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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter

Backbeat Books
288 pages
$19.99


”I’m eternally grateful to professional songwriters, the unsung heroes of many giant careers. Shelly Peiken provides fascinating insight into this least understood profession to the thorough delight of the reader.”

— Clive Davis

Confessions of a Serial Songwriter

Suffer Love

HMH Books for Young Readers
352 pages
$17.99


“Debut author Blake puts the teens in a near-impossible situation, adeptly showing how Sam and Hadley can be more adult in handling the complications of romance than all four of their parents . . . Readers will be left thinking about the ways love can both hurt and heal.”

—Publishers Weekly

Suffer Love

Anatomy of a Schism

Univ Tennessee Press
212 pages
$34.95


“Eileen Campbell-Reed has taken a fascinating denominational schism and rendered it in a new and plausible way…”

—Barry Hankins, author of Baptists in America: A History

Anatomy of a Schism

Feeding Wild Birds in America

Texas A&M University Press
320 pages
$27.95


“Feeding Wild Birds in America is a fine cross cultural narrative, an intersection of natural history, conservation, curiosity, and even entrepreneurship; A noble work.”

–Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University

Feeding Wild Birds in America

Streetcar Advertising in America

Fonthill Media
160 pages
$53.95


“A fascinating book which provided and insight into the emergence of modern America in the early part of the 20th century, as much as anything else… Color reproduction in the book is to an excellent standard and quite rightly so because its the adverts themselves that tell their own story.”

–Coach and Bus Week

Streetcar Advertising in America

The Drake Equation

Disney-Hyperion
320 pages
$16.99


“An entertaining and imaginative tale that’s perfect for the8 to 12 age range…Kids will love the wild and crazy adventures…Teachers will appreciate the tie-ins to English and science, used in such an ingenious way, kids won’t realize they’re learning!”

–Joanne Fritz, “My Brain on Books”

The Drake Equation

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