August White Box Offers Hot Stuff for the Fall Season

August may hold the slow-moving, humidity-filled "dog days" of summer, but the August white box offers fast-paced reading along with some great point-of-purchase sales aids guaranteed to step-up the pace in preparation for all of those new fall titles.

Here are some of the highlights.

Galleys, ARCs, and finished books:

• From proven favorite Diane Johnson, after Le Marriage and Le Divorce, comes L'Affaire to be published by Dutton.
  
• Counterpoint offers two very different titles, each with its own intensity:
  

  Tibor Fischer's latest, Voyage to the End of the Room; and
  from acclaimed author Evan Connell, Francisco Goya: A Life.

• R.A. Salvatore returns with The Lone Drow: The Hunters Blades Trilogy, Book II, to be published by Wizards of the Coast.
  
• Putnam will be guilty of keeping you up all night with the strong debut of Retribution by Jillianne Hoffman.
  
• Laugh and weep and learn to play the ukelele with main character Richard Samuels as he recounts a momentous week in Me and Orson Welles by Robert Kaplow, coming from MacAdam/Cage.
  

Posters, easel backs, excerpt booklets, catalogs, postcards, etc. from:
Sasquatch Books, Nomad Press, Toby Press, Continuum, Akashic Books, Elysian Editions, Fulcrum, Dorling Kindersley (DK), Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, Wiley, Other Press, Yorkville Press, Plume, Penguin Young Readers Group, Clarion (Houghton Mifflin), Harcourt, and Hyperion Books for Young Readers.

In the folder -- one-sheets, brochures, newsletters, shelf-talkers, order forms, and more from:
Portable Press, Sorin Books, Harcourt, St. Martin's, Diamond Book Distributors, Perennial, Arcade, Houghton Mifflin Children's Books, Fulcrum, HarperCollins, and Charlesbridge.

PLUS!
Book Sense 76 Top Ten pads for Science Fiction/Fantasy and Small Press titles; information from ABFFE on Banned Books Week and "In Case of First Amendment Emergency"; news about ABA's presence and educational opportunities at the upcoming Fall Regional Shows; the latest Hardcover History bookmark (please let us know if you need additional easel backs for this program); and a reminder about the Bacardi Reading Group promotion.

A really cool package to keep you entertained, enthused, and excited, thanks to our ever-generous Publisher Partners. Until next month …

Cheers,
Mark
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(914) 591-2665,ext. 1240