ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
In his latest novel, ACCIDENTIAL BILLIONAIRES The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, Ben Mezrich proves that he is one of today’s most brilliant authors. The Boston native, who also wrote the cult classic BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, has chosen publicity firm and hometown ally Newman Communications to help promote the astonishing story behind two Harvard outcasts and the world famous Facebook.
Beyond the status updates, personal pokes, and party photos, ACCIDENTIAL BILLIONAIRES shows the dramatic history behind today’s largest social network. Continue Reading »
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The Longest Trip Home with Best Selling Author, John Grogan
The Longest Trip Home
New York Times best selling author John Grogan is heading home. Making the trip with him will be publicity firm Newman Communications. The same author who brought you the heartfelt story of Marley and Me is now releasing his coming of age memoir The Longest Trip Home in paperback.
Grogan spent his early years mischievously exploring his youthful imagination and his suburban community outside of Detroit. Most of his choices and actions contradicted the wishes of his piously Catholic parents. Needless to say, John did not care. His efforts to succeed with girls and pleasure his forbidden desires were much more important. Continue Reading »
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Carl Reiner and Newman Communications bring a Double Feature Publicity Tour
American Icon, Mr. Carl Reiner comes to Newman for a book publicity campaign on two new titles, “Just Desserts” and “Tell Me Another Scary Story…..but not too scary”.
In Reiner’s “Just Desserts” successful romance novelist Nat Noland has just had his cage severely rattled. After receiving an email directly from God, Nat just can’t seem to get any work done on his new novel. Follow Nat on his romps around New York City, as he tries to make sense of this divine intervention. With all the slapstick comedy and madcap hijinks that Reiner fans have loved for decades, JUST DESSERTS sparkles with a humor that only the enduring comedic mastermind himself could create.
Tell Me Another Scarey Story
The incomparable Carl Reiner’s first children’s book, Tell Me a Scary Story, was a hit when it appeared in 2003. Here at last is the sequel, TELL ME ANOTHER SCARY STORY…But Not Too Scary!
Kids love scary stories, particularly gross-out ones, and TELL ME ANOTHER SCARY STORY delivers even more of the same. Complete with a read-along CD filled with stuff children love—odd beams of light coming from nowhere, oodles of goopy goo, memorable characters, and mysteries for kids to solve……if they dare.
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Dennis Davern Reveals His Side of the Natalie Wood Scandal in ‘Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour’
Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
It was Thanksgiving weekend, November 29, 1981 and actress Natalie Wood and actor husband, Robert Wagner, had taken their beloved yacht, Splendour, out for the holiday weekend. At 1:30 am Wagner radioed that “someone is missing from our boat.”
The world had lost its leading lady, Natalie Wood, at age forty three.
It’s been 28 years since Wood’s death. Splendour’s captain, Dennis Davern, has been haunted by that night everyday since. Spurred by guilt over letting down his friend Natalie, Davern decided it was finally time to tell all about their last voyage together. The events following her death, the restrictions placed on him during those months, and his grief had prevented him from telling the whole story, until now. Unable to live with himself for not speaking up sooner, Davern leaned on his friend, writer Marti Rulli about the experience of that day for years.
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Basketball Star, Chris Paul, Turns Childrens Book Author
Long Shot
In the same state the legendary Michael Jordan laced up his Nikes, Chris Paul, also known as CP3, would grow to be another North Carolina basketball prodigy. Although he possessed talent similar to “His Airness,” the not-so-tall Chris Paul would never physically fill the shoes of a giant.
Yet, his lack of height would not stop him from reaching his dreams.
In Chris Paul’s new book LONG SHOT: Never Too Small to Dream Big, the NBA All-Star and Rookie of the Year shares one of his own childhood memories to help inspire young athletes, particularly those who do not physically resemble Shaquille O’Neal.
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