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    <title>EventMingle.com: Current news for BookExpo America</title>
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      <title>Jumping Jack Press Introduces Pop-Up Baby Memory Book</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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PRESS RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                       CONTACT:    George White
May 30, 2008                                                                          800-852-7677, ext. 150
                                                                                                georgew@upwithpaper.com

JUMPING JACK PRESS INTRODUCES POP-UP BABY BOOK
My Baby Book To Hit Retail in July

LOS ANGELES – Jumping Jack Press, the pop-up book imprint from Up With Paper, introdu...]]></description>
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      <title>Jumping Jack Press Introduces First Everyday Pop-Up Book at BEA</title>
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PRESS RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                       CONTACT:    George White
May 30, 2008                                                                          800-852-7677, ext. 150
                                                                                                georgew@upwithpaper.com

JUMPING JACK PRESS INTRODUCES EVERYDAY POP-UP BOOK
Splish Splash, Dog Bash! Hits Retail This Month


LOS ANGELES – Jumping Jack Press, the pop-up book imprint from Up ...]]></description>
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      <title>Real Deal Media Presents Two IPPY Award-Winning Titles, plus Autographing Sessions with Slash and Eric Roberts</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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About Reckless Road: Guns N’ Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction

SilverIPPY Award Winner for Best Pop Culture Book of 2007

ByMarc Canter with Jason Porath 
Foreword by Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler
ISBN:978-0-9793418-7-8 
347 pages, Soft cover, full color
Special Autographing Session with Slash:
Friday, May 30 at 4:00 p.m. in Stall #1
"Reckless Road is the best rock-n-roll book I have ever seen. 
I am amazed that Marc turned these casual, candid photos into thi...]]></description>
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      <title>BOOK TEACHES ALL AGES, HOW TO BECOME A MODEL</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Debbie Madison
Author/Publisher
Madison Publishing Company
68895 Perez Rd. Suite 11
Cathedral City Ca. 92234
(760) 324-0103
Dibmadison@hotmail.com
www.Modeling101.net
BOOK TEACHES ALL AGES, HOW TO BECOME A MODEL

May 29, 2008- Debbie Madison’s newest book, Modeling 101 has been nominated, National Reference Manual of the Year!

At some point and time in our lives we’ve dreamed about becoming a model. Modeling 101 is a step-by-step ...]]></description>
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      <title>Social Networking and Activism in a Children’s Fantasy Story. Living Folklore Announces the Launch of Giggle Bubble Dreams, a C</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Jacob Devaney
Living Folklore, Inc.
(928) 925-3109
jacob@livingfolklore.com
www.gigglebubble.com
Social Networking and Activism in a Children’s Fantasy Story. Living Folklore Announces the Launch of Giggle Bubble Dreams, a Cross Platform Book Property and Video-Sharing Website.
Los Angeles, CA, Book Expo America, May 30, 2008-Giggle Bubble Dreams is a fantasy story illustrated by Emmy-Awarded illustrator Bret Blevins, that gives the reader an adventure ...]]></description>
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      <title>Web 2.0 Development Firm Releases Interactive Guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May
28, 2008
Media ContactBeth RansonAccolades Public RelationsBeth@AccoladesPR.com

AUSTIN,
TEXAS, May 2008 – Social Media Power, a Web 2.0 development
firm based in Austin, Texas, has released a no-nonsense interactive
guide to social media and Web 2.0 optimization. The guide, titled A
Step-by-Step Guide to Social Media Marketing and Web 2.0
Optimization, is written in an easy-to-understand manner that can
lead anyone through the social media optimizati...]]></description>
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      <title>THE INFRASTRUCTURAL CITY: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A mapping of infrastructures shaping contemporary life.
Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by
infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure
has ceased to support its urban plans, subordinating architecture
to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is
increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static
structures avoid being superfluous by joining this system as
temporary containers for people, objects, a...]]></description>
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      <title>Author Signing Events</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Audio Author Signing Events at Brilliance Audio Booth number 1867;
    Friday
        10:00 - 11:00    Robert Crais Signing Chasing Darkness
        2:00 - 3:00        Andre Dubus III Signing The Garden of Last Days
    Saturday
        10:00 - 11:00    T. Jefferson Parker Signing LA Outlaws        2:00 - 3:00        Dean Koontz Signing Odd Hours
    Sunday
        10:00 - 11:00    D.J. MacHale Signing Pendragon Book Nine: Raven Rise        1:00 - 2:00        Catherine Coulter Signing ...]]></description>
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      <title>Book Signing Alert: Join Barbara Firestone, author of Autism Heroes and CEO of The Help Group</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Jessica Kingsley Publishers will be hosting a book signing at Book Expo America for Barbara Firestone, Ph.D., founder and CEO of The Help Group. 
Dr. Firestone is the author of Autism Heroes: Portraits of Families Meeting the Challenge, winner of the 2008 IPPY Award Bronze Medal in Parenting.
The signing will take place on Saturday, May 31 between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM at the Jessica Kingsley booth (#5328).Autism Heroes is a compelling and sensitive account of the experiences of 38 families f...]]></description>
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      <title>Indiana Publishes First-Ever Bio of Billionaire Bill Cook </title>
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. –Bill Cook’s business ventures in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genetics, real estate, retail management, and travel services have made him a billionaire, yet he continues to lead a modest life, involving himself in a variety of philanthropic activities that have included historic preservation and even a marching band. The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim! is the riveting, first-ever biography of the entrepreneur who, working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington,...]]></description>
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      <title>Indiana to Feature Eclectic Group of Titles at BEA   </title>
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. –Indiana University Press will be featuring a wide variety of titles at Book Expo America 2008. A few highlights . . . The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim! isthe riveting story and first-ever biography of entrepreneur Bill Cook of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. A vivid portrait of a modern, multidimensional Horatio Alger, this informative and inspiring book celebrates an exceptional self-made individual. 
Searching for Cioran follows one writer’s quest to u...]]></description>
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      <title>AVOIDING THE ENRON EFFECT</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 20:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2008
Media Contact:
Fred Bothwell
Business Development Manager
Citius Publishing/Smarter Solutions
fred.b@SmarterSolutions.com
(512) 635-4433
 
Award-winning author
breaks new ground 
 
Forrest Breyfogle,
2004 Crosby Medalist and author of “Implementing
Six Sigma” (ISS) – recently ranked among 
the top 10 Amazon books in Engineering Statistics and Operational
Systems Quality Control – has independently published, in cooperation with Bridgeway
B...]]></description>
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      <title>POWERTHINK PUBLISHING LAUNCHES JUNE 1, 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Los Angeles, CA, May 26, 2008 – Best-selling novelist James Michael Pratt (“Last Valentine,” “Ticket Home,” “The Lighthouse Keeper,” “Paradise Bay,”) and Mark B. Kastleman, author, brain-science researcher and success trainer, have joined forces to co-found, PowerThink Publishing, LLC (www.PowerThink.com,) a personal growth company designed to meet the increasing demands of the 21st century by providing  a variety of positive, uplifting ,and inspiring products. PowerThink Publishing, LLC is...]]></description>
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      <title>A BROAD ABROAD IN IRAN, COMING SOON</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:
Dodie Cross
dodiecross@dc.rr.com
(760) 408-0379
        ````COMING SOON````

A Broad Abroad in Iran:One Strappy-Sandaled Foot
Ahead of the MullahsDuring the Revolution

 It’s
July,1977, Isfahan Iran, one year before the bloody start of the revolution,
and two years before the U.S. Embassy take-over, when expatriate, Dodie Cross, finds herself
in a strange world, somewhere between the Old Testament and the Space Age.  
Her life takes on tw...]]></description>
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      <title>A BROAD ABROAD IN THAILAND WINS FIRST PLACE</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Media
Contact:                         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Paula Krapf
paula@amarketingexpert.com
(630) 251-6138
         
A BROAD ABROAD IN THAILAND:
An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles
By Dodie Cross
 
NEWS FLASH!A Broad Abroad takes First Place
in the Memoir category, and Finalist in the Humor Category in the National
Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2008. A Broad Abroad is also named as a Finalist in the Humor
category inForeWord
Magazine’s Book of the Year Award...]]></description>
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      <title>AUTHOR BLYTHE LIPMAN SIGNED BY FINEPRINT LITERARY MANAGEMENT</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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PHOENIX, AZ—Blythe Lipman is the award winning author of HELP! MY BABY CAME WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS. The book sold out.  Blythe’s newest book,MORE…HELP! MY BABY CAME WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONSwas released April 25th.Blythe is a one-woman dynamo who is not only an expert on baby care but knows how to work with media.  In one week she was featured on ABC and NBC affiliates in Phoenix (reaching more than one million homes) and in the Tribune newspaper and the Jewish News of Phoenix.  If that were not e...]]></description>
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      <title>Meet Steve Fainaru, author of Big Boy Rules: In the Company of America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Contact: Kate Kazeniac Burke, Associate Director of Publicity
(617) 252-5216 / kate.burke@perseusbooks.com


The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting was awarded to Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post for his "heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces."

Da Capo Press will publish his book on the subject in November 2008:

Big Boy Rules
In the Company of America’s Mercenaries Fighting ...]]></description>
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      <title>Meet Margaret Leslie Davis, author of Mona Lisa in Camelot</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Contact: Kate Kazeniac Burke, Associate Director of Publicity
(617) 252-5216 / kate.burke@perseusbooks.com


Mona Lisa in Camelot
How Jackie Kennedy and Da Vinci’s Masterpiece 
Charmed and Captivated a Nation
Meet Margaret Leslie Davis
Saturday at 10am
Perseus Books Group 
Booth # 2030
In December 1962, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted.  The fragile icon traveled like a head of state, with armed ...]]></description>
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      <title>U.S.-Immigration-Explained.com announces the first DVD produced explaining U.S. Immigration to the world!</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Dallas, Texas, April 23rd, 2008  

The program was created by Stefano Riznyk, an immigration lawyer of 18 years. Mr. Riznyk gained first hand knowledge of the problems and concerns of people going through the immigration process when conducting seminars on immigration on the international circuit. With offices in London, England as well as the United States, he has assisted clients in 54 countries in every aspect related to immigration law. This comprehensive 4.5 hour DVD is the result of...]]></description>
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      <title>Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw--Autographing</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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Kate Kazeniac Burke at 617.252.5216 or kate.burke@perseusbooks.com

From the author of the New York Times Best-selling books
THE BEDFORD BOYS and THE LONGEST WINTER


The True Story of the Submarine Crew Trapped 180 Feet Underwater…
and the Nine Men Who Survived

Escape from the Deep

Alex Kershaw
Friday
12-12:30PM
Autographing Area
Table 11
“Alex Kershaw has done it again as he brings to life World War II’s greatest submarine adventure.” 
–James Bradley, author of Flags of...]]></description>
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      <title>PublicAffairs presents: Obscene in the Extreme: Why Books Still Get Banned</title>
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PublicAffairs presents 

Obscene in the Extreme: Why Books Still Get Banned: 
The electrifying national bestseller The Grapes of Wrath was burned and banned in 1939 in Kern County, California—the Joads' newfound home. "If that book is banned today," asked the local librarian, "what book will be banned tomorrow?" Today, about 500 books are formally challenged each year.  Why are we still so afraid of the free exchange of ideas? Does government have a legitimate interest in monitoring the ...]]></description>
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      <title>New Trends in Technology Makes Teen Author’s Career Easier to Launch and Market </title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 04:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Many teens do not like to be challenged by their parents to do anything.  But one teen took her mother’s challenge to use her love of reading to write her own novel to heart.  As a result, 19-year-old author Shalayne Alexandria has now created a book series, launched an interactive website and uses mobile technology to deliver free ebooks every week to her readers.  

Bypassing traditional publishing routes, Shalayne convinced her mother to publish her first book an...]]></description>
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      <title>Phil Yeh, Godfather of the American Graphic Novel Paints a Mural at BEA</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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PRESS RELEASE; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact Linda Adams: 909-925-7337

PHIL YEH, GODFATHER OF THE AMERICAN GRAPHIC NOVEL, TEAMS UP WITH SIMPSONS' CARTOONIST PHIL ORTIZ TO PAINT A MURAL 
AT BOOKEXPOAMERICA IN LOS ANGELES ON MAY 30-JUNE 1, 2008;
YEH OPENS NEW ART SHOW ON MAY 31 IN LONG BEACH GALLERY

            Phil Yeh, often called the Godfather of the modern American Graphic Novel, will paint a new mural promoting literacy and the arts at the annual BookExpoAmerica trade show in...]]></description>
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      <title>Featured Books from Finney Company at BookExpo America 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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News Release:                                                                          Finney Company to Attend BookExpo America in Los Angeles, CA
For Additional Information Contact:
Ann Prescott
Marketing Manager
(952) 469-6699
                craftbooks@finneyco.com

For immediate release:
Lakeville, MN— On May 28–June 1, 2008, Finney Company will attend BookExpo America (BEA) in Los Angeles, California, as an exhibitor for the second year in a row. The event, which will be held ...]]></description>
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      <title>SOFTPLAY CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY WITH INNOVATIVE CHILD DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTS AT BEA 2008</title>
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CHICAGO, IL—(May 20, 2008)—SoftPlay, Inc. will debut new learning toys at the Book Expo of
America.  Each product SoftPlay offers is
designed to emphasize classic play patterns and early language
development.  By keeping these important
focuses at the core of everything they do, SoftPlay helps children ages birth
to age five learn, explore and discover as they play.
SoftPlay
works in partnership with noted child development expert, Dr. Carol Andrew. Dr.
Andrew’s research on child de...]]></description>
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