Back in Print and Updated—Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009

by PhoD on July 1, 2009

in Announcements, Breaking News, Flash, Sell Sheets

Just Announced from Grand Central Publishing:
Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story 1958-2009

Michael Jackson The Madness The Magic The Whole Story
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NEW YORK, NY – Tuesday, June 30, 2009 – Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced today the acquisition of J. Randy Taraborrelli’s long out-of-print biography on Michael Jackson, considered to be the definitive chronicle of the turbulent life of the “King of Pop,” who died suddenly at age 50 in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 25. MICHAEL JACKSON: THE MAGIC, THE MADNESS, THE WHOLE STORY, 1958-2009 which has not been available in the United States for over a decade, has been fully updated throughout to reflect Taraborrelli’s extensive continuous research since the original — and now totally out-of-date — publication in 1990. The new book will also include information from the past five years of the singer’s life including the most recent developments surrounding his death and the aftermath. It will be released as a hardcover in July 2009.

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Releasing in JULY  2009
Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story 1958-2009
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Format: Hardcover
$18.99, 9780446564748
Carton Quantity: 10
Pub Date: August 5th, 2009
Release Date: July 15th, 2009
Rights: OPEN MARKET excluding Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore & Israel

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Coming AUGUST ‘09: LIFE and PEOPLE Remember Michael Jackson

by PhoD on June 30, 2009

in Announcements, Breaking News, Crash & Add-On Titles, Illustrated Books, Sell Sheets

Time Inc Home Entertainment has announced two new LIFE and PEOPLE titles to commemorate the extraordinary life of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop.

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People Tribute: Remembering Michael 1958-2009
From the Editors of People Magazine
Formerly titled “Thriller: Remembering Michael Jackson
NOW UPDATED WITH FINAL COVER & TITLE
Packed with unforgettable photographs and archival reporting, People’s special tribute to the late pop star looks back at a life like no other. From his impoverished upbringing in Gary, Indiana, to child stardom, to the unprecedented global success of Off the Wall and Thriller, to ground-breaking videos, his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, and the well-publicized dramas of his later years, THRILLER: REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON, tells the King of Pop’s story as only People, America’s diary of popular culture, can tell it.

COMING IN AUGUST 2009!
Format: Trade Hardcover
Trim: 8” x 10-7/8”
Pages: 96
$19.95, 978-1-60320-131-5
Carton Quantity: 20
Pub Date: August 11th, 2009
Release date: July 22nd, 2009

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LIFE Commemorative: Remembering Michael Jackson
From the Editors of LIFE Magazine
Final Cover to Come
His talent was spectacular, electric. He was a thriller beyond compare. And he left us too soon. LIFE was there to capture the excitement that was Michael Jackson, from his earliest days when the magazine’s John Olson visited the Jackson 5 to the adult years when Jackson invited Harry Benson to tour Neverland for LIFE. This book is an intimate portrait of the artist and the chronicle of an extraordinary American life. There was never a performer quite like Michael Jackson, and in the pages of this special commemorative book a singular superstar is captured in full.

COMING IN AUGUST 2009!
Format: Trade Hardcover
Trim: 8 1/2” x 10-7/8”
Pages: 80
$19.95, 978-1-60320-130-8
Carton Quantity: 20
Pub Date: August 18th, 2009
Release Date: July 29th, 2009

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ADD-ON TITLE—HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT EVER AGAIN: Over 1000 Ways to Dress Thinner—Without Dieting!

by PhoD on June 16, 2009

in Breaking News, Crash & Add-On Titles, Flash, Sell Sheets

How Not to Look Fat Sell SheetHOW NOT TO LOOK FAT EVER AGAIN: Over 1000 Ways to Dress Thinner—Without Dieting!
Charla Krupp
Every woman thinks she looks fat at one time or another—or maybe all the time. And most of the time, clothes are the culprit! Now, in her latest book, the renowned style editor and the bestselling author of How Not to Look Old offers a master class on dressing to hide the fat and bulges to help women look thinner by tonight. Krupp will share secrets on how they can hide problems like arm flab, muffin top, back fat, and thunder thighs (and these are just a few of the issues she addresses). There are lists of “The top 10 things that make you look fat” for each body problem, “Swap-outs” so you learn which fashion pieces to replace and which to keep, “Brilliant Buy” suggestions, and “High-Fat” and “No-Fat” photos of women who’ve followed her advice so you can see the difference a color, cut, or fabric can make. This is the book that will help the millions of women who’ve ever asked, “Does this make me look fat?”
SELL SHEET.


HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT EVER AGAIN
HARDCOVER
MARCH 2010
$26.99, 978-0-446-54747-5
Health & Fitness
Springboard
Per carton: 10
Rights: World
Release: 2/17/10
Pub: 3/10/10

CHARLA KRUPP’S previous title is now available in Trade Paperback!
How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better
TRADE PAPERBACK
$15.99, 978-0-446-69997-6
Beauty
Springboard
Per carton: 20
Rights: World

CHARLA KRUPP’S How Not to Look Old (978-0-446-58114-1, 1/08) was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller. It was on the New York Times Hardcover How-to/Advice bestseller list for 15 weeks and has sold over 245,000 hardcover and trade paperback copies combined.

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Take a Look at our Updated Backlist Page!

by PhoD on June 12, 2009

in Announcements, Backlist, Breaking News, Order Forms

Looking for more information about our backlist titles? Our Backlist page is now updated with the latest information, PDFs, and order forms regarding the Fall 2009—Winter 2010 season. This includes our international Best of the Backlist section taken from our Fall 2009 – Winter 2010 International Presenter, the 2009 Complete Backlist of all HBG and distributon titles, special order forms highlighting our Business and Young Adult titles, plus information about Kensington Publishing and much more. You can check it out here.

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Illustrated & Gift Titles for Fall 2009/Winter 2010

by Tony Lutkus on June 9, 2009

in Breaking News, Illustrated Books, Order Forms

We have a great line-up of illustrated and gift books for the 2009 holidays from Little, Brown, Time Inc Home Entertainment, Fillipacchi, Time Inc Home Entertainment, Center Street and Grand Central. Here, we’ll collect them all together in one place.  We’ll include sample pages as they become available.   Browse the online illustrated packets immediately below, or scroll down to review the titles individually.  And our excel order form is available here.

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INGLOURIUS BASTERDS Movie Opening In August

by MillerE on June 30, 2009

in Media Tie-In, Sell Sheets

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Don’t forget Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds opens in August.

Coming to theatres starting August 2009. From the genius and clever writer, director, and cult hero Quentin Tarantino comes the already buzzed about screenplay, Inglourious Basterds, to coincide with the major August film release from The Weinstein Company starring Brad Pitt. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an illiterate hillbilly who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis.

Inglourious Basterds: A Screenplay, Quentin Tarantino; PB, $13.99, 9780316070355
Film; Little, Brown; Open Market; US Pub: 7/22/09; US Release: 6/24/09
Click here for additional release dates from IMBD.
Click here for additional information from IMBD.
Click here for the official movie site.

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Download Sample Pages for MRS. O!

by PhoD on June 25, 2009

in Breaking News, Illustrated Books

Mrs O

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Mrs. O: The Face of Fashion Democracy
Mary Tomer

Celebrated for her style and substance, Michelle Obama has transformed the role of First Lady and become a 21st century icon, attracting attention from all over the world. The qualities so admired in her—intelligence, boldness and charisma— radiate through her personal style, which has united accessibility with high wattage glamour. The clothes, like the woman, feel both familiar and inspirational. Readily mixing high-end labels with mass-market brands, with her focus always on craftsmanship and artistry, Mrs. O. has elevated the notion of real value and ushered in a new era of ‘fashion democracy’.

MRS. O takes a closer look at America’s modern style icon, featuring more than 300 magnificent photographs of the First Lady and delving into the back story of the clothes and accessories that are ushering in a new era. It includes fifteen interviews with her favorite designers from Isabel Toledo and Jason Wu to Michael Kors, Maria Pinto and Isaac Mizrahi.

OCTOBER 2009
Mrs. O: The Face of Fashion Democracy
Mary Tomer
HARDCOVER
$25.99, 9781599952581
Fashion
Center St
World
Pub Date: October 28th, 2009
Release Date:October 7th, 2009

MARY TOMER is the Founder and Contributing Editor of Mrs-O.org, the popular website that chronicles and celebrates First Lady Michelle Obama’s style. She has appeared on the Today Show, Access Hollywood and other media as an authority on the First Lady’s style.

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Praise for EVENING’S EMPIRE

by PhoD on June 24, 2009

in Reviews

Novelist Christopher Sorrentino has offered the following comment about Zachary Lazar’s Evening’s Empire:

 

“Zachary Lazar has written a gripping book of unexpected beauty.  In Evening’s Empire, he remorselessly examines the ambiguous nature of both the shady deal and the good life.  His analytic impulses soar with breathtaking imaginative leaps.”

–Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction

NOVEMBER 2009
Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder
by Zachary Lazar
HARDCOVER
$24.99, 9780316037686
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Little, Brown
Open Market
Pub Date: November 8th, 2009
Release Date:  October 20th, 2009
In Cold Blood meets James Ellroy’s My Dark Places in Zach Lazar’s startling nonfiction account of his own father’s murder.

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RATHER DIE FIGHTING—Now Moved to NOV ‘09

by PhoD on June 24, 2009

in Breaking News

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Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II
by Frank Blaichman

Originally scheduled to publish in June 2009, RATHER DIE FIGHTING will now be published in November 2009—a powerful and inspiring memoir of a man who defied the Nazis—and lived to tell the tale.

Frank Blaichman was 16 when Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. The oldest of seven children, he escaped to a forest where he became platoon commander of a unique, all-Jewish resistance unit that wreaked havoc on the Nazi war machine.

“Frank Blaichman’s memoir is a gripping story of suffering, endurance, and the triumph—against massive odds—of the human spirit, which will serve as a beacon of hope for all those who wonder how good can ever triumph over evil in a troubled world.” —SIR MARTIN GILBERT

NOVEMBER 2009
Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II
by Frank Blaichman
HARDCOVER
$25, 9781559709170
Memoir/ History
Arcade
World
Pub Date: November 11th, 2009
Release Date:  October 21st, 2009

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NEW MOON MEDIA TIE-IN Trade Paperback Cover REVEALED!

by PhoD on June 23, 2009

in Twilight Saga, Young Adult

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New Moon (Media tie-in), Stephenie Meyer
PB, $10.99,  9780316075633
YA Fiction
Little, Brown
Open Market, Excluding Europe, Exclusive Asia
Click here to read the announcement on EW.com!

More information about the NEW MOON publishing program
More information on the New Moon film on IMDB.com
Complete Twilight Saga backlist

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BLOOD OF ELVES wins Gemmell Prize!

by PhoD on June 23, 2009

in Book Awards & Prizes, Breaking News

Blood of Elves has won this year’s Gemmell Prize for Fantasy, establishing its international appeal. The Guardian reports: “Over 10,000 fans from 75 countries voted in the prize, with Sapkowski eventually emerging triumphant from a shortlist of five authors…Our winning author is already a huge star in Europe and winning the award will hopefully ensure new readers experience his work in the excellent English translation from Gollancz,” said Deborah J Miller, award administrator and author of the Last Clansman and Swarmthief series.”

Read the full review here.

AVAILABLE NOW IN MASS MARKET!

Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
MM, $7.99,  9780316029193
Fantasy
Orbit
Open Market, Excluding Europe, Exclusive Asia

Sequel to The Last Wish. Humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves once again fight amongst themselves—and each other. Into this tumultuous time a child with strange powers is born.  Prophesy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world—for good, or for evil.

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THE SECRET SPEECH in New York Times Book Review

by PhoD on June 22, 2009

in Breaking News, International Editions

In the most recent New York Times Book Review, bestselling author Dennis Lehane reviews Tom Rob Smith’s THE SECRET SPEECH. Lehane writes “in Smith’s hands [the] scenes attain a pulse of exhilaration worthy of Dickens by way of Conrad…a broadening of moral scope and thematic richness…rendered with passionate and indelible precision.”

Read the complete review here.

Also, the Up Front section of the New York Times Book Review highlights Dennis Lehane’s process:

“When you look at what Tom Rob Smith has been investigating in his first two novels, strictly on a sociopolitical level, you find all sorts of parallels to the current global culture. If THE SECRET SPEECH were just another hoary vengeance-rises-from-the-past narrative, I couldn’t be bothered. But there’s a lot more going on there that grips us in the present tense as opposed to the past.”

NOW AVAILABLE
The Secret Speech
Tom Rob Smith
FICTION
INTERNATIONAL C-FORMAT
$16.00, 9780446551700
Grand Central
Open Market, Excluding EU, Singapore and Malaysia
Tom Rob Smith follows his stunning debut—the international bestseller Child 44—with a new riveting thriller set against the turmoil and upheaval of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. A new string of murders in Moscow threaten to bring Leo’s secret police past crashing into the present and puts his daughter’s life at risk.

More information for THE SECRET SPEECH.

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