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Confront Redemption and Self-Discovery Head-On with Jeffrey Blount in His Newest Novel, Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way

Tuesday, January 16th, 2024

NEW YORK, NY—JANUARY 16, 2024

From Jeffrey Blount comes his newest spellbinding novel about a self-identified failure, forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Jeffrey is an award-winning author of three novels.

Now available anywhere books are sold, discover why James Henry Ferguson doesn’t belong here. After a highly publicized fall from grace, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos and ends up in a community that has been neglected and ignored by everyone, rural Ham, Mississippi—a place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.” When a troubling discovery is made, the entire neighborhood is rocked, and James is forced to confront his own past in order to help the community have a future.

Full of never-ending twists and turns, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a story about failure, self-discovery, empowerment, and the possibility of redemption.

“Blount makes us pause to take an up-close look at poverty and racism in our collective backyard. This powerful novel shows the true meaning of ‘it takes a village,’ and that doing the right thing should be color blind.”

Karen White, New York Times Bestselling Author

During a 34-year career at NBC News, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and major special events. He is the first African-American to direct the Today Show. He is also an award-winning documentary scriptwriter for films and interactives that are now on display in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. A Virginia native, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Communications/Broadcast Journalism. He now lives in Washington, DC.

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Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way

Jeffrey Blount — January 2024

ISBN: 9780825310324

Hardcover: $24.95 || Ebook: $9.99

Beaufort Books is an independent publisher based in New York City. Beaufort publishes a mix of non-fiction and fiction titles. Since 2007, Beaufort has published four New York Times bestsellers.

For more information about Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way, or to arrange an interview with the author, please contact Emma St. John at emma@beaufortbooks.com

Thomas Reed Delivers a Profound, Globe-Trotting Journey of Grief and Family in POCKETFUL OF POSEYS

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

NEW YORK, NY—SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

From Thomas Reed, the author of Seeking Hyde, a finalist in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction, comes a darkly comedic and reflective adventure that tests the strength of family ties amidst grief and the reveal of long-kept secrets.

Now available anywhere books are sold, Pocketful of Poseys asks the question, “When your dying mother has one last request, how can you say no?” Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are forty-something twins whose lives have gone in very different directions. When their mother Cinny is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Grace and Brian are there for her last days, where they learn Cinny has plans for them after she’s gone. They’re to sprinkle her ashes, mixed with their father’s, at a series of exotic locations around the globe—some remote, some challengingly public, all known and loved by the Poseys.

By turns hilarious, profound, jarring, and poignant, Pocketful of Poseys bounds dizzily across the United States to New Zealand, Thailand, Italy and more, as the last of Cinny Posey’s secrets are revealed and her survivors confront the strength of the ties that bind them all together—for worse and for better.

Pocketful of Poseys draws on Reed’s experience growing up in an academic family; his education at Yale, the University of Virginia, and Oxford; years spent living in Rome and Christchurch, N.Z.; travels around the world with his wife and children, and courageous decisions made by his mother-in-law as she faced her death.

“Simultaneously heartwrenching and comical, Thomas Reed’s novel Pocketful of Poseys follows a family from the death of their matriarch to their journey to scatter her ashes. . .Subtle and meaningful.”

— Foreword Reviews

Pocketful of Poseys

Thomas Reed – September 2023

ISBN: 978-0825310263

Paperback: $17.95 || Ebook: $9.99

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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. Since 2007, Beaufort has published four New York Times bestsellers.

For more information, to receive a review copy or arrange an interview, please contact: Caitlin Hamilton Summie at caitlin@caitlinhamiltonmarketing.com

Need Blind Ambition

The road to higher ed is paved with good intentions.
 
The desire for relevance—and to save his marriage—is ultimately what pushed Peter Cook to leave his beloved Alaska for the prestigious Parker College. Lured by the chance to work with his childhood political idol turned college president, Peter moves his family to Portland, Oregon to help promote his hero’s fundraising initiative that would eliminate financial status from the college’s admissions process. 
 
Peter arrives on campus as the Great Recession looms, the stock market is trending toward disaster, and the opioid crisis has breached the walls of the privileged college. He quickly learns the reality of Parker College strays far from its professed idealistic mission after discovering a plot to cover-up felonious drug activity in return for a seven-figure payday to the Need Blind Campaign.  
 
While plumbing the depths of his conscience for the conviction to do the right thing, Peter’s untreated childhood trauma resurfaces, threatening to cloud his perception when it needs to be at its sharpest. Peter must stabilize his mental health while also trying to parse competing versions of “the truth” as law enforcement investigates the criminal conspiracy. 
 
Need Blind Ambition asks: how far will a college stray to protect its reputation?

Author: Kevin T. Myers

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825309984)

Ebook: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825308734)

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