Spotlight On New England

Publishers large and small,
venerable university presses,

intrepid booksellers,
and a vibrant literary culture
combine to give the region
its unique identity
Tradition
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Innovation

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SPOTLIGHT ON NEW ENGLAND
S P O T L I G H T O N N E W E N G L A N D
New England Has it All
With its rich literary tradition, the region continues to
nurture publishers, booksellers, and authors
By Judith Rosen
New England may cull up images of bucolic
fields, snow-covered mountains, sparkling
lakes, and mud season, but its also home to a
veritable whos who of bestselling authors
ranging from Stephen King, Dan Brown and
Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Mary Oliver and
Julia Glass. As one of the countrys tech cen-
ters, it is anything but laid back. E-ink was
developed here, so was One Laptop Per Child,
a nonprofit foundation begun by MITs Nicholas
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Negroponte whose aim is to provide students
in developing countries with laptops. Ama-
zon, Google, and Mozilla all have offices in
either Cambridges Tech Square or across the
river in Bostons Innovation District, home to
Da Capo Press and, soon, Beacon Press. In
mid-April Cengage Learning, citing its desire
to be near Bostons technology and education
centers, announced it will be relocating its
headquarters to the Innovation District.
Candlewick president and publisher
Karen Lotz, joint managing director of
Walker Books, roughly 15% of its
2014 titles are from New England.
The press encourages New England
authors and illustrators by offering a
scholarship at Vermont College of Fine
Arts and recruiting for talent at the
Rhode Island School of Design.
Hachette Book Groups Little,
Brown imprint was founded in Boston
177 years ago, and while LB and
HBGs editorial offices are in New
York City, the company remains con-
nected to the region. Hachette has a
great presence in Boston, where 180
members of our IT, fulfillment, distri-
bution, finance, telephone sales, and
managing editorial teams are located.
This is our legacy of our Little, Brown
division, notes CEO Michael Pietsch,
who began his own publishing career
in Boston as an intern at David R.
Godine, Publisher.
B
eing located in New Eng-
land doesnt necessarily
mean that a publisher is a
regional press. New York
City remains the focus of
[Steerforths] publishing
universe, says Chip Fleischer, publisher
of Steerforth Press in Hanover, N.H.
The main advantage to living in north-
ern New England is that it is in striking
distance of New York, and that when we
come home, we are here. For others like
Dean Lunt, who founded Islandport
Press in Yarmouth, Maine, 15 years ago,
New England titles have a definite
cache that extends well beyond the
regions borders. Even though his books
and authors have a regional connection,
he sees them as national titles.
Even large houses like Candlewick in
Somerville, Mass, which will publish
243 new hardcovers this year, have a high
percentage of books by New England authors
and illustrators, many of which are set in the area. According to
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or starters Quarto, formerly
Quayside, took a new name.
It is also bumping its list up
to 460 from 400 titles in
2013, and it launched two
new imprints: Rock Point
Gift and Stationery and Walter Foster, Jr.
Rock Point will publish journals, kits, cal-
endars, cards, and stationery items that
complement the presss illustrated book
program. Childrens imprint Walter Foster,
Jr. will publish 20 books for young chil-
dren. In addition, Quarto shifted its order
processing, customer services, credit con-
trol, and fulfillment functions to Hachette
and grew its QDS distribution service busi-
ness with the addition of another New
England house, JG Press.
HMH is one of several publishers
marking significant milestones in 2014.
Its childrens division, which publishes
250 books a year, is celebrating its 150th
anniversary in 2014 and has several titles
with mega-anniversaries of their own.
Its Mary Poppinss 80th this year, while
Curious George, Mike Mulligan and His
Steam Shovel, and The Country Bunny and
the Little Gold Shoes are in their 75th year.
We are bursting with pride to be cele-
brating our sesquicentennial, says Betsy
Groban, senior v-p and publisher for
HMH Books for Young Readers. It
means that HMH, called Hurd &
Houghton at the time, started publish-
ing books for boys and girls during the
Civil Waran incredibly rare and
enduring legacy. Many of our books have
won awards, many have been bestsellers,
and best of all, many have made a real
difference in the lives of children and
adults. Its wonderful to celebrate this
historic milestone.
On the adult trade side, HMH pub-
lishes 160 titles a year plus 38 cook-
books. Among its releases is another
anniversary title, Douglas Brinkley and
Luke Nichters The Nixon Tapes (July),
which is being published in conjunction
with the 40th anniversary of Nixons res-
ignation. Due out in the fall is a memoir
from Bostons five-term mayor, Thomas
M. Menino, Mayor for a New America
(Oct.), with Jack Beatty, along with Ran-
dall Munroes What If? (Sept.), based on
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Big Publishers
Keep Evolving
New England is home to a number of large and mid-size pub-
lishersthe headquarters for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are
there, as is Perseuss Da Capo Press and part of one of the big
five trade houses, Hachette. But although a number of large
publishers in New England have reconfigured themselves in
recent years, perhaps none has undergone a bigger transition
in 2014 than Quarto Publishing Group USA, the U.S. branch
of the U.K.-based illustrated book publisher. President and
CEO Ken Fund says that this year has been nothing less than
transformative.
By Judith Rosen
history as a New England publisher and
our ongoing publishing mission, says
sales and marketing director Christopher
Johns. The Tuttle Company published
the first book on New Englands covered
bridges back in 1932.
Among the more than 300 print titles
on Guilford, Ct.-based Globe Pequot
Presss list for 2014, marketing and public-
ity director Shana Capozza singles out two
as the presss biggest books for the fall. My
Heart Is a Drunken Compass (Nov.) is the
follow-up to Domingo Martinezs first
book, The Boy Kings of Texas, which ended
with his fiance plummeting off the side of
an overpass after having a seizure while
driving. It was a finalist for the 2012
National Book Award and has been
optioned by HBO. He is a wonderful per-
son and author, and were thrilled to be
working with him again, says Capozza.
Also back on the GPP list is another book
by Sir Roger Moore, One Lucky Bastard
(Oct.), which she describes as a behind-
the-scenes tell-all. The company is also
upping its presence in the digital publish-
ing space. It has recently signed agree-
ments with Oyster Books, Zola Books and
Slicebooks. At Globe Pequot we recognize
the fundamental importance of not only
great content, but also of maximizing the
audience-driven marketing verticals that
are necessary in the new publishing para-
digm, says managing director Alexander
Merrill.
Although Candlewick continues to be
selective about its list, which includes
books from around the world, this
springs titles have been jokingly referred
to in-house as the New England list.
Among the standouts are Alicia Potters
newly released picture book biography of
Patrick Gilmore, Jubilee!, illustrated by
Matt Tavares, about the bandleader who
turned Boston into a music center after
the Civil War ended when he staged the
1869 National Peace Jubilee. Also on the
list is a verse novel about poet Emily
Dickinson, Miss Emily by Burleigh
Mutn, illustrated by Matt Phelan, and
John Rocco and Jay Primianos Swim
That Rock, which captures what its like
to be a boy growing up along the New
England coast.
his webcomic xkcd. According to public-
ity v-p, executive director Lori Glazer,
when Munroe announced on his website
that he had signed a book deal, preor-
ders went crazy. Despite the strength of
frontlist, Bruce Nichols, senior v-p and
publisher of the general interest group,
notes that 70% of the presss sales come
from backlist.
Mining connections between its k-12
organization and trade is another impor-
tant aspect of HMH. The Common Core
has given us opportunities to utilize the
experts on the editoral side and integrate
much of the middle-grade and YA fiction
and nonfiction content into curriculum
material and offer trade material that
addresses needs in the schools, explains
Gary Gentel, president of HMH trade and
consumer publishing. Weve also spent
the last year putting our e-commerce strat-
egy together and will be launching several
products over the next few months. HMH
is currently in the midst of testing sub-
scription models for math and reading
products for elementary school-age kids as
well as test prep for older students through
Cliff Notes.
Da Capo, which turns 50 in 2014, is
expanding into practical business books.
Recent acquisitions include We Need to
Talk by Jeff Motske, president and CEO
of Trilogy; Love the Hustle by Elle Kaplan,
CEO and founding partner of LexION
Capital management; and A Higher Stan-
dard by four-star Army general Ann
Dunwood. But memoirs from heavy
metal rockers continue to be a press sta-
ple, notes v-p and publisher John Radzie-
wicz, singling out Anthraxs Scott Ian,
Im the Man (Oct.), and Lamb of Gods
Randy Blythe, Dark Days (Feb. 2015).
The presss Lifelong imprint, which
focuses on wellness, is also going strong,
with books on vegan and gluten-free
cooking. It just released actress Jennifer
Espositos celiac diet, Jennifers Way, and
will publish the second cookbook from
Emeril Lagasses daughters, Jilly Lagasse
and Jessie Lagasse Swanson, later this
year, The Lagasse Girls Big Flavor, Bold
Tasteand No Gluten! (Oct.).
For Tuttle Publishing in Rutland, Vt.,
which has been owned and managed by
the Tuttle family since its founding 182
years ago, perhaps the biggest change is
its continued expansion into childrens,
travel, and crafts. That its childrens pro-
gram in particular has struck a chord
with readers and critics is indicated by
two recent awards: a 20132014 Asian/
Pacific American Award for Young
Adult Literature for Jet Black and the
Ninja Wind, by husband-and-wife team
Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz; and a
2013 Crystal Kate Award for Benjamin
Martins Samurai Awakening.
In February, Tuttle released a 60th
anniversary edition of another popular
childrens title, Japanese Childrens Favor-
ite Stories by Florence Sakade, illustrated
by Yoshisuke Kurosake. Still, the one
book that gets to the heart of Tuttles
mission to bridge the gap between East
and West just might be a nonfiction title
for adults, Terry E. Miller and Ronald G.
Knapps newly released Americas Covered
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the areas oldest small
press, is marking its 160th
anniversary this year with
a new tag line, Igniting
Hearts and Minds, and a
new colophon that hearkens back to early
last century. Weve returned to the idea
of the flame, shedding light to warn of
imminent dangers, but interpreted it
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sioning American History series. First up
is a young persons edition of A Queer
History, due out in 2015. A young per-
sons edition of A Disability History will
likely follow.
Steerforth Press in Hanover, N.H., is
also making changes. According to pub-
lisher Chip Fleischer, it has scaled back
the number of titles it releases under its
own imprint and is expanding its list
from 40 in 2014 to 45 in 2015through
its sister company, Hanover Publisher
Services, which serves as a middleman for
small presses working with Penguin
Random House Publisher Services. Its
clients include New Europe Books,
Campfire Graphic Novels, and, in July,
Pushkin Press.
At the beginning of April, two HPS
titles made the shortlist for the worlds
most valuable literary prize, the Interna-
tional IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, to
be announced in June. Donal Ryans The
Spinning Heart (Steerforth) and Karl Ove
Knausgaards My Struggle: Book One: A
Death in the Family (Archipelago Books).
Later this year Steerforth will publish
Ryans second novel, The Thing About
December (Aug.). Archipelago has already
released Knausgaards My Struggle: Book
Two and the third title is due out in May.
Three-year-old Bibliomotion, with
new offices in Brookline Village, Mass.,
tries to limit its list to 1520 titles a
year. We keep our program intention-
ally small, says cofounder and publisher
Erika Heilman, because we spend a con-
siderable amount [of time] on each title
and with each author. In part, thats
because of the presss unusual shared risk/
shared reward model, which features low
advances but high royalties. Bibliomo-
tion began by publishing business and
parenting titles and is considering broad-
ening its list to include health and pets.
But Bibliomotions biggest change
involves e-learning and turning every one
of its books into a course, or courses. The
press will be launching a new website/
marketplace in the second quarter with
straight video courses and collaborative
learning experiences. In the meantime,
Bibliomotion is gearing up for several
leadership and big ideas titles, including
Steven Overmans The Conscience Economy
(Oct.) and Stefan Weitzs Search (Nov.), an
Insight Labs Library title.
HBRP is a nonprofit that acts like a
for-profit [trade] press, explains mar-
keting communications director Erin
Brown. The paperback edition of John
Mackey and Raj Sisodias Conscious Capi-
talism can be found in nontraditional
book markets like Whole Foods, where
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Boyle for a new Jack McMorrow novel,
Once Burned (May 2015), and Kate Chris-
tensen for How to Cook A Moose (2015),
inspired by M.F.K. Fisher.
Another Maine press, nine-year-old
gift-book publisher Cider Mill Press in
Kennebunkport, is making its first foray
into fiction with Talk (May) by radio host
and TV personality Michael Smerconish.
Press founder and publisher John Wha-
len, former publisher at Running Press,
had worked with Smerconish on Flying
Bird while at Running Press and says he
was excited to learn that he had tried his
hand at fiction. And despite Cider Mills
focus on nonfiction, Whalen says that he
looks for books that tie into our original
publishing premise, which is books that
have strong, distinctive marketing and
merchandising opportunities. Talk is
being marketed as The Primary Colors of
2014.
Small Beer Press in Easthampton,
Mass., is becoming more frontlist driven.
Were not going to be doing as many
reprints so that we can focus more on the
new titles and make sure we get them out
to a wide readership, says publisher
Gavin Grant. He plans to release seven
Small Beer books, one chapbook, two
issues of its LCRW zine, and 14 e-books
in 2014. The presss lead title for the fall
is Benjamin Parzyboks Sherwood Nation
(Sept.), about drought and secession in
Portland, Ore.
The MFA is one of the few museums
with its own imprint. We have a mixed
list, says publications director Emiko
Usui. We do some books that are very
scholarly, and were still highly focused
on our big exhibitions. The press will
publish the tie-in to this falls Francisco
Goya exhibit, called simply Goya: Order
and Disorder (Oct.), by Stephanie Loeb
Stepanek et al., which examines Goyas
work across media as a painter, printer,
and draftsman. Although the press
focuses on those large exhibits, earlier
this year it did well in the trade with a
book tied to a much smaller exhibit of
photos by a dozen women photographers
from Iran and the Arab world, Kristen
Greshs She Who Tells a Story.
Mackey is co-CEO, and its books are fre-
quently found in airport stores. It cur-
rently has a spinner rack promotion of
HBR Guides, HBR Must Reads, and
HBRS 20-Minute Manager series at air-
port stores. And it actively develops press
titles from Harvard Business Review, like
LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid
Hoffmans The Alliance, coauthored by
Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, which grew
out of an article on employment in Sili-
con Valley.
Like other trade houses, HBRP looks
for ways to create spinoffs, or in its case,
tools, of popular titles. Two years ago it
experimented with a slide deck based on
John P. Kotters Leading Change. In May
it will release its first bundled product, a
strategy tool kit, which includes the
e-book of A. G. Lafferty and Roger Mar-
tins Playing to Win, four real-world case
studies, three customized meeting decks,
video, and a facilitators guide.
Two Maine presses with a more
regional focus, Down East Books in
Rockport, which was purchased by Row-
man & Littlefield almost exactly a year
ago, and 15-year-old Islandport Press in
Yarmouth, are in growth mode. Im
very optimistic about where were
going, says Down East editorial director
Michael Steere. In a few years well be a
stronger imprint maybe than weve ever
been. Last year, during the transition,
Down East published only 15 books, all
based on articles from Down East maga-
zine. This year the press will publish 45
New England titles with a wider appeal,
like Robert W. Cohens The 50 Greatest
Players in Boston Red Sox History (Oct.)
and Jerry Desmonds Turning the Tide at
Gettysburg (July).
Since its move last year to a bigger
space where it consolidated its office and
warehouse, Islandport has been ramping
up. In November, it launched a more
consumer-friendly website and in 2014,
it will double its list to 20 books and two
calendars. Publisher and editor-in-chief
Dean Lunt is bullish about print books,
especially those published by small
presses. This is going to be a golden age
for small and mid-sized publishers, he
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ike other segments within
HMH, culinary is working
on a digital project for con-
sumers. Bruce Nichols,
senior v-p and publisher of
HMHs general interest
group, couldnt share many details yet,
but says the new products wont be
books. We dont want to compete with
retailers, he explains. Nichols expects to
begin testing the website and app inter-
nally within a matter of weeks, externally
later this summer. HMH is
also expanding its culinary
area by developing new edi-
tions of well-known brands it
bought from Wiley, like the
5th edition of Weight Watchers
New Complete Cookbook (Dec.).
ATK in Brookline Village,
Mass., has been growing, too.
Sales are very much up, way up, says
Elizabeth Carduff, editorial director of
the book program. Not only is the press
increasing the number of books it does a
year from nine or ten to perhaps a dozen
but it has added more editorial staff and
cooks. People look to us for recipes that
really work, says Carduff, pointing to
Healthy Slow Cooker Revolution (Jan.
2015), the third addition to its Slow
Cooker Revolution line, which has sold
more than 450,000 copies. The press also
prides itself on finding ways to solve
problems, as with The Make-Ahead Cook
(Sept.). Theres a chapter I love, says
Carduff, on one grocery bag, three din-
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Over the past few years, Countryman
Press in Woodstock, Vt., a division of
W.W. Norton & Company, has shifted its
focus away from travel to lifestyle, par-
ticularly cooking. As a result, sales are
booming, says editorial director Ker-
mit Hummel, up about 40% over last
year. Like other cookbook publishers,
Hummel says that customers want print.
Cookbooks still work as a source of
inspiration, he notes. Thumbing
through a cookbook, you get inspired to
try new things. This fall Countryman
has a number of new cookbooks, includ-
ing King Arthur Whole Grain Baking
(Oct.), along with more regional titles
with national appeal, like Ellen Stim-
sons Good Grief (Oct.), a followup to
Mud Season.
Cookbooks and childrens
book sales are the fastest
growing sectors of our pub-
lishing program. In the past
couple of years weve seen
growth in the double digits
while, sadly, everything else
remained flat, says Michel
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publisher of Interlink Publishing in
Northampton, Mass. Moushabeck, who
will publish 16 illustrated cookbooks in
2014, attributes part of the sales strength
of Interlinks cookbooks to their appeal
to museums and gift shops, as well as
bookstores. He anticipates strong sales
for upcoming cookbooks like Gaitri
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cooking niche, and in mid-April Americas Test Kitchens
newly released The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook, which
has 100,000 copies in print, began climbing the New York
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Browns The Tassajara Bread Book, and
continues to be a staple. Three years ago,
executive v-p Sara Bercholz decided to
add more books that focus on cooking,
crafts, and creative living under a new
imprint, Roost Books. I knew cook-
books, says Bercholz, whose mother col-
lects them. While Shambhala publishes
80 new titles a year, Bercholz doesnt have
a specific target for Roost, which will do
nine food-related titles this year and next.
They include Amy Chaplins At Home in the
Whole Food Kitchen (Oct.), Ashley Englishs
Handmade Gatherings (Apr.) and Quench
(Oct.), and the paperback re-issue of Bea-
trice Peltres La Tartine Gourmande (Oct.),
with a new subtitle that stresses the fact
that all the recipes are gluten-free. For the
hardcover, Bercholz chose Recipes for an
Inspired Life. Ultimately, she says, I
decided that its a book that anyone
should enjoy.
Taunt on i n Newt own,
Conn., has one set of advan-
tages that few other New Eng-
land presses have, multimedia
outlets: magazines, websites,
and a PBS-TV show, Moveable
Feast with Fine Cooking. We
leverage our magazine fran-
chises in a number of ways,
explains Carolyn Mandarano,
senior managing editor of
books, and Jay Annis, v-p of
trade sales in an email to PW.
We publish content from our
magazines in curated collec-
tions, and the magazine and
book staffs work collabora-
tively to develop authors who
can grow beyond one magazine feature or
a single book concept. While the number
of titles we publish [nearly 60 a year]
wont change dramatically, we continu-
ally look at our categories and shift the
focus to meet changes in the market.
About 20% of the Taunton list is made
up of originally authored cookbooks,
Fine Cookingbranded cookbooks, and
co-published titles with Academia Bari-
lla. Among the presss upcoming books
are Jenna Shorts Cooking Allergy-Free and
Linda Amendts Blue Ribbon Canning
Across America.
Pagrach-Chandras Wrapped (June) and
Sally Butchers Salmagundi (Aug.).
Coming off of a strong holiday season,
31-year-old Storey Publishing in North
Adams, Mass., is introducing Storey
Basics this spring, single-subject books
priced at $9.95 for DIYers on Knife Skills,
How to Make Maple Syrup, and How to
Make a Quilt. We saw a need for good
authoritative information for someone
who just wants to get started, says pub-
lisher Deborah Balmouth. The press is
also continuing to add more cooking
titles like Adam Danforths just released
Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat,
and Pork, which is aimed at small farmers
and chefs and was excerpted in the Huff-
ington Post.
Harvard Common Press cut its list in
half two years ago and is now doing eight
books a year, primarily in the food space.
Last fall it turned its Boston offices into a
co-working space, The Food
Loft, for 10 food and tech entre-
preneurs. And it is already look-
ing to expand the program by
building out space and holding
more networking and partner-
ship-building events through-
out the city. [It] gives us a great
view into some of the interest-
ing ways that entrepreneurs are
trying to build solutions that
meld tech and content, and
what that might mean for the
future of publishing, media, and
more, says associate publisher
Adam Salamone.
Next month HCP will pub-
lish a 20th anniversary revised
edition of Cheryl and Bill Jamisons
Smoke & Spice, with full-color photos
throughout. In spring 2015, it will pub-
lish The Barbecue Lovers Big Book of BBQ
Sauces under the Smoke & Spice brand.
Were also investing heavily in other
author brands, says Salamone, singling
out blogger Jessica Fischer, whose Best
100 Juices for Kids is just out and will be
followed by Good Cheap Eats this fall.
Long known for its religion and East-
ern titles, Boston-based Shambhala Pub-
licationss very first cookbook came out
more than 40 years ago, Edward Espe
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which has had double-digit
revenue growth every year
since 2009, according to CEO
and co-owner Kevin Cole-
bank, has been expanding and
diversifying its offerings. Two years ago,
the audio powerhouse added print and
digital books. In 2014, in addition to
ramping up audio, says Colebank, we are
stepping up [our] print and e-book pub-
lishing program to offer more titles. That
means 100 audio titles a month this year,
an increase of 70% over 2013, with a target
of 2,000 titles in 2015. We
want agents to think about
us not just for audio, adds
v-p of sales John Molish,
who confirms that the com-
pany is aiming to grow print
and digital book revenue so
that it equals that of audio
within the next few years.
Not that Tantor has any
plans to pull back from audio to reach
that goal. It continues to find strength,
with audiobooks like the tie-in to the
Netflix series Orange Is the New Black; the
third book in Scott Lynchs Gentleman
Bastards series, The Republic of Thieves, an
Audies Finalist; and Nic Pizzolattos
Galveston. But it would also like to pub-
lish more content across all three for-
matsprint, e-book, and audioas it
did with Scott Thorsons HBO tie-in,
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Lib-
erace, written with Alex Thorliefson.
Because of Tantors conscious decision
to relocate from California to Connecti-
cut in 2004, it has developed strong rela-
tionships with New England creatives.
We are dedicated to discovering and
building local authors and narrators,
says partner Laura Colebank. She also
notes that the company partners with
local agents, like D4EOs Bob Diforio,
which represented New York Post reporter
Reuven Fentons The Ones Who Didnt Do
It, for which Tantor recently acquired
print, e-book, and audio rights.
Sales at Sellers have risen 38% over the
past five years. In 2013, total sales reve-
nue grew by 10% and net profit increased
55%, according to founder Ronnie Sell-
ers, who attributes the companys success
to its employees. I know that the Yan-
kee values and work ethic that my
coworkers live by have played a vital
part, he says.
Two years ago, Sellerss
RSVP card line got a boost
with the hiring of the for-
mer creative director for
Recycled Paper Greet-
ings, John LeMoine, and
his senior art director,
Noelle Shannon. Its now
the fastest growing part of
the companys business, although calen-
dars still represent the largest revenue
stream, with an assist from the 2014 wall
calendar tie-in to the AMC TV show The
Walking Dead, which sold more than
A number of New England presses have landed on
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By Judith Rosen
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press feature has included a number of New Englandbased
publishers, with 30-year-old Chelsea Green Publishing leading
the way. The White River Junction, Vt., press has had some of
the strongest sales among houses with revenue between $2 mil-
lion and $10 million in nine out of the past 10 years, with books
like Sandor Ellix Katzs The Art of Fermentation. Other publishers
like Tantor Media in Old Saybrook, Conn., and Sellers Publish-
ing in Portland, Maine, have each appeared on three consecutive
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[A] treasure hunt for the playgrounds that time forgot. Biondos
combination of period images from postcards, archives, and catalogs
with her own, often-haunting, contemporary photographs admonishes
us to learn from, to not forget, to preserve what remains of these
unique landscapes of play.
Paige Johnson, founder of PlayScapes
Rochester, Vt.-based Inner Traditions/
Bear & Company, which marketing and
sales director John Hays describes as the
university press of mind, body, and
spirit, may not have appeared on PWs
list for a while, but it has experienced five
consecutive years of growth. Digital has
helped, notes Hays, who credits it with
providing a new revenue stream and new
readers without diminishing print sales.
Part of Inner Traditions growth has
come from its 1,400-title backlist devel-
oped over close to 40 years. Although it
publishes 70 new books a year, its corpo-
rate philosophy is that no book should go
out of print. To us, [our books] contain
perennial wisdom. But to the popular
mind it comes and goes, says Hays who
points to the success of Rick Strassmans
DMT: The Spirit Molecule, one of the
presss current bestsellers, first published
more than a decade ago. Inner Traditions
will bring out Strassmans latest work
this fall, DMT and the Soul of Prophecy,
193,000 copies. Calendar preorders for
this year are up almost 50% over what
they were last year at this time, notes
Sellers.
Our book program, notes public
relations and marketing manager Andy
Sturtevant, has become more of a com-
plementary line to our calendar and card
lines and focuses on gift books, often
based on the licenses we have for our cal-
endar line. This fall the press will do
nine gift books and two craft titles, plus
two additions to its 500 Recipe Cook-
book series, which has over 650,000 cop-
ies in print. Its Fifty Things to Do When
You Turn Fifty and related titles is now up
to 375,000 copies.
Arguably a New York publisher,
Other Press has a second location. Pub-
lisher Judith Gurewich has a house in
Cambridge, Mass., which serves as a lit-
erary retreat for its authors. She person-
ally edits each book and reviews those
edits in Cambridge with the author, who
reads the entire book aloud over the
course of a weekend. Gurewichs eye for
international literature helped propel
Other onto PWs fast-growing press list
for the first time in 2012, because of Jan-
Philipp Sendkers The Art of Hearing
Heartbeats, which has sold more than
260,000 copies.
Although Gurewich continues to have
success with books like the English-lan-
guage edition of Linn Ullmanns newly
released The Cold Song, a best book of
Norway, she has been working on
strengthening U.S. offerings. When I
realized that as good as my books were, I
wasnt getting good submissions from
American agents, I went to New York
and started visiting two or three agents a
day, explains Gurewich. The visits paid
off with five books purchased over the
span of a couple weeks last month and a
much more American-centric list for
2015, with a book on incarceration and
a biography of Greta Garbo.
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YA quite well, and our longer nonfiction
and middle-grade novels seem to have
hit the mark, too. As early adopters of
e-book distribution and digital licens-
ing, weve been ahead of the curve in that
growth sector as well, says marketing
director Donna Spurlock. Among the
books shes especially excited about are a
new series by Paul A. Reynolds and Peter
H. Reynolds about a set of twins who use
the S.T.E.A.M. philosophy of learning to
solve everyday science conundrums, Syd-
ney & Simon: Full Steam Ahead (Sept.).
Like many of its colleagues, Charles-
bridges list is influenced by its New
England location. New England is a big
part of our success as a publisher, says
executive v-p and associate publisher
Mary Ann Sabia. Twenty-five years ago,
it was New England accounts that gave
us our start. They have always supported
our regional titles and embrace and
champion our New England authors and
illustrators.
and continues to sign books on shaman-
ism.
Backlist and Oprah boosted sales for
Red Wheel Weiser Conari, which is
based in Newburyport, Mass., but has
editorial offices in San Francisco. Ever
since Oprah named Mark Nepos The
Book of Awakening (2000) one of her
favorite things in 2010, sales have not
slowed. It really is amazing, says pres-
ident and CEO Michael Kerber. We
acquired that book when we acquired
Conari Press in 2002. It always was a
good seller. Three and a half years later,
between print and digital, were now
selling 5,000 copies a month. Recently,
Oprah listed it as one of her seven super-
soulful books. In addition to the Nepo,
Anne Kagans The Afterlife of Billy Fingers
is contributing to a good start to 2014,
with more than 30,000 copies sold in
digital and print since its publication
last spring.
Since 2011, Red Wheel has reduced
its list from a high of 78 titles to 50 in
2014, and it has begun reviving some of
its backlist classics, like Thera Nyana-
ponikas The Heart of Buddhist Meditation
(1973) with a new foreword by Sylvia
Boorstein. It recently repackaged Jona-
than Robinsons Short Cuts to Bliss with a
new title, Find Happiness Now. The com-
pany is also revitalizing some books
aimed at its special sales accounts such as
Spencer Gifts and Urban Outfitters, with
titles like The Ultimate Dictionary of
Dream Language and Bad Birthdays.
No big changes are on the horizon at
Charlesbridge Publishing in Watertown,
Mass., which had a strong first quarter
after moving to Random House for dis-
tribution this year. The press will release
30 childrens books and 12 titles under
its Imagine Publishing imprint in 2014.
Weve been lucky to be very stable, with
strong ties to both the retail and the
school/library markets. Our picture
books have weathered the trend toward
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By Judith Rosen
New England is home not only to some of the oldest and larg-
est university presses in the U.S. but to one of the most unique
onesUniversity Press of New England, which represents a
consortium of four colleges and universities. In recent years
both Harvard and Yale University Press have celebrated their
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for Biography, and danah boyds Its Com-
plicated, on how technology affects teen
lives, has created what press director
John Donatich calls a maelstrom of
publicity. Since its February publication,
boyds book has gone back to press four
times for a total of 20,000 copies in
print.
Our list is consistently rich in the
humanities, social sciences, and physical
sciences: art, history, politics, interna-
tional affairs, religion, literature, eco-
nomics, media culture, natural sciences,
says Donatich. We continue to refine
our imprint strategy and see the market
really making distinctions among the
various kinds of books we publish. Nor
has the press ignored regional titles and
collaborations. Its co-publication part-
ners include the Yale University Art Gal-
lery, the Yale Center for British Art, and
the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, and it will copublish a history of
the Eugene ONeill Theater Center, Jef-
frey Sweets The ONeill, in May.
For Harvard, which will publish 190
books in 2014, up slightly from years
past, the regional influence can be felt in
its approach to publishing. Fealty to
tradition is a New England characteris-
Big Data to Engineer a Better World (fall
2014) and Umberto Ecos How to Write a
Thesis (spring 2015), which was first
published in Italy in 1977 and has never
before been translated into English. The
press also has several space titles on its
list, including David Meerman Scott and
Richard Jureks Marketing the Moon,
which it is cross-promoting with several
other university presses through a newly
launched website, University Presses in
Space (www.upinspace.org).
At UPNE, publishing is very much a
group effort that includes support from
indie booksellers, who consult on acqui-
sitions, explains Barbara Briggs, who
handles publicity and subsidiary rights
for the press, which publishes 30 books
a season plus distributed titles. Because
of its growing success nationally, this
spring UPNE launched its first trade
imprint in nearly 20 years, ForeEdge,
with James W. Grahams Victura: The
Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea.
tic, and the continued flourishing of such
venerable projects as the Loeb Classical
Library, founded in 1911, and our overall
publishing programs longstanding
strengths in the sciences, humanities,
and social sciences suggest that its a trait
we share, said publicity manager Phoebe
Kosman.
She also attributes some of the presss
new digital projects, including the Dig-
ital Loeb Classical Library slated to
launch this fall and last years digital Dic-
tionary of American Regional English to the
energizing effect of Boston as a tech
center. But Harvards list is by no means
regional. In spring 2015, it will begin
releasing the first titles in the Murty
Classical Library of India, which makes
the great works of India accessible to
English-language readers for the first
time.
MIT, which is located in the heart of
Cambridges Tech Square, has also ben-
efited from the areas talent and creativ-
ity, according to editorial director Gita
Manaktala. Were very lucky to be based
at MIT, where so many remarkable col-
laborations happen, and sometimes they
even produce books, she says, pointing
to the recently released The Atlas of Eco-
nomic Complexity, which resulted from the
collaboration of Ricardo Hausmann and
his colleagues at Harvards Center for
International Development and Csar
Hidalgo at MITs Media Lab. Overall,
we do strive to reflect some of the fer-
ment and dynamism of MIT. And its
exciting to see the global uptake of ideas
that were conceived and nurtured here.
As publishers we have the chance to be
part of that process, Manaktala says.
The press, which will publish 228
books this year, just introduced a series
of DRM-free digital excerpts, one-to-
three chapters in length, from 50 books
on its list, MIT Press BITS. Other
upcoming titles include Nathan Eagle
and Kate Greenes Reality Mining: Using
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process and details, and an essay on their contemporary
role and status. A balanced account for both the
nostalgic and the serious.
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Boston Creating A Literary
Cultural District
A
s early as this August, Boston could become the
first American city with a Literary Cultural Dis-
trict. The area, which would run roughly from the
Boston Public Library in Copley Square through
the Boston Public Garden and Beacon Hill to what
was once the Globe Corner Bookstore, got an intial
nod last September. Thats when the Massachusetts Cultural
Council awarded a group of nonprofit organizations led by
GrubStreet, one of the leading creative writing centers, a plan-
ning grant of $42,500.
The idea for a literary district grew out of a conversation
between GrubStreet executive director Eve Bridburg and MCC
head Anita Walker when the former bemoaned the fact that
even though there is a lot happening culturally in Boston, you
dont often hear about the writers. The goal is to provide a series
of walks through Bostons literary history, while supporting
writers and publishers working today. Its also
about including all the literary efforts in the
city under one umbrella. Were thinking
about branding the work that every-
body is doing so that theres one
The Old Corner Bookstore
was the original site of the
publishing company Ticknor
& Fields, founded in 1832,
which published Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Emerson,
Longfellow, and Thoreau. The
Atlantic Monthly also got its
start there in 1857.
The Boston Public
Library, established in
1848, is one of the oldest
and largest publicly sup-
ported municipal libraries
in the U.S. The Khalil
Gibran Memorial faces the
library, which is where he
wrote and illustrated The
Prophet.
The Boston Cook-
ing School became
famous following the
1896 publication of
Fannie Farmers Boston
Cooking-School Cook
Book, which is still in
print today.
The Public Gardens Make Way for
Ducklings sculpture, created by Nancy Schn
in 1987 as a tribute to Robert McCloskeys
Caldecott medal-winning book, is a popular
photo op.
Founded in 1807, the Boston
Athenaeum is one of the oldest
independent libraries in the U.S.
Pinckney Street formed a literary row
with the childhood home of Henry David
Thoreau at #4, Louisa May Alcott at #20,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne at #54.
Poe Square will be the site
of a new sculpture, Poe
Returning to Boston, to be
installed this fall in honor of
native son Edgar Allan Poe.
N
Some Historic Sites in the
Proposed District
place to look for the literary arts, says Bridburg, who plans to
create a website to go with the district. Theres a lot going on
[in Boston] and everybodys working in their own little silos.
[The Literary Cultural District] is a way to celebrate all
thats going on now, and to attract literary visitors to Boston,
adds Michael R. Colford, director of Library Services at the
Boston Public Library, which has been an active partner in cre-
ating the district. Were really excited that Huntington Ave-
nue [behind the library] is the Avenue of the Arts. We like being
at the juncture for these two districts.
For Colford, Bostons rich literary history also provides the
biggest challenge for the groupdetermining the sites. Cur-
rently there are more than 70, including the BPL, which is
planning to create a permanent marker for the district in its
Johnson Building as part of its renovation.
Members of the Saturday Club,
which included Emerson, Thoreau,
Longfellow, and Holmes, met at
what is now the Omni Parker
House. Almost a century later Mal-
colm X worked at the hotel restau-
rant as a busboy and Vietnamese
leader Ho Chi Minh as a baker.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The Brattle Book Shop,
founded in 1825, is one of the
oldest and largest antiquarian
bookstores in the country.
Next door is the home of Eliz-
abeth Peabody, likely the first
woman book publisher in the
U.S. Miss Birdseye in Henry
Jamess The Bostonians is
based on her.
important after a BISG report stated that
21% of books sales occur because of dis-
plays. She filled the store with large
tables so that she could bring in more
coffee-table books and created displays of
art, photography, and music titles on
cubes by the new front door. As a result,
she says, sales for December increased
over 20%, and that the first quarter,
which is usually slow, was up 17%.
Joyce and Jeffrey Sudikoff, who pur-
chased the Edgartown store in May
2012, have also gone against the grain
not just by buying the bookstore but by
investing heavily in it. Last summer they
added the btb (or Behind the Book-
store) coffee shop, which is now being
moved to the new building.
General manager Susan Mercier says
that shes thinking about tweaking some
book sections to make use of the extra
shelf space. The one thing I took away
from Winter Institute was to listen to
our customers, she says. So I asked for
constructive criticism, not just what they
like but what they dont like. Shes also
looking forward to collaborating with
the islands other bookstore, another for-
mer PW Bookstore of the Year, Bunch of
Grapes in Vineyard Haven.
With a background in technology, it
was clear that when Jeff Mayersohn
bought Harvard Book Store in Cam-
bridge, Mass., with his wife Linda
Yankee Ingenuity: Book-
selling in New England
By Judith Rosen
New England booksellers long have been in the bookselling fore-
front: from founding the first regional bookselling group more
than four decades ago (the New England Independent Booksellers
Association) and the paperback revolution (Paperback Book-
smith) to computerized inventory systems (WordStock) and the
launch of regional and national chains (Lauriats and Walden-
books). That same enterprising spirit continues today.
F
ormer PW Bookstore of the
Year winner Northshire
Bookstore is one of several
New England stores that
have found success by buck-
ing trends, in its case that of
right-sizing. Rather than scale back its
10,000-sq.-ft. store in Manchester Cen-
ter, Vt., co-owner Chris Morrow opened
a second 9,000-sq.-ft. location across the
border in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., last
August. According to Morrow, the new
store is hitting projections, and we are
looking forward to our first full summer.
Morrow regards the in-store experi-
ence as key to success. The ambiance of
the physical store is an essential, he says.
The floors, the custom-built book-
shelves, the seating, the unique decora-
tive items, the layout create a sense of
discovery.
Others have followed his lead. Last fall
Bank Square Books in Mystic, Conn.,
more than doubled its space to 6,600 sq.
ft. by adding a second store front to the
existing building. And Edgartown
Books on Marthas Vineyard is complet-
ing an expansion that includes a court-
yard that the store can use for events in
conjunction with a neighboring building
it purchased in December, which will
serve as a caf/restaurant.
Bank Square co-owner Annie Phil-
brick says she realized expansion was
to create a local identity. Didriksen is
trying to capitalize on what he calls
chain fatigue.
Eight Cousins in Falmouth, Mass., has
done well with the shop local movement,
despite the fact that owner Carol Chit-
tenden says, In general I find it easier to
collaborate within the publishing com-
munity, especially in New England, than
with other Main Street merchants. A
few summers ago, when she was trying
to fill a hole in her events schedule, she
copied a scavenger hunt that a local fam-
ily did every summer and asked her Can-
dlewick rep for cardboard Waldo figures.
From that humble beginning came one
of the summers most popular events
around the country, Find Waldo Local,
now in its third year. Somewhere along
the line, says Chittenden, I realized
that my motto is, Use what you have and
do what you can. We dont have every-
thing. But we do get up on our hind legs
and put to good use the literary network,
and community knowledge that are
within reach.
Tiny 700-sq.-ft. Galaxy Books in
Hardwick, Vt., could become a model of
what a successful transition can be. The
store, which does especially well with
books on agriculture, including raising
livestock, as well as cookbooks, chil-
drens, and works by local authors, began
26 years ago as a table in a local yarn
shop. Founder Linda Ramsdell and long-
time employee Sandy Scott have talked
about changing ownership for the past
five years. But it wasnt until they
attended a program on bookstore transi-
tions last spring that the process began
speeding up. Since then, there have
been numerous discussions and several
possible scenarios for the purchase,
explains Scott, who is currently working
with a customer to create a partnership
to buy the store. Ramsdell and Scott
plan to close the deal by early summer.
Although Scott and her partner have a
few ideas for remodeling the space and
expanding sidelines, they plan to go
slowly. We want to preserve the charac-
ter of the Galaxy Bookshop and the con-
nection with our community, Scott
says.
Seamonson, there would be some changes
at the 80-year-old bookstore. Harvard
was an early adopter of social media and
has more than 30,000 followers on Twit-
ter. But one thing its doing that few oth-
ers are is scouring Facebook for fans of
authors being featured in upcoming
events, like Ivan Klima or David Sibley,
and inviting them to attend and/or pre-
order signed books.
Harvard was also among the first to
get an Espresso Book Machine (North-
shire was the first in North America),
and Paige M. Gutenborg has become
an integral part of the store. Mayersohn
says that more and more when hes work-
ing at the information desk on a Saturday
and someone cant find a book he prints
it on Paige. The store also uses the book
machine to bring older books back into
print. Its using Evernote internally so
that staff can collaborate more easily.
Customers can buy tickets to events
through Eventbrite, and then are checked
in via iPad when they arrive. Soon the
bookstore will launch AisleConnect so
that customers who dont want to go to
the information desk can find the books
they want with their cellphones.
David Didriksen, owner of Willow
Books & Cafe in Acton, Mass., says he
was very pleased with how the store ran
in 2013. Reacting to the still sluggish
economy, Didriksen, who was senior v-p
of Hudson Group for 14 years before set-
tling into his own store in 1996, insti-
tuted a number of changes. The first
reasonable thing any store would do
would be tighten our belts, he says, cit-
ing as one example cutting back on
phones. We get a lot fewer calls. He
also carries a lot fewer new books and has
added used titles along with gifts, yoga
mats, and other high-margin goods. Im
still 85% books, says Didriksen. But
the little stuff adds up. I sell a lot of yo-
yos in the spring. Hes also bringing in
t-shirts that say Acton and Concord
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New Englands Literary
Leaders
Part of the regions success in the book world is
due to deeply committed men and women from
all parts of the industry.
Helene Atwan, director of the Beacon Hillbased Beacon Press, an
independent nonprofit book publisher founded in 1854. She is also the
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Administrator, a position she has
held since 2003.
Eve Bridburg, former literary agent and founder and executive director
of GrubStreet, one the countrys leading creative writing centers.
Steve Fischer, executive director of the New England Independent
Booksellers Association. Fischer began his bookselling career right out
of college, working in the stockroom of the Vermont Bookshop in Mid-
dlebury, Vt. He has held positions with Harper, Tuttle, and Red Wheel
Weiser.
Karen Lotz, president and publisher of the Somerville, Mass.based
Candlewick Press. In the 15 years since she joined the childrens pub-
lisher, Lotz and the press have published three Newbery Medal winners,
a National Book Award winner, and a Caldecott Medalist. She is also joint
managing director of Walker Books, Candlewicks parent company.
Deborah Z Porter, founder and director of the Boston Book Festival,
now the largest public literary event in New England. She is also on the
executive committee for the Literary Cultural District initiative in Bos-
ton.
Amy E. Ryan, the first female president of the Boston Public Library, is
now overseeing a major renovation of its main branch in Copley Square.
She has run the library since 2008.
Marshall Smith, founder and majority owner of the Coolidge Corner-
based bookstore Brookline Booksmith. Smith is also the founder of
Paperback Booksmith, Videosmith, Learningsmith, and Cybersmith.
John Taylor Ike Williams, publishing lawyer and
cofounder and director of the Kneerim, Williams & Bloom Agency, a
literary and dramatic rights agency, with offices in Boston and New York.
Karen Wulf, executive director of New Englands headquarters for
International PEN, a worldwide association of writers that celebrates
freedom of expression. Wulf has worked in the arts, health, and human
services fields for 35 years.
Linda Zecher, president and CEO of Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, one of the countrys largest book publishers with long, deep
ties to Boston.
Linda Beaulieu is an award-winning food
and travel writer. She is the author of Te
Providence &Rhode Island Cookbook and
Seafood Lovers New England (both Globe
Pequot Press) as well as Divine Providence: An
Insiders Guide to the Citys Best Restaurants
and Te Grapevine Guide to Rhode Islands
Best Restaurants. She received the prestigious
James Beard Award for magazine writing for
an article about Native American food, which
appeared in the National Culinary Review.
She divides her time between Lincoln and
Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Al Weems is a corporate, commercial,
and advertising photographer who
specializes in on-location assignments
and natural-light photography. He has
photographed throughout the United States
and internationally, has conducted many
workshops and seminars, and has been
published in numerous magazines, annual
reports, and catalogs. He lives in Sutton,
Massachusetts.
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the rest of the nation further down the bestsellers list, although
no bestseller could be considered a real regional book. The Pigeon
Needs a Bath! was #13 in News England the first week in April,
but only 31st nationwide, while Orphan Train was #17 in the
region and 39th across the country. New England readers were
out in front on the April 1 title, Autism Breakthrough, which was
#25 in New England in the week, and sales in the region
accounted for almost half of all copies sold in the books first
week on sale.
One national title that was not a New England favorite in
early April was Heaven Is for Real. The book, #11 on the national
charts, was 36 in New England.
In step with the rest of the country, with a few exceptions
Whats Selling in New England
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rored that of the rest of the country, at least in the
first week in April. Flash Boys was the top-selling
print title in the region at outlets that report to
Nielsen BookScan and Michael Lewiss account of
high-frequency traders was #4 for the week on the
national charts. Three of Veronica Roths books in her Divergent
trilogy (in addition to the original hardcover editions, Diver-
gent books are available in other format as well as a boxed set),
were one-two-three nationally in the week, and only one place
below that in New England.
New England reading preferences differed a bit more from
RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN PRICE UNITS
1 Flash Boys Michael Lewis W. W. Norton 9780393244663 $27.95 5023
2 Divergent Veronica Roth HaperCollins/Tegen 9780062024039 $9.99 3712
3 Insurgent Veronica Roth HaperCollins/Tegen 9780062024046 $17.99 3109
4 Allegiant Veronica Roth HaperCollins/Tegen 9780062024060 $19.99 2483
5 Shadow Spell Nora Roberts Berkley 9780425259863 $17.00 2200
6 Never Go Back Lee Child Dell 9780440246329 $9.99 2179
7 The Fault in Our Stars John Green Dutton 9780525478812 $17.99 2013
8 Ive Got You Under My Skin Mary Higgins Clark Simon & Schuster 9781476749068 $26.99 1984
9 Starting Now: A Blossom Street Novel Debbie Macomber Ballantine 9780345528834 $7.99 1544
10 NYPD Red 2 Patterson/Karp Little, Brown 9780316211239 $28.00 1440
11 Frozen Victoria Saxon Random House/Disney 9780736430517 $3.99 1284
12 Divergent Veronica Roth HaperCollins/Tegen 9780062289858 $9.99 1260
13 The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Mo Willems Disney Press 9781423190875 $16.99 1245
14 Daddys Gone A Hunting Mary Higgins Clark Pocket Books 9781451668957 $7.99 1190
15 Frozen: The Junior Novelization Sarah Nathan Random House/Disney 9780736431187 $4.99 1142
16 Minecraft: Essential Handbook Scholastic Inc. Scholastic 9780545669931 $7.99 1048
17 Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline William Morrow 9780061950728 $14.99 1040
17 Frozen Melissa Lagonegro Random House/Disney 9780736431200 $3.99 1040
19 The King J.R. Ward New American Library 9780451417053 $27.95 986
20 Missing You Harlan Coben Dutton 9780525953494 $27.95 978
21 Dont Hurt People and Dont Take... Matt Kibbe William Morrow 9780062308252 $23.99 976
22 Forget Me Not Fern Michaels Zebra 9781420133141 $7.99 963
23 Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts Berkley 9780425269817 $17.00 848
24 The Hungry Girl Diet Lisa Lillien St. Martins Griffn 9780312676797 $26.99 847
25 Autism Breakthrough Raun K. Kaufman St. Martins 9781250041111 $25.99 798
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