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Blackout to Blessing

The story of one woman’s journey out of darkness.

Beyond the lights and the camera, Melissa Huray spent her nights in darkness. Between seedy bars, lost time, and a painful quest for love, marriage, and a long-term relationship, she was spiraling—and no one ever knew. What started as an escape from her oppressive childhood had become an addiction that plagued and defined her. For fifteen years, she had hidden her dark, shameful secret, and when the cameras started rolling, she was always there, ready to deliver the news.

But all along, she knew something was missing, a truth she once knew was calling her back. She had first felt it as a teenager, when she felt invisible and forgotten in the cycle of addiction and superficiality that ruled her household. Melissa was lost in the shuffle of a distracted mother, alcoholic father, and spotless brother. Soon, panic attacks became all-consuming. The only way to feel better was to feel nothing at all, and remember even less.
But after fifteen years, the relief was fleeting, and she couldn’t stop.

After one staggering night, she was faced with the horrifying reality that her time was ticking. She knew something had to change, and fast. But how? Melissa then realized it wasn’t “what” could save her, but “Who.”

Author: Melissa Huray

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825309922)

Ebook: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825308710)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

300 pages

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Illusions of Camelot

From the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet comes an unforgettable memoir about one artist’s journey from boyhood to ballet.

Peter’s story starts in the pastoral and privileged town of Bedford, New York: a rare enclave 40 miles north of New York City where private schools, country clubs, and families hold their own rules and secrets. Within the town, views of race, morality, and sexuality are unspoken yet evident. Meanwhile, at home, Peter and his family are left to grapple with his father’s alcoholism and untimely death. As a young boy finding his way, Peter soon turns to ballet. Ultimately his passion becomes a beacon, leading him to work at the New York City Ballet as a teenager, living on his own while discovering the pitfalls and pleasures Manhattan has to offer.

Throughout Peter’s deeply personal work, you’ll meet Hattie Lindsay, Peter’s caregiver, whose love for Peter matches her disdain for Henry, the family dog. You’ll step onto the club house floor during ballroom dancing lessons in Bedford, into the studios of the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and onto the stage in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker as Peter performs the title role of the Nutcracker Prince. For all the laughter these stories offer, gravity is everywhere. Moments by Balanchine’s hospital bedside, or in the AIDS-ravaged ward at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital as a loved one’s life passes away are told with painful honesty and raw hurt.

Peter’s journey takes us to the start of a storied career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet and leaves us with insights into the unique path of an artist and individual shaped by environment, circumstance, and family.

Author: Peter Boal

Hardcover: $24.95 USD (ISBN: 9780825309830)

Ebook: $14.99 USD (ISBN: 9780825308628)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ Personal Memoirs

250 pages

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PRESS RELEASE: Try Not to Hold It Against Me

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023

Producer’s Memoir Reveals Hollywood Secrets

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New York, New York — Whether you’re trying to break into the film industry, or if you simply have a passion or curiosity for Hollywood, veteran entertainment producer Julian Schlossberg provides a tell-all in his new memoir, Try Not to Hold It Against Me (Beaufort Books; Hardcover & digital; $26.95; on sale January 31st, 2023).

“A LOVE LETTER TO SHOW BUSINESS! Try Not to Hold It Against Me is a must-read written by one of the best & funniest in the industry. Truly a fascinating memoir that will captivate & delight any reader!”
— Susan Stroman, five-time Tony Award-winning Director & Choreographer

From his nearly 60 years in show business, Schlossberg takes us through stories of a lifetime — the trials and triumphs of work and play, in every avenue of the business: negotiating with Al Pacino, Burt Reynolds, and Lillian Hellman; hosting the syndicated radio and television production “Movie Talk;” restoring Orson Welles’ masterly film adaptation of “Othello;” partying with Barbra Streisand; testifying in a lawsuit against The Beatles; and interviewing over 120 of the most influential figures for his series “Witnesses to the 20th Century.”

Written with engaging humor and self-deprecation, Try Not to Hold It Against Me gives readers a behind-the-scenes pass to Hollywood and its secrets. It’s a compelling read for entertainment-enthusiasts alike — and a one-of-a-kind autobiography by one of entertainment’s true insiders.

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Beaufort Books is an independent publisher based in New York City. Beaufort publishes a mix of non-fiction and fiction titles, with about 15–20 new titles each year. Since 2007, we’ve published four New York Times bestsellers.

For more information or to arrange an interview with Julian Schlossberg, please contact Emma St. John at emma@beaufortbooks.com

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Black Fatherhood

This one of a kind book aims to highlight the importance of being a present father while breaking the stereotype that surrounds Black fatherhood. Written by Dr. Curtis L. Ivery and his son Marcus, the book is a blueprint for being a successful family man as well as a model African-American man. It’s also an account of the current state of the African-American community and family, which is increasingly viewed as disconnected and falling apart. Riddled with quotes by celebrated leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Bill Cosby, and Nelson Mandela, the book provides tips on how to be a father each day, every day. Ivery talks about the importance of instilling a value system and emphasizes ways in which fathers can have optimal relationships with their children. The book also delves into our current society and examines how it’s affecting African-American communities and families, as well as how we can overcome this. This book is an indispensable guide for fathers and children alike that will surely strengthen any family’s bond.

About: Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, Marcus Ivery

Hardcover: $19.95 (ISBN: 9780825307430)

Parenting/Social Science/Ethnic Studies

208 pages

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Friends in High Places

Before the nation came to know them as the President and First Lady, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were close friends of Webb Hubbell. Now Hubbell offers insight into how he and the Clintons climbed the political ranks from Arkansas to the White House.

Included in this book are intricate tales of Hubbell’s support of Bill Clinton in his tensest moments; his friendship with Hillary Rodham Clinton; the tragic death of Vince Foster; details of involvement in Whitewater; and insights into famous personalities such
as Janet Reno, Mac McLarty, Bernie Nussbaum, Bruce Lindsey, Mickey Kantor, and George Stephanopoulos.

The story is told from the perspective of one who personally knows the President and First Lady. Their friendship began as partners at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm. When Bill Clinton worked as Governor of Arkansas, Hubbell served with him as Mayor of Little Rock, and later as chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Hubbell joined the Clintons in the White House as associate attorney general, but his political career ended with the Whitewater scandal and incarceration in federal prison.

Why Hubbell committed the crimes he assumes responsibility for are detailed; a conflicted soul struggling with the cynical maelstrom of power and politics. Hubbell reflects on his resignation and prison sentence, and his old friends who have since isolated him from the White House.

His recounting resonates with the humanity in us all: the love he shares with his wife and family, the grief over losing friends to death or circumstances, and humility when faced with calamity. In the end, Hubbell faces the truth with a steadfastness seldom seen in Washington.

About: Webb Hubbell

Paperback: $19.95 (ISBN: 9780825307812)

E-book: $14.95 (ISBN: 9780825307089)

Memoir

342 pages

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A Walk for Sunshine

Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure filled with humorous, frightening, and inspirational stories including, bears, bugs, blisters, skunk bed mates, and hilarious food cravings. As Alt walked through freezing temperatures, driving rain, and sunny skies, he was constantly buoyed by the knowledge that his walk was dedicated to his brother who has cerebral palsy. Alt’s adventure inspired an annual fundraiser which has raised over $400,000 for the Sunshine Home where his brother lives. As you walk along with Alt, you experience the success of turning dreams into goals and achieving them. Alt shares his life lessons from the trail with a focus on family, stewardship of the earth, and good health.

About: Jeff Alt

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825307768)

E-book: $9.95 (ISBN: 9780825307058)

Travel

303 pages

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A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains is a heartwarming, inspirational, and evocative collection of memories and short stories from Kev Reynolds, a prolific and celebrated guidebook author who has been roaming the mountains for a half-century. These recollections trail Reynolds’ journeys through some of his favorite and most memorable lessons learned on the mountains. The people met, experiences shared, and cultures bridged throughout Reynolds’ travels make for an engaging read for hikers and non-hikers alike.

Shadowing Reynolds across the Moroccan Atlas, the Pyrenees trails, the European Alps, and even the Himalayas gives the reader the feeling not only of hiking the trails, but also of forming the relationships and connections throughout the world that Reynolds was able to create. This book motivates the common reader to undertake something they have never done before because, as the reader learns from Reynolds, that is where some of the best experiences come from.

About: Kev Reynolds

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825307324)

E-book: $16.95 (ISBN: 9780825306655)

Biography/Travel/Hiking

198 pages

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Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph

In 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis became the overall record holder on the Appalachian Trail. By hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days – an average of 47 miles per day – she became the first woman to ever set that mark. But this is not a book about records or numbers; this is a book about endurance and faith, and most of all love.

The most amazing part of this story is not found at the finish, but is discovered through the many challenges, lessons and relationships that present themselves along the trail. This is Jennifer’s story, in her own words, about how she started this journey with a love for hiking and more significantly a love for her husband Brew. Together, they were able to overcome rugged mountains and raging rivers, sleet storms and 100 degree heat, shin-splints and illnesses. They made new friends and tested old friendships; they shared together laughter, and tears – a lot of tears. But, through it all, they fell more in love with one another and with the wilderness.

By completing this extraordinary amateur feat, Jennifer rose above the culture of multi-million dollar sports contracts that is marked by shortcuts and steroids. This is the story of a real person doing something remarkable. Jennifer Pharr Davis is a modern role-model for women – and men. She is an authentic hero.

About: Jennifer Pharr Davis

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825306938)

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825307454)

E-book: $9.95 (ISBN: 9780825306532)

Memoir/Autobiography

298 pages

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Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she’s crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next.

The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life. She quickly discovers that thru-hiking is harder than she had imagined: coping with blisters and aching shoulders from the 30-pound pack she carries; sleeping on the hard wooden floors of trail shelters; hiking through endless torrents of rain and even a blizzard.

With every step she takes, Jennifer transitions from an over-confident college graduate to a student of the trail, braving situations she never imagined before her thru-hike. The trail is full of unexpected kindness, generosity, and humor. And when tragedy strikes, she learns that she can depend on other people to help her in times of need.

About: Jennifer Pharr Davis

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825305689)

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825306495)

E-book: $15.95 (ISBN:9780825305665)

Travel/ Memoir

320 pages

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Homeland

A tribute to a generation of survivors, Dr. Mordecai Hacohen’s powerful memoir recounts a period of great turmoil and triumph: the foundation of the Jewish State in Israel. As a young man, Dr. Hacohen was a leader in the heroic but little-known Clandestine Immigration of Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Israel, which eventually transported over 22,000 European Jews to what would eventually become the State of Israel. He also assisted in the foundation of the State of Israel, and helped create the Israeli Foreign Service.

In this intriguing memoir, Hacohen relates the numerous efforts that brought him into contact with many of the brightest and most influential personalities of the twentieth century, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Isaac Stern, Golda Meir, Elie Wiesel, and many others. The book includes an introduction by Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an epilogue written by Dr. Hacohen’s son, Israel Hacohen.

About: Dr. Mordecai Hacohen

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305900)

E-Book: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825305894)

Memoir

256 pages

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A Pediatrician’s Journal

A Pediatrician’s Journal: Caring for Kids in our Broken Medical System is a first-of-its-kind book examining the glaring inadequacies of the health care system in our world. Written by award-winning pediatrician Dr. Brian G. Orr, this book brings to the forefront the myriad issues plaguing modern medicine. Dr. Orr offers compelling evidence through his personal and professional experiences that the system is truly broken and in need of change. The stories in A Pediatrician’s Journal convincingly guide readers towards forming their own vision and realization of a more enlightened healthcare system.

Tapping into the richness of his experiences practicing medicine in the United States and overseas, Dr. Orr’s accounts in A Pediatrician’s Journal are full of compassion and conviction, strength and vulnerability and bring the reader along on an amazing journey with a behind the scenes and very candid look at the world of medicine. Real-life stories and experiences of every-day families spanning the globe from villages in third world countries like Honduras and Guatemala to the suburbs of Boston will cause the reader to reexamine the way they look at their own healthcare system and provide them with a renewed sense of what is truly important in healthcare: the connection with their doctor.

Professionals and families in the healthcare system today are seeking a more meaningful and positive way to recreate and redefine what medicine is today and how it influences their lives. A Pediatrician’s Journal is the groundbreaking book that shows them the way.

About: Dr. Brian Orr

Paperback: $14.00 (ISBN: 9780825305825)

E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825306372)

Medical

288 Pages

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You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This is published on the 40th anniversary of the most exhilarating, turbulent, violent and tragic year in modern U.S. political history. In it, author Lansing Lamont offers the personal eyewitness narrative of a national magazine correspondent who covered the assassinations, riots and burnings that accompanied the fiercely fought presidential campaign that year – 1968. He etches the personalities and characters of the outsize figures who commanded the political stage. Forty years later, the nation is consumed with another fateful presidential campaign, another war, another transformative young political figure who has excitingly captured the public’s imagination as Robert Kennedy did in 1968. What was it like reporting the legendary events of ’68? How do the two years, 1968 and 2008 – the stakes, the key players, the national moods – compare? 1968 is the transforming year in a broad canvas of exciting decades, from the Kennedys’ Camelot to 9/11, which You Must Remember This explores through the eyes of a veteran journalist who was there when it happened.

About: Lansing Lamont

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305832)

Memoir

264 Pages

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Sound of a Miracle: The Inspiring True Story of a Mother’s Fight to Free Her Child from Autism

Monday, November 1st, 2004

stehlisound2 The Sound of a Miracle is the riveting story of Georgiana Stehli’s triumphant progress from autistic and functionally retarded to gifted. When mothers from all over the country contacted Annabel and told their stories, she put them in touch with one another, forming The Parent’s Network, and inspired them to do as she had done: to defy the negative prognoses of the experts and to fight for their children with Autism, Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD), Attention Deficit and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (ADD and CAPD), Dyslexia, and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. In curing Georgie’s painful hearing, her most distressing symptom, a new intervention called auditory training made it possible for her to enjoy communication and to excel academically. There are many Georgies now, ready to take their place among their peers without a label, with a future as bright as any child’s. The interest sparked by The Sound of a Miracle resulted in the founding of The Georgiana Organization, the validation of auditory training as a thoroughly researched treatment modality, and avalability worldwide.

ISBN: 978-0-825305-33-7
$14.95 Paperback
Self-help
226 Pages 5.5×8.5