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Capstone Publishers, the leading publisher of children’s books in the U.S. education market, announces that Paul Von Drasek has joined the company in the newly created position of Book Trade Sales Manager.

Educators, parents, and book lovers can get a free, exclusive look at a brand-new middle grade novel, Finn Reeder, Flu Fighter.

Three Capstone Publishers’ products have been selected by a national panel of teachers as top choices for use in the classroom.

BelieversPress, a new venture just launched by Bethany Press, offers multiple publishing tracks for authors where they control the process.

New web site provides easy access to free sales training resources. FreeSalesTraining.com provides access to hundreds of free sales training resources. The site is refreshed daily with new training tools and programs.

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Vern's Wood Goods has designed a stunning new artisan wooden serving tray featuring beautiful strips of walnut, cherry and maple, and has published free woodworking plans for this tray in partnership with Woodworkers Guild of America.

After months of research and development, Capstone Publishers, the leading publisher of children’s books in the U.S. education market, announces the re-launch of its free educational website for kids www.CapstoneKids.com.

Over 500 million pages of Arabic and English content collectively form an online library of the most important publications from the Middle East.

Capstone Press announces the release of Graphic Expeditions, a new graphic novel format series for elementary students with a social studies focus, launching this fall with six titles and introducing readers to archaeologist Dr. Isabel Soto.

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East View Information Services is now an active OCLC WorldCat Selection Partner.

Stone Arch Books announces the release of its highly anticipated new chapter book The Kid Who Saved Superman, which stars Hakeem Bennett, a 13-year-old student at P.S. 36K, The Nathanael Greene School in Brooklyn, New York.

Continuing its efforts to improve student literacy, Charleston County School District (CCSD) has purchased the Capstone Interactive LibraryTM, a technology-based reading solution which helps preK-8 students practice reading.

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Capstone Publishers, the leading publisher of children’s books in the U.S. education market, has signed with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS, the award-winning sports magazine publisher, to create a new line of leveled chapter books.

Capstone Publishers chief executive Tom Ahern announces the appointment of Miles Stevens-Hoare as managing director of its Heinemann-Raintree imprint.

Capstone Publishers has named Pamela Sader as its new Vice President of Sales and Marketing for its Heinemann-Raintree U.S. imprint, which includes more than 6,000 nonfiction titles in its collection.

Anastasia Suen, 2009 ALA conference panelist, educator, prolific blogger, and author of more than 100 books for children, will sign copies of her acclaimed nonfiction and new fiction titles from Picture Window Books and Stone Arch Books at ALA 2009.

Minnesota is home to many key players in the publishing industry

The Cecil E. Newman 14th Annual Graduation Celebration: “Education and Graduation: It’s a Family Affair” hosted by Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Thursday, May 21, 2009!

Coughlan Companies, which includes Capstone Publishers and Mankato Kasota Stone, Inc., is awarding a $25,000 grant to the East Side Learning Center, one of the most successful tutoring programs serving children in K-4th grade in St. Paul, Minn.

Capstone Publishers is hosting a free webinar and discussion on how school library professionals can begin advocating for American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA) dollars.

Minnesota children’s book publisher Capstone Publishers has partnered with the St. Paul Public Schools district to develop bilingual Hmong/English and Somali/English interactive books.

Stone Arch Books, children’s book publisher of fiction graphic novels and chapter books, has published a new graphic novel series for the earliest elementary grade level called My 1st Graphic Novel.

Sandhill Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Patricia Saitow has joined the consultancy as a Senior Consultant and Vice President to the firm.

Stone Arch Books announces the winner of its FIND A HERO! writing contest, inspired by the publisher’s DC SUPER HEROES series featuring new stories based around DC Comics’ iconic characters BATMAN and SUPERMAN.

Capstone Publishers, the leading publisher of children’s books for school and public libraries, has made a donation of 10,000 books to Books for Africa, the world’s largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent.

Author, Thomas Wakefield, Communication Consultant, Trainer, Life Coach, published a new book, The Objective is Happiness, a simple how to manual for living a successful life.

Poet's Debut is a Lush and Darkly Romantic Collection of Poems

C.S. Challinor, author of CHRISTMAS IS MURDER, the first in the Rex Graves Mystery Series, is the Featured Author for August 2008 at Soldiers' Angels, a non-profit charity that helps support service members wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Though ebooks are popular, renspubhouse has decided to add print books to their aersenal of products.

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In "Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully: A Journey with Cancer and Beyond," award winning authors Nancy Manahan and Becky Bohan honor the heartening legacy of their sister-in-law Diane.

IFAI celebrates the 20-year employment of its Publisher Mary Hennessy. Hennessay was first hired in February 1988 as a member recruitment specialist and has served as manager of Membership Sales, Advertising Sales, and is also VP-Communications.

The Industrial Fabrics Association International announces it has renamed its flagship magazine and redesigned the format and content.

Summary: A groundbreaking book, "Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully: A Journey with Cancer and Beyond," by Nancy Manahan, PhD. and Becky Bohan, M.A., is a finalist in the USA Book News National Best Books of 2007 in the category of health/cancer.