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Happiness is Owning a Laundromat: An Introduction to the Coin Laundry Industry by Sally Collins (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435062, trade paperback, 88 pgs) It’s a dirty world out there, and everyone is going to clean up. See how potential entrepreneurs can prosper in the coin laundry business. "Sally Collins knows the laundry business." - Brian Wallace, President &CEO of the Coin Laundry Organization. |
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Notes from a Practicing Writer by Ed Shockley (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690638, trade paperback, 188 pgs) Award winning dramatist/screenwriter shares unique insights into the craft of playwrighting plus practical suggestions for career development. "It's not how well you write, it's how well you see," says Shockley. "An inspiring examination of how and why to write a play, as well as a practical course in building a theatre career." -James McBride, author of The Color of Water |
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Reflections on the Human Condition by Eric Hoffer (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435143, trade paperback, 88 pgs) Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—delivers a collection of timeless aphorisms on the nature of mankind. |
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The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435100, trade paperback, 136 pgs) Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—delivers essays on the duality and essentiality of change in man throughout history. |
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The Passionate State of Mind by Eric Hoffer (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435097, trade paperback, 120 pgs) Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—delivers a collection of timeless aphorisms taken from his brilliant writings. |
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The Temper of Our Time by Eric Hoffer (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435224, trade paperback, 106 pgs) Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—delivers essays on automation, the black revolution, the back to nature movement, intellectuals vs. learning, and other social issues. |
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Time and Money: The Economy and the Planets by Robert Gover (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690689, trade paperback, 400 pgs) Best-selling author explains the correlation between the economy and the planets in a broad sweeping look at economic history and the astrological indicators. Includes many charts and graphs. |
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Write to Publish: Essentials for the Modern Fiction & Memoir Market by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690697, trade paperback, 175 pgs) The award-winning author and writing mentor covers the craft of fiction and memoir, including practical techniques for reaching agents, editors, and ultimately readers. “I swear if I had read this book twenty years ago I would be on a book tour right now … a cornucopia of tips, tricks of the trade, and insights gathered by the author over his past twenty years as a writer and educator.” -Book Crazy Radio |
FICTION
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A Passion in the Desert by Thomas E. Kennedy (Wordcraft of Oregon, ISBN 187765552X, trade paperback, 192 pgs) "By the time readers finish A PASSION IN THE DESERT, they will know its central character, Fred Twomey, more intimately than they know the people around them, quite possibly even themselves. That's one of the powers of great fiction, and Thomas E. Kennedy possesses a special ability to explore the landscape of a man's inner world, exposing emotions and secrets he can barely admit to himself. Although Twomey's life is unique, caught up in its own particular drama, he is clearly one of us, and in discovering him, we discover ourselves." - The Literary Review |
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Cast Upon the Day by Thomas E. Kennedy (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435151, trade paperback, 224 pgs) Meet the characters running round here, eleven of them, each at his busting point: Jack Lynch, Bill Gurb, Jazz Jastovic, Charlie Feuk, Mickey Jung, Thomas Brighton, Fin Finley. With irony and humor, their minds and lives are laid bare for us to follow as one goes mad from the music in his brain, another tears his house down onto his own head, another takes off from the IRS with a bagful of C notes. Enter these pages and join this wild melee. "Presented with irony, wit, and side-splitting humor... an eclectic collection that will not disappoint." - Midwest Book Review |
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Everything Burns by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690654, trade paperback, 242 pgs) Tabloid photojournalist Boot Means chases a serial arsonist across Texas, before this killer creates his masterpiece fire. Follow this suspenseful thriller into the soul of a true pyromaniac. “Absorbing reading!” -Booklist |
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Idiot! by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435232, trade paperback, 288 pgs) What is the value of one life? Forest ranger Thomas King is a severe dyslexic and perceived village idiot. Alone, he roams the Pine Barrens, hoping to save a failing town. Claire Wethers' children have been stolen by her ex. The former beauty queen privately drowns her fears in whiskey. Their lives appear as marginal as the bankrupt town, but when this unlikely pair merge paths, everything changes. |
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Jesus Lives in Trenton by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690603, trade paperback, 274 pgs) Author’s Select Edition. Tabloid photojournalist Boot Means has discovered big trouble in Trenton. Take an exhilarating and hilarious journey into the heady world of TV evangelism and the seamy underworld of cult organizations. “… undeniable charm.” -Booklist |
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Local Music by Walter Cummins (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 193343516X, trade paperback, 232 pgs) A man who can't bring himself to return to the apartment of his failing marriage, a woman spied upon by a neighbor, a father terrified by the four-year-old next door, a boy living in a house haunted by his mother's madness, a mother whose children are freezing in a heatless bedroom--the characters in the stories of Local Music are unsettled in their own homes, their lives dissonant and discordant. "A rewarding and moving experience." - MyShelf.com |
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Nashville Skyline by Chrissy Coleman (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 9781933435206, trade paperback, 296 pgs) A talented young country and western singer from Kentucky takes us through the underbelly of the music business as she struggles to carve out a career. "Chrissy Coleman chronicles the highs and lows of Maggie's travail in a prose style as spare and on point as the best C&W lyrics, creating a story that grabs readers on page one and doesn't turn them loose till the final scene." - Robert Gover, author One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. Coming in 2008! "Nashville Skyline is a hard hitting work. .... a peek into a part of the music industry that few of us realize or might consider as she transports us into the not so glamorous or exciting underside of the music business. ..." - The Compulsive Reader |
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On the Run with Dick and Jane by Robert Gover (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435127, trade paperback, 256 pgs) In his first novel in 20 years, 12 year-old group home escapee Jane Doyle cons 63 year-old widower Dick Steel into a cross-country drive in order to flee an overseas child sex slavery ring. “A literary Halley’s comet…” - Gore Vidal |
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One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding by Robert Gover (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 097269062X, trade paperback, 225 pgs) The international cult classic that changed the literary world. See what happens when a young black prostitutes hooks up with a preppy white boy for the weekend. “What a find! I've been recommending it to everyone. This book should create a sensation.” - Henry Miller |
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Pluto's Garden by Rick Zabel (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 9781933435077, trade paperback, 220 pgs) Guthrie LaRue, a so-called renowned terrorist from the 1960s, is mired in the past and can't find her way into the twenty-first century. Now a local laughingstock, she is certain that the only way for her to relive her days of infamy is to blow up a huge shopping mall that she believes is threatening to destroy the small rural community of Shakespeare, Indiana. Coming in July 2008 Advanced Order Now! |
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Prairie Stars by Lori Thompson (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435194, trade paperback, 304 pgs) The story of Theresa Marten and her involvement in Assumption as it became a medical boomtown. “Lori Thompson masterfully relates the amazing story of the rise and fall of a man some believed to be a miraculous healer and others saw as a rogue con artist.” - Robert Gover, author of On the Run with Dick and Jane |
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The Book of Mamie by Duff Brenna (Wordcraft of Oregon, ISBN 1877655457, trade paperback, 390 pgs) The story of one person's struggle to overcome the abuse and traumas of her childhood. She is a wonderfully gifted young woman, a young woman of genius, uncanny wisdom and primitive strength, whose revelations unfold in the course of an odyssey across the heartland of America. “...a risky graceful book ...told in language that is lean and unpretentious, language forged out of the hard landscape of the rural Middle West ” - The New York Times |
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The Law of Falling Bodies by Duff Brenna (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435186, trade paperback, 364 pgs) "Meet Virgil Francis Foggy, age 14, rendered from all sides by a writer who has eyes in the back of his head," says Susan Salter Reynolds of the LA Times. A novel about the schizophrenic, ubiquitous, and cyclical nature of all wars within and between men, women, and nations. “A bravura performance by one of America’s best talents.” - Michael Lee, member of the National Book Critics Circle |
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The Priest and the Nazi by John LeConte (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435046, trade paperback, 322 pgs) What is truth? The soul of good and evil is presented in two characters: a Nazi SS officer fleeing Germany right after the end of the war and the Catholic priest he encounters. |
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The Winners Circle by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 193343502X, trade paperback, 250 pgs) Striking it rich is the American dream, but when Jerry Nearing wins millions in the lottery, his troubles have only begun. It’s Klim’s best comedy/drama since Jesus Lives in Trenton. "Like his previous novels, it's hard to put down till you're done." -Thomas E. Kennedy, Intl Editor of StoryQuarterly. |
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Trail of Vengeance by Peter James Quirk (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435038, trade paperback, 234 pgs) Lisa Rossi, a young Brooklyn police detective, is pitted against international jewel thieves, who, during the course of a spectacular heist in Manhattan, murder Lisa's partner. |
EXPERIENCE
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Garden of Hope: Autobiography of a Marriage by Maryanne Raphael & Lennox Raphael (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435089, trade paperback, 228 pgs) A frank, endearing memoir of two star struck lovers who travel the world and Jim Crow America, a black-white couple coping with the realities of daily life and mental challenges for ten years in Rio and other places during the dynamic sixties. |
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Truth Imagined by Eric Hoffer (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435011, trade paperback, 120 pgs) Eric Hoffer—one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—reveals his early days and life on the road during the Great Depression—a time which served as the breeding ground for his most fertile thoughts. |
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Writers on the Job edited by Walter Cummins & Thomas E. Kennedy (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 9781933435213, trade paperback, 244 pgs) Thomas E. Kennedy and Walter Cummins have selected for this book essays by twenty fiction writers, poets, and essayists about how they have managed to keep themselves housed and fed while writing. They share a long tradition.. Coming in July 2008 Advanced Order Now! |
BEST NEW WRITING
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Best New Writing 2007 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435178, trade paper, 254 pgs) An annual anthology of new fiction and creative nonfiction from writers around the world, including the winners of the Eric Hoffer Award for prose and books. Edited by best-selling and award-winning authors and editors, the pages of BNW feature stories without the boundaries and limitations of contemporary publishing. This volume includes works from Michael J. Cohen, Walter Cummins, Michael Dutton, Shannon N. Forster, William J. Gagnon, Christopher J. Helvey, Linda Lappin, Clare MacQueen, Jamie McCulloch, Lance Olsen, Kathye Fetsko Petrie, Rex Sexton, Janset Berkok Shami, Laurie Stone, Susan Tekulve, Ellen Visson, and Timothy Young. “This extensive anthology will immediately become a treasured possession. And as he has for decades, Styron will captivate millions of future fans with his brilliant mind and extraordinary talent.” - Walter Cronkite |
WRITERS NOTES MAGAZINE
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Writers Notes Magazine, #6 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435135, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 136pgs) The “Isolation” issue, featuring Thomas E. Kennedy, Christopher Klim, Kathye Fetsko Petrie, Jason Price Everett, interview with Mary Gordon, and also John E. Gainer, Andrey Gritsman, Jeff Gunderson, Lori Hofstetter, Allison Joseph, Angela Manning, George Martorano, Terry Price, Abel C. Ramirez, Jr., Brady Rhoades, Jane Stuart, Dale T. Stuckey, and Rain Sullivan. |
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Writers Notes Magazine, #5 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435054, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 144pgs) The “Memory” issue, featuring Christopher Klim, Kathye Fetsko Petrie, interview with Thomas Fleming, artwork by Pietro del Fabro, graphics by Rich Hedden, and J. A. Pollard, Jane Stuart, Derek Alger, M. Richard Leopold, Lindsay Landis, Maria Ceraso Erausquin, Jordan Dascal, Drew Griffiths, Francis J. Piacine, Allison Joseph, Viannah Duncan. |
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Writers Notes Magazine, #4 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435003, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 140pgs) The “Dream” issue, featuring Robert Gover, Christopher Klim, Kathye Fetsko Petrie, Stoyan Valev, interview with William Styron, graphics by Rich Hedden, and also Derek Alger, Michael J. Cohen, Marry Ellen Garcia, Marjorie Heidorn, Poppy Kennedy, Jenny Lentz, Michael S. Morris, Lorita O’Leary, and Robert Paschen. |
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Writers Notes Magazine, #3 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690646, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 140pgs) The “Independence” issue, featuring Frank Finale, Matt Ryan, Christopher Klim, interview with Tim O’Brien (author of The Things They Carried), graphics by Rich Hedden, and also Shelly Culbertson, Margo Dill, Stephen Donaldson, C. Duane Hague, Tom Jenkins, Nina Lavander, Joe Quinn, Jason Rice, Dale T. Stuckey, Victor Walsh, and Lou Wollin. |
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Writers Notes Magazine, #2 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690662, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 162 pgs) The “War” issue, featuring Thomas E. Kennedy, Christopher Klim, Ed Shockley,.Stojan Valev, interview with Ben Yagoda, photos by Bryant Gover, and also Gargi Choudhury, Charisse Coleman, Dana Goeglein, Kristen Grant, Sally Haxthow, Rich Hedden, Steven Manchester, David Margolis, Diane Mierzwik, Robert Miller, Kathye Fetsko Petrie, Paul Pineiro, Jason Rice, B. A. Webb. |
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Writers Notes Magazine, #1 (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690611, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper, 130 pgs) The premiere magazine issue featuring authors Robert Gover and Christopher Klim, interviews with Glimmer Train and Book Crazy Radio, and also Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Ann L. Diorio, Stephen Donaldson, Alina Garbuzov, Ann Garvey, Rich Hedden, Mark Miller, Matt Ryan, Behlor Santi, and Jenny Thompson. |
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The Writers Notes Magazine Collection |
The Complete Writers Notes Magazine Collection (Issues #1 through #6) (Hopewell Publications, ISSN 1548-2774, trade paper) Get the entire WNM backlist. Read stories and interviews from national and international award-winning writers William Styron, Tim O’Brien, Thomas Kennedy, Thomas Fleming, Robert Gover, Stojan Valev, and Christopher Klim. Save more than $10! |
KIDS BOOKS
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Firecracker Jones Is On The Case by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 0972690670, trade paper, 111 pgs) Firecracker Jones' best friend has disappeared, and only the coolest ninth grade detective in the history of Crater Valley can solve the mystery. Follow 'F' as he overcomes rain, swamps, and horrifying health food dinners to crack his first greatest case. |
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Firecracker Jones Is On The Case by Christopher Klim (Hopewell Publications, ISBN 1933435119, hardcover, 111 pgs) Firecracker Jones' best friend has disappeared, and only the coolest ninth grade detective in the history of Crater Valley can solve the mystery. Follow 'F' as he overcomes rain, swamps, and horrifying health food dinners to crack his first greatest case. |
PRODUCTS
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The Ultimate U.S. Library Mailing List – This list of over 1,600 U.S. libraries is reviewed periodically with actual mailings to make it very accurate. Containing postal addresses for the main branch and/or head office of many library districts throughout the country, this list is designed to reach key library acquisition agents and book buyers in all 50 states. This is the list we use, and you can keep it and reuse it as many times as you’d like. Available in MS-Excel and Text format (comma delimited) on CD-ROM, or Hardcopy (print out). |
