November 2010
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PNBA 2011 Book Awards Shortlist
The shortlist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s2011 Book Awards, selected by PNBA bookseller members, includes three HMH titles:
The Clearing by Heather Davis
In this bittersweet romance, two teens living decades apart form a bond that will change their lives forever. Amy is drawn to the misty, mysterious clearing behind her Aunt Mae’s place because it looks like...
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The Collected Novels Of José Saramago
Introduction by Ursula Leguin Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Giovanni Pontiero
This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin. From Saramago’s early work like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel...
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Now Hiring
Our Digital Strategies division has two job openings:
Assistant, Digital Initiatives
This position provides an opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the business of e-publishing, including eBooks and apps, while working closely with internal departments such as sales, marketing, publicity, managing editorial, and editorial. Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing, the Associate...
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Read an excerpt from WHITETAIL NATION: "The Bear"
Out now wherever books and ebooks are sold
I studied the bear of a man sitting across the dining room table at David’s on the morning of opening day. He sat with his massive head down, methodical and self-absorbed, eating his pancakes.
This was Rex. Rex was my enemy.
Rex, a slow-moving, bearded man who looked to be somewhere between forty and seventy years of age, had come to the ranch on...
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The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago - yours for... →
Our Saramago omnibus ebook will be available November 29, 2010.
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Rainy day recommendations
We have some publishing-centric recommendations on this lovely Tumblr Tuesday!
Our top 5 publisher blogs - we love to see what you guys have to share every day:
Vintage & Anchor http://vintageanchor.tumblr.com/
Scribner http://scribnerbooks.tumblr.com/
Double Day http://doubledaybooks.tumblr.com/
Bloomsbury (USA) http://bloomsburyusa.tumblr.com/
W. W. Norton...
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Whitetail Nation excerpt
Whitetail Nation: My Season in Pursuit of the Monster Buck
By Pete Bodo
9780618969968 $25.00 11/15/2010 Hardcover E-book
When I turned the significant corner of fifty years, a sense of urgency began to work at me. I’d hunted as steadily as I could, for a man with a job, a family, and some sense of responsibility to both, for more than a quarter of a century. It was unlikely that I could...
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Essential books from the last 25 years →
Two HMH titles made the shortlist of FlavorWire’s essential contemporary books, 1985-2010: THE GIVER by Lois Lowry, and EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran-Foer.
“Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life...”
– Michel Houellebecq (from The Elementary Particles), whose heart today was perhaps not broken. He just won the Prix Goncourt.
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Yum! →
This sweet review of GOURMET COOKIE is just to our liking. Courtesy of The Atlantic.
Feeling Clever?
My esteemed colleague at Some People Like Poetry is running a giveaway for those willing to test their skills in a game of wits. Former poet laureate Richard Wilbur has devised a series of poetic riddles for us to share in anticipation of his new poetry collection’s debut (Anterooms, available wherever books and ebooks are sold on 11/12/10.) Try your luck:
“I was once water, and...
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Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick: an excerpt
For sale today wherever books and ebooks are sold
July 23, 1952 Dear Marvin, Well, I’m back. London was all right, Paris was terrible, and I never made it down to Rome. They say it’s the hottest summer they’ve had since before the war. And except for the weather, I’m afraid there’s not much else to report. The address you gave me—Julian left there about a week ago. It seems I just missed ...
