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Beaufort Books Newsletter | June 2021

Monday, June 21st, 2021
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Your monthly digest of everything Beaufort Books.

Hello, readers!

We hope you’re having a wonderful start to your summer! Whether you’re relaxing at the park, beach, or poolside this summer, we have some exceptional new reads for you to enjoy.
HAPPY PUB DAY TO RED DECEPTION
In one week, Red Deception, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed political thriller Red Hotel hits bookstore shelves! Publishers Weekly said of Red Deception, “The authors keep the multiple plot lines moving swiftly ahead with rapid scene shifts, and the behind-the-scenes look at the high-end international hotel world lends authenticity.” If you’d like to catch up on the series in time for Red Deception’s pub day, check out the newly released paperback version of Red Hotel!
Preorder RED DECEPTION
NEW TITLES
THE IMAGE
By Steven Faulkner
Pub Date: 7/19


Three stories. Three men. One image: a timeless work of art. The Image is a profound and compelling collection of linked short stories about faith, hope, belonging, and the search for meaning within a holy land.

Pre0rder The Image
A FEW WORDS ABOUT WORDS
By Joe Diorio
Pub Date: 8/10

Calling all writers and grammar lovers—this isn’t your parents’ Strunk & White! A Few Words About Words is Joe Diorio’s hilarious and informative grammar guide that helps relieve common grammar anxieties for writers of all ages.

Preorder A Few Words About Words
IPG’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY SALE
To celebrate their fifty years in business, our distribution company, Independent Publishers Group, is holding a sale on qualifying ebooks across all major retailers. Fortunately, more than a dozen Beaufort titles were chosen to be included in the sale!

To find out more about the titles that are included, click here. The sale ends June 30th, 2021!
WHAT WE’RE READING
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
By Casey Cep


I was browsing what true crime titles were both popular and available right away from the Brooklyn Public Library. This one caught my attention! I knew nothing about this case or Harper Lee’s involvement before I started listening; so I am learning a lot. It seems a tad complicated; but the author does a nice job at setting the scene and explaining the various factors that go into the case. For instance; life insurance plays a role and the author had a nice (brief) history of the life insurance industry which was interesting. 
Current rating: 4/5
A Thousand Ships
By Natalie Haynes


I love Greek mythology, and after blowing through Madeline Miller’s Circe and The Song of Achilles, I needed another modern retelling of mythology. I’m listening to the audiobook version, which can get a little slow at times, but I love how Haynes decided to make the women of the Trojan War her focus, rather than the typical players we’ve heard so much about.

Rating: 4/5 stars
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck


I really loved East of Eden by Steinbeck, and his depictions of Great Depression America are both brutally honest and heartbreaking to read. Steinbeck’s ability to describe natural landscapes and the lives of the people living among them is phenomenal.

Rating: 5/5 stars
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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.

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A Profile of Hong Kong

A Profile of Hong Kong provides a detailed history of colonialism in Hong Kong that still reverberates today. Despite this tumultuous history, there are many things that make Hong Kong special and worth fighting for.

For more than 100 years, the Hong Kong people have been fighting for liberty despite the constant oppression from other countries. Bruce Herschensohn shows how years of riots and protests demonstrate the resilience of the Hong Kong people and the determination to make their country belong to them. With compelling firsthand accounts, A Profile of Hong Kong explores the history of this political entity from a 99-year treaty to the handover to the recent powerful protests for liberty. Herschensohn emphasizes the irony of the Chinese government coming to Hong Kong, the majority of whose people had fled from that same government, and how these very people are once again facing oppression from this repressive government.

Herschensohn includes thorough descriptions of the changes for Hong Kong people that were put into place 100 years ago as well as descriptions of major international figures in the complicated history of Hong Kong. Completed just before Herschensohn’s death in late 2020, A Profile of Hong Kong is the final contribution from the esteemed author and prominent American political leader.

About: Bruce Herschensohn

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825309496)

E-book $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825308536)

Political Science

300 pages

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Garth Williams: The Unsung Hero of my Childhood

Monday, June 20th, 2016

On June 3rd, The New Yorker published an article on Beaufort’s new biography of Garth Williams, the largely unknown hand behind the illustrations of many children’s classics. You might not know Williams’ name (I didn’t) but you undoubtedly know the stories he helped give us, including Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and Little House on the Prairie. In Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life, Elizabeth K Wallace and James D. Wallace tackle what Williams himself struggled to do: to write the story of a life that spanned seven countries, four marriages, and several professions, but has remained undiscovered by the public.

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The New Yorker article highlights the depth of Williams’ commitment to the integrity and nuance of the stories he illustrated, and his desire to convey a sense of truth. In his rendering of Stuart Little, the article remarks, “Stuart was both mouselike and dapper, anthropomorphized in a way that expressed the dignity and absurdity of the human condition and the animal condition alike”. What more can we ask for from a glimpse of truth than dignity and absurdity?gw2

With animal characters serving as human analogues, Williams gave them life in a way that was never reductive; these characters felt real sorrow, real joy, and allowed us as readers to do the same. Even as children, we have keen eyes for cheap shots, and no young reader is going to be moved by some dopey, grinning caricature. “No way José,” they would think, “that mouse is nothing like me! He’s not real, he’s a dumb rodent meant to teach me to behave.” But in Williams’ subtle hands, the likes of Wilbur, Stuart, Charlotte, and countless others are transformed into complicated, achingly real characters that seem more like friends.gw3

Williams’ drawings elicit a nostalgia that spans generations—his art passed down from its original young audience to their eventual children, preserved in that special medium of the bedtime story. I found myself shockingly moved by the drawings presented in Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life; they catapulted me back to memories I hadn’t touched in years. “Oh man, he really was terrific,” I thought, wiping my eyes discreetly as I poured over the book’s images of Wilbur. I watched as my past sprung up to meet me, I saw history wink and skip, and found myself grateful to a man I had never known I cared for, grateful to a talent to whom I never knew I owed so much.

 

–Some Intern