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...Hamilton's 1989 novel, The Book of Ruth, a stark, hardscrabble account of the life of a farm woman. The book has sold 8,000 copies in hardback and an additional 85,000 in paper, but the publishers are gearing up for what they hope is the inevitable demand: Houghton Mifflin has printed 50,000 new hardcovers, and Doubleday, which controls paperback rights, has ordered a new press...
Peterson Multimedia Guides: North American Birds Learn the low hum of the blue grouse or the squawk of the American black duck with this unique and comprehensive guide. ($69.95; Houghton Mifflin Interactive...
...centrist think tank and cheering section modeled after the Democratic Leadership Council, the group formed in the 1980s to keep the Democrats from veering left on every issue. "All I want to do is enable the party to get back on course," says five-term New York Representative Amo Houghton, who is promoting the idea...
Since 1915 Houghton Mifflin has published a yearly collection of The Best American Short Stories, an anthology of short fiction published in magazines across the United States and Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman...
...scion of Corning Glass and one of the wealthiest members of Congress, Houghton brings a decidedly businesslike mien--and a moderate Republican voice--to Capitol Hill. As a member of the influential Ways and Means Committee, he helped craft a six-year balanced-budget plan. But he's not an advocate of wholesale cuts, and fought to save the National Endowment for the Arts and funding for public television...