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 We are delighted to share that these titles published and/or distributed by Blair have been named as finalists by ForeWord Reviews for their 2011 Book of the Year Awards.
Foreword's Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review journal devoted exclusively to covering books from independent houses—ranging in size from university presses publishing up to a hundred titles a year to niche, POD, and small presses who may publish one title in a lifetime.
Winners will be announced Saturday, June 23 at the American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, CA.
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I've Had It Up to Here with Teenagers author interviewed March 29 on Birmingham's ABC affiliate's Talk of Alabama program.
 Accolades keep rolling in for Edith Pearlman!
On Thursday, March 8, at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the National Book Critic Circle presented its awards for publishing year 2011. The prize in fiction went to Edith Pearlman for Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout Books), a collection of 34 Chekhov-like short stories that was also nominated for the National Book Award. The publication is the first from Lookout Books and a triumph for Pearlman’s distinctive storytelling, bringing it to a larger audience.
Binocular Vision is the first book to be nominated for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the same year.
Additionally, Pearlman’s Binocular Vision was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize, an annual award for books of short fiction, along with The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo, and the winner, We Others by Steven Millhauser.
Binocular Vision was also a finalist for the 2011 National Book Awards along with Téa Obreht‘s The Tiger’s Wife, Andrew Krivak's The Sojourn, Julie Otsuka‘s The Buddha in the Attic, and the winner, Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones.
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Of the families that boarded the “unsinkable” Titanic in 1912, only a fourth stayed together during the sinking and arrived safely in New York. Albert and Sylvia Caldwell and their 10-month-old son, Alden, were one of those rare Titanic families. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, a journalism professor at Samford University, draws on first-person accounts from her great-Uncle Albert and extensive research to tell the fascinating story of the young family who were saved by a combination of luck, pluck, Albert’s outgoing nature, Sylvia’s illness, and Alden’s helplessness. Their detailed story of the short life of the Titanic and their lucky rescue aboard the ill-starred Lifeboat 13 has never been fully told in Titanic literature. A Rare Titanic Family includes a photo taken of them on deck—an unusual surviving souvenir sent to them after the disaster. But the trip on the Titanic was only one part of a bigger nightmare for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows the true-life plot twists in a biographical account of a family that survived the Titanic but could never escape the shadow the ship cast over them.
Each year, hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite "handsell" books of the year. These are the "southern" books they have most enjoyed selling to customers; the ones that they couldn't stop talking about. The SIBA Book Award was created to recognize great books of southern origin.
Finalists include these titles published and/or distributed by Blair:
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Stephanie Tyson, Well, Shut My Mouth! (John F. Blair, Publisher) in the Cooking category
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Waking by Ron Rash (Hub City Press) in the Poetry category
Woody Durham, A Tar Heel Voice |
 Available September 2012 - Click here to preorder!
From 1971 to his retirement in 2011, Woody Durham was the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” the radio play-by-play man for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this autobiography, Woody takes the reader on a nostalgic stroll down memory lane—from his descriptions of a sleepy Franklin Street in Chapel Hill and the days of football legend ChooChoo Justice to the enormous changes in college sports and how they are covered to his dozens of behind-the-scenes stories about the coaches and players he worked with during his tenure.
North Carolina Craft Beer and Breweries from Tres Bruce on Vimeo.
 When missionaries from Philadelphia made their way to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, in the 1860's to establish the Penn School to help freed slaves learn to read and write,they discovered hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with its own language, traditions, medicine, weaving, and art.
Author Wilbur Cross set out to make the excellent work of the Penn Center known and to introduce the Gullah culture to people in America. He became entranced with the Gullah way of life and ended up with 12 chapters that explore the various facets of Gullah culture. Gullah Culture in America not only explores the history of Gullah but also shows readers what it’s like to grow up and live in this unique American community.
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