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BOOK NOTES
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Rainbow
Wins the Gold Medal for Design Winning the Gold Medal for Design
from the Florida Book Awards is Rainbow's coffee table book, Seminole Views: A Postcard Panorama of America’s Only
Unconquered Tribe, by Sarasota author and wildlife photographer Emmett H. L. Snellings, Jr. Books in the
design category were judged for production, quality, format and overall design of jacket, binding, or cover, and illustrated,
typographic and technical text. Jurors were authorized to select up to five medalists; however, only one medal was awarded
in the design category — to Seminole Views. Snellings was awarded the Gold Medal in
March at the Historical and Cultural Awards Ceremony sponsored by the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs
and was recognized at the May Florida Library Association Conference's Florida Book Awards Banquet. Photo: Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning
(L) and Governor Charlie Crist. The Florida Book Awards is coordinated by The Florida State University Program in American
and Florida Studies, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical
Society, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,”
Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center
for the Literary Arts, the Florida State University Friends of Libraries, and Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
The Whipped Parent Honored by Parenting
BlogHonored in May by Radical Parenting as one of 50
Best Parenting Books for Families with Teens or Tweens is Rainbow's The Whipped Parent: Hope for Parents Raising an Out-of-Control
Teen by Kimberly Abraham, MSW, CSW; Marney Studaker-Cordner, MSW, CSW; with the late Kathryn O’Dea. Radical Parenting is a company run by youth. As the only parenting blog and company from the kid’s perspective,
RadicalParenting.com has made a huge impact in the parenting blogosphere, by not only bringing a new perspective to parents
on how digital youth are really growing up, but also by giving teens a voice. The Whipped Parent helps parents learn to stop blaming themselves, handle disappointment from unmet expectations,
and work with courts and schools. A practical, realistic and easy-to-understand resource for dealing with behaviors that can
leave even the most experienced parents “whipped.”Therapist authors Abraham and Cordner,
both in Michigan, specialize in helping both parents and their oppositional-defiant and conduct-disordered teens.
Good News for Rainbow Author Patti Henry Patti Henry, a Houston, Texas psychotherapist in private practice, wrote The
Emotionally Unavailable Man. Once published, word got around swiftly that Patti had written a remarkable, common sense
book on relationships that changed lives for the better. Soon it soared to the number two spot in the men’s nonfiction
category on Amazon.com, the Earth’s largest bookstore. Check out the reviews on Amazon.com. Nearly every review on her book carries an impressive five-star rating! The book is currently being considered for translation
purchases by European publishers, and it is now available at Amazon.com as an audiobook.
Rainbow Books, Inc. recently signed the novel, Twenty-One
Aldgate, by Patricia Friedberg. Friedberg, a successful screen writer as well, has now had her film script,
based on the book, signed by Progress Pictures, LTD. UK and co-produced by The Future Film Group, UK. Producer Mary Ann
Amato has scheduled filming in London, with direction by the award-winning Niall Johnson. According
to Amato, casting will begin sometime in late 2009, and the film will enjoy an international release. Stay tuned. Photo: Film
Producer Amato, standing, works with Friedberg on her Progress of the Sun film script, which is based on Twenty-One
Aldgate.
Highly
Praised Mystery Garners Subsidiary Rights Sale
Library Journal featured
Mystery at Clareton Manor by first-time novelist, Kathleen Newberg, when her book was published in 2006 for “returning
to the complex plot and techniques used by Agatha Christie.” In a Subsidiary Rights arrangement, Rainbow Books has sold
the mass market pocketbook rights on Newberg’s book to the Harlequin Books S. A.’s imprint, WORLDWIDE Mystery,
with publication in 2010. Rainbow Books will continue to sell the trade softcover edition. Congratulations, Kathleen! Library Journal's prepublication
review of Mystery at Clareton Manor read, "...a very traditional, deftly plotted cozy peopled with characters
who could have done it. For cozy mystery readers everywhere."
On Keeping Your Book Alive!
Bob Sanford, author of a memoir about his old boss,
eccentric billionaire John D. MacArthur, has now racked up over 100 speaking engagements on the history of MacArthur and the
West Palm Beach, Florida area. There, MacArthur staked his claim in years gone by and ran his empire from
a table in the bar of a hotel he owned. With MacArthur's passing, his vast wealth now underwrites research, PBS entertainment
and the “genius” awards through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Meanwhile, Bob
keeps the MacArthur name alive in a very personal way, speaking at every event — from library teas to posh country
club dinners; and, almost every Christmas finds his book on bestseller lists throughout the Palm Beaches. This is called
“keeping a book alive.” John D. MacArthur: A View from the Bar was first published by Rainbow Books
in 1996. Photo: Bob Sanford gives his 100th presentation at MacArthur Beach State Park.
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FL * USA * 33846 Telephone: (863) 648-4420
* Fax: (863) 647-5951
Copyright 2009 Rainbow Books, Inc.
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