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      Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
The first book in the international bestselling Tales of the Otori series has received numerous awards, including Germany's Dutscher Jugendliteratur-preis 2004 and the Peter Pan Award in Sweden.
 
   
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A. Scott Berg
Berg's definitive and engaging account of the controversial icon won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
 
         
 
 
 
 
 
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  Price Stern Sloan was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs series that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for Steve Allen's Tonight Show. Along with their partner Larry Sloan, they expanded the company into a wide variety of publishing categories, especially children's books, novelty formats, and humor. The company had tremendous success with a number of proprietary brands, many of which flourish to this day; among them, Mad Libs, Wee Sing, Mr. Men & Little Miss and Serendipity.

The company was purchased by The Putnam Berkley Group in 1993, and in 1997 the offices were moved to New York.

With about seventy titles per year, Price Stern Sloan continues to publish its proprietary brands, as well as titles that fall into the preschool children's mass merchandise categories and movie tie-ins such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wallace & Gromit, Everyone’s Hero and Happy Feet. PSS also produces a successful annual list of desk calendars and occasional humor titles for the adult market.

Among PSS authors are Pamela Beall, Sylvia Branzei, Roger Hargreaves, Susan Nipp, Leonard Stern, David Steinberg, and Salina Yoon.

Debra Dorfman, President and Publisher

Prior to joining Grosset & Dunlap/PSS!, Debra was Director of Editorial Administration at Scholastic Inc. in the Book Club division. Her career at Scholastic spanned over 12 years during which time she held various creative marketing and management positions.