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Slay Like a Mother by Katherine Wintsch Received a Starred Review from Booklist

1/14/2019

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We are happy to share that Slay Like A Mother: How to Destroy What’s Holding You Back So You Can Live the Life You Want by Katherine Wintsch has received a starred review from Booklist! 
Any woman will find this enlightening and encouraging.
Read the full review in the February 15 issue of Booklist.

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Trade Review Roundup: Week of January 7, 2019

1/11/2019

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We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across all of our imprints this week. Click "Read More" below for more about the books, the authors, and the reviews. 
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Sourcebooks Best Books and Beverage Pairings

12/21/2018

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​Hello and happy holidays from your friends at Sourcebooks! This holiday season, why not escape the hustle-bustle, and curl up with a festive holiday beverage and a great read? Who needs sugar-plums? These book-beverage pairings are the stuff holiday dreams are made of…
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Click here to check out our kids' book pairings too!

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The Radium Girls by Kate Moore and The Gross Cookbook by Susanna Tee are on the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List

12/18/2018

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We are happy to share that The Radium Girls by Kate Moore and The Gross Cookbook by Susanna Tee are on the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List.

The purpose of the Texas Topaz Reading List is to provide children and adults with recommended nonfiction titles that will encourage reading and personal learning. It is intended for recreational reading and is not designed to support any particular curriculum.
 
The titles on the list are those the Topaz committee felt represented the best Nonfiction titles of the past three years! The list is promoted to Texas librarians as those titles they should consider when making their collection decisions.

Click "Read More" to learn more about the books and authors. Click here to see the full Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List.

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Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer McGaha impacted significantly after being chosen as OverDrive's Big Library Read

12/11/2018

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This April, Flat Broke with Two Goats was chosen as Overdrive's Big Library Read of 2018, Overdrive's ebook club. The program allowed participating libraries unlimited access to the book and allows patrons to borrow the title without any wait lists or holds. More than 14,700 U.S. public library branches participated in the campaign​.

The promotion associated with the title's selection for Overdrive's Big Library Read ran from April 2—16 and aligned with significant increases in associated social media activity and nationwide retail sales (print and ebook).

Project Panorama recently put together a report documenting sales, author discovery and brand development, which was published on November 29, 2018.


Click "Read more" to learn more about the report, report findings, the book, and the author.

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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sourcebooks First New York Times Best Seller

12/10/2018

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We are happy to share that December 9, 2018 is the 20th anniversary of the first appearance by a Sourcebooks title on the New York Times bestsellers list!

In December of 1998, We Interrupt This Broadcast by Joe Garner, with CDs narrated by Bill Kurtis, appeared on the Hardcover Nonfiction list. 

In 1998 Sourcebooks was still a very small publisher, with no concept that making the New York Times list was even possible — or how one found out about it. That fall, we shipped thousands of copies of We Interrupt This Broadcast (a $45 value, complete with CDs) and the enthusiasm about the book by our bookselling partners was incredible. 

On a late Wednesday afternoon in December, a bookstore called us to say we had made the New York Times bestseller list. They emphasized that "we" had made the list, which was fitting then and now:  the Sourcebooks team includes our authors, of course, and it also includes our partners and champions in the bookselling and librarian communities. They are the folks who are boots-on-the-ground during the holiday season, working tirelessly to put just the right book in the right reader’s hands. We applaud them – we’re proud to be on a team together.
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Getting Real About Getting Older by Linda Stroh, PhD and Karen K. Brees, PhD, received a STARRED Review from Library Journal

11/9/2018

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We are thrilled to share that Getting Real About Getting Older received a starred review from Library Journal! Read below for all the details. 
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A realistic yet optimistic guide to the “golden” years.
Read the full review in the November 15th issue of Library Journal.

About the book

​The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you?

It seems that life’s milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies, and beyond? Linda K. Stroh and Karen K. Brees asked nearly one thousand older people about the challenges and joys of growing older and compiled their collective wisdom into this must-have book, focusing on important topics such as:

· Changing self-identities
· Friendships and romantic relationships
· Health, fitness, and self-image
· Loss
· Relationships with adult children, grandchildren, and siblings
· And much more!

Full of advice and stories from a wide variety of older people, Getting Real about Getting Older examines love, loss, and changing identities, and will help you take control of your concerns about aging and experience wisdom and joy as an older adult.

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LINDA K. STROH, PhD, is a Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Development at University of California Santa Cruz. 

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KAREN K. BREES, PhD, is a retired university professor with a doctorate in adult education.


click here to see all of our starred reviews
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She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell is a Washington Post Bestseller

11/5/2018

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We are excited to share that She Caused a Riot is a Washington Post bestseller, coming in at #4 on the Paperback nonfiction list! Read below for more about the book and the author. 

More about She Caused A Riot​

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Women’s stories are often written as if they spent their entire time on Earth casting woeful but beautiful glances towards the horizon and sighing into the bitter wind at the thought of any conflict. 

Well, that’s not how it f**king happened. When you hear about a woman who was 100% pure and good, you’re probably missing the best chapters in her life’s story. Maybe she slept around. Maybe she stole.  Maybe she crashed planes. Maybe she got shot, or maybe she shot a bad guy (who probably had it coming). Maybe she caused a scandal. Maybe she caused a riot . . . 

From badass writer Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot is an empowering, no-holds-barred look into the epic adventures and dangerous exploits of 100 inspiring women who were too brave, too brilliant, too unconventional, too political, too poor, not ladylike enough and not white enough to be recognized by their shitty contemporaries. 

From 3rd-century Syrian queen Zenobia to 20th-century Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, these are women who gave absolutely zero f**ks, and will inspire a courageous new movement of women to do the same.

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Hannah Jewell is an on camera host for the video team at The Washington Post. She was previously a writer at BuzzFeed UK, where she became known for her humor writing about gender and her satire of UK and US politics, and for presenting BuzzFeed's live 2016 election night show. She was born in London, but her parents whisked her away to California when she was a baby, and so she grew up frolicking on beaches and through redwood forests. She earned a degree from UC Berkeley in Middle Eastern Studies, taking a year out to study and work in Beirut. She had a great time in Lebanon but now is unfortunately banned from that country. She then returned to the UK in 2013 for an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge, which was mostly fine. Her career highlight so far was breaking the story of the “Milifandom” for BuzzFeed, a strange phenomenon when teen girls across Britain went wild for the leader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband in the 2015 general election. Now she lives in Washington and wishes she had cats. Visit her online at hannahjewell.com and on Twitter @hcjewell.

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Trade Review Roundup: Week of October 1

10/1/2018

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We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across all of our imprints. Read below for all the details!

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Kate Moore is On Tour for The Radium Girls

10/1/2018

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We are happy to share that Kate Moore is on tour again for her New York Times bestseller, The Radium Girls. Read below for all the details. 

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The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger.

The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.

Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.

But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. 

Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives . . .
The story of real women at the mercy of businesses who see them only as a potential risk to the bottom line is haunting precisely because of how little has changed; the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still. —NPR Books

The October 2018 Tour:

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Monday, October 8 at 6:00 PM
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café
In conversation with Denise Kiernan
Asheville, NC
 
Tuesday, October 9 at 6:00 PM
Best of Books
Edmond, OK
 
Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 PM
Booksmart Tulsa & Magic City Books – IDL Ballroom
Tulsa, OK

Thursday, October 11 at 7:00 PM
Boswell Book Company – Lynden Sculpture Garden
Milwaukee, WI
Friday, October 12 at 7:30 PM
Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival – Madison Central Library
Madison, WI
 
Saturday, October 13 at 1:30 PM
Morristown Festival of Books
Morristown, NJ
 
Sunday, October 14 at 3:00 PM
Mountain Lakes Public Library – Mountain Lakes High School
         Mountain Lakes, NJ
 
 Monday October 15 at 7:30pm
 Concordia College
 Bronxville, NY

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Kate Moore is the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls. A British writer based in London, she has published numerous Sunday Times bestsellers, writing across various genres including history, biography, true crime, gift and humour. She began her career in publishing after graduating from the University of Warwick and worked as an in-house editor at various publishing houses for over a decade, most recently as an editorial director of Penguin Random House, and now works full-time as an author, ghostwriter and book editor. She has written more than 15 books and her work has been translated into more than 12 languages.

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