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Breakthrough ‘Boys: The Story of the 1972 Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys

By Jaime Aron

Format: Hardcover, 304 Pages

ISBN: 9780760340394

Publisher: MVP Books

This Friday Fox Sports Southwest will broadcast a TV special, "Breakthrough 'Boys - Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the 1971 Cowboys Super Bowl Winning Team," which is based on and shot at last year’s team reunion and book event in Dallas. This will air starting at approximately 11:00 p.m. (right after the basketball game).

Making Artisan Pasta

The Official Cooking Light announcement for the "Top 100 Cookbooks of the Last 25 Years" which includes Making Artisan Pasta will be appearing in the magazine and online on Feb 1, 2013.

Making Artisan Pasta, by Aliza Green, 9781592537327, $24.99, Quarry

Our pubs take some ALA awards!

The ALA's Youth Media Awards were just announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, and we're proud to congratulate Candlewick and Abrams on:

The Big Winner: This year's Randolph Caldecott Medal is Candlewick Press's THIS IS NOT MY HAT!!! 

Candlewick's Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover was named an Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. 

A favorite of ours won a Stonewall Honor Book:  Lesléa Newman's October Mourning, also from Candlewick.

Congratulations to Abrams Publishing for winning an ALEX Award for their title My Friend Dahmer.  
 
 

Flora and Ulysses in USA Today

USA is giving readers an exclusive peek at Kate DiCamillo's upcoming book (Sept):

Flora and Ulysses. There's a Q&A and a first chapter excerpt.  You can read it here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/01/23/kate-dicamillo-flora-and-ulysses-reveal/1859307/

Maggot Moon - by Sally Gardner

Candlewick is hot on this upcoming title: 

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner. Candlewick, $16.99 Feb. ISBN 978-0-7636-6553-1

There's a great Q&A with the author on the Publishers Weekly site:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/55503-q-a-with-sally-gardner.html

 

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Wednesday's Maximum Shelf was all about an upcoming Candlewick title:  Timmy Failure:  Mistakes Were Made, by Stephen Pastis.  Call us to talk about ordering the display...we're expecting great things!

To see the book trailer: click here.

Visit the Timmy Failure website.

Take eleven-year-old Timmy Failure—the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of a budding investigative empire. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total. Of course, his plan does not include the four-foot-tall female whose name shall not be uttered. And it doesn’t include Rollo Tookus, who is so obsessed with getting into "Stanfurd" that he can't carry out a no-brain spy mission. Or Molly Moskins, who smells like a tangerine and is crazy about Timmy, making her his obvious (and only) prime suspect. 

The Boy Kings of Texas gets National Book Award Nomination

Finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were named this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe program by David Steinberger, chairman of the National Book Foundation's board of directors. Winners will be announced November 14 in New York City.

The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir, by Domingo Martinez, Lyons Press, 978-0-7627-7919-2, was nominated in the Non-Fiction category.  Congratulations!

A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.