Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. (Wikipedia.org)
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
When we saw the ARC for the Beaufort Books edition of Sherry Jones 's The Jewel of Medina , we immediately picked up on the similarity to the cover Ballantine Books had prepared for the book before corporate superiors at Random House scrapped its publication. So when we interviewed Jones Friday afternoon , we asked about the covers, and Beaufort's publicist confirmed that they had chosen the same...
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Received this press release over the weekend. You’ve probably seen it elsewhere already, if you follow manga news, but bear with me, I have some points to make: Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises, today announced a new manga publishing partnership [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Early this month, Gibson Square publishers here announced that it would publish "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about the early life of A'isha, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad. It was a bold decision: the book's United States publisher, Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, had canceled its publication in August amid fears that it would offend and inflame Muslim extremists. (It has...
Precocious Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
This just in from Del Rey: NEW YORK, NY – September 27, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced an eclectic range of new manga titles to be published in Summer and Fall of 2009. The new series acquisitions feature some of the best [...]
mangamaniaccafe.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
NEW YORK, NY – September 27, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced an eclectic range of new manga titles to be published in Summer and Fall of 2009. The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga world has [...]
mangamaniaccafe.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
First Book in Newly Formed Partnership, Bakugan Battle Brawlers: The Battle Begins, Will Launch in December 2008 NEW YORK, NY – September 27, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises, today announced a new manga publishing partnership that will [...]
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Recently Ballantine Books sent me a copy of the new Phoenix Wright manga, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Official Casebook Vol. 1 The Phoenix Wright Files. The nearly 300-page book is packed with 21...
Crime Fiction Dossier (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Mark Tavani is a Senior Editor with Ballantine Books. He edits both fiction and nonfiction and works with a range of authors, including Katherine Neville, Steve Berry, Charlie Huston, Barry Eisler, Justin Cronin, David Corbett, Jenny Siler, and Mike Greenberg....
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
I hope this week found lots of books arriving in your mailbox. Here’s what came to my home: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur, by Halima Bashir (with Damien Lewis). This arrived through Library Thing’s Early Reviewer Program and was released by Ballantine Books on September 9, 2008. This memoir [...]
The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Eat Well, Lose Weight, While Breastfeeding (Ballantine Books, 2006), by Eileen Behan, R.D. is an updated version of her 1992 book of the same name. While there are a number of features to appreciate about this book, my favorite is...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/garfield_creator_displays_prev.html ‘Garfield’ Creator Displays Previously Unhinted-At Sense of Humor 7/31/08 From a press release: BALLANTINE BOOKS TO PUBLISH BOOK INSPIRED BY THE WEBCOMIC GARFIELD MINUS GARFIELD Collection to be published simultaneously with Garfield 30th anniversary book NEW YORK, NY – July 30, 2008 – Paws, Inc. and Ballantine Books,...
Brain-Terminal.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Fear of violence kills a book: A romance novel about the child bride of the prophet Muhammad has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts by Muslim extremists. The Jewel of the Medina was to have been released on August 12 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, with an eight-city tour for first-time [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The Jewel of the Medina was to have been released on August 12 by Ballantine Books
faisal.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Telegraph : "The book is being published by Ballantine Books, which has published collections of the original Garfield cartoons since 1980."
