September

2008

Noteworthy Events   Pelican in Pages   Quotes from Media   Author Appearances

Note from the Publisher

Your publisher has just returned from a short visit to St. Petersburg, Russia. We had an excellent private guide who answered all of my questions frankly, except one. "What about Solzhenitsyn?" I asked. She was noncommittal. Two weeks after the question, he was dead.
           My heroes are those who stand up for the freedom and liberty of the individual. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a giant among these. Gulag Archipelago, his great work, unmasked the soulless Soviet Marxist system and left its apologists in the Western world no place to hide. Noam Chomsky, call your office; maybe Lillian Hellman is there.
          In the beginning, Solzhenitsyn said, "No one can bar the truth and to advance its cause I am willing to die." Even when his helper was tortured and killed, he remained faithful to his message. He was "sure that Gulag Archipelago was destined to change the course of history," and it did as Soviet Marxism began its slow and steady slide to oblivion.
          After five of Pelican’s books were censored at the 1979 Moscow book fair, your publisher wrote "An Open Letter to a Soviet Citizen" as the foreword for Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1980 Edition. In it, I predicted the eventual demise of the Soviet Union and its breakup into all the free republics. Voice of America beamed my interview to the Soviet Union for a week.
          George Kennan, former ambassador to Russia, said that Gulag was the "greatest single and most powerful indictment of a political regime." A German newspaper at the time said, "The time may come when we date the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet system from the appearance of Gulag. It has been so and it is so. The Calf butted down the Oak. Long live the Calf!"

Noteworthy Events

Phil Sandusky, author of the recently released Jacksonville Through a Painter’s Eyes ($19.95), has an art exhibition beginning September 10, at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL. The exhibit will stay open until October 5. Thirty to forty of Sandusky’s plein-air paintings will be displayed in a three-thousand-square-foot gallery overlooking the St. Johns River. Sandusky is also the author of New Orleans en Plein Air ($35.00) and Painting Katrina ($19.95), both published by Pelican.

Harold Baumgarten, author of D-Day Survivor: An Autobiography ($25.00), will lecture in Normandy on a tour with the Civil War Education Association. He will serve as a coleader of the September 2008 Normandy Campaign tour, sponsored by American History Forums. A rifleman in Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Baumgarten was wounded five times on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion.

 

On Tuesday, September 16, Jude Theriot will be teaching a culinary class on Cajun poultry dishes at McNeese State University from 6:00 to 8:30 pm. Theriot will also teach a series of Leisure classes this fall at MSU, featuring recipes from his book, The 100 Greatest Cajun Recipes ($14.95 pb).

John Rose, political cartoonist and contributor to the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2008 Edition ($14.95 pb), The Race for the 2008 Republican Nomination: A Book of Editorial Cartoons ($16.95 pb), and The Race for the 2008 Democratic Nomination: A Book of Editorial Cartoons ($16.95 pb), will be speaking at the Lions Club 24-F Fall Conference on September 5, in Bristol, VA. The Bristol Holiday Inn Conference Center will be holding a one-evening-only art exhibit entitled "The Bodacious Art of John Rose," beginning at 7:00 pm.

At 7:30 p.m., Rose will speak about his cartooning career, show examples of his work, and explain to the audience how he draws some of the characters from his popular King Features’ Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip. He will also draw characters from his children’s cartoon/activity feature, Kids’ Home Newspaper. Kids’ Home Newspaper has been published in three different activity-book collections by Pelican Publishing, Fun With Pup! ($6.95 pb), More Fun With Pup! ($6.95 pb), and Christmas Fun With Pup ($6.95 pb). He will be signing books after the presentation. The entire event is open to the public.

 

Earl J. Higgins, author of The Joy of Y’at Catholicism ($14.95 pb), will give a presentation, discussion, and book signing for the meeting of the Entre Nous Book Club at the Metairie Country Club in Metairie, LA, on September 26.

Although summer is notorious for leisure time, a group of teenagers in Yukon, OK, caught up on some important state history. Members of their local library group, the students created a book truck (or library cart) project featuring Grady’s in the Silo ($15.95), by Una Belle Townsend. Townsend’s second children’s book, Racecar Driver’s Night Before Christmas ($15.95), has recently been released.

Foreign Rights

 

Russian language rights of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History ($14.95 pb) and  
A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations  
($17.95 pb), 
by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, were sold to the Azbooka Publishing House in St. Petersburg.

 

 

German rights of Bill Little’s Self-Destruction Made Easy ($14.95 pb) 
were sold to Verlag Hans Huber Publishing House.

Pelican in Pages

 

A review of Stern’s Guide to the Cruise Vacation: 2009 Edition ($26.00), 
by Steven B. Stern will appear in the fall issue of the 
San Francisco Literary Society’s publication SF Weekly.

 

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2008 Edition ($14.95) 
by Charles Brooks will be reviewed in the September/October issue 
of Skipping Stones Magazine.

 

Dale Curry’s New Orleans Home Cooking ($19.95) 
will be reviewed in the September 4 issue 
of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Praise for Pelican Titles

Mustard Seed Market &Café Natural Foods Cookbook 
($29.95) 
by Bev Shaffer

"We all know that we don’t eat as well as we should. We eat out way too often, eat too many refined sugars, and say yes to our kids’ choices when we should be saying no. This cookbook is a great way to start digging ourselves out of that food rut. It is the perfect addition to a busy lifestyle, and allows the flexibility modern families crave in the kitchen."

––Ohioana Quarterly

200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen: 1835-1935 
($16.95 pb), 
by Laurence J. Yadon and Dan Anderson

"Takes readers back to the untamed West when the pistol, the rifle, and the rope provided justice and only the hand-me-down stories divided the lawmen from the lawless."

––ForeWord Magazine

F Is for Firefighting
($15.95),  
by Dori Hillestad Butler

"A good choice for younger students searching for facts, not fire-station stories."

—School Library Journal

 

The Berlin Airlift
($24.95)
By Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell

Sutherland and Canwell do an excellent job in telling intricacies and maneuverings of such massive operation. . . If you have an interest in amazing, real life adventures get a copy of The Berlin Airlift.

—Mexia Daily News

Author Appearances

David Davis, author of Texas Aesop’s Fables ($15.95)

Sept. 27 (Sat.), 1:00 pm: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1612 S. University Dr. # 401, Fort Worth, TX 76107; 
book signing

Johnette Downing, author of My Aunt Came Back from Louisiane  ($15.95)

Sept. 13 (Sat.), 11:00 am-12:30 pm: Maple Street Children’s Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., New Orleans, LA 70118; 
book signing

Rickey Pittman, author of Scottish Alphabet ($15.95)

Sept. 27 (Sat.), 2:00 pm: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2601 Preston Rd., Unit 1204, Frisco, TX 75034-9472; 
book signing

Ann B. Dobie, author of Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter ($15.95 pb)

Sept. 6 (Sat.), 2:00-4:00 pm: Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, LA 70002; 
book signing

Sept. 19 (Sat.), 2:00-4:00 pm: Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., New Orleans, LA 70118; 
book signing

Michelle Mahl Buuck, author of The St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina ($18.95)

Sept. 19 (Fri.) 2:00-4:00 pm: Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, LA 70002; 
book signing

Dale Curry, author of New Orleans Home Cooking ($19.95)

Sept. 6 (Sat.), 2:00-4:00 pm: Southern Food and Beverage Museum, 1 Poydras Street #169, New Orleans, LA 70130; book signing

Sept. 13 (Sat.), 1:00-2:30 pm, Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., New Orleans, LA 70118; 
book signing

Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker, editors of Christmas Stories from the South’s Best Writers ($15.95)

Sept. 24 (Wed.), 5:00-7:00 pm: Lemuria Books, 202 Banner Hall, 4465 I-55 N, Jackson, MS 39206; 
book signing

Jan Peck, author of Pirate Treasure Hunt! ($15.95)

Sept. 19 (Fri.), 10:30 am: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Southlake Town Square, 1430 Plaza Place, Southlake, TX 76092; Talk Like a Pirate Day storytime and signing

Sept. 20 (Sat.), 1:00 pm: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3881 S. Cooper St. #2027, Arlington, TX 76015; book signing

Barbara Hallman Kissinger, author of Mother Goose of Yesteryear ($19.95)

Sept. 14 (Sun.), 1:00-3:00 pm: The Iowa Store, 400 Front Street, Burlington, IA 52601; book signing

Sept. 20 (Sat.), 11:00 am-2:00 pm: B. Dalton Booksellers, Westland Mall, 550 S. Gear Ave. #37, West Burlington, IA 52655; book signing

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