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Noteworthy Events Pelican in Pages Quotes from Media Author Appearances |
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The photography of Pelican author, Michael P. Smith, was featured in the spring 2008 edition of The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly. Smith is well known throughout the city for his celebration of New Orleans culture, especially with second-line parades and jazz funerals. He is the author of several books on New Orleans tradition, including Jazz Fest Memories ($19.95 pb), Mardi Gras Indians ($39.95), and New Orleans Jazz Fest: A Pictorial History ($22.95). |
Susan Mason, the author of Susan Mason’s Silver Service ($34.95), will be a guest on Paula’s Home Cooking, hosted by Paula Deen, on the Food Network. On the show, Mason will prepare and serve various recipes from her cookbook. The episode will air later this summer. |
July 17 and 18, Deborah Kadair, illustrator of Down in Louisiana ($15.95) and Today Is Monday in Louisiana ($15.95) and author of There Was an Ol’ Cajun ($15.95) and Grandma’s Gumbo ($15.95), will be a keynote speaker for this year’s Literacy Conference at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. Award-winning Pelican author Steven L. Layne will also be a speaker. He is the author of several titles, including Mergers ($15.99), My Brother Dan’s Delicious ($15.95), Verses For Mom’s Heart ($16.95), Preacher’s Night Before Christmas ($15.95), and Love the Baby ($15.95).
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Rickey E. Pittman was a featured speaker for the fourth annual At Your Library Video Conference in Kilgore, TX, on June 25. His presentation, "Why Authors Should Fall to Their Knees and Worship Librarians," addressed the important role librarians play in shaping young children’s attitudes toward books. Pittman is the author of Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House ($15.95), Stories of the Confederate South ($12.95 pb), and Scottish Alphabet ($15.95). An interview of Pittman can be seen on Pelican’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/pelicanpublishing. |
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Ocean Commotion: Sea Turtles ($15.95), written and illustrated by Janeen Mason, is currently part of Patrons of the Elliott Museum’s unique art exhibit called "The Art of the Picture Book." The exhibit features illustrations from her books and celebrates Mason’s creativity and flair. The exhibit runs from June 14 to September 28. More information on Mason’s art can be found at Janeenmason.com. |
Award-winning author Gene Del Vecchio was chosen to speak at the ALSC Public Awareness Committee at this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. This honor follows another recent award. His young adult fantasy novel The Sword of Anton ($16.95) received a 2008 Young Adult Choices Award. Del Vecchio is also the author of The Pearl of Anton ($16.95) and Creating Ever-Cool: A Marketer’s Guide to a Kid’s Heart ($22.00).
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Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s Beauvoir museum in Biloxi, MS, lost more than forty percent of its artifacts in Hurricane Katrina, including the cottage where Davis wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. However, parts of Davis’s life and exciting history are being salvaged as the architects and curators of the museum rebuild his home. History lovers can learn more about Jefferson Davis’s life and legacy in James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy’s Was Jefferson Davis Right? ($16.95 pb) and Eron Rowland’s two-volume Varina Howell: Wife of Jefferson Davis ($25.00 pb). |
 John Uglesich, the author of Cooking with the Uglesiches ($24.95), and his parents, Anthony and Gail Uglesich, appeared on WWL-TV’s Eyewitness Morning News show on Wednesday, June 25.
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 Chance Harvey, author of The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon (24.95), will speak at the Tenth Conference on Women and the Civil War, entitled "Women at Gettysburg." The event will take place July 25-27 at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. Harvey’s talk, "‘Glory on the Grave’: The Civil War Legacy of Elizabeth Lyle Saxon," describes Elizabeth Saxon’s experiences traveling behind Union lines in Alabama and Mississippi in 1863. |
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A
review of Beverly
Ellen Schoonmaker Alreld’s Pickles
to Relish ($24.95) appeared in the "Picks of the
Month" section at www.bookviews.com. |
Louisiana Road Trips magazine will be interviewing Milburn Calhoun, president and publisher of Pelican, for his work as editor of Louisiana Almanac: 2008-2009 Edition ($26.00). Calhoun, a retired physician, is a publisher, bookseller, and bibliophile in New Orleans. |
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The MacGregor Family Adventure Series, by Richard Trout: "Wow! What a ride! The MacGregor Family Adventure Series has a little of everything my students look for in a novel: adventure, suspense, romance, and humor." —Cindy Bryant, language arts teacher, Rector Johnson
Middle School (Broken Bow, OK) "Mr. Trout’s series is fast paced and really grabs the reader’s attention and holds it all the way through the book. . . . It is wonderful to watch the students make the connections as they read. Our school library can not keep Mr. Trout’s books on the shelves!" —Kimberly Hopper, seventh-grade English teacher, MacArthur Middle School (Lawton, OK) | |
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"This recent book is a terrific full-color research guide to the enormous variety of fishes available in the Gulf." —Doc Kirby, (AL) WTBF AM-FM |
Cooking
with the Uglesiches ($24.95), by John Uglesich: "Cooking with the Uglesiches will be treasured by anyone who has dined at the restaurant, as well as those who have heard about the restaurant but were never fortunate enough to have dined with Mr. Tony and Ms. Gail." —SirReadaLot.org |
($15.95), by Jan Day and illustrated by Janeen Mason: "Cow hunter heritage is wildly celebrated in an original and rollicking tall tale." —Family Forum Magazine |
"The jarring and subtle moments compiled in Louisiana in Words elegantly juxtaposes the threads and fishing line and sinews that entwine the people of Louisiana. The collection encourages us to wonder about places we’ve never ventured to not so very far from home." —Gambit Weekly |
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"An impressively compelling and highly recommended visual journal chronicling an artist’s experience exploring and capturing the hurricane’s devastation on a beloved American city." —Midwest Book Review | |
Angler’s
Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
in Words
Painting
Katrina|
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BELLE TOWNSEND, author of Grady’s in the Silo ($15.95) July 17 (Thurs.), 2:00 pm: Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, OK 73034; children’s program |
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RICHARD
TROUT, author of the MacGregor Family Adventure Series July 25 (Fri.), 5:00-8:00 pm: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2201
South I-35 East, Denton, TX 76205 |
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LARRY
YADON, co-author of 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939 ($16.95 pb) July 1 (Tues.), 11:00-2:00 pm: Fort Smith NHS Eastern National, 701 Parker Ave., Ft. Smith, AR 72902 |
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ROBERT
COLLINS, author of General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory ($23.00) and Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan ($29.95) July 12 (Sat.), 2:00 pm: Museum of World Treasures, Wichita, KS |
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JOHNETTE
DOWNING, author of Down in Louisiana ($15.95) and Today Is Monday in Louisiana ($15.95) July 1 (Tues.), 10:00 am & 3:00 pm: Ouachita Parish Library,
West Monroe and Main Branch-Monroe, LA |
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CHUCK
GALEY, illustrator of Santasaurus ($15.95), Rock ’n’ Roll Dogs ($15.95), Jazz Cats ($15.95), My Brother Dan’s Delicious ($15.95), Jay and the Bounty of Books ($15.95), The Fat Stock Stampede at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ($15.95), and The Cotton Candy Catastrophe at the Texas State Fair ($15.95)
July 22 (Tues.), 3:00 pm: Lexington Public Library, Lexington, MS; Buggy for Books Summer Library Program |
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