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Publishers Marketplace Super Search rights postings job board report a deal site guide help Thursday, April 4, 2019 Deal News Yesterday we posted 57 new deals at Publishers Marketplace (and 3 more so far today), among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, eight original essays offering insight into his journey to the Court; James Duesterberg's FINAL FANTASY, which traces the links between postwar technology, politics, and subculture, ranging across the US and the UK, Europe and China; Author of TEMPER Layne Fargo's LEARN HER WRATH, in which a college professor's secret life murdering the worst men on campus starts to catch up with her when she picks her sexist boss as her next victim; Italian translator of THE GREAT GATSBY Claudia Durastanti's LA STRANIERA, about a young woman's coming of age in New York and Southern Italy with two deaf parentst; Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Sophie van Llewyn's BOTTLED GOODS, set in 1970s Communist Romania, where a young newlywed under state surveillance after her brother-in-law defects to the West seeks help from her well-connected aunt. 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Acquisitions Charleston, SC-based Arcadia Publishing has an agreement to acquire "the significant majority of [the] assets" of New Orleans-based Pelican Publishing, which has a list of over 2,000 titles. The transaction will close in May. Arcadia ceo David Steinberger says in the announcement, "It is a publisher that fits well with Arcadia’s mission, which is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another.” Pelican president and publisher Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, whose family has owned the publishing house since 1970, says: "We could not be more pleased to have found the right long-term home for Pelican." She will stay with the company following the acquisition. It's the second purchase for Lezen Acquisition, which acquired Arcadia in May 2018, with the intention of buying multiple publishing houses. Awards The long 10-title shortlist for the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award was announced. The winner will be named June 12. 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Join here     Books in the News The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Story: IndieNext May list announced A Wonderful Stroke of Luck by Ann Beattie Story: Excerpt from new novel by award-winning author Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl Story: Interview with Gourmet's editor and memoirist The New Me by Halle Butler Story: Spring picks by authors and others in WSJ   More New Jobs We added another 3 new jobs just yesterday at our industry-leading Job Board, the latest among 68 opportunities in all still live from the past month. For employers, we provide the unbeatable combination of the largest circulation in the business by far, a total focus on book publishing only, and the best prices anywhere. And for job-seekers, we present great new possibilities every day and conveniences like an RSS ping to keep you posted on every new offering. Among the latest: Editor, Nonfiction  [Full Time] Penguin Random House LLC (New York, NY) Designer, Interiors - Nonfiction  [Full Time] Penguin Random House LLC (New York, NY) Assistant to two Literary Agents  [Full Time] Trident Media Group (New York, NY) Publishersmarketplace.com/jobs Employers: Register here to post Get the widget   Super Search Find deals, contacts, Lunch posts, Automat headlines, member profiles, and more at Publishers Marketplace:   Reader Services To advertise in Publishers Lunch and on PublishersMarketplace.com, e-mail us for info at ads@publishersmarketplace.com. Add yourself or your clients to the Who Represents database Change your information in the Contact database Change the e-mail address for your Lunch subscription by signing up again Get Lunch Use this to subscribe and/or to change your address Copyright © 2019 by Cader Books

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