“Tales of Christmases Past”: Atlantic Books Today Holiday Issue
The special holiday 2013 issue of Atlantic Books Today is here! If you’ve got any history-lovers in your family, you’ll want to check here for some good gift-giving ideas. Here’s what you’ll find in ABT’s holiday issue — The history issue — about CBU Press’s books:
“Anne Renaud’s book, The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan . . . has been shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature” (p.8). (There’s also a kind review of the book on pp.40-41.)
On Jeanne Dugas of Acadia: “It’s a novel completely about the past, with no invented characters and no imagined events. Everything, except for dialogue and thoughts, is based on the known history of the family about whom Cohoon writes. For those already familiar with events from the 1730s to the early 1800s, the book personalizes the tumultuous era in a way historians cannot” (pp.11-12).
On The Manager: “The original storyline combines entertaining road trip with a spirited sports yarn and a touching family drama” (p.19).
On Bearing the People Away: The Portable Highland Clearances Companion “Sawyers’ intimate knowledge of the subject shines throughout this go-to guide, ideal for both general reader and history buff” (p.45).
You can read the entire issue online here.