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STONE THROWER
RICHARDSON, JAEL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father—former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey—for
the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her
father’s past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father’s move from the projects of Portsmouth,
Ohio to Canada’s professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first
learned to throw with stones, Jael begins an unexpected journey into her family’s past. In this engaging fatherdaughter
memoir, Richardson records some her father’s never-before-told stories: his relationship with his
absentee father, memories of his high school and college football victories – including a winning record that
remains unbroken to this day – and his up-and-down relationship with the woman he would one day marry.
BIOGRAPHY/SPORTS - FOOTBALL 1ST PRINTING 5000 IN CANADA
THOMAS ALLEN
9781771022057
$24.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
THE STORY OF AIN'T
SKINNER, DAVID
For fans of The Professor and the Madman comes a captivating look at a changing culture and the individuals
behind it, captured in the surprising story of the world’s most controversial dictionary—Merriam Webster’s Third
New International Dictionary—and the ensuing controversy it provoked when it was published in 1961.
LANGUAGE/HISTORY 1ST PRINTING 40,000
HARPER 368 PAGES
9780062027467
$33.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION
9780062201508 ($33.99)
THE STORY OF NAXOS
SOAMES, NICOLAS
In 1987, a budget classical record label was started in Hong Kong by Klaus Heymann, a German businessman
who loved classical music. Swiftly, it gained a world wide reputation for reliable new digital recordings of the
classics at a remarkably low price. Despite opposition from the classical record establishment, it grew at a
remarkable pace and soon expanded into opera, early music, contemporary music and specialist repertoire so
that it became appreciated by specialist collectors as well as the general music lover. At the heart of Naxos is
one man: Klaus Heymann. The combination of his broad knowledge of classical music and his acute business
acumen has enabled him to build the most varied classical music label in the world.
MUSIC/BUSINESS 1ST PRINTING 25,000
WEIDENFELD & NICHOLSON 320 PAGES
9780749956899
$39.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
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