Sourcebooks
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Sourcebooks is a book publisher located in Naperville, IL, in the western suburbs of Chicago. The company publishes books, ebooks, and digital products in most consumer categories, including college guides, memoir, children's books, young adult, fiction, romance fiction
, and reference books. In addition to its flagship Sourcebooks imprint, its imprints include Sourcebooks Casablanca (romance fiction and relationships), Sourcebooks Fire (young adult), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (children's books), Sourcebooks Landmark (fiction), Sourcebooks MediaFusion (mixed-media), Sphinx Publishing (self-help law), and Cumberland House (gift and history).
The company was founded in 1987 by Dominique Raccah as a business and finance publisher. Raccah cashed in $17,000 from her retirement fund to start the press. Since that early start, it has expanded into most categories of trade publishing and has created more than 15 New York Times and USA Today bestselling titles, dozens of national bestsellers, and numerous category bestsellers (such as the Fiske Guide to Colleges and The Complete Book of Baby Names). In 2011 it was publishing more than 300 books and calendars a year, had 75 employees, and was focusing on innovation within the digital transformation of the book industry. Noted as the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the United States, the publisher is also creating mobile apps and several websites on behalf of its authors.
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Sourcebooks Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/sourcebooks
Romance novel
The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
, and reference books. In addition to its flagship Sourcebooks imprint, its imprints include Sourcebooks Casablanca (romance fiction and relationships), Sourcebooks Fire (young adult), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (children's books), Sourcebooks Landmark (fiction), Sourcebooks MediaFusion (mixed-media), Sphinx Publishing (self-help law), and Cumberland House (gift and history).
The company was founded in 1987 by Dominique Raccah as a business and finance publisher. Raccah cashed in $17,000 from her retirement fund to start the press. Since that early start, it has expanded into most categories of trade publishing and has created more than 15 New York Times and USA Today bestselling titles, dozens of national bestsellers, and numerous category bestsellers (such as the Fiske Guide to Colleges and The Complete Book of Baby Names). In 2011 it was publishing more than 300 books and calendars a year, had 75 employees, and was focusing on innovation within the digital transformation of the book industry. Noted as the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the United States, the publisher is also creating mobile apps and several websites on behalf of its authors.
Published authors and titles
- Michael MaloneMichael MaloneMichael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin , Foolscap , and murder mystery First Lady...
: The Delectable Mountains, Dingley Falls, Handling Sin, Uncivil Seasons, Time's Witness, Foolscap, First Lady, Red Clay, Blue Cadillac, The Last Noel, The Four Corners of the Sky - Tim SandlinTim SandlinTim Sandlin is an American novelist and screenwriter.Born in Oklahoma, Sandlin spent his early summers in Wyoming while his father worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park...
: Sex & Sunsets, Western Swing, Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, Social Blunders, Lydia - Georgette HeyerGeorgette HeyerGeorgette Heyer was a British historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer...
: entire fiction collection US editions, including the historicals, romances, and mysteries - Jill MansellJill MansellJill Mansell is a British Chick lit author. Jill Mansell's books have sold over five million copies and her titles include Making your Mind Up, Fast Friends, Perfect Timing, Good at Games, Rumour Has It", Solo, and Millie's Fling, among many others. She grew up in the Cotswolds and attended Sir...
: novels, US editions - C.C. Humphreys: Vlad: The Last Confession
- Tiffanie DeBartoloTiffanie DeBartoloTiffanie DeBartolo is an American novelist, filmmaker, and co-founder of independent record label Bright Antenna. She has written two novels, God-Shaped Hole and How To Kill a Rock Star...
: God-Shaped Hole, How to Kill a Rock Star - Tony ParsonsTony ParsonsTony Parsons is the name of:* Tony Parsons , Canadian news anchor* Tony Parsons , novelist and arts critic...
: Man and Boy - Andre BrinkAndré BrinkAndré Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
: Other Lives, Rumours of Rain, Instant in the Wind, Cape of Storms - Alan CheuseAlan CheuseAlan Cheuse is an American writer and critic, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent. He graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1957 and Rutgers University in 1961. After traveling abroad and working for several years at various writing and editing jobs, he...
: To Catch the Lightning, A Trance After Breakfast, Song of Slaves in the Desert - Cecelia HollandCecelia Holland-Biography:She was born December 31, 1943 in Henderson, Nevada, and began writing at the age of twelve, recording the stories she made up for her own entertainment. From the beginning, her focus was on history because "being twelve, I had precious few stories of my own...
: Great Maria - Ayelet WaldmanAyelet WaldmanAyelet Waldman is a novelist and essayist who was formerly a lawyer. She is noted for her self-revelatory essays, and for her writing about the changing expectations of motherhood...
: Daughter's Keeper - Michael DobbsMichael DobbsMichael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author.-Background:Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford University....
: Winston's War, Churchill's Hour, Churchill's Triumph, Never Surrender - Joe GarnerJoe Garner (author)Joe Garner is an author and former radio executive who resides in Los Angeles.Garner spent twenty years working in the radio industry, with over ten of those years employed as an executive with the Westwood One radio network. He contributed to the creation and production of numerous audiobooks for...
: We Interrupt This BroadcastWe Interrupt This BroadcastWe Interrupt This Broadcast is the title of a non-fiction book from 1998. It was written by Joe Garner; the foreword was written by the veteran American newscaster Walter Cronkite. In addition to many descriptions and pictures of notable news events from the 20th century, compact discs containing...
, CDs narrated by Bill KurtisBill KurtisBill Kurtis is an American television journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor. He is also the current host of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files...
; And The Crowd Goes Wild, And The Fans Roared, CDs narrated by Bob CostasBob CostasRobert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.-Early life:...
, Echoes of Notre Dame Football, CDs narrated by Regis PhilbinRegis PhilbinRegis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera... - Frank DefordFrank DefordBenjamin "Frank" Deford, III is a senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, author, and commentator for National Public Radio and correspondent for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO....
: The Entitled, An American Summer, The Other Adonis - Laura KinsaleLaura KinsaleLaura Kinsale is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling American writer of historical romance novels since 1985.-Biography:Laura Kinsale has a Master of Science in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked in the petroleum industry before beginning to write...
: Lessons in French, Midsummer Moon, Prince of Midnight, Seize the Fire - Hannah StormHannah StormHannah Storm is an American television sports journalist, serving as co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Monday–Thursday mornings, and is also host of the NBA Countdown pregame show on ABC as part of the network's NBA Sunday game coverage.-Early life and career:Storm was born in Oak Park, Illinois,...
: Go Girl!: Raising Healthy, Confident and Successful Girls through Sports - Qanta A. AhmedQanta A. AhmedQanta A. Ahmed is associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.She is the author of In the Land of Invisible Women, an account of her experiences as a physician in Saudi Arabia.-References:...
: In the Land of Invisible Women - Nikki GiovanniNikki GiovanniYolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Her primary focus is on the individual and the power one has to make a difference in oneself and in the lives of others. Giovanni’s poetry expresses strong racial pride, respect for family, and her...
: Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat, 100 Best African American Poems - Elise PaschenElise PaschenElise Paschen, a poet of Osage descent, is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country. The daughter of renowned prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, and Chicago builder Henry D. Paschen, she was born and raised in...
: Poetry Speaks CDs narrated by Charles OsgoodCharles OsgoodCharles Osgood is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, The Osgood File, has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. He is also known for being the voice of the narrator of Horton Hears a Who!, an animated film released in 2008, based on the book...
, Poetry Speaks to Children, Poetry Speaks ExpandedPoetry Speaks ExpandedPoetry Speaks Expanded is a 2007 poetry anthology edited by Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby and Series Editor Dominique Raccah. It is a fusion of the poets' words with the poets' voices, including text and audio CD recordings of nearly fifty of the greatest poets who ever lived...
, Poetry Speaks Who I Am - Michael WaldmanMichael WaldmanMichael Waldman is executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. The Center is one of the nation’s leading legal voices on election law, Constitutional law, government...
: My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of America’s Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama, CDs narrated by George StephanopoulosGeorge StephanopoulosGeorge Robert Stephanopoulos is an American television journalist and a former political advisor.Stephanopoulos is most well known as the chief political correspondent for ABC News – the news division of the broadcast television network ABC – and a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news... - Gary GruberGary GruberGary R. Gruber is an American physicist, educator, and author who has written many books and software programs for standardized test preparation....
: various SAT, ACT, GRE, and other test prep guides - Francesca SimonFrancesca SimonFrancesca Isabelle Simon is an American author living in London, who is mostly known for writing the popular Horrid Henry series of children's books.- Biography :...
: Horrid HenryHorrid HenryHorrid Henry is a fictional character created by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The first Horrid Henry book was written and published in 1994 by Orion Books and as of the end of 2010, there have been nineteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke...
chapter books (US editions) - Bindi IrwinBindi IrwinBindi Sue Irwin is the daughter of The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin. Bindi is a child celebrity who has tried her hand at acting, singing, songwriting, dancing, and rapping...
: Bindi Wildlife Adventures chapter books (US editions) - Kristi YamaguchiKristi YamaguchiKristine Tsuya "Kristi" Yamaguchi-Hedican is an American figure skater. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won one junior world title in 1988 and two...
: Dream Big, Little Pig! - Len BermanLen BermanLen Berman is the former weekday evening sports anchor on WNBC-TV. Berman was with WNBC/NBC from 1982-2009. He was previously with WCBS-TV from 1979–1982, and before that at WBZ-TV in Boston from 1973–1978.-Early life:...
: The Greatest Moments in Sports w/ CD, The 25 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time - Kenn NesbittKenn NesbittKenn Aylward Nesbitt is a children's poet He has written a number of collections of children's poetry, listed below.He was born on February 20, 1962 in Berkeley, California. He grew up in Fresno and San Diego, California, United States....
: My Hippo Has the Hiccups, The Tighty Whitey Spider, More Bears!, The Ultimate Top Secret Guide to Taking Over the World - Tom Heehler: The Well-Spoken ThesaurusThe Well-Spoken ThesaurusThe Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler , is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word." The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, and the Seattle...
External links
Sourcebooks Website http://www.sourcebooks.comPoetrySpeaks.com http://www.poetryspeaks.com
MyMaxScore.com http://www.mymaxscore.com
Sourcebooks Twitter Feed http://twitter.com/#!/sourcebooks
Sourcebooks Casablanca Imprint Twitter Feed http://twitter.com/#!/sourcebookscasa
Sourcebooks Fire Imprint Twitter Feed http://twitter.com/#!/sourcebooksfire
Sourcebooks Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/sourcebooks