, learning Martha was from Plaquemines Parish, asked where she taught. When Martha told them Belle Chasse Middle, they realized that she was the editor of the textbook, pulled their copies out of their bags and asked her to autograph them.

Noteworthy Events

New Orleans chef and restaurant owner Leah Chase served President Bush among others at the nationally renowned Dooky Chase Restaurant on Tuesday, August 28. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Saints quarterback Drew Brees were also guests at Ms. Chase’s table. The eighty-four-year-old restaurateur served up dishes of her legendary stewed okra and jambalaya. Recipes for these dishes can be found in The Dooky Chase Cookbook (9780882896618, $23.00). Also on the menu was gumbo z’herbs, which can be found in her second cookbook, And Still I Cook (9781565548237, $23.00).
Leah and Dooky Chase were both interviewed on the National Weather Channel following Hurricane Katrina. Destroyed in the storm, the restaurant is now operational and is looking forward to reopening to the public soon.
Harold Baumgarten, author of D-Day Survivor: An Autobiography (9781589804210, $25.00), will lecture in Normandy on a tour with the Civil War Education Association. He will serve as a coleader of the September 2007 Normandy Campaign tour, sponsored by American History Forum. A rifleman in Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Baumgarten was wounded five times on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion.

The Delta Queen, a 174-passenger steamboat will leave for its final tour on October 31, 2008. The projected November retirement is being protested by fans in a campaign at www.save-the-delta-queen.org. A history of the oldest overnight passenger steamboat of the United States, The Delta Queen: Last of the Paddlewheel Palaces (9780882893075, $14.95 pb), edited by Myron Tassin, is available in paperback.

Donald L. Gilmore, author of Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (9781589803299, $29.95), will attend the Decatur Civil War Round Table Fall Symposium in Illinois, on September 8. Mr. Gilmore will give a speech, defining a number of striking misconceptions about the Missouri-Kansas Border War.  

Sheila Holm, author of the Seven Step Business Plan (9781589804715, $19.95), will instruct a segment of the Excellerated Business School for Entrepreneurs from September 15 through the 23. This program will be held in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. 

                           

In August 2007, Gretna, Louisiana, home of Pelican Publishing, was named the safest zip code in Jefferson Parish. The city of Gretna is discussed in Historic Jefferson Parish: From Shore to Shore (9780882890487, $35.00 pb), by Betsy Swanson.

 Awards

Janeen Mason received a United States Maritime Literature Award for Ocean Commotion: Sea Turtles (9781589804340, $15.95), which she wrote and illustrated. The announcement was made August 2, by Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning. In February, Mason was appointed to the Florida Arts Council. Besides illustrating three additional books from Pelican, Mason is also the illustrator coordinator for Florida’s Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is a member of the Children’s Book Council.

Texas Zeke and the Longhorn (9781589803480, $15.95), written by David Davis and illustrated by Alan Fearl Stacy, has reached the preliminary list for the 2008-2009 Show Me Readers Award. Now one of thirty finalists, the list will be narrowed down to ten. The grand prize winner is chosen by the children of Missouri.

Praise for PelicanTitles:

Susan Mason’s Silver Service (9781589803794, $34.95), by Susan Mason:

"Spellbinding photography . . . offers more than 70 recipes while allowing us a peek into some of the Lowcountry’s most gracious homes . . . With the recipes and tips in Susan Mason’s Silver Service, the perfect party is just moments away."—Southern Lady

Mustard Seed Market and Café Natural Foods Cookbook (9781589804654, $25.00), by Bev Shaffer:

"Shaffer has managed to craft a Joy of Cooking for the Whole Foods generation."
                                                      —Publisher’s Weekly

Angler’s Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico (9781589803886, $35.00), by Mike Lane and Jerald Horst:

"This recent book is a terrific full-color research guide to the enormous variety of fishes available in the Gulf."
—Dave Kirby, Troy Broadcasting Corporation

Rock ’n’ Roll Dogs (9781589803497, $15.95), by David Davis and illustrated by Chuck Galey:

"Jubilant color illustrations by award-winning artist Chuck Galey add the perfect touch to this charming book for young canine and rock-’n’-roll lovers."
—Children’s Bookwatch

The Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook (9780882897349, $17.95), by Tammy Wynette:

"[Homemade Chicken Pot Pie] is another dish I used to prepare before going on the road and leave for my children. It’s a full meal in one dish."      —Tammy Wynette

New on the Accelerated Reader List

Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House (9781589804357, $15.95), by Rickey E. Pittman

Jim Limber Davis was rescued from an abusive guardian by First Lady Varina Davis when he was only five years old.

 The Magic Box (9780882897486, $12.95), by Olga Cossi

The Magic Box highlights a high school basketball star, struggling with tobacco addiction, who is forced to quit her basketball team after her mother comes down with lung cancer.

Author Appearances

  

  

Jerry Drace, author of 44 Ways to Strengthen Your Marriage (9781589805057, $12.95 pb), will be interviewed on KNEO-FM, channel 91.7 broadcasted out of Missouri on Wednesday, September 12. The religious-themed program, "Author’s Corner," airs at 10:30 am central time.

                             The launch for Barbara Hallman Kissinger’s latest book, Christmas Merrymaking (9781589804821, $19.95), will be Sunday,    September 16, at the Iowa Store on Front Street in Burlington, Iowa, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Kissinger is also the author of Christmas Past (9781589803565, $19.95).

 Earl J. Higgins, author of The Joy of Y’at Catholicism (9781589804104, $14.95 pb), will sign at the Barnes & Noble on Citiplace Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. On September 8, he will sign at Barnes & Noble on the Westbank Expressway in Harvey, Louisiana, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. On September 30, Higgins will sign at Our Lady of Holy Cross College on Woodland Dr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Higgins was interviewed for the "Issues and Faith" program on WLAE-TV in a segment that was rebroadcast in the Louisiana area.


James Everett Kibler, author of Memory’s Keep (9781589803718, $22.00),was interviewed on Georgia Public Radio from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Sunday, August 26. The interview was broadcast throughout the state and will replay at least once. More information can be found at www.gpb.org. A second Kibler novel, Our Father’s Fields, a story of Kibler’s plantation in Southern Carolina, will be released as a documentary in 2008.

 
Gary McCoy, a contributor to Pelican’s annual Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year (9781589804593, $14.95 pb), will be an emcee at the Disney Festival Celebrates Cartooning in Marceline, Montana, on September 14 and 15. Along with his brother and fellow cartoonist, Glenn, Gary will explain the craft of cartooning to audiences of high school and college students and the general public.

Mike Lane, coauthor of Angler’s Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico (9781589803886, $35.00), will sign at the Algiers Point Library on September 18, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. He has had extensive signings in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. This detailed fishing guide is in its second printing.


 Mikel Schaefer, author of Lost in Katrina (9781589805118, $23.00), will sign at the 1850s House on Jackson Square in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 13, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. On September 22, Mr. Schaefer will sign at Barnes & Noble on the Westbank Expressway in Harvey, Louisiana, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. This is the story of the first responders in St. Bernard Parish where every building except six were damaged.

Phil Sandusky, author and artist of Painting Katrina (9781589804777, $19.95), will sign copies of the book at the Garden District Bookshop in New Orleans on September 8, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. On September 21, he will sign at the Cabildo in New Orleans from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.  Mr. Sandusky will be at the Westbank Expressway Barnes & Noble in Harvey, Louisiana, on September 29, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.


Jeff Dwyer will sign copies of his Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans (9781589804081, $17.95 pb) at the Cabildo in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 27, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. On September 29, he will sign at Madewood Plantation in Napoleonville, Louisiana, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Later that day, from 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm, Mr. Dwyer will sign copies at the San Francisco Plantation in Garyville, Louisiana.

Rickey E. Pittman, author of Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House (9781589804357, $15.95), will sign at Books-A-Million on North Blvd in Alexandria, Louisiana, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on September 1. On September 4, he will sign at the Bienville Parish Library in Arcadia, Louisiana, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Pittman will return to the Alexandria Books-A-Million on September 22. In tours through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, he has had fourteen signings since the book’s publication.

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