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“Corbett writes with an intensity of feeling. . . . Without compromising the stark realism of his bruising style.” —New York Times Book Review

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of three gripping fiction titles by David Corbett, to be released on May 15, 2012. Drawing on his past experience as a private detective, Corbett spins award-winning tales of crime and redemption.

Corbett’s highly praised debut, The Devil’s Redhead, tells the story of Dan, a talented photographer and marijuana smuggler. He and his girlfriend, Shel, plot one final score—but Dan lands in jail, taking the fall for ...

With Foreward By George Clooney And “Lost Photos” Of The Cast At Work And Play Newly Discovered In The Universal Studios Vault

(NEW YORK, NY, May 14th) Jane Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), announced today that it will release Kirk Douglas’ 10^th book and his first E-riginal, I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist, with Foreword by George Clooney on June 12, 2012. The title ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of seventeen titles, across three series, from one of the founding members of Sisters in Crime, Susan Dunlap.  All seventeen titles are available for the first time as digital editions and ready for immediate download to all devices.

Susan Dunlap was a social worker with a masters degree in education before an Agatha Christie novel [and a challenge from her husband] inspired her to try her hand at writing mysteries.  Six attempts and six years later, she published Karma, which began a ten-books series about brash Berkeley cop, Jill Smith—and now Open Road ...

“In this remarkable collection . . . the spirit of Hemingway lives on.” —The Wall Street Journal

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of F.X. Toole's short story collection, Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner.

F. X. Toole was the pseudonym of Jerry Boyd (1930–2002), a boxing trainer and author whose work inspired the award-winning film Million Dollar Baby. In 1988, Boyd began writing about boxing, using the pseudonym F. X. Toole to keep his hobby secret from his colleagues in the boxing world.

Published two years before his death and initially titled Rope ...

For the first time since his groundbreaking novels were released eighty years ago, James Hilton’s iconic classics are available as ebooks in the United States. The instant popularity of Hilton’s works launched the paperback revolution and they have been adapted for the stage, radio, and screen during Hollywood’s Golden Era of the 1930s and ’40s.

Hilton is best known for his historical fiction set during World War I and World War II. His classic titles Goodbye Mr. Chips and To You, Mr. Chips recount the story of a British schoolteacher whose life and lessons are swept up by the change ...

(New York, NY, April 24th) Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today it is bringing a wide range of Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling and acclaimed science fiction novels to E for the first time ever. As part of its Author Brand Program, Open Road will digitally publish and market ten Octavia E. Butler titles, including the Nebula Award-winning Parable of the Talents and the Xenogenesis trilogy. The announcement was made today by ...

Former Editor at the Overlook Press Will Help Expand Open Road’s Growing Catalog

Gorton Has Worked with a Wide Range of Acclaimed Authors Including Terry Bisson, Raja Alem, Mark Derr, and Carrie Hagen

(New York, NY – April 23, 2012) Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that Stephanie Gorton has joined the company as Acquisitions Manager. Gorton, a former editor at the Overlook Press, will help acquire backlist titles for Open Road’s Author Brands program and will also be involved in the acquisition and publication activities for Open Road Publishing Partners ...

“Has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion.”

—The New Republic

Open Road Integrated Media is pleased to announce the ebook publication of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace McCoy, best known for hardboiled novels set during the Great Depression, drew his inspiration from the difficulties that Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. Although he was an underappreciated author during his lifetime, McCoy is now considered to be a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. 

In They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?—an Open Road Media Iconic Ebook—McCoy ...

(April 12, 2012, New York, NY) Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it will publish and market four Joyce Maynard ebooks, including a special anniversary edition of Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, the author’s groundbreaking memoir about coming of age in one of America’s most defining decades. The ebooks will be on sale April 17 from Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google/IndieBound, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and the Sony Reader Store.

Looking Back is part memoir, part cultural history, and ...

“Over the past half century, James MacGregor Burns has emerged as America’s wise man on the interplay between politics and leadership.” —David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst

Available April 10, 2012

Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com,
Google eBookstore/IndieBound, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and Sony Reader Store

Open Road Integrated Media announces the release of four ebooks by celebrated American historian James MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. These new titles include Leadership, his definitive book on the greatest leaders in world history, and his acclaimed American Experiment series, a three-volume history of American ...

Open Road Media announces the release The Great American Foreclosure Story, a mesmerizing and groundbreaking look at the national housing crisis, told through the lens of one woman, Sheila Ramos, whose story exemplifies the struggles of millions of Americans.

In this comprehensive investigation, ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel and his colleagues Olga Pierce and Cora Currier reveal systemic failures at the country’s banks, mortgage servicers, and government watchdog groups that exacerbated the most severe foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression. In the process, they give readers an unrivaled look at the inner workings of the housing crisis and its continuing human ...

“Shirley Ann Grau’s quill is filled with gold.” —The New York Times

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of six titles by widely respected and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Shirley Ann Grau. Primarily writing about her native South, Grau deals with race relations and the broad social and political changes of the twentieth century. She has been described by Library Journal as “one of the novel’s finest practitioners.”

Grau’s The Keepers of the House traces the history of the distinguished Howland family and the long-buried secret that threatens to destroy them. It is up to Abigail Howland ...

Former Senior Editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons Will Help Expand Open Road’s Fast-Growing Children’s Publishing Program

Travaglini Has Worked with a Wide Range of Bestselling and Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators Including Michael Rex, Laini Taylor, Michael P. Spradlin, and D. M. Cornish

Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that Timothy Travaglini has joined the company as Director of Children’s Acquisitions. Travaglini will help expand Open Road’s ebook acquisition program for backlist children’s titles spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books. He will also be involved in the acquisition of ...

"From the team that touched off the irreverent humor trend Go the F**k to Sleep, author Adam Mansbach and illustrator Ricardo Cortes, comes a new kid-friendly version of their instant comic classic. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep brings children in on the joke, helping them understand their own tactics and why their parents just want them to go . . . to sleep." —Publishers Weekly

Seriously, Just Go To Sleep, a more child-friendly version of the international bestseller and worldwide phenomenon Go the F**k to Sleep, is now available as an ebook from Akashic Books and ...

“She is a consummate stylist and, to my mind, the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English.” —Philip Roth

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of two titles by celebrated author Edna O’Brien, who has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. Her numerous accolades include: the 2011 Frank O’Connor Prize, Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy.

O’Brien’s August Is a Wicked Month follows Ellen, an Irish woman separated from her ...